Example sentences of "[be] [to-vb] [noun] [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In countries like Burkina Faso and Mali , the only option has been to go south to the plantations of wealthier coastal countries like Ivory Coast . |
| 2 | I said Antony , have you ever been to see Jonathan about the photographs ? |
| 3 | The objectives of the research are to increase understanding of the problems and difficulties associated with implementing performance management in a single government policy area which straddles central government , local government and a range of statutory agencies ; and to evaluate those changing practices across a spectrum of organisations and thereby to assess the quality of approach in order to disseminate best practice . |
| 4 | Bill Fox and Michael Sinclair of York , who represent the associate members of the lower divisions on the management committee , are to meet officers of the GM Vauxhall Conference next Thursday to outline the League 's new requirements . |
| 5 | Similarly the status of commas in the speech of the T(eacher) is not made explicit — presumably they are to indicate pauses in the stream of speech , but it may be that they simply indicate a complex of rhythmic and intonational cues which the analyst is responding to . |
| 6 | The point was that the plaintiffs ' interest in Jarrad exceeded their interest in Jesner , and they contended that the object of Jarrad had been to provide money for the family and not to have its assets syphoned off to prop up Jesner . |
| 7 | Members of the Skerne Park Community Action Group are to receive £2,000 from the TSB Foundation a charitable group set up in 1986 to encourage good causes . |
| 8 | The government 's response has been to pump demand into the economy . |
| 9 | But I am going to peg away with this novel , and if by any chance it should get published — well , you 're to go shares in the boodle ! ’ |
| 10 | Perhaps the greatest contribution which our primary schools have made to education since the war has been to focus attention upon the child as a whole , unique human being . |
| 11 | ‘ Safe , nuisance-free burning is essential if farmers are to win consideration for the difficulties after 1992 , ’ the notes explain . |
| 12 | The objectives are to help members of the public to find their way through this information store and to transmit their orders for particular journeys or holidays to the providers of those services . |
| 13 | LORD Walker , Lord Williams and Lord Donoughue are to give evidence about the Maxwell scandal to a Commons inquiry . |
| 14 | In addition , at Sheriff Hutton near Malton , experts on wildlife are to give tours of the churchyard on May 27 , June 17 , and July 9 . |
| 15 | In those countries where the royalty has already been introduced one option chosen by some governments has been to use part of the income from the levy to set up a fund to give special help to the national music scene . |
| 16 | It was not made public because that would have been to give warning to the culprit . ’ |
| 17 | But if we want to adopt an approach to family life which is Christ-centred in its essence , we must ask how we are to glorify God in the relationship of parents to children and children to parents . |
| 18 | The main tasks of such an authority would be to issue contracts for the performance of particular tasks coupled with supervisory and inspection to ensure that they were adequately performed . |
| 19 | Liberal leader and Premier-elect Ray Groom promised that his new government 's first priority would be to combat unemployment within the state . |
| 20 | A member of the Council of Overseas Research Centers of the Smithsonian Institution , the Academy 's mission will be to support research in the arts and humanities by American and Central European scholars and to become an important part of a new American presence in Europe . |
| 21 | An alternative means of increasing the number of units in the input utterance , and thereby decreasing the number of word paths found , would be to include stress in the lexicon and input utterance . |
| 22 | His immediate tasks will be to restore morale on the railways , implement safety measures proposed after the Clapham Junction crash and match BR 's operations to the strict financial regime imposed by the Government . |
| 23 | A main task of party renovation would be to restore confidence in the party as the defender of working class interests . |
| 24 | There is no logical reason why a person ought not to be allowed to represent another in order to protect that other 's individual interests , but in such a case the main function of representation would probably be to provide finance for the action rather than organizational efficiency ; and in most cases there is no reason why one person should not provide another with finance to enable that other to bring an action in his or her own name . |
| 25 | It is planned that the less literate and less articulate will be given the chance to contribute and one of the main aims of the project will be to provide information on the position of poorly-qualified 15-19 year olds today . |
| 26 | Another possibility open to the government would be to increase exemptions from the charge for those on low pay , but this would only really operate ‘ at the margin' . |
| 27 | He has said one of his main goals will be to encourage promotion of the benefits of membership . |
| 28 | For this reason , Dublin 's instinct will be to concentrate complaints on the UDR . |
| 29 | I do not know how easy it will be to find Paradise in the Sea of Sorrow outside Japan . |
| 30 | The object or purpose of the combination must be to cause damage to the plaintiff . |