Example sentences of "[is] [to-vb] [adv] [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If the firm 's decision criterion is to go ahead if the expected return is 10 per cent , then it should go ahead . |
| 2 | ‘ to grant equitable relief to the defendants in respect of the son 's acts alone without [ the plaintiff 's ] authority or knowledge , is to go further than any decided case has yet gone . |
| 3 | In contrast , an alternative approach is to invest so as to increase production . |
| 4 | United Parcel Service is to invest more than £15,000 in Langholm this year , most of it in the sevens , which will be played on 1 May ( 2pm ) . |
| 5 | If you 're tiling a whole wall or room , the most important thing to do is to plan precisely where the whole tiles will fall . |
| 6 | As long as the clause is sensible , and is to fall away when the sale and purchase agreement is signed , neither the investors nor their advisers should have any objection . |
| 7 | Without such funding the best way to process general language is to acquire rather than develop a parser ( Patten , 1992 ) . |
| 8 | When the effect of an additional task is to disrupt rather than facilitate performance then the two tasks are said to compete for the same " functional space " within the hemispheres . |
| 9 | LUXURY car-makers Mercedes-Benz AG is to lose more than 10,500 workers by the end of the year , bosses announced yesterday . |
| 10 | He 's to come up after we goes down — so 's there 'll be no bumping into each other on them there stairs . |
| 11 | To ‘ add in ’ gender as a specific category with a compelling need to be addressed is to increase rather than decrease the teacher 's predicament . |
| 12 | The purpose of course is to obtain more than 50 per cent , when the offer becomes ‘ unconditional as to acceptances ’ . |
| 13 | The reason for performing lumbar puncture is to find out whether the central nervous system is involved by the syphilitic process in early or late syphilis . |
| 14 | When in the future later recaptured the tab will help scientists piece together the life history of these ice age relics Doctor is to find out whether the migrating salmon are actually producing young in the upper reaches of the river Nantpose . |
| 15 | The flagship of the labour movement and our task now if you pass this report is to find out whether that flagship can be built . |
| 16 | The medical exam is to find out if you are fit to fly . |
| 17 | My instruction is to find out if you mean to seek a peace sincerely , and if so , what are your terms . |
| 18 | The next is to find out if the deficiency is a result of gastrointestinal blood loss or malabsorption . |
| 19 | One of the key functions of courtship is to find out where our prospective life-mate stands on a myriad of issues that could affect the relationship in the future . |
| 20 | But all that is to characterise rather than to explain , and the lofty prestige of universities in the post-war world remains a phenomenon that has still to be convincingly analysed . |
| 21 | The Secretary of State may change the distributing bodies and alter the percentages for the five categories , but none is to receive less than 5% . |
| 22 | Yet Mr Kohl seems more interested in getting votes from right-wingers than in winning them for Turks : the most he has done to change the citizenship law is to wonder aloud whether Germany 's Turks might be granted dual citizenship for a trial five years , at the end of which they could choose to be either Turks or Germans . |
| 23 | He is to sell up after his extravagant act failed to persuade her . |
| 24 | The option is to play somewhere where they can arrive at 2.45 and the ground is still empty . ’ |
| 25 | Nevertheless , those participating in the programme have a common intellectual goal in that their primary concern is to understand rather than to develop . |
| 26 | It is linked to a video recorder in the room and all the teacher has to do is to switch on when she or he wants to be recorded . |
| 27 | The engineering firm , Lucas , is to shed more than two thousand jobs . |
| 28 | Another is to have more than one representative for each group or constituency , the representatives being mandated as nearly as possible in proportion to the distribution of opinion among the represented . |
| 29 | On the other hand most research materials are retained in stock indefinitely , so that for any work where the condition has seriously deteriorated the tendency is to bind rather than to discard . |
| 30 | And she want 's to change over cos she 's moved into that bit of the town , they 'll they 'll get her sorted out . |