Example sentences of "[be] [to-vb] a [adj] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Principally the visit had been to see a senior boy with lifelong problems who had suddenly become unmanageable and would have to be admitted to an asylum , but while there he had been asked to assess Anna Beckett , a child who had moved him strangely . |
| 2 | Some believed indeed that the original intention of Soviet Mediterranean deployments had been to induce a negotiated withdrawal of the United States ' Sixth Fleet . |
| 3 | Whatever the outcome of the Higginson Committee 's inquiry may be , if we are to see a radical improvement in secondary education , we must learn to think not merely of a new form of examination ( and therefore presumably a novel kind of syllabus that will lead to it ) but of a wholly new approach to those studies that we wish to retain in the sixth forms at school , and how these studies are to relate to the pupils ' next step , when they leave school . |
| 4 | For example , if we are to see a major confluence of the world 's financial markets , we need to have prepared our financial structure and planning in good time to take advantage of such changes . |
| 5 | As Bishop Brinton said , it had been to restore a rightful heir to his kingdom and to defeat tyranny that the campaign in northern Spain had been fought in 1367 . |
| 6 | Part of that role — as deputy to the Superintendent — has been to promote a multi-agency approach to crime prevention and community safety , forging close contacts with district councils as well as other statutory and voluntary groups within Hampshire . |
| 7 | Two proposals led by my family health services authority are to establish a new pattern of audiological services in primary care for elderly patients operating from general practice rather than ear , nose , and throat departments , and to reach a consensus on the range of conditions that can be cost effectively , appropriately , and equitably treated in general practice by physiotherapists . |
| 8 | Our priorities in 1993 are to establish a regional organisation in the Far East and to continue the identification and pursuit of major multi-discipline prospects . |
| 9 | They are likely to need very careful handling if their substitute parents are to establish a happy relationship with them . |
| 10 | Air show : The famous Red Arrows are to provide a grand finish to the Southport Air Show . |
| 11 | This is because a major aim of public sector housing policy has been to provide a good standard of accommodation usually for the less well-to-do who can not or do not wish to buy their own homes . |
| 12 | Our experience has been that to create a new expression of the body of Christ has been to create a new possibility of conversion for many such people . |
| 13 | On the other hand , Major 's strategy so far has been to initiate a secret review of intelligence gathering in Northern Ireland . |
| 14 | They 're to have a liberal allowance of liquor . |
| 15 | One very fruitful device adopted at GCSE has been to select a certain kind of document , or group of documents , that carries an apparent contradiction . |
| 16 | These two beliefs , not overtly of political relevance , are to exert a profound influence on political thought . |
| 17 | Exodus for rock AMERICAN rockers Aerosmith are to play a one-off concert at the Point Depot , Dublin , on October 27 — but the driven rock stars ca n't make it to Belfast either . |
| 18 | Such an integrated approach , in which education encompasses more than schooling , is essential if educators are to play a positive role in rural development . |
| 19 | We may define a social movement , in broad terms , as a collective endeavour to promote or resist change in the society of which it forms part ; l but this statement needs to be qualified in some way if we are to retain a clear distinction between a ‘ movement ’ and a ‘ party ’ . |
| 20 | The aim of all schools of initiation the world over has always been to guide a human mind from an ordinary state of consciousness which is considered as a conscious state of ignorance or illusion , to a higher , more aware , enlightened condition . |
| 21 | Hence if we are to form a constitutive relation for the material of the rod it must not contain the dimensions . ) |
| 22 | Cheaper alternatives to turning up the central heating are to do a brief bout of gentle exercise , which increases body heat from the inside , or to wrap up well , which reduces loss to the outside . |
| 23 | Celtic are to reject a written offer from Newcastle , believed to be worth £300,000 , for Roy Aitken . |
| 24 | There ought to be consideration of the animal 's perspective when formulating laws ; almost all the laws are to protect a certain kind of human interest . |
| 25 | Our limited ambition can , therefore , only be to sustain a reasonable quality of life for ourselves and for those animals that serve us . |
| 26 | For example a useful practical derived test of the properties of leather in shoes would be to flex a real shoe in a test machine to determine the relation between loads and displacements relevant to the wearer . |
| 27 | According to the statement the sole task of the new People 's Assembly would be to draft a new constitution to be placed before the people for approval . |
| 28 | The long-term aim of this research should be to obtain a reasonable representation of the various errors that exist , although practical considerations would limit the scope and complexity of the representations used . |
| 29 | It did not worry me unduly because all that was needed would be to choose a good Chancellor of the Exchequer ; but Harold Wilson was not likely to miss a trick like that . |
| 30 | We have not yet reached the point at which mere characterisation of a claim as a claim in public law is sufficient to exclude it from consideration by the ordinary courts : to permit this would be to create a dual system of law with the rigidity and procedural hardship for plaintiffs which it was the purpose of the recent reforms to remove : ’ Davy v. Spelthorne Borough Council [ 1984 ] A.C. 262 , 276 , per Lord Wilberforce . |