Example sentences of "[conj] is [adv] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | This only serves to emphasise the desirability of stating expressly whether time is or is not to be of the essence . |
| 2 | ‘ Whether the child has arrived or is yet to be born is unclear . |
| 3 | If ever there was any documentation relating to this episode , none appears to have survived or is yet to be unearthed . |
| 4 | Third-person pronouns are frequently used to refer back ( and occasionally forward ) to an entity which has already been introduced ( or is about to be introduced ) into the discourse . |
| 5 | In fact , Kaprun and its neighbour Zell am See have everything that you could need to enjoy a perfect holiday in some of the most beautiful alpine scenery there is , including some excellent bars and restaurants for relaxing evenings and charming coffee houses for afternoon coffee and cake ; an experience that is not to be missed ! |
| 6 | Project members are normally overseen by a Steering Committee , representing relevant expertise that is not to be looked for within the institution itself . |
| 7 | This can be avoided by asking only for condemnations of the path that is not to be taken . |
| 8 | If you want to make a shape that is straight to the waist , then enter one program for the first straight section and knit to the instruction for cast off . |
| 9 | If it is a boiler that is also to be used for central heating , the best position will probably be in the kitchen on an outside wall . |
| 10 | The statement explained that war resistance was appropriate only if the Government engaged in military action unsanctioned by the League — a qualification that is nowhere to be found in Trevelyan 's resolution . |
| 11 | After only half an hour we can tack left and right — a must in general , as going downwind puts the canopy between you and the way ahead giving you no chance of avoiding rocks and ruts — so that we can move almost anywhere in an arc that is up to 45 degrees on either side of the wind . |
| 12 | For hair that is up to 30% grey , a vegetable rinse ( semipermanent colour ) will add both vibrancy and shine while giving natural-looking highlights . |
| 13 | Intel Corp rates the 66MHz version of the Pentium chip at 112 MIPS — well it is claimed to execute two instructions per cycle — one for each of its parallel arithmetic-logic units — two five-stage execution units , and claims that it is five times more powerful than the original 80486 microprocessor and over 300 times faster than the 8088 ; it contains 3.1m transistors , compared with 1.2m for the 80486 ; it is manufactured in Intel 's 0.8 micron three-metal layer BiCMOS process technology ; it has two 8Kb on-chip caches and a fully compatible floating point unit that is up to five times faster than the one on the 80486 at the same clock speed ; to get around the problem that the thing can squeal to a halt when it comes to a branch that stalls the instruction stream , it includes branch prediction , where the chip remembers prior instruction pathways and predicts the correct pathway for a new instruction . |
| 14 | It is manufactured in Intel 's 0.8 micron three-metal layer BiCMOS process technology , has two 8Kb on-chip caches and a fully compatible floating point unit that is up to five times faster than the one on the 80486 at the same clock speed . |
| 15 | I believe that we should establish a different international organization that is up to the task of managing whaling . " |
| 16 | ‘ I think it would be better if Chris Lewis had a month off before the season starts again but I 'm afraid that is up to his county . |
| 17 | At a much simpler level , engineers being what they are , recognition of achievement is an effective motivator that is always to hand and , as long as it is ‘ felt fair ’ by peers , runs no great risks in being applied . |
| 18 | They see only the work that is still to be done . |
| 19 | Whether the production work sharing is something that is still to be decided er at the start of that phase but on the equipment , we were er originally entitled to thirty three percent of the common equipment er when we last gave evidence to the committee the U K work share for equipment stood at some thirty six percent of those that had been selected at that time . |
| 20 | Having children is a life choice that is down to the individual . |
| 21 | A more effective cry is ‘ Fire ’ because everyone sticks their heads out in case it is their house or car that is about to be burnt down . |
| 22 | Yarns will also be stored there , allowing more production space for the ‘ Templetwist ’ range of carpet that is about to be manufactured by Lyles . |
| 23 | The drawing suggests the type of investment situation that is often to be found in high-technology investment . |
| 24 | It represents a halfway position between jobbing production and mass production , and is mostly to be found in the light engineering industry . |
| 25 | This small fort dates from 1614 and is shortly to be opened to the public as a military museum . |
| 26 | Touching the Rock has been featured in the Sunday Telegraph and on BBC Radio 4 's Sunday and In Touch programmes , and is shortly to be the subject of Michael Burke 's 40 Minutes on BBC2 . |
| 27 | The third processor , an IBM 3031 , is used by the Computer Services Division for development work and is shortly to be replaced by a second 4341 processor . |
| 28 | Despite the lawlessness and corruption , Grigoriev has achieved some notable successes , including Edvard Radzinsky 's book The Last Tsar now a Book of the Month Club choice in the UK and Larissa Vasilieva 's Kremlin Wives , which sold 450,000 copies in Russia and is soon to be published here by Weidenfeld and Nicholson . |
| 29 | But the deal collapsed mysteriously and is yet to be resurrected . |
| 30 | Where * appears , the generic name has been introduced recently and is not to be found in the older sources , while names marked ** are based on Irish exemplars , no Scottish names being known , and have been adapted for Gaelic as necessary . |