Example sentences of "be [to-vb] [adj] [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If liability rules are to perform any of the functions mentioned there must be at least some prospect of their being enforced . |
| 2 | The result has been to destroy much of the progress in health care over the years preceding each dispute . |
| 3 | The major production innovation at Kalmar has been to do away with the track . |
| 4 | The purpose of any order under subsection ( 2 ) must , in my opinion , be to restore all of the parties to their former positions . |
| 5 | He once reproached Sir Philip Sidney for his famous refusal of a cup of water on a Dutch battlefield as an act that looks ‘ aggressively holy ’ , and it is hard to imagine any other critic of the age allowing himself such a remark , or even conceiving of it : The okay thing would be to drink some of the cup himself and pass it on , leaving most of it to the other man … ’ |
| 6 | A charming way of decorating a tiny room , study or minute dining room would be to cover one of the walls with a host of miniatures , so they are almost like wallpaper . |
| 7 | The next step will be to adopt more of the North 's repressive emergency measures in order to contain the violence . |
| 8 | One way of putting this would be to say that with the deconstruction of these intervening cultural developments , we can see the early modern clearly once again . |
| 9 | One way would be to close eight of the counties smaller libraries like this one in Matson , just outside Gloucester . |
| 10 | There is no doubt that the effect of GATT over most of the postwar years has been to remove some of the protection afforded to national markets . |
| 11 | However , the cost of achieving this has been to remove some of the advantages of forward contracts as well . |
| 12 | During a visit to Taiwan on Oct. 27-29 , Prime Minister Lee Kuan Yew of Singapore also made it clear that " substantive relations " with Taiwan were to remain unchanged despite the resumption of ties with China [ see also p. 37780 ] . |
| 13 | Discussion of the inter-war years usually centres on industrial change , but North Shields resembles the rest of the North East here in that while it is true that the 1920s saw a good deal of structurally induced unemployment which reflected the position of traditional basic industries , and the 1930s saw the impact of work recession , these same basic industries began to recover in the run up to the Second World War in the mid-1930s and were to remain basic to the area until the early 1960s . |
| 14 | ( Judy Thomas points out , however , that if anything were to go wrong during the evening the agency would n't be legally responsible . ) |
| 15 | By 1785 the owner was William Fryer and that year he leased the mill for 21 years to the partnership of Henry Hicks and Edward Sheppard who , in years to come , were to found one of the county 's largest cloth mills in Uley . |
| 16 | They were to take some of the lawyer 's personal possessions , his wallet , his watch and his jacket , and , if the opportunity arose , they were to take his car as well . |
| 17 | Blix also said that the IAEA 's effectiveness would be much increased if member countries were to make available to the agency relevant information gathered by spy satellites . |
| 18 | Not much profit came from these transactions but friends were made and contacts kept up that were to prove useful in the peace . |
| 19 | There could be a significant financial return and obvious promotional benefits for the RBG , if we were to become involved with the production of videos about our gardens and/or gardening in general for the popular/tourist market , for sale through our own and other retail outlets . |
| 20 | If you think you are eating too much salt , the first thing to do is to go easy on the amount you sprinkle on food and use in cooking . |
| 21 | But the other reason to break the journey is to see some of the outback . |
| 22 | San Antonio , Texas-based maker of ‘ microminiature ’ facsimile modems Data Race Inc is to acquire most of the assets of Fremont , California fellow modem maker OmniTel Inc . |
| 23 | Despite calls for its closure on safety grounds , the Leaning Tower of Pisa is to remain open for the time being , the mayor said yesterday . |
| 24 | The simplest way or wiring is to link in to an existing socket , but the alternative is to connect direct into the ring circuit cable using a three-dimensional junction box . |
| 25 | The second precaution is to pull each of the bridle rings up and away from the sail before positioning the cross-spar first into the centre ferrule with the spar beneath all the bridle lines It is most important that the lines which we will call ‘ B ’ and ‘ C ’ as in the drawings , are free and not in any way tangled with either the leading , edge vinyl , spine fitting or the cross-spar Otherwise the bridle setting and consequent flight performance will be sadly deformed ! |
| 26 | The most important role of the Pinot Noir is to provide much of the body , flesh and grip of a Champagne cuvée especially in the middle term of maturity . |
| 27 | I think we have to go back to what is the fundamental purpose of the York new settlement and that is to meet some of the development plan requirements of the Greater York area . |
| 28 | However , the primary aim of this research is to explore some of the problems of speech processing , rather than to explore new computational techniques . |
| 29 | The answer is to unwind some of the absurdities of the intervention system which mean that far too much money is devoted to financing the depreciation of beef rather than to putting it on the table . |
| 30 | The aim is to elucidate some of the methods by which entrepreneurial decisions are reached and entrepreneurial activities carried out on a day to day basis . |