Example sentences of "[be] [to-vb] [noun sg] to 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 | It was not made public because that would have been to give warning to the culprit . ’ |
| 3 | The object or purpose of the combination must be to cause damage to the plaintiff . |
| 4 | One solution would be to extend regulation to the press to ensure the same kind of impartiality as on television . |
| 5 | Mr Smith made clear that Labour 's first response would be to seek entry to the exchange rate mechanism of the European Monetary System and that its spending priorities would be pensions and child poverty . |
| 6 | The law of government amounted to a written constitution , decreeing that Saudi Arabia was an hereditary monarchy and that " citizens are to pay allegiance to the King in accordance with the Holy Quran and the Prophet 's tradition " . |
| 7 | Another month passed while they continued the old routines before company orders revealed that they were to march south to the Marne and prepare for a counter-attack against General von Ludendorff . |
| 8 | More immediately , before those years pass and there is any immediate prospect of monetary union , it must be recognised how vulnerable Britain would be if the Government 's strategy were to avoid commitment to the process under way in the European Community . |
| 9 | The effects of this delegation were to give confidence to the Polytechnic 's internal processes of review and validation and to create a body of case law about their achievement in time for the revalidation of the Course in 1984–85 . |
| 10 | It is one among many ‘ heavyweight ’ events being introduced into the festival by organisers who are trying to gain credibility in the science community , their main aim being to bring science to the people , mostly Scottish . |
| 11 | The ironic thing is that the flight is to publicize damage to the ozone layer and it 's gas from fridges that causes most of that damage . |
| 12 | One of the functions of their facial disc is to transmit sound to the ears . |
| 13 | Even ignoring its importance as a local employer , to say that a sector which earns 15 per cent of GDP , which finances most of the small business start-ups in Scotland , which provides capital for companies great and small , which finances pensions and insurance for thousands of Scots , as well as backing for a quarter of the UK 's institutional funds , does nothing to help the economy , is to carry ideology to the point of folly . |
| 14 | The major role of the school librarian or resources manager is to provide access to the kind of information users require and especially in schools , to help users develop the skills which will enable them to identify the purpose of , find and use that information . |
| 15 | But he has done himself some damage and will need to work hard , and with some care , if he is to secure re-election to the shadow Cabinet in November . |
| 16 | v. Veitch that if there is a combination of persons whose purpose is to cause damage to the plaintiff , that purpose may render unlawful acts which would otherwise be lawful . |
| 17 | The purpose of this thought experiment is to draw attention to the fact that a number of pragmatic phenomena can be explicated by reference to just these sorts of features : for example , as we shall see , deixis can be thought of as based on the assumption of mutual orientation , presupposition on the assumption of shared knowledge of a domain and its updating , speech acts on the making explicit , for other participants , of one 's interactional goals , conversational implicature on the assumption of interactional co-operation , and so on . |
| 18 | To focus upon the processes of characterization is to draw attention to the definition of act or event , and interaction between potential deviant and enforcement agent . |
| 19 | A supplementary approach to school art instruction is to draw attention to the types of subject in art , such as portraiture , narrative , landscape . |
| 20 | The former Attorney General , Sir Patrick Mayhew , is to give evidence to the inquiry into the arms-to-Iraq affair . |
| 21 | The principal objective of the system of supervision with the Appointed Actuary is to give emphasis to the importance of providing fair value for consumers of life assurance products and ensuring their security , rather than to provide protection for the insurance company . |
| 22 | What is proposed is to give effect to the privilege by removing the ground for apprehending danger . |
| 23 | The responsibility for checking quality on the shop-floor is usually that of the Inspection department , whose main task is to ensure adherence to the organization 's quality standards . |
| 24 | The best that a practitioner can do is to have regard to the sort of multiplier which has in the past been adopted by judges in similar circumstances to those with which he is concerned . |
| 25 | If everyone is screened for genetic disorders , for which there may be no cures , what are those people then to do , and who is to have access to the information — prospective employers , insurers ? |
| 26 | The function of the double bassoon is to add weight to the bass . |
| 27 | In most cases wood is used in bending and the result of gradual crushing on the compression side of a beam is to transfer load to the tension side . |
| 28 | The aim is to bring calm to the streets and reduce the death toll on the roads which costs millions of pounds every year . |
| 29 | Another reason for keeping the dog safely confined behind a grille is to prevent damage to the upholstery of the vehicle , as could otherwise happen in your absence . |
| 30 | Whether the researcher 's role is going to be covert or overt , the next problem is to gain access to the group being studied . |