Example sentences of "[be] [adv] [to-vb] the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But Madam Deputy Speaker , these order do n't pay any attention to a number of matters in what I would regard as the public interest and whilst the minister as I say , has quite rightly paid tribute to professional organisations involved in this process , we must never forget that we 're here to represent the public interest and not just er er specific professional interests that may be relevant in each case and indeed in the light of what has happened in this field of enforcement er over the last two years , the minister must be aware that the public are requiring higher standards of commercial probity . |
| 2 | In fact , if the social sciences are really to explain the social world , would it not be wiser to retreat from the demand that they must conform to a single standard of explanation , and allow instead that they may encompass a variety of projects ? |
| 3 | Moreover , instead of these cash limits being set one year ahead they are now to cover the whole planning period ; that is , three years ahead . |
| 4 | Each element of the array could be a fixed length character string , but this would be quite wasteful of memory as this fixed length would have to be enough to fit the longest word in the list . |
| 5 | ‘ I 'm away to catch the last tram , ’ she smiled . |
| 6 | I 'm here to defend the royal family . |
| 7 | As we have seen , Dicey recognized that , in this social context , the function of the academic lawyer could not be simply to venerate the ancient constitution . |
| 8 | And when the ball does go in , Ince and Palmer must be there to stop the Turkish midfield playing it out from knockdowns and clearances . |
| 9 | In other words , Mendel 's theory was a ‘ model ’ of what had to be there to generate the observed behaviour . |
| 10 | Sir , — When the local fox hunts are just a memory who will be there to control the ever-increasing fox population ? |
| 11 | Luciano Pavarotti will be there to strike the right note for an occasion of speeches , publicity films and general hype that is costing £1 million and will be seen by a worldwide television audience of 500 million . |
| 12 | If you are going to pay candidates ' travelling expenses one of the advance preparations will be to organize these beforehand , ensuring there is cash available or that someone will be there to sign the necessary cheque . |
| 13 | It also inspires him to realize the solo part with a weightiness of tone and concentration of line that has n't always been there to complement the natural clarity of his Brahms . |
| 14 | Whereas Adam and Prokofiev 's leitmotifs heighten the emotional content of the love theme , Tchaikovsky 's are there to create the right atmosphere and to emphasise the conflict . |
| 15 | I think we had to accept that the first programmes were just to get the whole thing working really erm . |
| 16 | Top Nosh and air-conditioning servicing were shortly to go the same way . |
| 17 | ‘ This little oasis is a great pleasure to everyone in the area and it would be a travesty if it were ever to go the same way as everywhere else in the Newbury district — for commercial gain . ’ |
| 18 | They were later to acquire the vague title of ‘ Nepmen ’ , but in 1922 they were not so clear-cut a phenomenon , and even by the end of NEP it was not possible , despite all Bolshevik propaganda efforts , to lump their origins and subsequent characteristics into the same abstract pigeon-hole . |
| 19 | Of these two approaches , the first has the virtue of identifying differences of ideology which were unquestionably important to some members of each right-wing party and were later to influence the internal politics of the Franco regime . |
| 20 | They were here to divert the Old Man from thoughts of death , not to rub his nose in them . |
| 21 | There had been a period when he allowed Barbara Castle , Dick Crossman and George Wigg , all of whom suffered from the belief that politics was a conspiracy , to influence him too much , but in later years he had broken free from them and I suddenly realised how much I had got used to him being there to shoulder the final responsibility , to feeling able to turn to him naturally for a second opinion and for well-informed advice . |
| 22 | Last year for instance Barton Shield skipper Colm McCarroll brought Wilson , Winston and Kehoe junior , the men who were subsequently to win the National youth title , into his line-up and Derry battled their way through to the quarter-finals before losing to Belvoir Park . |
| 23 | Indeed , a minister may even ‘ expressly desire to keep out of the affairs of quangos within the ambit of his department , arguing that to behave otherwise is merely to frustrate the whole purpose of this way of organising public services ’ ( Johnson , 1979 , p. 389 ) . |
| 24 | It is argued that to speak out on this subject is only to suggest the very evil you want to cure , and to do more harm than good … |
| 25 | Erm because the the national policy is obviously to target the green movement erm as our natural constituency . |
| 26 | The strength of a well made glued joint in good condition is not increased by nailing or screwing the joint in addition to the glue , On the other hand , all glues need to be tightly clamped while they set and the simplest way to do this is generally to assemble the wet joint with nails or screws ; having once done this , there is no particular benefit in taking the fastenings out afterwards . |
| 27 | Mr Michael Jagger , the vocal stylist with the once-popular beat ensemble , The Rolling Stones , is soon to achieve the venerable rank of grandfather . |
| 28 | So the important thing I would say , is just to improve the physical appearance . |
| 29 | Thirdly , discounting removes interest rate risk — the discount rate is fixed whereas the alternative is usually to fund the post-shipment credit period from overdraft linked to variable Base Rate . |
| 30 | The answer is always to try the simplest thing first . |