Example sentences of "[is] [to-vb] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Readers Digest is to go public in February , offering 21 per cent of its shares to investors worldwide . |
| 2 | DEC says its aim is to implement ECMA with its own products as well as merging US and European standards . |
| 3 | Elonex Plc is to contract manufacturing of its personal computers to Cordata Ltd , described as a new company and not related to the Cor-data Technologies owned by Daewoo Electronics Co : this Cordata is building a £5.5m contract manufacturing plant in Cumbernauld , Scotland , where it expects to create 175 new jobs and make 100,000 personal computers a year , and Elonex will turn its North London plant over to final assembly and testing . |
| 4 | The goal of standardising on an IDL mapping for C++ is to support interoperability between applications written in different languages but supporting OMG 's IDL . |
| 5 | The International Telecommunications Satellite Organisation , Intelsat , owned by some 120 nations worldwide , is under such pressure to increase capacity that for the first time , it is to lease capacity on three satellites that it does not own . |
| 6 | The ironic thing is that the flight is to publicize damage to the ozone layer and it 's gas from fridges that causes most of that damage . |
| 7 | One of the functions of their facial disc is to transmit sound to the ears . |
| 8 | The important point is to monitor pressure for cost reductions from all sources and to take such possibilities into account in strategic analysis . |
| 9 | There are thus two possible lines of inquiry ; the first , the argument from descent , is to look to relationships likely to connect the human species with ape-like ancestors ; the second is to compare man with less closely related primates that have followed a similar evolutionary path in invading the savannah lands , an argument therefore by analogy . |
| 10 | A demonstration of the point is to compare Civilisation by Kenneth Clark in its forms as television and book . |
| 11 | Even ignoring its importance as a local employer , to say that a sector which earns 15 per cent of GDP , which finances most of the small business start-ups in Scotland , which provides capital for companies great and small , which finances pensions and insurance for thousands of Scots , as well as backing for a quarter of the UK 's institutional funds , does nothing to help the economy , is to carry ideology to the point of folly . |
| 12 | But possibly the most satisfying task for the Hercules and its crew is to carry aid to the needy . |
| 13 | The ultimate sanction of oppositional nationalism is to claim legitimation for its own armed force against the armed force of the allegedly containing state . |
| 14 | The purpose of drinks advertising is to promote competition between different brands . |
| 15 | Our approach is to promote awareness of the duties the Regulations impose . |
| 16 | The funding formula is to include provision for special needs within the mainstream and funding for statemented pupils lies outside the formula . |
| 17 | Of these , education is particularly important : the national curriculum is to include citizenship as a cross-curricular subject and the National Curriculum Council is working on how this can be taught . |
| 18 | It is to include research into the techniques of sustainable timber extraction and the pharmaceutical and genetic potential of the South American country 's forest resources , centred on a newly-established scientific reserve of 3,400 square kilometres , close to the Brazilian border . |
| 19 | However , to choose either route is to lose information on either means or status that is helpful to targeting support where it is most required . |
| 20 | For the loyalists the purpose is to remain part of the U K and those two are so far apart , those two positions , that it 's impossible to see a bridge between them and that 's the difficulty . |
| 21 | If our priority is to target help at those with most need and to back away when those needs are met , our contacts with families could become simply box-ticking sessions , and it would be harder to get to know them . ’ |
| 22 | This is n't surprising , of course , since the overall purpose of talking with someone is to impart information of some kind . |
| 23 | They argue that the differential in living standards between the two groups is minimal and to see this as social mobility is to detract attention from the important fact that they are all part of the large urban poor whose poverty is due to the wider social formation and , in particular , the capitalist mode of production . |
| 24 | The aim of the NAS project is to enable communication between different DEC machines as well as between DEC kit and other manufacturer 's boxes . |
| 25 | The objective of the Economic Theory Study Group is to stimulate work on Economic Theory in the U.K. and promote the dissemination of research findings . |
| 26 | One of the major tasks of the councils is to stimulate production through cooperatives , both in agriculture and local industries . |
| 27 | Our first task is to gather information of the ‘ best practice ’ of this vision from the parishes and diocese of England and Wales . |
| 28 | The researcher 's job is to gather information about people : their ages , occupations , income and buying habits . |
| 29 | The aim is to gather material on everyday activities ( at home , in churches and graveyards ) but also on the more exceptional activities which take women out of their normal routines and maybe away from their communities ( ie pilgrimages and forms of the religious life ) . |
| 30 | In addition , most basic banks are members of an ‘ associated ’ bank , almost always within their own republic or province , whose main function is to arrange finance for major projects and to handle foreign exchange transactions . |