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

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1 RUGBY LEAGUE : John Joyner , Castleford 's veteran back row forward who made his Great Britain debut against Australia in 1978 , is to retire at the end of the season , writes John Whalley .
2 To see him Fred Astaire-ing in white tie and tails down stairways which light at the touch of a toe , or pelvising his way through lurex-decked rock and roll routines , is to sit at the ringside of every trapped soul 's private escape hatch .
3 Tony Thomas , the BRM Trustee told SRN that this 4-6-0 is to remain at the museum for the foreseeable future .
4 No-one realises how f—in' hard it is to scream at the top of your lungs and concentrate on playing guitar solos .
5 The walks come as the International Whaling Committee is to meet at the end of this month when the whaling nations are expected to ask to have a ban on whaling lifted .
6 Part of the art of angling is to look at a stretch of water , to analyse the clues of current , depth and cover and to decide , for example , where the roach are likely to lie or where the barbel may be shoaled up .
7 One simple way of spotting a poisonous species is to look at the shape of the head .
8 He says that the only way you can tell they 're fake , is to look at the stitching on the labels .
9 The purpose of the present investigation is to look at the influence of psychosocial factors on these patterns of health in the middle years .
10 Secondly Chairman I would like to draw the Councillors ' attention to the fact that I 'm this years representative on the South East Waste Regulation Advisory Committee and we have indeed got in hand a project which is to look at the whole of the recycling and the priorities for the South East region and I would imagine that by the time our officers have reported back to this Authority that they will have an advantage of having access to that report .
11 A working party is to look at the provision for 16-plus age groups with special needs .
12 Erm , the point perhaps of , of , of the thing is , it 's called the Team Focus , and hopefully for that very reason what we 're trying to do is to look at the way in which you can improve your performance together if you like , erm , and it would be very interesting to see what Jack and Linda can contribute to this in that , people who 've worked together for sort of six or seven years , erm , ought to be able to show us something .
13 I think erm there is some dispute as to erm what size the new settlement must be to become what 's termed an integrated and balanced community , and given the importance of this issue , and it has been with us for the last three years , ever since the new settlement was first proposed , erm I find it very surprising that North Yorkshire County Council have not undertaken any work of their own on this subject area , and have relied instead on a a residual approach to find the new settlement size , and I must say I find that very unsatisfactory , what North Yorkshire County Council are inviting you , erm , to accept is whatever size the residual for Greater York is , you know , has been in the past I should say , proposals from the public , from the private sector have come forward , an and the County Council have used those proposals as confirmation that the new settlement of that particular size was viable , it 's a sort of self fulfilling prophecy , now I think that 's unacceptable , what they have n't done is the second part of the technical exercise , which is to look at the thresholds of the various services and facilities required in the new settlement .
14 One analysis which has proved useful is to look at the issue as a process of dealing with information , and to define the skills involved in this process as information skills ( Winkworth , 1977 ) .
15 The next logical step is to look at the idea of Highlander , to see how it operates , and how it differs completely from a conventional school for community organisers .
16 One , which could be seen as a little circular , is to look at the brains of mammals alive today and determine what they have in common .
17 One of the aims is to look at the links between commercial and industrial policy in order to see if one can devise any common criteria to distinguish legitimate goals of industrial policy from capricious protectionism .
18 But the next step is to look at the catalogue of a good University library .
19 It is to look at the characteristics of the land itself , rather than to associate it of necessity with the land on one side of it or the land on the other side of it .
20 The simplest way to decide whether a collection of individuals ( a group ) will be sufficient or whether a genuine team operating at the skilful stage is necessary , is to look at the nature of the task to be tackled .
21 The important thing here is to look at the nature of the evidence , which is opinion and hearsay — that MacDonald favoured the idea , and had re-aligned his own political thinking .
22 It will be looking at the needs of the lay reps the role of full-time officers the way we distribute the up to date information and one of the most vital to our organization is to look at the role of health and safety in the recruitment and retention of membership .
23 Rather , my aim is to look at the kinds of assumption that informed the various strands of positivist criminology , and at the way they differed from classical assumptions in both theory and practice .
24 Having assumed a number of basic requirements for the survival of society , the next step is to look at the parts of the social structure to see how they meet such functional prerequisites .
25 One way of attempting to assess the situation is to look at the list of unfair terms set out in the annex to the Directive , and decide the extent to which English law will already control such clauses .
26 One of the aims of this chapter is to look at the effect on word discriminability in continuous speech of increasing the depth of the phoneme graph .
27 The purpose of this book is to look at the ways in which judges of the High Court , the Court of Appeal , and the House of Lords have in recent years dealt with political cases which have come before them .
28 The notion that you have a group of children that you can categorize , say like partially sighted , or maladjusted , or educationally subnormal , and that they should have a special education , is one that 's been increasingly challenged over the years and I think the Warnock Report actually moves considerably away from that notion and says no , we do n't want to separate off a particular group because they appear to have a single erm or even a multiple disability , what we want to do is to look at the needs of each individual child and ask what is it about that particular child that makes the achievement of education objectives more difficult than another child .
29 Our first step is to look at the context for the debate about age discrimination at work ; in particular , the growth of retirement in general and early retirement more specifically .
30 IT 'S AEROBIC — The key to walking aerobically is to walk at a pace of 3.5 — 4.0 miles per hour for a minimum of 20 minutes , during which time the heart rate is elevated to 60–85 per cent of its
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