Example sentences of "[pron] [is] [to-vb] [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The project , which is to create an unprecedented space for the products of Scottish artists up to the present day , needs all the friends it can get , as it has still to be sold to government and any private benefactors . |
| 2 | The writ of habeas corpus deals with the machinery of justice , and is essentially a procedural writ , the object of which is to enforce a legal right . |
| 3 | I started not having much time for the French and the Walloons , which is to say the French-speaking Belgians , when I found myself among them in 1944 . |
| 4 | Miles too had been invited to join the Arts Council 's literature panel , an offer which was promptly rescinded after Goodman got to hear of it , and which prompted a poem for page two of It on 27 February 1967 , from Adrian Mitchell , suggesting that such an appointment would ‘ disrupt the council 's true intent which is to fill the entire interior of the Royal Opera House with tins of chunkydogmeat and the rest of England with custard of the kind which thickens and grows a skin on top ’ . |
| 5 | Mrs Mary McDonald , Diocesan President , in her address to the members , reminded us of the aims and objects of the U.C.M. , one of which is to uphold the Sacramental Dignity of Marriage and to maintain Christian values in family life . |
| 6 | A push button switches in the amp 's ‘ Enhance ’ circuitry , the effect of which is to condition the high order harmonics of the distorted sound , reputedly offering a less ‘ fizzy ’ tone than one might expect from a transistor amp . |
| 7 | Commercial Manager Richard Waterhouse and his father Rom , explained the long term aim , which is to purchase the remaining section of the former North Staffordshire Railway Churnet Valley line from Leekbrook Junction to Oakmoor Sand Sidings ( Hepworth Minerals Moneystone Quarry ) . |
| 8 | Er what I have chosen to do is to do what we were doing in the nineteen eighties , which is to take the simplest measure of the maximum flow and the detrusor pressure at that volume and when we do that , you can see that these patients , instead of being a single group of patients with a single kind of bladder pressure and flow , these patients are all over the map . |
| 9 | It 's money for preparation for the next phase of building work which is to restore the Grand Stair and the rainwater system which has failed . |
| 10 | Hewlett-Packard is contributing ‘ significant ’ funds towards development costs and providing software tools and consultancy to ACT , which is to re-engineer the new system on HP 9000 Series 700 and 800 business servers . |
| 11 | Then , in order to jump to store address C if the contents of accumulator A are not less than the contents of store address B , we write Compare Accumulator A to store address B Jump to C if condition code is 00 or 10 The set of condition code patterns , any one of which is to cause a successful jump , is specified in the IBM 370 range by a four-bit subsidiary information field . |
| 12 | Most powerful of all Clios will be the limited edition Clio Williams model , due to go on sale in August 1993 with a 1998cc version of the 1 6-valve model which is to boast a massive 150bhp . |
| 13 | The Liberal Democrats were seeking three places on the 24-member body , which is to play a consultative role in securing adequate resources for the EC 's regional communities . |
| 14 | There is a new John Trenhaile , The Tiger of Desire ( HarperCollins ) ; David Gemmell has Waylander II ( Legend ) ; Inadmissible Evidence ( Headline ) is another courtroom drama from the author of Reasonable Doubt , Philip Friedman ; the writing duo of Laura Gilmour Bennett give us their last one together in Distant Echoes ( Penguin ) ; Hodder is keen on a gentle tale about organic horticulture in Rosemary Enright 's The Walled Garden ( Coronet ) ; Pan is building Graham Hurley , who has a Gulf War thriller in The Devil 's Breath ; and Orion is keen on Edmund McCoy ( a pseudonym for an established thriller writer ) with Blood of the Fathers , which is to have a three-part television series , and A J Quinnell 's The Perfect Kill , a Chapmans title which was originally scheduled for March . |
| 15 | A thesaurus could be defined as ‘ a compilation of words and phrases showing synonyms , hierarchical and other relationships and dependencies , the function of which is to provide a standardized vocabulary for information storage and retrieval systems ’ . |
| 16 | Perhaps such arguments are beside the main point , which is to cover the natural monopoly case . |
| 17 | Pacific Telesis Group Inc , which wants to separate its regulated and unregulated businesses , has set an initial stock offering for the wireless operations of its PacTel Corp subsidiary , which is to become a separate company by year-end ; the amount to be raised in the offering has yet to be determined , but it has already said it plans to up the capitalisation of the wireless operations by raising at least $750m through public or private sources . |
| 18 | Move the cursor onto the first letter of the word which is to become the first letter of the new paragraph . |
| 19 | She heard the impatience in his tone and went on even more firmly , ‘ It would simply be that it fits in with my long-term plan , which is to get a wide range of experience before going on an extended working holiday overseas . ’ |
| 20 | Radios 2 and 3 have irrevocably lost listeners now that they have been squeezed on to FM only ; so will Radio 1 , which is to meet the same fate . |
| 21 | ‘ So she 's to see a head man , is she ? |
| 22 | Comic look at American racism in MRS DELAFIELD WANTS TO MARRY , where Katherine Hepburn shocks her family with the news she 's to wed a Jewish doctor . |
| 23 | That 's the hard world of formula one , in his place comes Italian Riccardo Patrese , who 's to quit the Didcot-based Williams team after 5 years , including 2 seasons with this year 's world champion Nigel Mansell . |
| 24 | I am resigned to being addressed by the new name of Pax-Wanxie , but if she is to become a mere conduit of the Paxford philosophy it will be a very great bore . |
| 25 | Mrs Thatcher will today announce that she is to double the British contribution of £3 million to the UN Environment Project in Nairobi and give new money to tropical rain forest schemes . |
| 26 | If she is severely disturbed emotionally , above the level normally expected in bereavement , and if she can not sleep , he may prescribe tranquillisers and a night sedative ; but this will usually be only for a limited period to help her over a particularly bad patch , as he will not want her to become addicted to these drugs , which if taken for too long may delay the normal grieving process which she will need to experience if she is to make a satisfactory recovery . |
| 27 | As a volunteer , she is to advise the new Alzheimer 's Society centre on the Teesdale complex . |
| 28 | Mobile minister the Rev Bill Harper , who is to conduct a special service for Maude , is to take her a letter from the Queen Mother and a signed photograph from Dr George Carey . |
| 29 | Sitting pretty : Eddie George , who is to take a five-year pay freeze as new governor of the Bank of England |
| 30 | Of course some cases of self-regulation would be profitable because they increase trade ( an example might be the association of life insurance offices ) , but others might be socially desirable yet bedevilled by public good problems — who is to fund the regulatory body ? |