Example sentences of "[be] [to-vb] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Later , as a Member of Parliament , I have been to see archaeological sites — Clickimmin Broch is one of the most remarkable in Britain — to talk to multinational oil companies at Sullom Voe , and to campaign against the Scotland and Wales Bills of 1978–79 , successfully , as it turned out . |
| 2 | The response of appellant patentee lawyers has been to claim exclusive rights to ‘ plants ’ which will , in fact , include all varieties of plants containing the gene in question . |
| 3 | An understanding of the processes involved in ‘ choice ’ and participation is essential if we are to include more girls , and members of other disadvantaged groups , and alienate fewer . |
| 4 | POLICE in Hampshire are to issue on-the-spot fines to motorists who carry bikes fixed to their car boots and obscure the number plate of the vehicle . |
| 5 | The two basic strategies for reducing smoking related disease are to support existing smokers in giving up and to dissuade young people from starting . |
| 6 | If we are to see evolutionary processes in action in plant communities and the proximal events determining their character we must focus our attention away from an anthropomorphic scale of acres or square metres and onto a scale appropriate to the organisms with which we are concerned . |
| 7 | One has been to include cognitive processes in the list of functions that they are trying to relate to particular brain regions or systems . |
| 8 | As for the Pilkington Cup , to ensure the senior clubs are protected , including the relegated ones , the counties are to lose 10 places in the competition from season 1993–94 . |
| 9 | Clearly , profit-related pay is extremely important if we are to stimulate higher-quality jobs , greater commitment to employment and more jobs . |
| 10 | But the national clearinghouses , if they are to remain national services , need much more substantial funding . |
| 11 | The Government response has been to accept these recommendations in principle ‘ subject to further consideration being given to timing and the availability of resources ’ ( Government Response to Benson , 1983 ) . |
| 12 | To have insisted would have been to demand more details about Montaine , and more explanations about their love , than I was entitled to . |
| 13 | The purpose of this chapter has been to establish three propositions : that religious beliefs have penetrated scientific discussion on many levels , that to reduce the relationship between science and religion to one of conflict is therefore inadequate , but that to construct a revisionist history for apologetic purposes would be just as problematic . |
| 14 | The auction will also disperse the Erlenmeyer Collection of Western Asiatic cylinder seals and antiquities , the proceeds of which are to benefit environmental organizations . |
| 15 | Storage cells for honey and pollen are given walls 0.073 millimetres thick , and those that are to contain developing males , 0.094 millimetres . |
| 16 | The policy adopted by successive governments has been to encourage general practitioners to practise in under-doctored areas through a series of positive and negative measures . |
| 17 | Electors may have conservative instincts but they need to be helped if they are to trust those instincts . |
| 18 | The nature and content of CPD events have frequently been cross-disciplinary , a necessary factor if they are to attract optimum attendances . |
| 19 | The major contribution to the promotion of community languages which these courses have made has been to discover significant numbers of good classroom practitioners , good analysts , good coordinators and good teacher trainers , so as to build up a genuine national resource in terms of expertise . |
| 20 | Find out what policies there are to minimize these risks . |
| 21 | The traditional role of the building professional , however , has been to provide commercial buildings with services related to basic environmental control solutions and low running costs , especially if it is speculative development . |
| 22 | Essentially their contribution has been to provide co-operative networks for the exchange of teaching material , experience and ideas . |
| 23 | The reaction of governments has been to resist such initiatives and view them as threats . |
| 24 | Farmers on the Somerset Levels are to receive extra payments for agreeing to allow surface flooding of their fields between December and May , and ensuring that water levels in ditches do not sink below the mean field level in the summer months . |
| 25 | MOTORISTS who have been members of the RAC for 50 years or more are to receive special awards . |
| 26 | In all three cases the effect would have been to create merged units of a size able to compete with the many powerful US , European and Japanese companies now increasingly dominating the world scene ; for example , the Leyland/Bedford trucks merger provides a scale that neither could achieve on its own . |
| 27 | California has stated that manufacturers will have to begin marketing " zero-emission " vehicles by 1998 if they are to sell other models in the state . |
| 28 | One solution to the problems caused by the withdrawal of rail transport in rural areas has been to replace these services with buses . |
| 29 | Prospecting in the world 's rainforests for new medicines and crops needs to be carefully regulated if developing countries are to reap full benefits , according to a report from the Washington-based World Resources Institute . |
| 30 | But governments now believe that if they are to tackle new subjects at a European level they must tighten their control . |