Example sentences of "[noun sg] [be] [to-vb] [adv prt] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The purpose of the research is to carry out a critical analysis of the literature both on the role of beliefs in social and political order , and on the principles of legitimacy of particular regimes , so as to develop a systematic theory about the legitimation of power . |
| 2 | My purpose in the remainder of this chapter is to set out the main principles of exploring multidimensional language states in present-day communities , on the assumption that historical states of language must also have been multidimensional . |
| 3 | The UK practice is to carry out a preliminary field inquiry into all but the most insignificant accidents . |
| 4 | The alternative is to take out a civil action in the courts . |
| 5 | His intention was to pick up the 18,000 troops assembled in the area behind Quiberon known as the Morbihan and transport them to Scotland , as the first stage of the great invasion plan . |
| 6 | The purpose of this Act is to set up a legal framework for the conversion of units of the planned economy into companies and a conversion of one company into another form of company and mergers between such companies . |
| 7 | The plan is to set up a Central Music Authority for the army , similar to that already operated by the Royal Navy and Royal Air Force , which will agree on bookings for each band . |
| 8 | The article is unmarked as regards spatio-temporal relations ; so the function of deictic reference is to set up a continual spatial , temporal and subjective opposition between proximal and distal relations . |
| 9 | THE UN Security Council is to set up an 11-judge international court at The Hague to try people accused of war crimes in the former Yugoslavia , including murder , rape , ethnic cleansing , torture and other atrocities . |
| 10 | The landscape was dotted with unnecessary branches and bank clerks , it argued : the fastest way to reduce excess capacity was to buy out a big chunk of it . |
| 11 | My dream was to build up a prosperous small-animal practice and later on take on an assistant . ’ |
| 12 | The second proposal was to set up a long-term residential therapeutic centre which eventually involved inviting Phoenix House , an established and reputable charity , to set up in Wirral . |
| 13 | The judge was to carry out an agreed investigation into the bombing of a French UTA airliner over Niger in September 1989 in which 170 people died [ see p. 36910 ] . |
| 14 | But Hegel was a philosopher , and a philosopher who held that the responsibility of philosophy was to work out a universal and all-embracing system of understanding which would include literally everything — God and religion not excepted . |
| 15 | The famine simply must end today if Koppelaar 's team are to hold down a crucial fourth slot in Pool A which would keep alive their chances of reaching hockey 's premier event for only the third time . |
| 16 | Garden Management Group are to set up a small IT panel to monitor horticultural computing . |
| 17 | The aim of LCA is to draw up an environmental balance sheet for a product or process by identifying its effects on the environment , from the winning of raw materials through to final disposal . |
| 18 | The aim is to set up a professional , cost-effective organisation by 1996 to stimulate , assist , promote and encourage firms to set up and expand in Gwynedd , the report says . |
| 19 | The aim is to build up a comprehensive database on the Gault of the United Kingdom . |
| 20 | Once the style of document which you wish to publish has been established the second stage of the process is to seek out the suitable hardware and software . |
| 21 | Our job was to point out the commercial success of British Coal as a modern company able to compete . ’ |
| 22 | Their job was to hold back the Chinese , and they did . |
| 23 | One of the fields had been ploughed and our job was to weed out the wiry roots and tufts of grass that the wooden ploughshare had failed to dislodge so that the field could be smoothed out ready for flooding . |
| 24 | From the beginning , the aim was to set up a prestigious institution , able to house the big exhibitions which have often passed Germany by . |
| 25 | The drawing , along with various sketches of joints and fixings was sent to the church architects whose only alteration was to square up the curved top member to line up with the bottom panels . |
| 26 | My next move was to mask out the central picture area with a piece of paper , taped at its edges onto the existing strips of masking tape . |
| 27 | Firstly , the feeling for the tradition is very strong in the village ; secondly , Gawthorpe is an ancient settlement — its history can be traced back to a Viking chief named Gorky and there is evidence that it existed in Roman times ; thirdly , the original custom was to bring in a new May tree each year . |
| 28 | A compromise is to filter out the damaged records ( any with an entry in Field 13 ) to a separate table , to be scanned visually , corrected with the script , inspected and returned to the original table . |
| 29 | The other is to build up a cognitive map of the region to be traversed . |
| 30 | Adenauer 's other achievement was to build up a personal relationship with Charles de Gaulle which made possible a Franco-German rapprochement of real depth and made the European Economic Community a reality . |