Example sentences of "be [to-vb] the [noun sg] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The two councillors are to monitor the situation over the next few days before seeking a meeting with the RUC 's assistant Chief Constable . |
| 2 | So the situations which are to stimulate the use of the language being learned will have to be contrived in some way , and the learners will have to co-operate in maintaining the illusion of reality . |
| 3 | British Rail are to remain the employer of the British Transport Police for the immediate future , in order to ensure that the British Transport Police will continue to police the whole of the restructured railway er a an order amending the British Transport Police Force Scheme in nineteen sixty three will be laid before Parliament shortly . |
| 4 | Strange , how easy it had been to accept the harshness of the training depot and the lessons she had learned . |
| 5 | For instance , in the commercial applications , the articles of association of a company do not specify a procedure , but merely say that the auditors are to certify the value of the shares ( see Chapter 3 ) : the same brevity is encountered in the share option ( 5.2 ) and convertible preference share examples ( 5.6 ) . |
| 6 | If we are to find the answer to the problem of what gives stretches of language unity and meaning , we must look beyond the formal rules operating within sentences , and consider the people who use language , and the world in which it happens as well . |
| 7 | The procedure then would have been to express the frequency of the imperfect subjunctive in relation to all the contexts where its occurrence was possible . |
| 8 | The principal objectives are to identify the nature of the relationships under different conditions ( fixed and floating exchange rates ; periods of rising and falling prices ) and to add to our understanding of particular dramatic episodes in economic history such as the ‘ great depression ’ of 1929-32 . |
| 9 | One response to this has been to challenge the position of the majority in the province by suggesting that it is not the population of the province who should decide the issues at stake but the population of the whole of Ireland . |
| 10 | One feature of the discussion in this chapter has been to challenge the use of the concepts of consistency and ‘ inexorable logic ’ as unanswerable standards of appraisal of the law . |
| 11 | Such language seems vacuous to some , but if we are to comprehend the nature of the arts in particular , being is a concept which it seems difficult to do without . |
| 12 | They had not given the details of the break-in a moment 's thought , so keen had they been to avoid the subject in the course of the evening . |
| 13 | It is likely that the motive for the new designs may have been to enhance the dignity of the King and to stress his magnificence ; it is impossible to say if there was any deliberate intention of claiming additional status for him , or if this was a subsequent interpretation of the imagery . |
| 14 | One of the effects of this increased need for security has been to strengthen the importance of the big set-piece occasions like rallies where access can be controlled and crowds organised . |
| 15 | The council are to draw the attention of the contractors to the matter . |
| 16 | EPZ regulations must become much more flexible if countries are to retain the vitality of the original investors . |
| 17 | Would not a more reasonable decision have been to fix the subscription at the direct debit level but offer a discount of £5.00 for payment say within 14 days of the due date ? |
| 18 | As observed in Chapter 1 , the Thatcher government 's general approach has been to couple the application within the public sector of those private managerial techniques perceived as most conducive to value for money — notably objective setting and performance measurement — with an increasing encouragement to greater consumer responsiveness . |
| 19 | If we are to believe the evidence of the bloodstains , Riddle was in his shirt sleeves when he was killed : no jacket , no outer coat … ’ |
| 20 | The difficulty in finding unambiguous answers to these questions rests on how we are to interpret the relation between the wave function and the individual particle it describes . |
| 21 | A structure as I 've said previously will give us the vital time and for the detailed discussions and consultations we need if we are to build the trust for the merger we all wish to see . |
| 22 | The major challenge has been to question the evidence on the basis of which the distinction ‘ logical/pre-logical ’ was made . |
| 23 | Lavandera makes the point that the standard procedure in quantitative sociolinguistics would have been to start the analysis from the forms themselves rather than to examine initially the discourse contexts in which they were used . |
| 24 | Two of the government 's most important objectives are to reduce the proportion of the nation 's wealth consumed by the public sector and to reduce the extent to which individuals are held back by the public sector … |
| 25 | Since few hereditary peers take their seats anyway , the result has been to tilt the balance in the House gradually from heredity to merit . |
| 26 | Yet this would be to miss the essence of the point Marx seeks to make : for bad treatment by employers of employees is open to correction by moral conviction whether that of the employers themselves acting in pursuance of enlightened self-interest , or that of legislatures acting to prevent abuses ; and the simple understanding would , by introducing the possibility of an extrinsic and corrective moral factor , threaten the inevitability of the class war . |
| 27 | It shall be lawful for his Majesty to appoint a Minister whose duty it shall be to promote the education of the people of England and Wales and the progressive development of institutions devoted to that purpose and to secure the effective execution by the local authorities , under his control and direction , of the national policy for providing a varied and comprehensive educational service in every area . |
| 28 | The first CCD session opened on Dec. 30 , and in his opening speech CCD president Jaime Yoshiyama Tanaka declared that the new government 's priorities would be to restore the autonomy of the judiciary , to defeat terrorism , to attract foreign investment , to generate employment and to improve the country 's image abroad . |
| 29 | But she was trying to wean herself off them and to give in now would be to acknowledge the potency of the nightmare . |
| 30 | The role of the NDO throughout this stage will be to monitor the progress of the unit writing , arrange for the meeting of writers to discuss common problems and review each other 's work , arrange for feedback from representatives of interested parties such as employers and college staff and to negotiate with professional bodies vis-a-vis recognition of the units and courses . |