Example sentences of "[is] [adv] [to-vb] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As the aim of many of the BES assured tenancy companies is eventually to obtain value by selling or redeveloping the properties when they are vacant , it would be useful for shareholders to know what the market value is with vacant possession , even if the present value with tenants in possession is also shown as a note . |
| 2 | The impact of a state pension scheme in terms of current income is predominantly to transfer income to lower income people from the better-off working population . |
| 3 | Steve White is in to replace Fjortoft who 's playing for Norway , and Sean Taylor is doubtful with hamstring trouble . |
| 4 | Diminished responsibility has a wider ambit , but its effect is merely to reduce murder to manslaughter , giving the judge discretion on sentencing or other disposal . |
| 5 | Therefore the point of this section is only to draw attention to some aspects of intellectual and administrative change that can be more easily observed in a discussion on sources than in a more general context . |
| 6 | The overall effect of the song in Rivendell is perhaps to show Bilbo approaching a body of lore and of poetry higher than the normal hobbitic vein , higher indeed than mortals can normally comprehend . |
| 7 | The only affect on the merger plan disgruntled stockholders , if there are any , could have is apparently to demand cash . |
| 8 | Its entire purpose is somehow to turn mud into a cement-like material — a material with a multi-national answer to housing problems . |
| 9 | To begin by throwing the classics of English literature at their heads is generally to count failure … |
| 10 | Logging consortium Barama is soon to start work in a four million hectare concession in Guyana . |
| 11 | That is , it is not to characterize consciousness generally . |
| 12 | This is not to cast doubt on the sincerity of Papert and his colleagues . |
| 13 | I would , myself , be very keen to look at the possibility of such machines perhaps even going to third world countries , because it 's even arguable that the place for such intelligence systems is not to replace expert medical people in this country where we have such people , but to export them to developing countries which do n't have such people , and one could imagine , perhaps , a system of erm paramedical orderlies , who had some sort of medical knowledge and manipulative skill , taking a small expert computer in a shoe box — it would be no bigger — to villages and getting diagnoses of patient illnesses there on the spot . |
| 14 | As Clinton Rossiter maintained , for some presidents the chief executive 's most difficult task ‘ is not to persuade Congress to support a policy dear to his political heart , but to persuade the pertinent bureau or agency or mission , even when headed by men of his own choosing , to follow his direction faithfully and transform the shadow of the policy into the substance of a program ’ . |
| 15 | The object is not to create damage and disorder per se , but to carry out an act which is guaranteed to enrage the victim without doing what he thinks you are doing , i.e. stealing his machine . |
| 16 | Simple social skills like apologizing are given no place because the most important thing is not to lose face . |
| 17 | The solution is not to stop training , racing and getting up in the morning , but to make a few subtle adaptations , like allowing ourselves rest days we should have given ourselves years ago . |
| 18 | The main purpose of this procedure is not to initiate legislation but to generate publicity for a particular issue or to test the water to see if there is support for legislation in the future . |
| 19 | The purpose is not to reinforce egoism but to refocus awareness of the self . |
| 20 | At the time of writing , it seems that the intention is not to assess progress in relation to benchmarks through a blanket testing programme but through assessment by teachers akin to that in GCSE and Records of Achievement . |
| 21 | This is not to say music programming does n't attract money — it does — but money tends to congregate around the celebrity-strewn rock extravaganza , which is not our line at all . |
| 22 | That is not to say brevity is yet a Kinnock hallmark ( ’ I 'll answer this briefly , ’ he told foreign correspondents on Friday before launching into a five-minute response ) . |
| 23 | And the sole purpose of this corn is not to relieve starvation , but to release onto the market whenever the price rises . |
| 24 | The objective of the Government , as we have said before , is not to penalise property held on discretionary trust — or other settled property — but simply to ensure that property held in this form does not continue to have the capital tax advantages it has in practice enjoyed with estate duty by comparison with property beneficially owned by individuals . |
| 25 | Our policy is not to give beta blockers to everybody , only those in high-risk groups . |
| 26 | If the covert researcher is not to arouse suspicion , then he or she must behave like a believer , not stepping out of line by questioning or exhibiting too much curiosity about the functioning of the organisation . |
| 27 | The main thing is not to allow resentment to build up in your thought life to eat away at your relationship . |
| 28 | We have to look on , more or less helplessly , since our present plan is not to use force and not to promote an incident " . |
| 29 | Reid 's role in this coup is not to put money on the eventual winner but to back other horses in the race , thus distracting the bookies ' attention and stopping them pulling their usual trick which is to depress the winner 's official starting price by similar last-minute shenanigans . |
| 30 | Seriously though the best thing is not to put temptation in front of people and not leave expensive items such as cameras and tools in the vehicle . |