Example sentences of "[be] [to-vb] [adv] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The external auditor should review the work of the internal audit staff to determine their effectiveness in assisting management to improve the quality of information that is necessary if they are to monitor satisfactorily the efficiency and effectiveness of the programmes under their charge . |
| 2 | As a result , one of the central policy priorities of government has been to strengthen significantly the academic infrastructure so that research and postgraduate training activities are adequate to meet the future needs of industry , especially in what have been termed ‘ exploitable areas of science ’ . |
| 3 | But the net effect has been to leave exactly the same number dependent upon means-tested assistance . |
| 4 | Our approach to interest rate risk has been to manage actively the balance between floating-rate and fixed-rate debt . |
| 5 | This important point needs to be reemphasised if we are to consider seriously the possibility of re-introducing Islamic precepts into the law of property in Malaysia … |
| 6 | All cities have different records in this respect and they all merit individual research if we are to piece together the various aspects of post-war urban development ( Manchester 's Moss-side development was different from Sheffield 's Park Hill estate of ‘ streets in the sky ’ , and different again from Newcastle 's development at Byker , with its famous ‘ wall ’ ) . |
| 7 | The effect of Japanese competition in some industries in the past has been to reduce drastically the size of those industries and in some cases ( eg motor cycles ) virtually eliminate the industries altogether . |
| 8 | An approach to family functioning which emphasises the interactions of each upon the other and their cumulative impact is essential if we are to understand adequately the position of an old person at a given time . |
| 9 | Further research is required if we are to understand better the process of early retirement in a variety of circumstances and thereby build a sounder basis for policy . |
| 10 | The effect of this will be to dilute further the value of the company 's existing shares . |
| 11 | Importantly , Sahlins does not privilege one perspective over the other : the British perspective is not treated as better or more informed because to treat it as such would be to accept unquestioningly the categories out of which this perspective constructed its realities . |
| 12 | The end-result of this will be to increase dramatically the proportion of local income which is funded by government grant , since the only sources of local income will be the community charge ( poll tax ) and specific fees and charges for planning applications and the use of leisure facilities , for example . |
| 13 | The biggest task of the Leftist Unity party will be to lure away the working class from the Socialists . |
| 14 | The brief of the Project will be to study only the feasibility of wiring up Chung Kuo 's population . |
| 15 | Far from ‘ force feeding ’ , the problem would be to assess selectively the enterprises deserving investment funds . |
| 16 | Erm category of checking , one of those b the idea would be to ring either the double nought or the nought . |
| 17 | One policy would be to enter only the seven ‘ certainties ’ , thus achieving seven passes and a 100 per cent pass rate . |
| 18 | The effect may be to limit greatly the opportunity for solicitors to act as advocates in more serious criminal cases . |
| 19 | Under the new proposals , people are to have just the one tax bill each year , covering all their income . |
| 20 | Moreover , as the University validates the Normal College 's courses , it would seem to us that whatever the pros and cons of retaining a local authority based teacher-training institution in Gwynedd , a much more sensible long-term solution would have been to integrate both the Normal College and St Mary 's College into the University College of North Wales when that opportunity arose after 1974 . |
| 21 | More seriously , two other possibilities are to knit only the front of the garment in the pattern and the back and sleeves in stocking stitch , or in the case of this pattern , perhaps in stripes of pattern based on stitches 12 and 13 of the pattern . |
| 22 | It was to be another twelve months before the inhabitants of the valley , including the people settled here at Halling , were to see again the Roman Armies , with the local menfolk Possibly among the British force opposing them . |
| 23 | If the ‘ pincers ’ were to meet then the space for conventional capitalist ‘ management ’ — i.e. the hierarchal direction of enterprises in the pursuit of profit , recognising some form of responsibility to ‘ shareholders ’ but not to working people — would be at least severely restricted and at best eliminated . |
| 24 | Indeed , if we as a magazine were to reflect accurately the role of ‘ traditional ’ design relative to its actual usage , we might manage about one page per issue . |
| 25 | If Paul were to challenge successfully the adherents of Tammuz , Jesus would have to be able to match the older god , miracle for miracle . |
| 26 | I would have thought that if we were to put forward the two hundred and fifty pound to cover the , their extra lighting bill , that would have been money well spent . |
| 27 | These cogitations are worth quoting in full , as they so accurately reflect , albeit in a more lucid form than that usually encountered , the thinking of those who in the next few decades were to give away the empire in the belief that they were acting to preserve it . |
| 28 | Later , those who were to piece together the events at the camp of the early months of that year , from the time of snow till the approach of spring , were to wonder what was the ambition of Michael Holly , prisoner of Hut 2 in Zone I of Camp 3 in the Dubrovlag complex . |
| 29 | Ryzhkov told Prunskiene that the Soviet authorities were to allow unconditionally the partial resumption of natural gas and raw material supplies to selected Lithuanian enterprises ( the gas supplies resumed on June 16 ) . |
| 30 | It might be helpful if I were to outline briefly the history of the STUCC and of the Government 's thinking on this matter . |