Example sentences of "[noun] [adv] [be] [to-vb] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The attempt here is to highlight the inadequacy of the present legal approach where it is assumed that selling on credit , or leasing for the useful life of the equipment is not lending , and that reservation of title on sale does not constitute the creation of a security interest but is merely an agreement as to the time at which the property should pass to the buyer . |
| 2 | The attempt here is to answer the question ‘ which is the ‘ real ’ problem/failure/fault ? ’ as in many cases the facts/symptoms could be misleading . |
| 3 | Answer guide : The intention here is to reinforce the idea that costs of one period may be expenses of another period . |
| 4 | The intention here was to allow the interviewer to simulate a conversation and over a period move towards a more symmetrical interactive relationship so that this interviewing style came to resemble participant observation . |
| 5 | The intention instead is to shock the audience . |
| 6 | The intention again is to illustrate the difference between the traditional theory of public finance and the public choice approach . |
| 7 | A major objective of the research therefore is to determine the extent , quality and accuracy of the knowledge of a similar sample of 40 presently employed men on a range of issues concerning unemployment , unemployed people , welfare benefits , work , etc . |
| 8 | The aim of the present study therefore was to investigate the frequency with which p53 is overexpressed in large bowel adenomas ; to define which , if any , of these adenomas also contain a mutant K-rase gene ; and to relate these findings to the presence of malignant change . |
| 9 | The urgency of their lives now is to find a mate . |
| 10 | The issue here is to persuade the owner that maintenance is essential and to assist in carrying it out . |
| 11 | The key issue here is to establish the need for recording as the only accurate method of detecting change ( good or bad ) in a child 's behaviour . |
| 12 | The plan then was to scuttle the ship supposedly carrying the cigarettes , thus destroying any evidence and collecting on the insurance . |
| 13 | The commoners ' representative , Dr Roy Swayne , believes it would be advantageous to accept the compromise deal , with its cash offer , because if the ministry ever were to sell the airfield when the Americans had gone , the 64 households concerned would still have some say in what happened . |
| 14 | One of his cleverest tricks yesterday was to throw a bridge across a potential Cabinet reshuffle by laying down a Budget not just for this year — when the effect will be fiscally neutral — but for next , and for the year after too . |
| 15 | Boreholes and geological surveys may provide clues to ground conditions , but the only way to investigate a site thoroughly is to dig a tunnel . |
| 16 | One of the officials with whom I had dealings was John Hampden , who years later was to become a colleague ; but although he did his best to be co-operative , it was the men who held the purse-strings that counted , and , going between the MOI and Faber 's , I could not extract from officialdom any commitment and Eliot naturally needed certain specific undertakings regarding finance before Faber 's could think of commissioning a book , which also needed the Ministry 's imprimatur . |
| 17 | The need now is to foster the diversification of the rural economy so as to open up wider and more varied employment opportunities . ’ |
| 18 | Her job now was to plan the future . |
| 19 | Certainly one can agree with para. 3(b) ; and a further point here is to promote the use of warning devices viz. a bell or a hooter . |
| 20 | My Lords , erm the , the th the most I think perhaps er th th th the Noble Lord , Lor Lord erm referred to my amendments and particularly to Amendment twenty-one which I share with I share certainly share this view with him that that is probably the most important of the ones which is which er I am concerned and to which I put my name and also I do n't think it necessary at this stage to add to my remarks , but I do believe that the that the overwhelming need here is to strengthen the representation of elected erm members on police authorities and to er walk er to tear away from the trend as I see it which is in which is erm the er my Right Honourable Friend , the Home Secretary has written into this Bill of increasing the power of the central Government . |
| 21 | As this wartime film of Land Army women shows , the way to harvest cereals 50 years ago was to use a binder . |
| 22 | The CAP 's chief aim nowadays is to slow the rate at which struggling European farmers are leaving the land . |
| 23 | The aim here is to give the flavour of the key developments in this period as part of the history of social policy . |
| 24 | The aim here is to determine the effect of such interactive facilities on the doctor-patient relationship , patient attitudes , and the delivery of care . |
| 25 | There is a very large body of literature on the above questions and our aim here is to provide the student with some of the basic knowledge required in order to study this literature . |
| 26 | The problem for librarian and teacher alike is to devise a system which will enable him to achieve reasonable success in spite of all the colossal problems that the size and growth of human knowledge present . |
| 27 | Sadly , the own reaction , his own reaction then was to make a speech to threaten to put more people on to the streets . |
| 28 | Our first aim too is to serve the district according to the needs of our time , the first of which is to preserve knowledge of the life of the area . |
| 29 | The art therefore is to get the tyre spinning just enough to execute the turn , and then maintain forward drive as the tyre struggles to hook up . |
| 30 | The only hope now was to reach the hand-pump in the galley and see if he could keep the level within bounds . |