Example sentences of "[be] [to-vb] [noun pl] [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Alternatively the Vendor may argue , particularly where the price includes a substantial element for goodwill , that the Purchaser 's only remedy will be to have damages assessed on the ‘ indemnity ’ basis . |
| 2 | And yet our eventual objective must be to prepare learners to cope with the natural conditions of language use . |
| 3 | Sturgess claims that if the BBC were to allow advertisers access to the screens the total market would rise from £2.12bn in 1996 to £2.29bn in 1997 . |
| 4 | Accordingly , US PC Week reports , Taligent now plans to ship technology to developers later this year , starting with development tools for OS/2 , AIX and Macintosh System 7 , the idea being to get developers started with the new technology . |
| 5 | Despite her many affairs — one of her immortal duties being to entertain heroes slain on the battle field — she loved Odin dearly and wept tears of gold when she lost him . |
| 6 | The aim is to provide investigators working on the past or the present with total kin estimates of any chosen kind , provided always that a reasonable estimate of the demographic regime concerned is available . |
| 7 | An alternative approach is to define words according to the sentence contexts in which they occur . |
| 8 | And the conclusions appear to be that migration into the county needs to be modified , and secondly , that government policy was then and still is to pursue policies leading to the regeneration of urban areas e around North Yorkshire particularly West Yorkshire er and Cleveland . |
| 9 | The policy is to educate pupils to cope with the technology and give them the opportunity to exploit it in their future work and leisure . |
| 10 | Senior partner Roderick Burtt said : ‘ The idea is to prevent pigeons roosting on the roof . |
| 11 | My own way of working with this is to make players practise with the left hand only . |
| 12 | One of the very special things Christine did for her was to write notes to leave for the tradesmen when Miss Miggs was going to be out when they called — like NO MILK TODAY , THANK YOU , or ONE SMALL LOAF , PLEASE . |
| 13 | I thought the fund was to help Gaels speak to the rest of us and not only to themselves . |
| 14 | Another temporary need fitted in to this plan , for Robert Slater , the Anglican chaplain at the university , was also to go on leave , and I was to keep services going in the little wooden Anglican church on the university side of the lake , as well as the other two quite heavy responsibilities . |
| 15 | The accountants ' contract with the parties was to assess damages claimed in the terms of reference . |
| 16 | With respect to the issue of subsidiarity , he emphasised that the British view of subsidiarity was to have decisions taken at the lowest effective level of authority . |
| 17 | ‘ The idea of the letter was to get patients to protest at the lack of central funding and to explain to health board general managers that these are services patients think should be provided , ’ Dr James said . |
| 18 | Medina 's function was to collect sums owing to the partnership from the English Crown and , when necessary , to provide short-term loans to both parties . |