Example sentences of "[prep] [be] [to-vb] [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | All I could think of was to give a sickly smile and to murmur , ‘ I think you are probably right . ’ |
| 2 | Having come into being to market a single product or service , small firms must reach a stage where additional new products are required in order to fill the ‘ product gap ’ . |
| 3 | His objective seemed to be to save the Radical party 's electoral chances by matching promise for promise the prospectus of the rival Justicialist party . |
| 4 | As we have already said , the practice seems to be to use the Optional Procedure for relatively simple cases , the only known refusal of an Optional Procedure action being an attempt to pursue a claim for asbestosis thereunder . |
| 5 | If anything , the most common strategy by far seems to be to abandon the thematic organization of the source text in favour of adhering to whatever word-order principles may be operating in the target language . |
| 6 | The effect of jurisdictional error of law is said to be to render the affected decision void or a nullity in the sense that the decision is treated as never having had any legal effect . |
| 7 | Its primary role is likely to be to bolster the Australian government 's campaign to have Antarctica declared a world natural reserve . |
| 8 | Very little additional colour can have a dramatically brightening effect : the trick seems to be to reduce the black element to a design of sufficient simplicity to integrate small dabs of colour . |
| 9 | ‘ In the past , waters from abandoned mines have been managed because they had to be to keep the other mines open , ’ he said . |
| 10 | The principal effect of referring to rules of private international law to extend the scope of a Convention would seem to be to displace a possible presumption that the parties , in choosing the law of a Contracting State , intended only its domestic law to apply ( that is , without the Convention ) and to impose on them the onus of displacing the Convention . |
| 11 | Bentham ( 1970 : 179 ) himself propounded the principle of ‘ frugality ’ ( or ‘ parsimony ’ ) , which states that punishments should be no more severe than they need to be to produce a utilitarian quantity of deterrence . |
| 12 | Certainly , the easiest route for companies to obtain a duty-free quota would seem to be to buy a Polish firm that has been assigned one . |
| 13 | Their tactics were to be to maintain a tight-lipped silence punctuated by claims that the new job was harder . |
| 14 | Having established the tone , Procul Harum duly yielded their place at the top of the charts to the Beatles , who settled on the essence of that summer with ‘ All You Need Is Love ’ , to be followed by Scott McKenzie 's ‘ San Francisco ’ , which was , millions of radios announced , the place to be to skip the light fandango , and where all one needed was love . |
| 15 | The purpose of the pit would appear to be to provide the maximum headroom using the minimum raw materials in the superstructure ; this would make a ground level plank floor something of a nonsense , an opinion shared by Welch ( 1985 , p. 23 , n.1 ) . |
| 16 | His first act needs to be to get the corporate search people straight back into action looking for outsiders to run the AS/400 business — someone from Hewlett-Packard perhaps , the disk business , the chip business , the software and services business . |
| 17 | There is still a struggle to control the age , quality and temperature of food on your plate and the last leap forward seems to be to attain the perfect temprature for consumption . |
| 18 | The general thrust of policy guidelines seems to be to encourage a greater contribution from the voluntary sector . |
| 19 | The ideal seems to be to have a down load on the tow bar of 10–15 kg ( 20–301b ) . |
| 20 | The only viable tactic seemed to be to surround the tribal hosts , forcing them to give hostages and cattle in exchange for leniency . |
| 21 | Its main function , however , appears to be to present a better image of Sri Lanka to the outside world . |
| 22 | The only way to discover exactly how much this all adds up to is to make a daily note of everything you spend , for a month . |
| 23 | The ideal to be aimed at is to find the optimum way of balancing the costs of insufficient stock against the costs of holding stock ( tied-up capital , storage space , insurance , damage etc ) . |
| 24 | The last thing he had wished for was to hurt the old man , but it could not be helped . |