Example sentences of "is [to-vb] [art] [adj] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Within media studies , on the other hand , the temptation is to see a pre-given social identity of race , class , gender limiting the possibilities of infinite variety , so that readings are not so much ‘ produced ’ in particular settings as assumed to be the product of a fixed exchange between the reader 's social position and the text . |
| 2 | I 've just come to see what there is , part of the interest is to see the great bad taste of Robert Maxwell , no matter how much you spend of your own money or other people 's it ca n't buy you taste |
| 3 | NOT the least onerous of the Hong Kong Governor 's duties is to wear a big fore-and-aft hat billowing with goose feathers . |
| 4 | The proposal is to conduct a follow-up investigatory research into the London Enterprise Programme ( LEP ) entrepreneurial training course . |
| 5 | One particularly effective way of making the point is to compare the contrasting judicial cultures in England and the Netherlands . |
| 6 | A useful alternative method of finding the capacitance of a low-loss capacitor is to compare the alternating potential drop across it with that across a standard capacitor connected in series , using a very-high-impedance voltmeter . |
| 7 | Bean , writing a year later in 1984 , supported this view by saying that ‘ when the adopted child is an older child who has already acquired a cultural background and a set of cultural responses , these will have to be unlearned if he or she is to acquire a new cultural identity ’ . |
| 8 | The criterion of coverage is likely to prevail over frequency in cases where the purpose of learning is to acquire a minimal productive competence across a limited range of predictable situations . |
| 9 | MARTIN Currie Pacific Trust is to acquire the issued ordinary share capital of Pacific Horizon Investment Trust in an agreed takeover . |
| 10 | Chemical Design , the molecular modelling systems supplier , is to include a two dimensional drawing tool in the latest release of its Chem-X software , which will allow molecules to be drawn on screen in the same way as on paper . |
| 11 | At best , all any such pill might ever be able to do is to affect the very general housekeeping biochemical processes required for the expression of memory . |
| 12 | Worse news for complacent Germans is that Chancellor Helmut Kohl told parliament yesterday that Germany must overhaul its social , economic and educational systems if it is to remain a leading industrial power : Germany has the shortest working week , the oldest students and the youngest pensioners among industrial countries , and that this undermines competitiveness — ‘ a successful industrial nation , a nation with a future , can not be organised like a collective amusement park . ’ |
| 13 | It might plausibly be assumed that one of the effects of a long retention interval is to restore the lost arousing properties of a familiar context . |
| 14 | The most practical approach is to accept a permanent low incidence of various plant pests , and prevent serious problems from arising by growing healthy plants that tolerate normal pest populations . |
| 15 | The allegorical figure of Holy Church sets him on an inner journey as she teaches him that the object of his being is to discover a natural inward knowledge of a love for God that is greater than any other preoccupation . |
| 16 | The challenge is to attract the alienated young back into the heart of society , not reduce its appeal for them still further . |
| 17 | It 's perhaps fitting that the Services and Communication Department should bring up the rear in this group of presentations , because one of its key priorities is to provide a coherent professional support service to the organisation as a whole . |
| 18 | IBM Corp is a major beneficiary of a $400m 10-year contract won by El Segundo , California-based Computer Sciences Corp from the US Department of the Interior 's Bureau of Land Management : the contract , which includes the installation and integration of about 7,000 IBM RS/6000s , is to provide a new automated land and mineral record system at 221 offices of the agency at 156 sites , primarily in the west . |
| 19 | As one of the Northern League 's two unpaid Press officers , he was doubtless pretty pleased also at Monday 's announcement that the council is to provide a major financial leg up for the district 's four NL clubs . |
| 20 | The state 's role in welfare is to provide a basic social minimum . |
| 21 | Thus , a stated aim of this book is to provide a significant bibliographic resource on empirical and theoretical approaches for predicting the fate of chemicals . |
| 22 | The long-term aim is to provide a dedicated 24-hour service for each section of the Asian community . |
| 23 | The major child care need is to provide the necessary environmental facilities to prevent families from breaking up , or to bring separated families together again . |
| 24 | Its aim is to provide the first comprehensive study of childhood injuries in the district and form the basis of an accident prevention drive . |
| 25 | The aim of this Fact Sheet is to provide the minimum necessary background data on unemployment in Britain for a rational debate on causes and remedies . |
| 26 | The next job is to position the internal electrical appliances , with one Fluval in each corner , the Spray-bar fitted to the Fluval 3 and positioned at the top back of the aquarium , just under the covers . |
| 27 | In theory , one action the authorities could consider adopting during a smog is to modify the adverse meteorological conditions or try to remove the pollutants from the air . |
| 28 | The agent 's first objective is to obtain the best possible price for his client and secondly , if possible , to generate the opportunity to market the completed units . |
| 29 | The aim is to obtain the maximum saleable tonnage at reasonable cost and therefore 90cm rows and normal husbandry methods are used . |
| 30 | His first job is to find a new senior US sales/channels manager . |