Example sentences of "[be] [to-vb] [adv prt] a [noun sg] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | GOVERNMENT health watchdogs are to carry out a survey of women working in computer microchip factories amid fears they may suffer a higher risk of miscarriage . |
| 2 | In some quarters it was suggested that the best solution would be to set up a government of ‘ national trustees ’ , headed by McKenna , who had deserted politics for banking and had not sat in ; Parliament since 1918 . |
| 3 | He says the plan will be to open up a number of railway lines and connect local communities and they 'll make good family cycling ; not the steep gradients mountain bikers like , but nice gradients related to the old gradients of the railway lines . |
| 4 | The next step will be to draw up a set of criteria which personnel users new to computing , or the experienced user representing their interests , can use to make a sensible choice . |
| 5 | A ballast variant is defined by W.G.E. Watson as " simply a filler , its function being to fill out a line of poetry that would otherwise be too short " . |
| 6 | They were to bring back a score of fighter aircraft in the same way that Deemy and his colleagues had done earlier that week . |
| 7 | Among their justifications for the present move , Sotheby 's have stated that the average price of a lot sold at Sotheby 's is £1,000 which will result in an extra £50 on the bill ; that this is the first rise in the buyer 's premium since 1975 ; and that the alternative would have been to close down a number of the company 's European offices . |
| 8 | The result is to connect up a network of contracts by a uniform set of rules and thus give them multilateral force . |
| 9 | Another aim of the workshop is to set up a group of media trainers and professionals in eastern and southern Africa . |
| 10 | Head west to reach the head of a stream , Twrch Fechan , where the idea is to pick up a right of way travelling south-east to return to the walk starting point . |
| 11 | The second , and the one usually chosen by the authors , is to grow up a mixture of different species in variable numbers until they show signs of pairing and wanting to breed . |
| 12 | The first thing to be done is to draw up a list of such works to be read in school . " |
| 13 | The best way to compare papers is to mix up a batch of wash colour and apply it similarly to different sheets of watercolour paper ( Not surface ) , as I 've done here . |
| 14 | One way to reduce the problem of waiting for elusive components to arrive is to build up a stock of components . |
| 15 | Broadly speaking , the assessors , divided into MPs , industrialists , and senior party volunteers do not mark a score card ; their task is to build up a profile of the applicants ' intellectual and practical potential . |
| 16 | Like most Labour activists , my main political concern is to bring about a redistribution of wealth and power in society that will end the twin scourges of mass poverty and mass unemployment . |
| 17 | The aim of the proposal was to carry out a visit of one month to France under the ESRC/CNTLS Exchange scheme for social scientists in order to pursue collaborative work on Time , the family and leisure |
| 18 | On this occasion the most difficult decision was to pass on a share of the savings target to the English and Welsh Regions . |
| 19 | A third technique was to sell off a proportion of the whole operation , as it did with British Telecom , British Gas , British Aerospace , and Britoil ; and British Rail was made to sell off its hotels . |
| 20 | The immediate response of the Government was to set up a committee of inquiry under Lord Justice Woolf to examine the events and the underlying causes . |
| 21 | There were also teachers in the sample who were grappling with several complex long-term and short-term schedules and forecasts at a time , and others whose only apparent work plan was to set up a succession of ad hoc activities with little long-term coherence or progression . |
| 22 | When she reappeared on the stage it was to look over a sea of smiling faces and to listen to the chant now of ‘ Macushla ! |
| 23 | The first was to draw up a structure of government which could serve to protect the people from government , from the danger of a tyranny of the majority in the legislature ; but the second aim was to protect the people from themselves . |
| 24 | Once the decision had been taken , no time was wasted in defining the areas of the city to be dealt with and in actually measuring the ground , for Haussmann 's first task was to draw up a plan of Paris measured to an exact scale . |
| 25 | His book entitled The Civilization of the Renaissance in Italy avoids a chronological sequence , since his plan of arrangement was to build up a mosaic of characteristic material . |
| 26 | His approach was positivist and rationalist and his general objective was to lay down a theory of social evolution . |
| 27 | William Charles was then half-way there ; the next stage was to take along a piece of paper certifying this aforesaid freedom , and present it to the Chamberlain 's Office as part of the procedure for achieving full freedom of the City . |