Example sentences of "[noun] [be] [to-vb] [adv] the [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | Clubs with water between Congleton and Kidscrobe are to thrash out the best way of removing the mink which have spiralled in numbers . |
2 | The aim of the proposed research is to investigate how the subsidiary skills relate to the development of braille reading , to identify the sources of difficulty at different levels of proficiency , and to test application for improving reading speed and accuracy . |
3 | The chief purpose of the chapter is to outline how the two opposing groups in Ireland developed their dominant beliefs in the context of the new states of Ireland , and moulded the states to support them , strengthening antagonisms between the two groups . |
4 | My purpose in the remainder of this chapter is to set out the main principles of exploring multidimensional language states in present-day communities , on the assumption that historical states of language must also have been multidimensional . |
5 | His intention was to pick up the 18,000 troops assembled in the area behind Quiberon known as the Morbihan and transport them to Scotland , as the first stage of the great invasion plan . |
6 | Carmen Callil is to take up the new role of Publisher at Large of the Random House Group , continuing to work in particular with Chatto & Windus in London and Random House Australia , and she will assume the additional role of Editor at Large for the Knopf Publishing Group in the US ( Vintage , Pantheon and Alfred A Knopf ) . |
7 | For a human swimmer , to step on one of these almost invisible bottom-dwellers is to experience perhaps the worst possible pain . |
8 | By our period it was often a subject of obsessive concern , and the masturbator was to become almost the archetypal image of the sex deviant . |
9 | One of my duties was to send in the weekly result and a brief report for the Bideford Gazette . |
10 | The sweltering ‘ pit ’ deals in shares , bonds and other securities all over the world and the aim is to predict how the financial market will stand in the future . |
11 | The second aim is to see how the above measures over the course of a school year . |
12 | ‘ The aim is to draw together the various industry bodies so we can discuss issues of common interest . |
13 | The immediate aim is to develop further the marine business , in which Courtaulds is market leader , serving the vast number of sea and river craft . |
14 | Another simple way to continue a theme is to use exactly the same phrase , but beginning on another note , usually higher . |
15 | Once the style of document which you wish to publish has been established the second stage of the process is to seek out the suitable hardware and software . |
16 | ICL Plc is to market worldwide the 400 and 600 LPM line printers from Output Technology Corp Europe BV , the Hoofddorp , Netherlands-based subsidiary of Output Technology Corp , under a three year , $7m contract : they will replace ICL 's traditional line printers for Unix systems and be targeted at local government and large corporate customers ; ICL will directly market the printers under its own LP400 and LP600 label though its resellers will likely handle some sales . |
17 | Our job was to point out the commercial success of British Coal as a modern company able to compete . ’ |
18 | Their job was to hold back the Chinese , and they did . |
19 | One of the fields had been ploughed and our job was to weed out the wiry roots and tufts of grass that the wooden ploughshare had failed to dislodge so that the field could be smoothed out ready for flooding . |
20 | The drawing , along with various sketches of joints and fixings was sent to the church architects whose only alteration was to square up the curved top member to line up with the bottom panels . |
21 | My next move was to mask out the central picture area with a piece of paper , taped at its edges onto the existing strips of masking tape . |
22 | A compromise is to filter out the damaged records ( any with an entry in Field 13 ) to a separate table , to be scanned visually , corrected with the script , inspected and returned to the original table . |
23 | The obvious way of handling things is to connect together the two 0 volt terminals in order to give the central 0 volt output . |
24 | As well as being visually inspired and scientifically informed , the book 's main achievement is to review thoroughly the congruent symmetries . |
25 | So what would The Inspirals T-shirt slogan be to sum up the current attitude ? |
26 | Embedded in his initial instructions to Joshua concerning the actions the people are to take on the seventh day we find the clause , ‘ … when they make a long blast with the ram 's horn ’ . |
27 | Under the new proposals , people are to have just the one tax bill each year , covering all their income . |
28 | Okay and in fact I 've given you part of your homework is to write out the technical names . |
29 | A WOMAN is to take over the toughest job in Italy — fighting the Mafia . |
30 | The satellite 's primary role is to fill in the existing picture of the heavens , revealing stars , galaxies , clouds and so on that are not seen at the shorter optical and ‘ near ’ infrared wavelengths ( less than 5 micrometres ) , or at the longer wavelengths observed by radio telescopes . |