Example sentences of "this [noun] be [verb] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The purpose of a book of this kind is to distil the essential from modern specialised scholarship and to present the whole in some recognisable form . |
| 2 | My only reason for including this story is to record the short but pithy comment of Canada 's leading humorist who , when we had paused to take in the scene , turned to me and said , ‘ I do n't think it 's a bit funny ! ’ |
| 3 | The main objects of this alignment are to achieve a short wheel base , and a fairly steep gradient . |
| 4 | Part of this settlement was to create a Servian buffer state , and both Sigismund and Murad agreed to recognise Djuradj Branković as the legitimate ruler of an independent Serbia . |
| 5 | The real challenge of this technique is to deceive the human eye . |
| 6 | This component is called the atmospheric path radiance . |
| 7 | This leaven was added the next time baking bread was done . |
| 8 | The main aim of this study is to computerize the bibliometric ( publication and citation ) data collected in a previous ESRC-funded project on ‘ CERN : Past Performance and Future Prospects ’ ( HR 7448 ) . |
| 9 | This study is examining the managerial process by which organisations develop a market-orientation . |
| 10 | The aim of this study is to determine the economic and political factors which cause prices and incomes controls to be imposed and to determine their effects on economic variables taking into acount the possibility that decision-makers make informed guesses about the probability of the onset of controls and thus alter their behaviour from what it would otherwise have been . |
| 11 | The aim of this study is to secure a better understanding of the association between major social , economic and demographic trends and the pattern of children in care . |
| 12 | The aim of this study was to analyse an unselected series of coeliac disease patients presenting in their seventh decade or beyond to a District General Hospital . |
| 13 | The purpose of this study was to evaluate the longterm clinical and endoscopical effects of Nissen fundoplication performed for reflux , including assessment of oesophageal function . |
| 14 | The aim of this study was to measure the overall plasminogen activator activity and concentrations of individual fibrinolytic system mediators in ascites secondary to alcoholic liver disease or malignancy to gain a greater understanding about the aetiology of this condition . |
| 15 | The aim of this study was to provide a rigorous statistical analysis of non-completion rates at all universities in the UK , but with particular attention being paid to Scotland . |
| 16 | The aim of this study was to verify a strong clinical impression that injecting drug misuse in Lothian has recently diminished . |
| 17 | The aim of this study was to identify the duodenal histological abnormalities in the presence or absence of HSAID , H pylori , and duodenal ulceration . |
| 18 | The point of this experiment was to strengthen the alloxan data . |
| 19 | As we are all aware , they have cut the grant available to safety representatives training , sorry , for safety representatives ' training and will completely eliminate that grant by nineteen ninety five and to top it all they have just announced that a review of all health and safety legislation will be completed by April next year the objective of this review is to reduce the so-called burdens health and safety legislation puts on employers . |
| 20 | The objective of this research is to examine the precise reasons for such developments , which include numerical flexibility ( part-time work , temporary work , overtime , shift-work and flexible working hours ) , functional flexibility ( varying the range of skills of individual workers ) , and distancing strategies ( sub-contracting work previously undertaken within the organisation ) . |
| 21 | The object of this research is to produce a comprehensive study of the life and work of Harold Hotelling ( 1895-1973 ) . |
| 22 | The purpose of this research is to develop a theoretical model of human short-term memory , expressed in the form of a computer program , and to undertake psychological experiments to test the predictions of the model . |
| 23 | The object of this research is to construct an international trade database that can readily be used by the academic community in the UK . |
| 24 | The aim of this research is to investigate the historical commitment of both managements and workers to this system despite a large number of attempts before the second world war to adopt alternative reward structures in industry . |
| 25 | The main objectives of this research are to estimate the total costs of operating the tax system ; to estimate the benefits accruing to businesses as a result of the operation of the system ( particularly cash flow benefits ) ; to compare costs of operating the main taxes ; and to identify areas of high compliance costs with a view to their reduction . |
| 26 | The primary intention of this chapter is to assess the Soviet strategy of military denial in the Third World in relation to the forms of military alignment outlined above . |
| 27 | My purpose in this chapter is to give an historical perspective to the antithesis cultural diversity/human unity . |
| 28 | The purpose of this chapter is to describe the known exact solutions for colliding gravitational waves in which the polarization of the approaching waves is not aligned . |
| 29 | The purpose of the remainder of this chapter is to analyse the changing structure and composition of the national population , assess the principal dimensions of population redistribution , and examine the impact which both these sources of change are having on the geography of Britain . |
| 30 | The purpose of this chapter is to examine the comparative institutional questions concerning which types of firm structure may be relatively efficient , and which relatively inefficient . |