Example sentences of "[be] to provide a [adj] " in BNC.

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1 The outreach approach has now been successfully attempted by many projects and institutions confirming the view of those who insist that educational institutions must be more open and outgoing if they are to provide a worthwhile community education service .
2 Air show : The famous Red Arrows are to provide a grand finish to the Southport Air Show .
3 They believe that a degree of privacy and understanding is essential if Their Royal Highnesses are to provide a happy and secure upbringing for their children , while continuing to give a wholehearted commitment to their public duties .
4 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 .
5 The aim has been to provide a central resource , that will :
6 The broad aim of education for adults should be to provide a flexible service that is responsive to changing social and economic patterns and to the changing needs of individuals and communities .
7 At the same time as this another organisation was being formed , The Peoples Education Movement , ( P.E.M. ) the aims of which , although suitably vague , were to provide a non-partisan platform from which Dr.Williams could continue his lectures and build up his support .
8 Of seminal significance , one quarter of these were to provide a new tenure group for British housing : the local authority council house .
9 The proposals for an Edinburgh City Bypass have been approved as part of the Regional Council 's Transport Policy , the intention being to provide a rapid and safe route around the city for traffic whose origin and destination lies outwith the City Boundary .
10 The scheme for managerial pay set out above essentially refers to the pay framework for a manager in a plc , but my aim is to provide a comparative analysis .
11 Indeed , in 1978 , the BBC concluded : ‘ the only really satisfactory solution for the broadcasting of traffic information is to provide a separate , dedicated service ’ .
12 The object of job evaluation is to provide a systematic approach to defining the relative worth of different jobs .
13 A thesaurus could be defined as ‘ a compilation of words and phrases showing synonyms , hierarchical and other relationships and dependencies , the function of which is to provide a standardized vocabulary for information storage and retrieval systems ’ .
14 Part of the purpose of presuppositions is to provide a coherent explanation of the whole circle of life and reality which we perceive .
15 It 's perhaps fitting that the Services and Communication Department should bring up the rear in this group of presentations , because one of its key priorities is to provide a coherent professional support service to the organisation as a whole .
16 The purpose of this book is to provide a comprehensive guide for smallholders ; for beginners and those with some experience , as well as for those who are just thinking about it .
17 The aim of the course is to provide a comprehensive framework for practical and theoretical study in Art and Design .
18 The aim is to provide a comprehensive range of services and expertise on a national scale to the business community in particular .
19 Here the three criteria of ( *a ) explainability , ( *b ) comprehensiveness and ( *c ) positivity intertwine , as I indicate by means of the asterisks : The problem for the atheist is to provide a convincing account ( *a ) of religious experience , and with it of the entire ( *b ) religious history of mankind , which will do justice ( *c ) to its character and effects .
20 Varitel Video Inc is to use the system to provide a film and video post-production and network service across California while Entertainment Digital Network Inc is to provide a similar service nationwide .
21 What the system does do is to provide a continuous flow of information to the selector about the type of books required by the library and the number of books of each type , and it is on this information that the bibliographical decisions are based .
22 This is a relatively small garden measuring 33ft by 36ft ( 10m by 11m ) and our main task is to provide a real feeling of space and movement as well as rationalising the steep slope that drops down away from the house .
23 If conventionalism is to provide a distinct and muscular conception of law , therefore , with even remote connections to the family of popular attitudes we took it to express , then it must be strict , not soft , conventionalism .
24 The Government 's strategy is to provide a criminal justice system which maintains the rule of law and creates in Northern Ireland the conditions for a fair and just administration .
25 Sometimes the photographers will organise this for you , but if there are a large number of photographs to take then you should consider using a specialist photographic accessoriser whose job it is to provide a good selection of suitable props from which you and the photographer can choose on the spot .
26 IBM Corp is a major beneficiary of a $400m 10-year contract won by El Segundo , California-based Computer Sciences Corp from the US Department of the Interior 's Bureau of Land Management : the contract , which includes the installation and integration of about 7,000 IBM RS/6000s , is to provide a new automated land and mineral record system at 221 offices of the agency at 156 sites , primarily in the west .
27 Its everyday function is to provide a strong , firm bass to the trumpet-trombone group .
28 Nevertheless , commentators have argued that the function of these legal rules is to provide a standard set of terms to govern the relationship between the shareholders and the directors , the object being to reduce the transaction costs involved in the parties negotiating a private bargain .
29 Labour Party policy is to provide a general right of access to uncultivated land for walkers — a policy that specifically includes river banks and canal towpaths .
30 One of the aims of the ANLT is to provide a general purpose system which may be easily adapted for new tasks .
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