Example sentences of "[noun sg] is [adv] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | And er a g a good er and er , can be er the mi the name itself , the Scottish Old Age Pensions Association is not to be mistaken from er , sometimes it 's misread as the Scottish Old Age Pensioners ' Association . |
| 2 | If a deal is eventually to be wrung out of a reluctant Kremlin to break the deadlock over the Baltic republics , much will depend on how much support Mr Yeltsin can muster . |
| 3 | A monument is about to be unveiled on Malta , GC . |
| 4 | The top access speed is up to 256Kbps , depending on local network facilities . |
| 5 | You can imagine busy hands flying around the cockpit selecting emergency oxygen on , power down , airbrakes out , wait until speed is down to manoeuvring values , add drag if necessary , then push the nose down . |
| 6 | In both cases it can be argued that the succession is not to the treaty , but to the territory as defined . |
| 7 | If he disturbs a trespasser , for example , and tells him that he is about to use force to expel the intruder , there is no doubt that the intruder realises that he is being threatened , and that violence is about to be used against him . |
| 8 | Section 4(1) provides that the offence is committed if the defendants act with intent to cause a person to believe that immediate unlawful violence is about to be used , or with intent to provoke such unlawful violence . |
| 9 | The main effect of wind is probably to be seen in undercutting and fluting at the base of upstanding rock masses , while such things as wooden telegraph poles and stone monuments may be undercut at the base and even worn through . |
| 10 | What each side is up to in advancing its interpretation is a different kind of question . |
| 11 | This latter result is only to be expected : the Tories have assiduously cultivated the image of the defender of the ‘ national interest ’ as opposed to the supposed trade union ‘ sectionalism ’ of the Labour Party , and militant ‘ class conscious ’ organisations within the middle classes have never made much headway ( John Gorst 's ‘ Middle Class Association ’ for instance ) . |
| 12 | The Minister might then argue , with some validity , that huge revenue is not to be gained from such disposals . |
| 13 | The setting is right , and some feel that a murder is about to be committed . |
| 14 | The crease is there to be used , but he does not use it . |
| 15 | It was not wholly superseded until the publication of Richard Westfall 's Never at Rest in 1980 ( a condensed , updated version of this biography is soon to be published by Cambridge University Press as The Life of Isaac Newton ) . |
| 16 | The ‘ Here I Am ’ programme is officially to be used in the diocese as the structure within which the faith is to be presented . |
| 17 | An immediate appeal to the BBC 's board of governors asking them to ban the programme is also to be made . |
| 18 | In the despatch area new racking is about to be erected , meeting the demand for more warehouse space and nearby the returns areas has been shifted with two inspection floors being placed adjacent to one another in a new location . |
| 19 | Mind is not to be found in molecules any more than the works of Shakespeare were to be found in his genes . |
| 20 | No other sort of mind is up to the demands of the system , which needs to seem to have judicial impartiality and a rocklike permanance while also being quickly responsive to the latest political fads . |
| 21 | This does not mean you should buy huge Koi , simply the biggest your budget will stand … assuming your pond is up to housing them properly , of . |
| 22 | If this possibility of fraud is not to be an insurmountable barrier to recognizing such unions as marriages , what is the solution ? |
| 23 | It is true that the great width is only to be found in the first part of the new route but that is enough . |
| 24 | A priest is there to be for us a specific and bodily reminder of the man Jesus at the Last Supper . |
| 25 | Whether you wish to perform any ritual is up to your natural inclination , but you will learn the ways of the earth spirit in a manner that you could never learn from books . |
| 26 | Whereas your letters indicate that loyal subjects who have previously supported the Monarchy now feel that mistakes need to be acknowledged and if Her Majesty is not to be seen as hopelessly out of touch and out of date it is time she stood up and publicly said sorry . |
| 27 | It is important to try to distinguish between fact and speculation and amid the speculation — since contemplating the future is inevitably to a high degree speculative — between the speculation that makes sense and that which does not . |
| 28 | If the instrument is only to be an indicator of magnetic activity then calibration is not really necessary . |
| 29 | Research is now to be undertaken to determine an appropriate communications strategy for the Fund and this research will take place in 1993 . |
| 30 | My weight is down to 8st 10lb and my appetite is not much easier to control . ’ |