Example sentences of "[is] [prep] [noun] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ It 's worth money to a firm ’ , said a supervisor , ‘ to know when we are coming to sample . ’ |
| 2 | Local authorities will need to become more ‘ customer sensitive ’ and return to a culture where local government is about service to the public . |
| 3 | Encouragement at the right moment is as water to a thirsty plant . |
| 4 | A married couple taking in lodgers will be able to decide whether they prefer the whole of the rent to count as the husband 's or as the wife 's for entitlement to the full relief . |
| 5 | The deal is worth $5m to NetLabs . |
| 6 | ‘ That means it 's between quarter to and four o'clock , ’ she explained . |
| 7 | The usual practice is for casks to be rolled into deep , cool cellars . |
| 8 | The main thrust of the inquiry team 's recommendations is for services to be concentrated on fewer sites and the money released to fund improvements in the community . |
| 9 | If one can notice the absence of something one must already know what it is for things to be absent . |
| 10 | A further proposal which appears to have little , if any , current support , is for litigation to be financed from public funds irrespective of the means of the parties . |
| 11 | All the work in this approach must go into a persuasive account of what it is for reasons to be conclusive . |
| 12 | Normal market practice is for SCP to be issued on a non-interest bearing basis at a discount to its face value , although provision has also been made for it to bear a stated rate of interest . |
| 13 | Housing officers say the only answer is for tenants to be prepared to take their cases to court . |
| 14 | It is suggested that this captures the core of what it is for conduct to be insulting . |
| 15 | Now that we do live much longer with better health care generally , what we want is for women to be able to live that last third of their lives in health and being able to enjoy themselves and contribute to the community , not feeling that they 're crippled by pain . |
| 16 | The behaviourist theory of knowledge says that for someone , S , to know or believe that some proposition p is true is for S to be disposed to behave in some way which is supposed to be appropriate to the world 's being as p says . |
| 17 | The plan is for SMG to be floated publicly within five years to raise £20m needed for improvements necessary to keep Silverstone as a Formula One Grand Prix track . |
| 18 | The answer is for registration to be linked to compulsory dog insurance . |
| 19 | I think that what she really wants is for words to be more like numbers . |
| 20 | He would not have disagreed either with the implications about the unfairness of Providence ; we should note that a recurrent prospect in The Lord of the Rings is for Frodo to be taken by Sauron and tormented till he too goes ‘ under the shadow ’ , becomes a petty ‘ wraith ’ himself , worn out by addiction and privation and torture and fear to a state of nothingness like that of ‘ the haggard king ’ of Minas Morgul . |
| 21 | The critical step is for clinicians to be willing to enter the arena and to participate . |
| 22 | If he has offended against Church law or the Rule of the Order , it is for Ramsey to discipline him . |
| 23 | The best insurance against this happening is for time-off to be planned well in advance so that staff and the ward manager can make the adjustments necessary to ensure that patient needs are met . |
| 24 | The only way for popular science to break out of its niche market is for science to be presented as something else . |
| 25 | Its preference is for measures to ‘ stabilise the consumer market ’ , which would include strict controls on various key commodities . |
| 26 | This is because all that is needed is for Newco to be a close company and satisfy the relevant purpose test at the time when the managers subscribe their shares . |
| 27 | We know some things about what God does , for once we recognise that there is this mystery we recognise that all that is is God 's doing — though we have no understanding of what it is for God to ‘ do ’ . |
| 28 | An alternative is for people to be selected by the person pointed to by the organizer 's foot . |
| 29 | A suitable compromise is for completion to be conditional on the results of an environmental audit . |
| 30 | European Commission spokesman Chris North says that the intention of legislation is for aircraft to be transferred between the civil aircraft registers of EC states without additional work , but that this will apply only to new aircraft , type-certificated under JARs . |