Example sentences of "[noun sg] is [to-vb] [adv prt] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Also , if a contractor is to carry out the work the more information we can supply to them the easier it is for them to provide an accurate tender . |
| 2 | ‘ My ambition at the Warehouse is to build up an audience and exercise my own tastes . |
| 3 | Both assume that local intervention should be deeper and more fundamental than merely ‘ servicing capital ’ , and both also accept that it is necessary to change the structure of declining local economies if regeneration is to come about . |
| 4 | If a president is to break out of this situation , if he is to become a leader rather than a mere presider , he requires a reasonably united administrative branch , yet that minimum requirement is not easily come by . |
| 5 | The result is to connect up a network of contracts by a uniform set of rules and thus give them multilateral force . |
| 6 | The result is to go back to roots of pop music , mixing documentary , fly-on-the-wall conversations and live sets from an interesting assortment of guests , often tackling numbers you would n't normally see them perform on TV . |
| 7 | Another good way of obtaining animals from a pond is to scoop up the surface layers of soft mud from the bottom-use the net ( carefully ! ) , a small shovel or a large spoon . |
| 8 | The paper versions ( hard copy ) are extremely difficult to search through systematically , particularly if the search is to extend over several years . |
| 9 | A common fault is to level out too much , which results in a completely slack cable and makes the winch driver 's job of judging the correction quite impossible . |
| 10 | A frequent fault is to read out passages from textbooks as though they represented the last word on the law . |
| 11 | The purpose of the research is to carry out a critical analysis of the literature both on the role of beliefs in social and political order , and on the principles of legitimacy of particular regimes , so as to develop a systematic theory about the legitimation of power . |
| 12 | The aim of this research is to establish in precisely which respects this characterisation may be true and then to explain why such a pattern has emerged . |
| 13 | The aim of the research is to find out how children come to comprehend the requirements of effective verbal communication and the causes of communication failure . |
| 14 | The aim of the research is to find out to what extent the cuts in the higher rates of income tax in the 1988 Finance Act may nave increased work effort , decreased avoidance and reduced emigration . |
| 15 | The purpose of this chapter is to open up for discussion some of the complex and ambivalent reactions which exist in us all towards old age and old people . |
| 16 | The purpose of this chapter is to fill out certain of the areas of the study of crime which have been discussed or referred to in earlier chapters , and to provide readings or extracts from original sociological work in this field . |
| 17 | My purpose in the remainder of this chapter is to set out the main principles of exploring multidimensional language states in present-day communities , on the assumption that historical states of language must also have been multidimensional . |
| 18 | The purpose of this study is to draw out the lessons of US experience as they relate to the situation in Britain . |
| 19 | The purpose of critical appraisal is to show up the effects of a proposal before time and effort are invested in putting an idea into action . |
| 20 | The UK practice is to carry out a preliminary field inquiry into all but the most insignificant accidents . |
| 21 | By using the relatively new and rather powerful transactions cost analytical approach , combined with conventional and radical approaches within organisation theory , and insights from the sociology of work , combined with the results from recent empirical work on the introduction of new technology , the intention is to set out some of the possibilities and choices about the use of new technology at work , indicating the different pay-offs to particular groups , and suggesting that the outcomes in specific cases will depend not just on the technology itself but on the strategy and power of the various interested parties . |
| 22 | Our intention is to carry out a field test with gel in 1994–95 , with Gyda being one of the candidates . |
| 23 | The intention is to speed up the taking of kick-offs and to stop the time wasting practice of kicking the ball dead instead of keeping it in play from the kick-off . |
| 24 | The intention is to wipe out everything associated with idolatrous religions . |
| 25 | The seller 's intention is to play off one buyer against another and introduce elements of haste and competitive bidding into negotiations in order to maximise the price . |
| 26 | Of course , light flakes and gold on its way down can be found in the gravel , but the old basic rule is to work on — or just above — the bedrock . |
| 27 | A trick I like to play when using a record or tape is to switch off the music two or three times to get everyone predicting when the end will come . |
| 28 | Here she is , my dream woman , and she 's madly in love with some young blond boy whose only ambition is to drive around in a sports car and drink champagne ! ’ |
| 29 | The 24-year-old star , who once dated INXS singer Michael Hutchence , said her ambition is to settle down , have a house on the beach , and children . |
| 30 | Indeed , his ambition is to move down now to a minimum deterrent . |