Example sentences of "[noun sg] [is] [adv] [to-vb] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Tyneside experience seems to be that in ‘ gentrified ’ areas this will happen , but in areas which retain their original working-class population as owners rather than tenants , then grant aid is necessary if the stock is not to deteriorate beyond redemption . |
| 2 | A new experiment is about to come on line . |
| 3 | The aim of this study is thus to examine in detail different kinds of provision for children with special needs in the first year of secondary schooling . |
| 4 | If self-examination is not to deteriorate into introspection or be ignored we need wise guides with whom to articulate the inner movement of our spirits and the outer movement of our lives . |
| 5 | for the supply of goods or services and the supplier 's main business is not to engage in investment business |
| 6 | And for the chairman of the bank to be showing particular interest in him might alert people who , if the truth is ever to come to light , ought not to be alerted . " |
| 7 | In relation to clauses which impose a monetary limit on damages recoverable in the event of breach of contract , the court is also to take into account : ( a ) the resources which [ the party seeking to rely on the clause ] could expect to be available to him for the purpose of meeting the liability should it arise ; and ( b ) how far it was open to him to cover himself by insurance . |
| 8 | To accept Nozick 's criticism is not to judge in favour of Nozick 's conception of justice against Rawls , any more than acceptance of Gilligan 's argument involves rejection of Kohlberg 's abstract principles of justice . |
| 9 | It also seems to be more of a woman 's forte to keep in touch with what is happening in the future . |
| 10 | On Tyneside , branded farm assured Northumbria lamb is about to go on sale at a leading retailer . |
| 11 | Exhibitions are not strictly speaking sales settings because the prime objective is not to sell from display stands . |
| 12 | The modern trend is therefore to regard as part of the contract description only those contract words which help in ‘ identifying ’ the goods . |
| 13 | In this tradition the role of the PRO is not to direct on behalf of the public good but to guide and co-ordinate the activities of quasi-sovereign government departments . |
| 14 | The music of Maritza 's entrance was always a gift to any singer , good or bad : the rising crescendo from the orchestra that tells the audience a star is about to come on stage . |
| 15 | NATIONAL Westminster Bank is about to apply for planning permission to redevelop a 1¼-acre site it owns in the prime central core of the City within yards of the Bank of England . |
| 16 | And yet presenting food is all to do with drama . |
| 17 | In the Czech Republic , a local company named Cesopot that recently became a BP distributor is about to sign with Unipart as its distributor too . |
| 18 | In Chapter 1 we proposed that our representation of ordinary nouns should , strictly speaking , include round brackets , to indicate occurrence of a property , inside the square brackets representing entity-hood , but that we should normally allow the round brackets to be omitted in order to simplify the notation , thus abbreviating ( 41 ) ( a ) to ( b ) : ( 41 ) ( a ) [ ( NEIGHBOUR ) ] ( b ) [ NEIGHBOUR ] In the present case , however , given that the function of the adjective is exactly to distinguish between property and entity aspects of a single syntactical item , we shall be obliged to use the fuller form . |
| 19 | A new type of cheese is about to go on sale , which it 's hoped will rectify an oversight of history . |
| 20 | CLARENCE THE LION is soon to star on Radio Forth 's Drivetime slots , bringing roads news to listeners throughout the region . |
| 21 | His pay is appallingly low and one month in arrears , and yet he hears that the local party is about to mobilize by force peasants aged between 20 and 40 for the army . |
| 22 | The solution is not to revert to Army control once again , but rather somehow to achieve a lasting political settlement that denies both insurgents and the paramilitary police their raison d'etre . |