Example sentences of "[det] be [to-vb] [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The specific reasons for this are to do with the development of the English Labour movement in relation to the development of British capitalism in the latter half of the nineteenth century . |
| 2 | If this were to happen in the case of the CAB , they would have lost their primary purpose as first tier advisory agencies ; there would be duplication of effort , waste of public money and , in all probability , deterioration in the quality of specialised advice provided . ’ |
| 3 | Another way of thinking of this is to return to the tap metaphor and to see that the tap represents demands and the glass represents resources . |
| 4 | But to talk like this is to fall into the trap mentioned above of emphasising maintenance not mission . |
| 5 | Now this , is er , also , and this is to do with the interest earned and on revenue balances . |
| 6 | Often this is to do with the fact that the current bereavement has driven the person into emotional overload because of everything else that is happening in their life either currently or over a period of time . |
| 7 | One important function of and in a piece of writing like this is to signal to the reader that the sentences are meant to be=read together as an integrated whole . |
| 8 | Perhaps the easiest way of looking at this is to think of the surface states as a charge store , which effectively shifts the switching level of the device . |
| 9 | That aside , English follows its normal mode of realization — marking qualification by word order — and , as tends to be the case except in entity-identifiers , having the subordinate item follow the item qualified ; the only overt marking is the choice of an adjectival rather than adverbial form for the second property , to show that this is to apply to the entity of the noun phrase and not to the property of the verb . |
| 10 | Another is to marvel at the pointlessness of many a sophisticated achievement and to be superior about it , the last , or one of the last , indulgences of a European . |
| 11 | All this was to feed into the stream of sexual radicalism in the early twentieth century . |
| 12 | This was to do with the difficulty of financing conferences of this type . |
| 13 | Some graves have been found showing that bowls of food were buried with the body — this was to provide for the journey to the Underworld , which many people believed was made by a dead person 's spirit . |
| 14 | All this was to change with the advent of Sir Ralph Furse , who from 1919 to 1948 was in sole charge of recruitment for the Colonial Service . |
| 15 | This was to compensate for the lack of imported fruit and vegetables . |
| 16 | The first of these was to look at the school with a wider concept of resources than that with which the library project was concerned , and the second was to feed into the library committee a relatively independent group 's view of appropriate resource proposals . |
| 17 | It is usually the case that the primaries are geographically distinct and , since not all are to appear in the sample , there is a clear administrative advantage over a sampling scheme involving the whole population of secondaries . |
| 18 | Important steps had already been taken that were to lead to the decision . |
| 19 | Every separatist movement in Europe that I can think of bases itself on ‘ ethnicity ’ , linguistic or not , that is to say on the assumption that ‘ we ’ — the Basques , Catalans , Scots , Croats , or Georgians are a different people from the Spaniards , the English , the Serbs or the Russians , and therefore we should not live in the same state with them . |
| 20 | It claims to have been made ‘ on the advice of prelates ’ as well as of ‘ earls , barons and other faithful subjects of our realm who are of our council ’ , that is to say in the parliament which was then sitting . |
| 21 | The cellulose chains which are laid down in the cell-wall are long and they have their length more or less parallel to the length of the cell or fibre , that is to say in the direction of the applied stress . |
| 22 | The most important chairman ( of the municipality ) was a Jlulat from Tazarbu , that is to say from the category of people least involved in the Kufran disputes . |
| 23 | By contrast , a writer whose allegiances ultimately lie with the bourgeoisie would necessarily understand political developments from the outside , that is to say from the perspective of an oppressive class . |
| 24 | Yeah the other thing on staffing tt which is a related , but in a sense I 'm trying to keep it as something of a separate issue , and that is to do with the amount of management time . |
| 25 | It must establish at once what type of character each is to play in the plot and the relationship of each to the environment of a theme or the style of dance being used . |
| 26 | No that 's that 's to do with the sun . |
| 27 | Well that 's really not our problem I mean that 's to do with the deregularization of er bus companies allowing any anybody to start up a bus company . |
| 28 | Now when they 're born there wo n't be any problems at all and that 's to do with the way they feed before they 're born , how 's a baby fed before it 's born ? |
| 29 | His plan for that was to go into the restaurant car park and allow enough time for the other car to clear the fuel service area , then fill his own tank and give chase . |
| 30 | In much work that was to develop within the compass of physical geography , the chronology assumed a greater significance , it required a greater knowledge of existing and recently developed dating techniques , and it thus involved close liaison with other disciplines particularly geology , biology and archaeology amongst the broadening spectrum of the earth and environmental sciences . |