Example sentences of "[adj] be [to-vb] [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Our priorities in 1993 are to establish a regional organisation in the Far East and to continue the identification and pursuit of major multi-discipline prospects . |
| 2 | The French were to win the final set by a combination of factors . |
| 3 | This is to allow the nearer ones to write by In-filling — over the previously drawn further ones , or by the construction of silhouettes that restrict the construction of ones further from the drawn front facets . |
| 4 | But this is to anticipate the next chapter . |
| 5 | This is to reverse the conventional relationship between youth and age . |
| 6 | The only solution for this is to use a soldering iron to lengthen them ! |
| 7 | ( 3 ) The tenant should try to insert reference to the tenant being construed to be : the tenant for the time being or better still : while this Lease shall be vested in the Tenant This is to obviate the remote possibility of an argument as to whether the bankruptcy or liquidation of the original tenant ( after an assignment ) who will presumably still be within the definition of " the Tenant " could affect the re-entry provisions contained in the lease . |
| 8 | This is to accommodate the large range of abundances . |
| 9 | This is to miss the important point which has made Kinnock master of the Labour party , as Bevan never was : Bevan was a rebel ; Kinnock is not . |
| 10 | And do n't forget we 're told time and time again , almost ad nauseam , that this is to remain a public service within the National Health Service . |
| 11 | This is to give a particular impression of the organisation to its public . |
| 12 | Her way of doing this is to organise a monthly lottery . |
| 13 | The best way to explain this is to make a simple experiment . |
| 14 | This is to make a fundamental distinction between ‘ understanding information ’ and ‘ understanding the full potential value of information ’ : . |
| 15 | A technique for doing this is to make an amusing remark against yourself . |
| 16 | But this is to introduce a utilitarian calculus , which some may reject as a basis for choosing how to allocate resources . |
| 17 | In fact , this is to elevate a small group of officials or ‘ caucus ’ , as Ostrogorski called them , into a prominence they do not deserve . |
| 18 | This is to maintain a constant zero level of ammonia and nitrite ; traces may be acceptable in the freshwater aquariums but they will harm brackish-water fish ( and , of course , quickly kill seawater fish ) . |
| 19 | This is to ensure a fair split of staff to each representative due to the small number of staff in some departments . |
| 20 | The best way for the government to achieve this is to keep a tight grip on the tigerish tendencies of the economy . |
| 21 | The simple response to this is to recite the general principle that no treatment is warranted , or indeed lawful , without consent , and that if consent is withdrawn , nothing need be done . |
| 22 | This is to increase the personal tax exemption ( the amount by which taxable income is reduced for each person in a household ) . |
| 23 | Yet even to note this is to identify a radical shift in the shape , not only geographical but spiritual , of Christendom . |
| 24 | The best way to do this is to run a high output airpump discharging into the void below a chamber . |
| 25 | The front skid or main wheel will also need to be chocked , and an easy , effective way of doing this is to run the main wheel into a rut in the ground . |
| 26 | The core of this is to understand the delicate balance between feelings of affection , moral imperatives of duty , and calculations about personal advantage and disadvantage , and to understand how the particular sets of economic circumstances in which women and men are placed shape the character of that balance at any point in time . |
| 27 | One way round this is to tie a tiny hook to the hair and to bend inwards slightly the hook point — enough to prevent fish from being hooked but not enough to make hooking bait too difficult . |
| 28 | One suggestion for avoiding this is to have the explicit tax rate apply only to net-of-transfer income earnings , so that if the benefit withdrawal rate is 60 per cent and the explicit tax rate 30 per cent the ‘ total ’ tax paid on an additional £1 of earned income would be at a rate , which is a sum comprising 60p less means-tested benefit , and 30 per cent of 40p = 12p explicit tax , i.e. 72p . |
| 29 | To see this is to recognize the stylistic value of Golding 's choice : that his version of the event is of movements perceived in space and time , from which the reader has to work out a normal understanding of what is happening . |
| 30 | To say this is to adopt a quasi-evolutionary view , close to Minsky 's , not in terms of debugging and repair , but in terms of attention and processing load : to be able to concentrate on everything is not to be able to concentrate at all . |