Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb mod] be [to-vb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The best course must be to acquire some expertise in the procedures ; not only will this be useful in itself , but the knowledgeable haulier may find others in the business who are willing to pay for help on Customs 88 documentation . |
| 2 | ‘ We will continue to press the council of ministers , who make the final decisions , that the final decision must be to award full status to the whole area . |
| 3 | Since Chinese officials have also said recently that there will be few major alterations to the Basic Law between its interim and final drafts , their intention may be to declare that proliferation of ideas about political reform indicates an absence of consensus in Hong Kong , and leave Mr Cha 's proposal in place . |
| 4 | The result should be to reduce both parties ' costs of stockholding , argues Sears . |
| 5 | Where the restraint necessitates holding a client down , the first recourse should be to attempt this face up , a degree of weight being applied to the shoulders . |
| 6 | An alternative might be to use separate subfields for different parts of the number . |
| 7 | A way of achieving this result might be to require all cases brought against governmental bodies and all cases concerning the exercise of public functions to be brought under a revamped Ord. 53 which would provide for two procedural tracks : a fast track for cases which , in the public interest , needed to be dealt with speedily , and a slow track for other cases . |
| 8 | Confident that Clasper would be brought down by his own members without any interference from him , Bunker concluded that his best course of action would be to emulate Brer Rabbit on this occasion , and ‘ lie low and say nuffin' . ’ |
| 9 | One way of indicating this intention would be to take some action contrary to the object and purpose of the treaty , but such signalling action could be deemed a breach of Article 18 . |
| 10 | However , they will be able to waive best execution , and indeed can do so even if they are discretionary customers ( which is a helpful relaxation and reflects the new spirit of liberalisation ) ; the best practice would be to have this waiver in writing . |
| 11 | The alternative would be to slash public spending , a policy that few Indian politicians of any persuasion favour . |
| 12 | ‘ The major effect would be to make those works , which are already the most difficult to sell , works by younger artists who are not well-known or who have not established themselves , even more difficult to sell . |
| 13 | The effect would be to damage those companies with a strong research base , some of their products would be replaced by imports from Eastern Europe , Italy and the Far East — cheaper because they come from companies that do not support expensive R&D and a continuing technical back-up for their products . |
| 14 | The effect of this major reshaping would be to require 16 institutions , consisting of seven polytechnics and nine colleges of higher education , to cease initial teacher training , and some of the colleges to close altogether . |
| 15 | The primary purpose of the proposed research will be to acquire detailed knowledge about how the new Act will operate . |
| 16 | Davies adds : ‘ One function of our research will be to highlight good practice where it exists . |
| 17 | Thus one of the main considerations of the research will be to make some contribution to the task of developing a more sophisticated literary sociology . |
| 18 | The net effect will be to push ethnic minorities into jobs that are low-paid , dirty , involve shift work , and are vulnerable in an economic recession . |
| 19 | A second route might be to allow domestic producers to agree on predatory responses to attempts by foreign suppliers to enter the national market . |
| 20 | A basic concern for Christian formation should be to enable young people to grow as free persons and to encourage personal responsibility and moral maturity . |
| 21 | A weaker version of the same proposal would be to consider that semantics is an abstraction away from context-dependent utterances , in so far as this is possible ( as suggested by Carnap , 1959 : 13 ; Lyons , 1977a : 591 ) . |
| 22 | A second would be to ensure corrugated iron covers on doors and windows are better secured and quickly repaired if removed or damaged . |
| 23 | The minimum requirement will be to lodge relevant documents in the Regional Planning Department 's foyer to be available for public inspection during normal office hours . |
| 24 | A third route could be to permit vertical relationships and restraints between domestic producers , or domestic producers and distributors , which made it difficult either for a foreign firm to set up production and gain essential supplies , or for a foreign firm to get access to existing distribution networks . |
| 25 | The argument is simple and reflexive : if the body of this book has been about helping teachers to be more able to deal with uncertainty , conflict and change — in a word , to become better learners — then the tail asserts that the core of their job should be to help young people to become good learners in their turn . |
| 26 | He added : ‘ The aim must be to produce small claims procedures which can be understood and followed by the do-it-yourself litigant . ’ |
| 27 | The eventual aim should be to include all schools in the authority . |
| 28 | The eventual aim should be to include all schools in the authority . |
| 29 | The aim should be to have hard-wired network data connections in close proximity to all potential computer users . |
| 30 | Over a period the aim should be to adjust nursing budgets and thus the number of nurses employed so that each unit/specialty is equally provided fur within the constraints of financial provision . |