Example sentences of "[be] [to-vb] [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He points out that under John Akers , IBM has built its desktop computing business to $8,500m in worldwide sales in 1991 , giving it 19% market share ; remained the worldwide leader in information technology revenues , at $62,800m last year up nearly 30% from $48,500m in 1985 when Akers took over ; and avoided the worst crisis that could have befallen it — which would have been to sacrifice investments in research and development for the sake of a fast buck — it spent $6,600m last year . |
| 2 | He argued there was a need to go back to basic skills and more disciplined teaching , and announced that , within two years , schools inspection teams are to include non-educationists on each visit . |
| 3 | If we are to support children in their reading we need to encourage them into libraries , to assure them that libraries are pleasant places , and that librarians are pleasant people equipped by education , training , attitudes , and commitment to serve them . |
| 4 | Whereas research groups in each area are to conduct surveys of workers , the parallel survey of employers is to be conducted centrally for all the areas by the Policy Studies Institute , but in close collaboration with the local research groups . |
| 5 | Nigel 's usual way of putting women off had always been to cancel dates with ineffectual excuses . |
| 6 | The biological aim of the meal has been to enable foodstuffs to be taken into the body for its growth and repair . |
| 7 | The trend has been to increase differences between institutions rather than to treat them equally . |
| 8 | Bill Fox and Michael Sinclair of York , who represent the associate members of the lower divisions on the management committee , are to meet officers of the GM Vauxhall Conference next Thursday to outline the League 's new requirements . |
| 9 | The grazier 's main problems are to provide leys of palatable and nutritious grasses and clovers and to see that these are consumed in the lush , leafy state before they grow to stem and seed . |
| 10 | Similarly the status of commas in the speech of the T(eacher) is not made explicit — presumably they are to indicate pauses in the stream of speech , but it may be that they simply indicate a complex of rhythmic and intonational cues which the analyst is responding to . |
| 11 | Teacher training colleges which are to train teachers in these subjects will also require funds for equipment . |
| 12 | ACET 's response has been to provide clients with special tubes for the disposal of dirty needles and syringes or help them if they wish to cease injecting . |
| 13 | This unit 's main aims are to inform pupils of their rights when they buy an item and what they can do should that item be defective in any way . |
| 14 | Farmers are to receive payments of up to £50 per hectare a year for improving public access to their land such as the creation of footpaths or picnic areas . |
| 15 | The Government has announced that seventy-four people infected with HIV through blood transfusions are to receive payments of up to eighty-thousand pounds each . |
| 16 | Two Bristol detectives who disarmed a violent knifeman are to receive commendations for bravery . |
| 17 | Similarly , partnership deeds commonly state whether partners engaged full time on the firm 's business are to receive salaries in addition to their share of profits , such salaries to be paid before the figure for net profits can be determined . |
| 18 | Moreover people need an informed understanding if they are to evaluate claims about language use which are widely made ( in the correspondence columns of newspapers , for example ) . |
| 19 | The effect has been to highlight weaknesses in each of the traditional interpretations and to demythologize the revolutionary intelligentsia . |
| 20 | A GROUP of Norwegians are to view courses at Darlington College as part of a Vocational Education and Training Project . |
| 21 | But I am going to peg away with this novel , and if by any chance it should get published — well , you 're to go shares in the boodle ! ’ |
| 22 | Whether or not there 's an inquiry into the weekend disturbances , police say if they 're to avoid scenes like this , they need more support from the public and the courts . |
| 23 | Whether or not there 's an inquiry into the weekend disturbances , police say if they 're to avoid scenes like this , they need more support from the public and the courts . |
| 24 | A petrol price war is expected after Esso and BP announced they 're to cut prices by more than six pence per gallon from tomorrow in response to cuts of four point five pence made by other companies . |
| 25 | A petrol price war is expected after Esso and BP announced they 're to cut prices by more than six pence per gallon from tomorrow in response to cuts of four point five pence made by other companies . |
| 26 | Europe , of course , is something of a captive market ; not only is ESA funded by 13 European member-states but ESA 's procurement policy has been to award contracts in proportion to a country 's given contribution to its budget . |
| 27 | One effective solution to this has been to identify elements of maintenance that can safely be put into the hands of the users . |
| 28 | Most of us are aware that the traditional aims of death education have been to socialise individuals to the inevitable event in their lives . |
| 29 | The objectives are to help members of the public to find their way through this information store and to transmit their orders for particular journeys or holidays to the providers of those services . |
| 30 | CHESHIRE 'S fire fighters are to help colleagues in Eastern Europe by providing them with advice and more equipment . |