Example sentences of "[det] [noun] be [to-vb] to the " in BNC.

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1 The main reason for this change is to clarify to the general public what the word ‘ Upholstery ’ means .
2 This conflict was to lead to the civil war and the beheading of Charles I in 1642 .
3 To suggest that it is shows how preconditioned some people are to react to the female body as pornographic .
4 Two points made before are thereby worth reiterating : first , that the meaning of perversion is crucially context dependent ; second that one objective of this book is to restore to the concept dimensions which were obscured within the sexological/psychoanalytic traditions , though remaining inscribed within them , especially in Freud 's texts .
5 Furthermore , an Althusserean who faces Connolly 's criticism directly will surely reply that there is no question of individuals who have certain ‘ real interests ’ being ‘ duped ’ by ideology ; to talk in this way is to revert to the very problematic Marx was striving to transcend .
6 The natural solution in such cases is to look to the National Trust or the National Trust for Scotland .
7 Whatever the outcome of the Higginson Committee 's inquiry may be , if we are to see a radical improvement in secondary education , we must learn to think not merely of a new form of examination ( and therefore presumably a novel kind of syllabus that will lead to it ) but of a wholly new approach to those studies that we wish to retain in the sixth forms at school , and how these studies are to relate to the pupils ' next step , when they leave school .
8 ‘ My own ambition is to get to the top camp from where we launch the summit bid .
9 The techs ' eyes would take far longer than any Wolverine 's to accommodate to the profound gloom .
10 His own aim was to return to the message of the Bible via the teaching of the Reformers , and on that basis he wished to outline a very different conception of the nature of Christian faith and life .
11 I presume that the best way of keeping abreast of any developments is to write to the self help group which is extremely active .
12 The solution adopted in both cases was to look to the transaction the parties to which typically carried on business in different States and to ignore the transaction which in the typical case was domestic .
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