Example sentences of "is [to-vb] [prep] [art] [noun] [unc] " in BNC.

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1 The scheme is to go before the island 's Legislative Council for approval in defiance of its giant neighbour .
2 One of the main tasks of this Committee is to liaise with the Architects ' Council of Europe ( ACE ) .
3 The testator has instituted his sons heirs , and set up a trust : whichever dies first , if he dies childless , is to make over his share of the estate to his brother ; if both die childless the whole is to pass to the testator 's granddaughter .
4 The statue , by Philip Jackson , vice-president of the Royal Society of British Sculptors , is to stand at the museum 's entrance gates .
5 Theirs are the more menial chores in Hell — the fetching and carrying of water , for instance — and their reward is to suckle at a witch 's nipples .
6 One of the most important tasks in analysing intonation is to listen to the speaker 's pitch and recognise what it is doing ; this is not an easy thing to do , and it seems to be a quite different skill from that acquired in studying segmental phonetics .
7 A crude but effective method is to look at the rider 's backside and pick a horse with one to match !
8 IT is true that we need a free Press to curb Government excesses , but intruding into people 's privacy and using heavy-handed tactics in stories concerning tragedy is to play into the Government 's hands .
9 Relative to the matter in hand I take it to mean that it is to do with the budget er to prepare for this County and do not er to be the irrelevancies of machination in other places .
10 His or her job is to deal with the child 's physical needs ( e.g. arising from incontinence , lack of mobility or impaired speech ) rather than to help teach the whole class .
11 Obviously the first thing to do is to deal with the family 's emotional problem as well as your own .
12 Peter Brook 's central achievement in the television version is to seize on the screen 's ability to make a seamless connection between two senses of ‘ illusion ’ , the philosopher 's and the magician 's .
13 The second is to act as the government 's agent , both as its banker and in carrying out monetary policy .
14 Relaunched on a regular basis , its intention is to bring to the public 's attention the fact that many who would otherwise have valid personal injury cl aims never proceed with them .
15 A useful first step is to dispose of the workers ' own mother with her propensity to produce competing brood .
16 Notes 1.11.2 ( i ) What we are actually doing in 1.11.1(i) is to associate with the sequence unc and the element c ε J the element unc in J.
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