Example sentences of "[is] [verb] [to-vb] [adv] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Popular puppet theatre is helping to take on the struggle against AIDS across southern Africa . |
| 2 | Depreciation is calculated to write off the cost or valuation of tangible assets other than freehold land over their estimated useful lives . |
| 3 | The heading for this section looks like a play on words , but it is intended to point out the fact that , while development control is one of the instruments by which planning policies are implemented , there are also policies relating to the actual operation of the control . |
| 4 | For external critique is intended to show up the limitations of a form of thought as such . |
| 5 | In a number of legal systems there is a presumption that the property in identified goods is intended to pass on the making of the contract , in others , only on delivery . |
| 6 | One of the central parts of my Bill is intended to cut down the number of pedestrian casualties , and I shall explain that more fully later . |
| 7 | The water is intended to wash away the contamination of sacredness of persons who have been acting a priestly role . |
| 8 | The Budapest meeting , also attended by six international organisations and observed by Canada and Argentina , is intended to follow up the work of a similar gathering in Berlin in 1991 . |
| 9 | The Budapest meeting , also attended by six international organisations and observed by Canada and Argentina , is intended to follow up the work of a similar gathering in Berlin in 1991 . |
| 10 | To assist with the addressing of this problem and to get some consistency into the approach it is intended to bring together the experience gained , so far , in the form of small manuals and guidelines . |
| 11 | Article 15 of the second directive gives cancellation rights to all individual contracts except those of six months or less and is amended to exempt where the policyholder has had , for example , the opportunity to reflect on the policy terms before contacting the insurer . |
| 12 | A laborious internal review of the Long-Term Costing is undertaken to whittle down the gap , and to highlight vulnerable programmes so that the Secretary of State can be given the strongest possible brief to help him fight for a higher allocation of resources ; and conversely to enable him to fend off attacks by other high-spending ministers , who are intent on grabbing a larger share for themselves , often at the expense of Defence . |
| 13 | Canvassing is undertaken to keep up the spirits of the candidate . |
| 14 | Each room in the house is furnished to suit either the Tudor or the Queen Anne period , and the difference between these two styles is particularly striking when stepping from the stone flagged , Tudor Great Hall to the cosy , wooden panelled 18th century Parlour . |
| 15 | Consumers would see food prices fall overnight because the CAP is claimed to push up the food bill for the average family by over £15 a week . |
| 16 | A quite important task is to try to show why the set of intensional patterns is not , as might at first appear , a haphazard collection but in fact the natural set that one would expect to find in a human language . |
| 17 | In the second stage , ammonia is added to filter out the oxides of nitrogen . |
| 18 | To recoup , the government is expected to speed up the passage of a law that would make insider-trading a crime . |
| 19 | From this point of view , a budget is expected to state clearly the purposes of expenditures and provide them in a from that will be useful for legislative action . |
| 20 | St James 's University Hospital in Leeds , where the TV series is filmed , is expected to take up the proposal for self-governing trusts in NHS hospitals which was given the go-ahead in the Queen 's Speech . |
| 21 | A Computing Support Officer has been appointed , and is expected to take up the post on 1st July . |
| 22 | As time passes the new bride is expected to take on the identity of her new family , making her subjugation complete . |
| 23 | Seymour Cray is still hopeful of bringing his crippled Cray Computer Corp safely in to land , and this week told shareholders that the pay-off will come not with the Cray-3 , but with the Cray-4 the company is developing — ‘ People who predict that things ca n't be done — I guess I do n't have time for them , ’ he told shareholders sternly — ‘ That 's the challenge that I 'm willing to accept in trying to do things that ca n't be done ’ ; the Cray-3 was launched last month , a decade after Cray started work on it , but the Cray-4 is expected to offer twice the performance at half the cost , and the company hopes to demonstrate it by year-end ; it says it has enough cash to fund operations into September and says it is working with two investment banking firms on fund-raising strategies . |
| 24 | The Department of Trade and Industry is expected to announce soon the award of new licences in the latest round of exploration off the west Wales coast . |
| 25 | The Department of Trade and Industry is expected to announce soon the awarding of new licences in the 14th round of exploration off the west Wales coast . |
| 26 | This section is designed to explain briefly the operation of various exchange rate arrangements , before we analyse in more depth in this and the next chapter how the type of exchange rate system influences the adjustment mechanism . |
| 27 | The CD laser stylus is designed to detect only the presence or absence of a pit . |
| 28 | It is said to show how the club has changed along with the community of South-east London . |
| 29 | The shift to a broader notion of fairness is said to alter fundamentally the basis of procedural intervention : it can no longer be restricted to adjudicative settings , and there can no longer be fixed standards for determining whether there has been a breach of procedural fairness . |
| 30 | Whilst no attempt is made to play down the importance of local rules to meet local needs , the existence of certain shared values is reflected in the provisions of the Code . |