Example sentences of "is [to-vb] the [noun sg] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | In Elizabeth 's third novel , A View of the Harbour ( 1947 ) , Beth , a novelist and the first artist to appear in her work , is a woman who seldom goes out of her house , and every time she does so , it is to see the world with the new vision of a convalescent . |
| 2 | When humans exchange information using language , one way of accounting for what is taking place is to see the process as the generation of a model of discourse by the participants . |
| 3 | So one thing that I 'm sure we 'll want to do is to support the work of the Secondary Science Curriculum Review . |
| 4 | They also believe that their greatest responsibility is to support the future of the monarchy . |
| 5 | The principle is to support the crop above the ground and to allow the air to circulate freely through it . |
| 6 | The committee contains leading representatives of the tobacco industry and its task is to monitor the operation of the agreements on advertising and on sponsorship of sports by tobacco companies in the United Kingdom . |
| 7 | What the formula has to do is to compare the title of the project in column B ( which has been left blank until this point ) with the column labels in columns F , G , H and so on . |
| 8 | The aim of this research is to compare the use of the two approaches in practice , on large datasets from various socio-economic sources . |
| 9 | A MIDDLESBROUGH councillor is to report the authority to the Local Government ombudsman and Audit Commission . |
| 10 | The role of the inspector ( see Figure 5.15 ) is to report the matter to the person one level up who controls the whole space owned by both teams ; this person then decides on a solution . |
| 11 | The first option is to strip the property from the company and sell it separately . |
| 12 | Many times the chub take slugs so viciously they rip them clean off the hook , and the only thing you can do to improve matters is to thread the line through the full length of the slug with a baiting needle , attach the hook and pull it back so that one end of the slug is lying in the bend of the hook . |
| 13 | The disadvantage of an equitable assignment is that if the purchaser is to enforce the contract against the supplier or debtor , the vendor must be joined as a party ( see Performing Rights Society Limited v London Theatre of Varieties Limited [ 1924 ] AC 1 ) . |
| 14 | Another way of implying an operand value ( without giving a store address ) is to include the value in the instruction stream . |
| 15 | The directors ' policy is to continue the expansion of the group in its existing growth areas . |
| 16 | Do you want to know how easy it is to affect the environment of the world by planting trees or buying eco-friendly products ? |
| 17 | The whole Creation aesthetic seems based in the sad conviction that rock is over , it 's been and gone , and all that 's left is to uphold the legacy through the Dark Ages of Plastic Pop . |
| 18 | A less good alternative is to connect the Zener across the battery terminals of the radio , on the circuit side of the on-off switch ( as shown dotted in Fig 2 ) . |
| 19 | The first task is to connect the tablet to the Spectrum . |
| 20 | An alternative method of minimising static error is to connect the motor to the load by a gear or , if linear load positioning is required , by a leadscrew , so the effects of these mechanical connections are also investigated . |
| 21 | Where the court extends a period at a time when that period has expired and a warrant has been issued , the court is to suspend the warrant for the extended period ; if before the expiration of the extended period the lessee pays into court ( sic ) all the rent arrears and all the costs , the court shall cancel the warrant ( s 138(9) ) . |
| 22 | If the going concern qualification 's role is to signal the distribution of the likely cash flows , further questions arise . |
| 23 | The secret is to hit the edge of the top one with the steel-tipped back edge of your heels and travel all the way down just skimming each stair the same way . |
| 24 | It is played between two people in a small arena and the object is to hit the opponent on the head so that his cerebrum thwacks against his skull with sufficient force to cause loss of consciousness . |
| 25 | He reiterated that a planned new law on secession [ see below ] would allow Lithuania to secede on the basis of a referendum and " the realization of interests both of Lithuania and the USSR " , but commented : " My idea is to preserve the union on the basis of a different approach to each republic [ and ] a new union treaty . " |
| 26 | The first priority is to preserve the dignity of the palaces . |
| 27 | The objective in A&E wound care is to restore the function of the wounded tissue to as near normal as possible , so that the patient can resume activities with the least interference with quality of life . |
| 28 | The second course is to write the history of the local organisation from general knowledge gleaned over the years , and to send this to the leader , or committee , for comment . |
| 29 | SOLUTION The first step in any such calculation is to write the equation for the reaction : Since excess chloride ions are used , we can assume that all the Age ions are converted to AgCl . |
| 30 | You can think of them as the wires leading from a bank of three million photocells ( actually three million relay stations gathering information from an even larger number of photocells ) to the computer that is to process the information in the brain . |