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 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | The only affect on the merger plan disgruntled stockholders , if there are any , could have is apparently to demand cash . |
| 7 | Its entire purpose is somehow to turn mud into a cement-like material — a material with a multi-national answer to housing problems . |
| 8 | To begin by throwing the classics of English literature at their heads is generally to count failure … |
| 9 | Logging consortium Barama is soon to start work in a four million hectare concession in Guyana . |
| 10 | So that again is just to keep reality going . |
| 11 | Alex tries to demystify it , says its function is just to produce electricity for the National Grid efficiently and cleanly , that the main difference between this and any other power station is that you do n't have beside it a huge pyramid of polluting coal dust . |
| 12 | But the reason I 'm here is just to express solidarity with the campaign that you 're continuing . |
| 13 | Er this is just to show income from building societies during the seventy five to ninety period , and the yellow line shows a decline or at least a jiggly line , which just reflects interest rates , and the un unit trust income rising over that time is the orange line . |
| 14 | When antidepressants are prescribed , the therapist 's role is largely to provide support until the patient 's mood improves sufficiently for him to tackle his problems himself . |
| 15 | This is usually to throw light on the character being played or to create the right atmosphere for the location of the action and for the expressive action required for the unfolding of the plot or theme . |
| 16 | Though done with the intention of establishing a virile , distinctive presence , the effect is usually to reduce shopping centres to an unprecedented level of blandness and monotony . |
| 17 | ‘ Well , in my case it 's usually to get information out of people , ’ he said . |
| 18 | ‘ Looking at how the franchise industry has developed in the United States and the diversity of franchises offered there , we can expect that much greater growth is still to take place in the UK market . ’ |
| 19 | Part of the drive to improve inner cities is deliberately to reward success , increase the gap between the working and the non-working , retain business and talented and successful people in these areas , and charge those who use services the economic cost of these services , so that if they do n't like the price they will be encouraged to move out to areas where ‘ the price is right ’ . |
| 20 | This is temporarily to impose deposit requirements on institutions that take open positions in foreign exchange . |
| 21 | To avoid hypertension the single most important action is probably to lose weight . |
| 22 | The aim is partly to shift perception of eighteenth-century French art away from the traditional and popular notion promoted by authors such as the Goncourt brothers towards an appreciation of other genres such as history , landscape and religious works . |
| 23 | The judges ' function is also to do justice in accordance with certain settled principles of law in a free society ; and they are entitled to assume that Parliament does not intend to subvert these principles , unless there is a clear statement that it does . |
| 24 | The company is also to market Silicon Graphics Inc 's 50–100MHz RW450 workstation using the Irix V.4 operating system . |
| 25 | The purpose of field artillery is both to destroy enemy assaults and to support one 's own infantry as it attacks . |
| 26 | Such an approach is crucial to any successful policy of implementing a minimum wage in low-pay sectors , if the aim is both to raise pay and protect employment . |
| 27 | The Equality Code of Practice , originally recommended by the Bar Race Equality Policy , is now to include gender as well as race discrimination . |
| 28 | The Government 's main underlying aim is now to get growth back into the economy so as to reverse the rising trend in unemployment . |
| 29 | The Government 's underlying aim is now to get growth back into the economy so as to reverse the rising trend in unemployment . |
| 30 | Simplest procedure is often to employ law agents for the purpose , writing to them some such letter as this : Messrs Scrivener & Tipstaff , Law Agents . |