Example sentences of "of [noun sg] [be] [verb] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Neil of course is doing the male macho bit , oh yes it 's , all very nice driving the automatic , but I like gears really , yeah . |
| 2 | What he needed of course was to compare the present Bill with the nineteen sixty four Act as amended by various statutes . |
| 3 | Mary of course was to get the largest amount — twenty . |
| 4 | But the idea of course was to bring the electrical , mechanical and the technicians to redesign the little bits that were |
| 5 | But many biologists took it for granted that the main purpose of evolutionism was to elucidate the precise course of life 's development from its earliest origins . |
| 6 | Thus , one of the arts of banking is to balance the potential cash requirements of depositors with the bank 's desire to hold a spectrum of profit-earning assets , some of which may be relatively illiquid . |
| 7 | The simplest form of analogy is to change the historical setting for the event , for instance , attempting to place The Good Samaritan in a contemporary setting , or doing the reverse of this — taking some contemporary problem such as racism and setting it in past times , in a context between , say , the Jews and the Samaritans or the Greeks and the Romans . |
| 8 | This sits easily with the view summarised earlier that there are " facts " in the world , recorded in various ways , and the task of research is to gather the appropriate ones in light of the resources and circumstances affecting the particular research project . |
| 9 | As we stated in the first chapter of this book , the developmental task of marriage is to convert the unconscious choice of partner into a conscious commitment . |
| 10 | To come to power in conditions of war was to expose the new regime to the maximum pressures of the world system . |
| 11 | Meanwhile a young infantry soldier who had fought in the trenches and had been taken prisoner of war was putting the finishing touches to a philosophical treatise that was to bring traditional philosophy crashing down about its ears . |
| 12 | If a decision about a document or as to some point of evidence is made the right course , having put the relevant argument , is to accept the ruling and then to consider an appeal should circumstances so demand . |
| 13 | Always ask : could the form of presentation be distorting the true situation ? |
| 14 | The simplest solution to the problem of stress is to leave the demanding situation . |
| 15 | With various motives — from the fear that the worst excesses of Thatcherism were making the existing social order less stable , to the belief that God was on the side of oppressed people seeking justice — its leaders spoke out against particularly inhumane State policies . |
| 16 | However , whether or not a statutory definition of charity is introduced the present problems must not be exaggerated . |
| 17 | The object of matching is to increase the internal validity of the study , i.e. to try to ensure that any S 1 -S 2 difference is due to X alone . |
| 18 | The main function of iron is to form the red pigment in the blood called haemoglobin . |
| 19 | The first stage of planning is to list the main activities on the processor outline . |
| 20 | Therefore , the effect of economies of scale is to exacerbate the anti-competitive effects of a change in the dominant firms ' conjectures . |
| 21 | Running from army officers to shopkeepers , from the poderosos ( the ‘ powerful ones ’ ) of rural towns to the cotton magnates of Barcelona , this inchoate conglomerate of the middle sections of society was to dominate the political life of the nineteenth century . |
| 22 | People from all walks of life are joining the Buddhist faith , which , says Tabkay , is no longer seen as an eastern religion . |
| 23 | The most usual method of calculation is to determine the net profit of the business ensuring that this amount is the amount of pre-tax and pre proprietor drawings and pre interest charges . |
| 24 | The whole range of radiation is called the electromagnetic spectrum . |
| 25 | The real Holy Grail of science is to combine the two into an equation whose writ runs from the instant of creation to the last syllable of recorded time . |
| 26 | The task of the sociology of science was to study the social context that permitted science to proceed according to the norms of this ethos . |
| 27 | The effect of evacuation was to flood the dark places with light and bring home to the national consciousness that the ‘ submerged tenth ’ described by Charles Booth still exists in our towns like a hidden sore , poor , dirty and crude in its habits , an intolerable and degrading burden to decent people forced by poverty to neighbour with it . |
| 28 | This level of unemployment is called the natural level of unemployment . |
| 29 | The task of the student of politics is to discern the distinctive features of that continuity and change , to generate concepts , and , if possible , to construct models and theories that will aid understanding of and serve to explain those distinctive features and the relationship among them . |
| 30 | Third , a doctor 's obligation when he can no longer hold back the approach of death is to make the patient comfortable , including easing his pain . |