Example sentences of "[Wh det] is [adv] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | There was a small disturbance early yesterday , it emerges , at the famous entrance which is soon to be closed by Mrs Thatcher 's ornamental security gates . |
| 2 | Over the past 18 months more than 10 cases have come to light , one of which is soon to be pursued in court . |
| 3 | Can you manage to stick to a weight-loss programme when you have defined a time period , i.e. the three weeks until your holiday , or if you have to fit into certain clothes for a special occasion which is soon to be upon you , and do you generally find it difficult to stick to a diet for a longer period |
| 4 | Does my hon. Friend agree that our achievements in that aspect of education could not be better illustrated than by that which pertains in Nottinghamshire , where the university now has the highest ratio of applications to available places and where Nottingham polytechnic , which is soon to be a university , is planning to increase its capacity over the next couple of years to 16,000 student places ? |
| 5 | He is an expert in Package Dyeing ; a method which is soon to be introduced to the dyehouse as part of the new expansion scheme . |
| 6 | The new surgery was built though , inside a former psychiatric hospital , which is soon to be closed altogether . |
| 7 | In place of a fall from grace which is ultimately to be followed by a return to Paradise , we have the notion that mankind originally evolved out of a sub-human stage of bestiality . |
| 8 | There was also the possibility of a more flexible use of facilities in the statutory , voluntary and private sectors , and , finally , the powerful influence of doctors over the lives of the chronically disabled would inevitably wane , a process of ‘ de-medicalization ’ which is largely to be welcomed as medical and nursing skills are only a small part of the required professional skills . |
| 9 | Those who have been waiting for the newly published syllabus for Part 2 , which is also to be run at Greenhill starting in the Autumn on Thursdays from 9.30am to 12.30pm , should contact the tutor , Sybil Kenton . |
| 10 | Attractive well presented property set in sought after village which is just to the north east of Oxford . |
| 11 | This exercise is valuable not only to enable the draftsman to produce a set of conditions which is most to the advantage of his client ( whether his client be buyer or seller ) , but also to enable him to understand the motivation of the other side when he is in negotiation with their advisers . |
| 12 | The controversial duo , last seen performing with Extreme Noise Terror at the BPI awards in February , offered the following statement to NME : ‘ Jimmy Cauty and Bill Drummond left for Mexico City on May 5 to research a non-music project , the nature of which is yet to be disclosed . ’ |
| 13 | A beautiful Cirrhilabrus from Fiji which is yet to be named , but had been dubbed the ‘ Shimmering Parrot Wrasse ’ . |
| 14 | The card , which is yet to be named , will be launched later this year . |
| 15 | It will then switch to a new design , which is yet to be decided . |
| 16 | However , landlords usually calculate the rent on what they consider to be reasonable use of shared facilities , which is already to their advantage . |
| 17 | There has been an historical reluctance on the part of the police to enforce the section , which is perhaps to be regretted . |
| 18 | The forecast mechanism proposed here is one which is much to the advantage of the buyer , since it carries no obligation upon the buyer to purchase all or any of the forecast quantities . |
| 19 | Individual points about style are always made in the context of a discussion of the feelings , attitudes or ideas that the text as a whole expresses , a discussion which is inevitably to a large extent intuitive and impressionistic . |
| 20 | Most of the companies in the top 10 are small and fast-growing , which is only to be expected — after all , it would be extraordinary for ICI to double its earnings . |
| 21 | It is not sufficient for social psychologists merely to define attitudes in terms of a stance taken at a particular time , with the assumption that such a stance has a fixity , which is only to be shifted by the reception of ‘ persuasive information ’ . |
| 22 | On the industry budget , regional selective assistance , which is led by demand on the part of applicants for assistance , is expected to be down next year , which is only to be expected in the present economic circumstances . |
| 23 | In The Psychoanalysis of Culture I drew attention to the megalomania of early divine kingships without , at the time , seeing its relation to the depressive aspects of the early agriculture on which these institutions were based.ll Nevertheless , it is now clear , as I hope to show , that the two opposite types of symptom do in fact appear in connection with the coming of agriculture and , which is more to the point for our present concerns , that this is a phenomenon not without relevance to the understanding of the modern world . |
| 24 | Shortly before I visited Lindow Moss , Britain had just wasted £100 million in futile repairs to a submarine which is now to be scrapped . |
| 25 | The frequency with which references to rural housing have already been made in this chapter reflects the extent to which the housing market acts as an intermediary between the economic changes in agriculture , described earlier in this book , and the kind of social life which is now to be found in the English countryside . |
| 26 | I note in passing , however , that , when it comes to squandering the nation 's money , I can not think of a better example than the enormous amounts squandered by the Government in setting up the machinery for the administration of the poll tax , which is now to be totally unwound . |
| 27 | He adopted an honourable course , which is greatly to his credit and that of the club . ’ |
| 28 | ‘ What is yet to be demonstrated is that there is any substantial number of contemporary American artists who are themselves living in reduced circumstances while their work is simultaneously commanding high prices on the secondary market ’ , argued Stephen Weil , deputy director of the Hirshhorn Museum in Washington D.C. and a respected authority on art law . |
| 29 | But what is most to be welcomed about the current spate of rhetorical outrage from politicians is the emerging consensus between Labour and the Tories on a new approach — an attempt to fill the moral vacuum , to look at society as a whole for the flaws . |
| 30 | Tomas Llorens is made artistic director of what is now to be a Museo nacional de arte contemporaneo . |