Example sentences of "[be] the [noun sg] [to-vb] [adv] the " in BNC.

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1 The allies ' biggest visible flop at the outset of this war has been the failure to knock out the launchers of Iraq 's Scud missiles .
2 Not even Adams could believe that Linighan , felled and battered by a 19th minute elbow in the face from Wednesday 's Mark Bright , would be the man to provide perhaps the most fantastic finish to a four-hour saga which had been marked mostly by wretched mediocrity .
3 I felt that he might be the person to bring out the spiritual element in Joyce 's life , as well as the comedy .
4 After we have chosen the appropriate remedy to give in LM form , the first choice , after the potency , is how much of the granule is the patient to take i.e. the dose , how often it is to be repeated and for how many days are they to be on that particular potency .
5 On the one hand , there is the threat to roll back the legislation of the last 12 years , to put the trade unions back in the driving seat and make strikes easier , longer , more frequent and more damaging than ever before .
6 Probably the only useful thing that the program offers is the ability to carry back the date , time or combination of the two into your foreground application .
7 What really matters is the ability to recognise when the cheese has been properly stored by the retailer and when it is being offered for sale in prime condition .
8 And Prince Charles is the man to take over the Department of the Environment , according to voters .
9 STUART PEARCE is the man to take over the Nottingham Forest hot seat from Brian Clough .
10 It is the intention to monitor constantly the level and type of equipment carried and in fact three of the buses have recently been equipped with Computer Aided Design .
11 Part is the unwillingness to give up the pleasure of multiple potential : being free to choose everything because you have not yet chosen anything .
12 This is the time to test out the telephone support system ( or read our Fax Box ) .
13 Perhaps now is the time to run down the older methods and , if this is not the case , maybe some additional training is required .
14 The Schema DDL is the language to set up the global data description .
15 One reason is the need to clean up the mess in Eastern Europe left by Soviet military installations and sloppily run Communist mines and factories .
16 Another message that comes over clearly is the need to separate out the different tasks that make up housework .
17 Firstly , there is the need to consider how the White Paper 's proposals impact on the funding structure of the NHS .
18 IT 'S the picture to make even the strongest beefcake Gladiator go weak at the knees as the stars of the hit TV series show off their biggest fans , the Gladiatots .
19 That was the motivation to bring home the bacon , even if it was only Spam . ’
20 Almost the last act of the decade was the decision to wind up the Artisans , originally planned to be by December 1984 ; although in 1980 it was brought forward to 1981 .
21 Mr Ian Prestt , director-general of the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds , said the most contentious part of the bill was the proposal to break up the Nature Conservancy Council .
22 But how was the demand to call forth the supply ?
23 And it just seemed that that was the time to give up the tenancy .
24 Although much of the attention at the summit was inevitably focused on the changes in Eastern Europe and the drive towards monetary union , the starting point for the talks , particularly from the British delegation 's viewpoint , was the need to speed up the 1992 reforms .
25 When a mis-fire occurred it was the practice to clear out the hole down to the powder , insert the pricker , and again stem the hole .
26 A year , too , when it was the fashion to show off the figure .
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