Example sentences of "[noun pl] [is] [to-vb] [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A slow but dramatic way of allocating roles is to come to the children ( probably gathered in a circle ) and ask them who 's who in role : " I 'm a stranger here . |
| 2 | One approach to sites is to look at the way we experience them through our senses . |
| 3 | An alternative method of maintaining business confidence in cross-border transactions is to provide for the establishment of EC companies , which would be formed and wound up according to Community rules rather than the rules of any particular member state . |
| 4 | What is essential in considering all these matters is to see beyond the weeping , struggling figure to the austere searcher who had devoted his life to reaching precise definitions of Truth , Rectitude and Justice , and to living accordingly . |
| 5 | It is clear that er , one of N C V O principle functions is to act as the voice of the voluntary sector . |
| 6 | One of BSSO 's major functions is to liaise with the Security Service ( MI5 ) , which is particularly active in trying to stop IRA terrorism on the Continent and in mainland Britain . |
| 7 | Question Types The first approach that may be used in breaking down questions is to look for the question types . |
| 8 | One of the aims is to look at the links between commercial and industrial policy in order to see if one can devise any common criteria to distinguish legitimate goals of industrial policy from capricious protectionism . |
| 9 | The role of tender panels is to bid for the notes issued by the corporate and to use their placing power to transfer them to investors . |
| 10 | ‘ Unless a different intention appears , the following are rules for ascertaining the intention of the parties as to the time at which the property in the goods is to pass to the buyer . ’ |
| 11 | We all know that the task we 've set the officers is to manage within the budgets they 've been given , and to have no cuts in services , and no compulsory redundancies , and thi this is their challenge and this is what they seem to be achieving , and I think we should applaud them for that . |
| 12 | The subsidiary information field specifies which one of 16 accumulators is to participate in the instruction , a common use for this field . |
| 13 | The second point that could cause confusion on the printouts is to do with the way in which stitches are to be cast on or off , increased or decreased and so on . |
| 14 | ‘ The traditional British way of doing things in international sporting bodies is to go to the body and put forward a sensible , fair and balanced objective and assume then that everybody will vote for it . |
| 15 | The primary task of the external auditors is to report on the truth and fairness of the financial statements which are presented to the members at their annual general meeting . |
| 16 | We have just suggested that one way of interpreting these apparently different patterns of error in the production of open and closed class lexical items is to argue for the existence of two separate vocabularies which are accessed during the production of spoken language . |
| 17 | However , it is imperative that LIFESPAN is not running during the backup period if a consistent set of database files is to exist in the save_set . |
| 18 | Another way of getting at the question of disciplinary spaces is to ask about the boundaries of the discipline . |
| 19 | An exercise you can do to get a picture of the difference between newspapers is to go to the library and read each daily in turn . |
| 20 | My first approach with almost all players is to focus on the direction of the attack . |
| 21 | I presume that the best way of keeping abreast of any developments is to write to the self help group which is extremely active . |
| 22 | A GROUP of criminal lawyers is to complain to the Lord Chancellor , Lord Mackay , about the huge legal bill for six paratroopers acquitted last week on charges arising out of a fracas in Coalisland . |
| 23 | Another way of handling indexicals is to think of the specification of the content of an utterance as a two stage affair : the " meaning " of an utterance is a function from contexts ( sets of indices ) to propositions , which are in turn functions from possible worlds to truth values ( Montague , 1970 ; Stalnaker , 1972 ) . |
| 24 | The cash all in coins is to go towards the £14,000 appeal to create a child protection suite in Darlington , where child abuse victims and women sex assault victims can be dealt with in a pleasant atmosphere . |
| 25 | One way of analysing video programmes is to look at the film techniques employed : editing decisions , camera angles , the way images are juxtaposed all have an effect on the viewer , who is often unaware of it . |
| 26 | The survey people stressed the importance of neutrality and objectivity in research , and the participant observation enthusiasts argued that the essential thing about social life is what it means to those involved , and that the only valid way of getting at these meanings is to participate in the lives of those who shared them . |
| 27 | In a study conducted in the 1960s , Rex and Moore ( 1967 ) argued that the shared desire of people living in cities is to move to the suburbs . |
| 28 | A further task which could become the focus of co-operative endeavour in mathematics departments and curriculum development groups is to engage in the preparation of learning materials which do not simply support the status quo , but which enable our students to question and challenge it . |
| 29 | One way to handle different bit mapping schemes is to include in the header details such as the number of bit planes , bits per pixel , pixels per scan line , and the number of scan lines . |
| 30 | Even so , we would expect the resulting market valuation to pay some attention to the underlying assets since the reason for buying investment trust shares is to participate in the income and capital gains resulting from the managers ' investment performance . |