Example sentences of "[noun sg] be [to-vb] [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Further , in the case of such an application , the licensing board are to consult with the fire authority ( subs . |
| 2 | A TEAM of archaeologists from Newcastle University are to dig in the centre of Darlington in search of 14th century remains . |
| 3 | Tom Foley , the speaker of the House of Representatives , has said that if the president were to ask for the authority to use force , there is a presumption that he would get it . |
| 4 | The reader 's only remedy is to go to the exhibition . |
| 5 | If as part of the task you specify the effect the programme is to have on the audience , you are building in the criteria by which that audience can judge the programme and you are giving them a purpose in viewing . |
| 6 | THE nearest a nurse usually gets to clinical research is to act as the research team — consisting mostly of doctors . |
| 7 | One of the aims of this chapter is to look at the effect on word discriminability in continuous speech of increasing the depth of the phoneme graph . |
| 8 | The purpose of this chapter is to look at the infancy stories about Jesus as recorded by both Matthew and Luke . |
| 9 | IT is true that we need a free Press to curb Government excesses , but intruding into people 's privacy and using heavy-handed tactics in stories concerning tragedy is to play into the Government 's hands . |
| 10 | If the intention is to justify to the source of funds the need for additional finance as circumstances arise , the contingency sum can be lower . |
| 11 | Relaunched on a regular basis , its intention is to bring to the public 's attention the fact that many who would otherwise have valid personal injury cl aims never proceed with them . |
| 12 | If a car is to remain on the road , basic checks and adjustments need to be made regularly . |
| 13 | A good rule is to look at the shape and size of the flower before you press it , and then imagine what it will look like once it is flat . |
| 14 | Not three studio boffins and a model got in to do the video ; not a TV celeb on the make ; and not a bunch of suffering-for-their-art students whose only ambition is to get in the indie charts and be interviewed in Melody Maker . |
| 15 | ( An interesting way of countering this effect is to keep by the bedside a ‘ dream diary ’ in which , as soon as you wake , you can jot down any memories you may have of your dreams . |
| 16 | A pioneering agreement between the German government and private industry is to provide for the clean-up and reconstruction of one of eastern Germany 's most polluted industrial sites , centred on the old Mansfeld metal conglomerate , near Halle . |
| 17 | His alternative is to call in the army , as he did in 1986 when low-paid police rioted in Cairo . |
| 18 | The only alternative is to turn to the chapter itself and skim the pages for a clearer insight . |
| 19 | The alternative is to scare off the enemy and this is done by inflating the body and raising the rear end of it towards the approaching assailant . |
| 20 | It is important to stress that ill-health in old age is not just the result of physical and mental wear and decline , or that the only effective action is to call for the doctor . |
| 21 | First , if holism and individualism are to be distinct , causation and autonomy must be mutually exclusive categories : if the autonomous character of action is to stand in the way of the truth of determinism , actions can not at the same time be caused . |
| 22 | The object of the defence statute is to delegate to the Executive what in peacetime would be the function of Parliament . |
| 23 | As we shall see in a later chapter , much of the same reasoning was to recur towards the end of the 1980s in the search for ways of implementing punishment in the community . |
| 24 | Its complement was to rise from the initial 3,000 to 4,200 ( ie full peacetime strength ) one year later . |
| 25 | The aim of the research was to prepare for the development of a full proposal on ‘ The Management of Technical Uncertainty ’ . |
| 26 | It was indeed the attacks in Cartwright 's books which Hooker was to take as the starting point for his defence of the Church . |
| 27 | The next phase of the study was to look at the quality of these ponds in terms of the numbers of species of animals and plants they support , the water chemistry and the surrounding land use of each pond or loch . |
| 28 | The intention was to introduce by the end of 1993 a system , TAURUS , complementing TALISMAN , whereby , once a bargain in fully-paid listed securities was struck , the buyer would become , and the seller , in respect of the shares sold , would cease to be , a member and shareholder . |
| 29 | Their only recourse was to crowd into the slum areas around . |
| 30 | When 26-year-old Tim Haller , from Horncastle , Lincs , bought a double-decker bus in 1988 , his great ambition was to travel around the world in it . |