Example sentences of "[is] [verb] [noun] to the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The main purpose of this paper , apart from saluting a distinguished colleague , is to alert excavators to the possible existence of evidence which could help to refine and clarify this present vague outline . |
| 2 | Furthermore , MailSort , the Post Office 's new bulk mailing rebate scheme which will come into full use in the Summer of '89 , is bringing computerisation to the direct marketing industry because it just is n't practical to sort mail by hand into thousands of individual postcodes . |
| 3 | But possibly the most satisfying task for the Hercules and its crew is to carry aid to the needy . |
| 4 | So am I am I right in thinking that the western relief road is catering for a north south through traffic element , but its primary purpose is to provide relief to the main e the present A sixty one which runs through the centre of Harrogate and again would seek to distribute traffic around the network and bring it in on other radial roads from the West for example ? |
| 5 | In this the aim is to find answers to the following questions : |
| 6 | Some have already been formed at Lockerbie , Wigtown and Eskdalemuir but Scotland 's smallest police force is urging others to the same . |
| 7 | All we can do here is to draw attention to the existing divorce , and to suggest measures that may lead to reunion . |
| 8 | The point of introducing these ideas here is to draw attention to the radical analysis which suggests that management may use rules and procedures , and other more complex organisational arrangements such as product groups or even matrix organisational structures , not just because they may be a more efficient means of co-ordination but because they are necessary if capital is to control recalcitrant labour . |
| 9 | The principal aim of this event — which features paintings by Poussin , Lely , Gainsborough , Canaletto , Dujardin , Murillo and Tiepolo — is to draw attention to the current financial plight of the Gallery , which houses one of London 's finest collections of Old Master paintings . |
| 10 | The object of the system is to give effect to the expressed preferences of voters in terms of their personal representatives in the Convention ( or any analogous body ) , and the detailed rules for the conduct of a count are carefully drawn to ensure this result . |
| 11 | It is emotional because he is saying goodbye to the last of his kind . |
| 12 | If sulphur dioxide is giving rise to the principal health threat during a smog , then banning the use of petrol-powered vehicles ( which principally emit hydrocarbons , oxides of nitrogen and carbon monoxide as well as contributing to the formation of ozone ) will make little or no difference to sulphur dioxide levels compared with banning diesel-engine vehicles which do emit some sulphur dioxide . |
| 13 | One woman , the wife of the host , is giving instructions to the upper servants . |
| 14 | A NEW research project is giving hope to the thousands of people who risk developing diabetes . |
| 15 | Amstrad is lending £50m to the new company Amshold with Lloyds Bank advancing £43.5m . |
| 16 | I would suggest that initially one of the things we ought to be doing is making approaches to the private sector through their organisations where they exist and say , look we really have to begin to get into the kind of discussions that you have been talking about earlier between health and social work ; health , social work and the voluntary side to talk about the issues of planning and the issues of quality and the issues of the form and shape of services and what sort of developments are acceptable in client-need terms and what are not acceptable . |
| 17 | The aim of a viable chemical process is to add value to the raw material in making the product . |
| 18 | In contrast to the established systems which simply distribute torque equally between the front and rear wheels , our good engineers have made sure that power on the Carrera 4 is delivered 31% to the front wheels and 69% to the rear . |
| 19 | As well as folk enthusiasts the Darlington Arts Centre , which is playing host to the four day festival , was crowded with real ale fans enjoying the Campaign For Real Ale 's Small Beer Festival . |
| 20 | The Screen Cinema , College Street , is playing host to the French language Film Festival from the 1st to the 14th November . |
| 21 | As well as folk enthusiasts the Darlington Arts Centre , which is playing host to the four-day festival , was crowded with real ale fans enjoying the Campaign For Real Ale 's Small Beer Festival . |
| 22 | Canadian firm Consensys Computer Inc , Markham , Ontario since 1985 , a vendor of intelligent input/output cards , is laying claim to the first shipments of USL Unix SVR4.2 Destiny shrink-wrapped binary operating systems for Intel iAPX-86 architectures . |
| 23 | Mac users will know how important it is to drag icons to the correct position . |
| 24 | For a feminist , the most obvious way in which to do this ( for Christ is a male figure ) is to make reference to the earliest community of disciples , particularly the community of women . |