Example sentences of "[be] [to-vb] [prep] [det] [noun] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | The aim of the conference will be to do for this junction of Europe and Asia what the Helsinki conference in 1975 did for the rest of Europe . |
| 2 | But that would be to introduce into this branch of the law an element of uncertainty which I , for one , would regard as undesirable . |
| 3 | When Croat historians have subsequently spoken of the " Bleiburg Tragedy " this is what they really mean : and the massacres which were to continue in many parts of northern Yugoslavia during the weeks and months which followed were among the consequences of that victory and that " tragedy " . |
| 4 | Councillors are concerned the new development will mean increased traffic and are to ask for some sort of restrictions for lorries . |
| 5 | If we are to move beyond this state of affairs , the cultural task for disabled artists and culture workers is threefold . |
| 6 | In other words , friends at the school and the idea , as you said at the very beginning of your paper , is to report without any kind of erm censorship or judgment . |
| 7 | What neuropsychologists are trying to do is to come to some understanding of the way in which damage to the brain impairs abilities such as memory , perception and the use of language . |
| 8 | ‘ The only thing left to do is to sort through that pile of things we cleared out of the cupboards and throw away what we do n't need anymore . ’ |
| 9 | The easiest way to understand the nature and extent of this type of crime is to look at some examples of the effect of specific corporate crimes . |
| 10 | The decision as to which allocation is to apply to any block of four patients is simply made by random selection of a digit in the range 1 to 6 . |
| 11 | Whatever type of path you intend to lay , you will have to give it a proper foundation if it is to last for any length of time . |
| 12 | The expedient adopted by Trudgill is to deal with each component of soil and vegetation in turn and then to build up a sequential picture of the whole system . |
| 13 | The best way to treat special damages is to deal with each item of special damage in a separate paragraph and to have a final paragraph totalling them all up and giving a global figure . |
| 14 | And it would seem to me that unless this morning 's exercise which has been so rewarding and so profitable unless this morning 's exercise is to dissipate into another piece of feeling and er pleasurable discussion then we ought to take quite seriously the , the words of Jesus . |
| 15 | In a shift operation , a decision has to be taken as to what is to happen at each end of the shifted pattern . |
| 16 | Just how difficult it is to move beyond this kind of thinking can be seen from Statement B. Here the principle of continuity is rooted directly in the process of generational transmission . |
| 17 | Who is to say with any show of reason whether to place history or , say , political philosophy in one category or the other ? |
| 18 | The second task was to stand on some planks of wood which had been set out in a hexagon . |
| 19 | The logical erm conclusion from that was to look at some form of tertiary education and that is what the County Council went out to consultation on . |
| 20 | Laura Davies , whose aim at the beginning of the year was to win on both sides of the Atlantic , again attempts to complete the second leg of her target . |
| 21 | Once this had been established , the aim of Marx 's work was to break through this veil of ideology . |
| 22 | He wondered if the bad blood of the d'Urbervilles was to blame for this moment of madness . |