Example sentences of "[is] [adv] [to-vb] a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now there are two ways that the new composite sentence token will be of a type that is eventually to acquire a constant significance . |
| 2 | THE fight is on to include an old power station site within a country park . |
| 3 | Amstrad has eschewed the popular PenPoint operating system on the grounds that it is overly complex for the PDA 's requirements — which is basically to emulate a paper-based organiser , and that it requires too much processor horse-power . |
| 4 | The first rule for a reader of articles is thus to find a sympathetic publication . |
| 5 | The Church in Wales is soon to appoint a full-time priest to help in the area . |
| 6 | The Prince 's Trust is soon to launch a pioneering initiative which will eventually involve large numbers of Britain 's young people in voluntary work . |
| 7 | To be concerned simply for Jesus ' message , a message which anyone could have preached and which is now acknowledged quite independently of the person who preached it , is not to hold a Christian position . |
| 8 | The idea is not to replace an active form with an active one and a passive form with a passive one ; it is always the function of a category rather than the form it takes that is of paramount importance in translation . |
| 9 | The circle has to be broken if the Book Trade is not to miss a major opportunity for a logical , practical and lucrative diversification . |
| 10 | Obviously to say that an ontological existent qua possible topic of discourse is such that on different occasions it can be referred to as " the same A " is not to say a great deal unless a clarification is given of the distinction and the relationship between these two kinds of sameness . |
| 11 | Our purpose is not to define a basic library for you , but rather to suggest kinds of books which you might look for ; and our choice of texts is based primarily on their convenience as illustrations . |
| 12 | This is not to suggest a unilinear path of ever-increasing usage . |
| 13 | So the trick about invisibility is not to have a usual environment . ’ |
| 14 | I think that it 's important to recognize that to have a depressed mood is not to have a depressed illness |
| 15 | ‘ The tough thing for me is not to have a particular voice or gait for a part , to have to play a guy like John , who is close to me physically and in age and so on . |
| 16 | The purpose of this chapter is not to provide a detailed account of youth organizations , as their histories are easily available elsewhere . |
| 17 | But if the room is not to look a complete jumble you have to try to create distinct areas for relaxing , sleeping , eating and work . |
| 18 | Beset by illness — with Gooch himself the most damaging victim of the last few weeks — and bemused by Indian spin , England must pull themselves together if a bitterly disappointing tour is not to become a total disaster . |
| 19 | Its aim , he says , is not to become a commercial body but to point users towards products and technologies that support their interests . |
| 20 | My intention in this chapter is not to construct a systematic model of the properties of material culture in society , but rather to investigate through a series of illustrations the interaction between material culture and certain contextual dimensions , emphasizing the implications of the materiality of the object as symbol . |
| 21 | The intention here is not to construct a full history of the post-war period but it will be necessary to examine some of the main developments in the class/collectivity/political force relationships over the post-war years , even at a cost of some over-simplification , in order to establish a basis for the fuller discussion in the following chapter of these relationships under the Thatcher government . |
| 22 | Professor Bernard Wasserstein of Brandeis University is shortly to publish a new biography of Herbert Samuel , who was , in effect , leader of the Liberal party for the crucial months of 1931 , during Lloyd George 's illness , and a central figure in the crisis . |
| 23 | The government 's soon to host an international summit on drugs . |
| 24 | The aim is always to select an appropriate method , one which answers the question as clearly as possible . |
| 25 | The first function of the Commons is still to sustain an effective government . |
| 26 | Forster shows women in apparently similar circumstances — their objective is still to marry a suitable gentleman . |
| 27 | It includes a distributed object application development environment , object services , inheritances , persistence , authorisation , verification and is also to include a Corba-compliant object dispatcher ( UX No 434 ) . |
| 28 | It includes a distributed object application development environment , object services , inheritances , persistence , authorisation , verification and is also to include a Corba-compliant object dispatcher . |
| 29 | The task of the salesman is both to establish an ongoing relationship with his customer , and also to charge as close as possible to what the market will bear . |
| 30 | But they also need to improve the state 's port and other infrastructure if Yucatan is really to become a low-cost assembly centre for America 's east coast . |