Example sentences of "[is] [to-vb] at [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If he is to write at all he must , in the final irony , turn to language . |
| 2 | It was a ploy of Lord Darlington 's to stand at this shelf studying the spines of the encyclopedias as I came down the staircase , and sometimes , to increase the effect of an accidental meeting , he would actually pull out a volume and pretend to be engrossed as I completed my descent . |
| 3 | On the other hand , where severance of the subject matter is envisaged under the contract and property is to pass at this time , it is possible to argue that this is only a sale of goods ( see Kursell v Timber Operators and Contractors Ltd [ 1927 ] 1 KB 298 ) . |
| 4 | I mean the idea of course is to try at some stage and run a trainer trainer 's course , so that we expand the number of people who can who can do the training . |
| 5 | The role of the National LX Network is to provide at local level those services required throughout the country to enhance the nation 's export profile by supporting British commerce , business and industry in sustaining international pressures and in penetrating foreign markets . |
| 6 | If it is to feed at all , it has to lower its head , so losing sight of its surroundings . |
| 7 | What we can still do is to escape at long last from the constitutional fiction which we once grasped to ease our transition from the capital of a worldwide empire to a nation state alongside other nation states , but which , having produced so much havoc here at home , has turned into an instrument for external duress to be brought to bear on our own political institutions . |
| 8 | The critical test is to look at parthenogenetic populations , in which sexual reproduction has been lost . |
| 9 | Miller asset is to look at new ways of tackling formation damage problems in wells — thanks to BP Exploration 's first Well Productivity Awareness School . |
| 10 | In conducting this exercise the Commissioner has explained that he has adopted the wide test of subversion formulated by Lord Harris in 1975 and that his duty ‘ is to look at each case individually and say whether the Home Secretary could reasonably take the view that the warrant was necessary in the interests of national security ’ ( Lloyd , 1987 ) . |
| 11 | To look at this Daguerreotype is to look at one of the first photographic pictures of a city . |
| 12 | Its job is to look at all instruments laid before the Houses with a view to drawing the attention of the Houses to such instruments as are specified in its terms of reference . |
| 13 | And what I want to do now is to look at two elements . |
| 14 | Erm , what we have done is is because what is important is to look at that particular and try and get as good an estimate as we can because , let's face it , if we over-budget then in fact we 're wasting money which could otherwise be really targeted on community resources . |
| 15 | And the temptation is to look at that list and say wonderful I can start phoning prospects that the doctors have already lined up for me . |
| 16 | The object of the research is to look at corporate strategy and structure in the aerospace and airline sectors using a recently developed analytical technique , synergy mapping . |
| 17 | The most convenient way to study flows of this sort is to look at old examples which have been brought up above sea level by earth movements of one kind or another , and which have been subsequently cut through by erosion and exposed in clean , dry cliff sections . |
| 18 | The other is to look at those who are agreeing the proposals . |
| 19 | The best way of saying what Christianity believes about the incarnation is to look at three views which the Church has always refused to accept since the earliest times . |
| 20 | What we are actually going to do today is to look using this data , is to look at structural stability , right , we 're going to ask ourselves are the parameters that we estimate over the entire sample , are they constant over time . |
| 21 | The easiest way to understand the nature and extent of this type of crime is to look at some examples of the effect of specific corporate crimes . |
| 22 | The purpose of this chapter is to look at some of the parables found in these four sources . |
| 23 | Now what I want us to do is to look at these questions er because we 're being tape recorded , I am not going to give you time to work on a questions |
| 24 | Now what I 'd like you to do is to look at these numbers this is a bit like erm have you seen Countdown ? |
| 25 | So what the philosopher has to do is to look at these , all these various factors and begin to try and make people conscious of the inadequacies of the way in which they live , and of the new possibilities which are open to them , if they will only project their minds outside the established bounds . |
| 26 | Thus a second approach is to look at vertical linkages as a way of minimizing transaction costs , or reducing them below market transaction levels . |
| 27 | It would be easy to caricature Paul 's teaching on work , but what he is doing is to challenge at two levels . |
| 28 | I thought that since the recital is to start at 7.30 you might all like something a little substantial before we set out . |
| 29 | But for Pisa , which has lost much of its income from tourism since the tower was closed more than two years ago for safety reasons , the real miracle is that work is to start at last . |
| 30 | Often , the best way to prove a mathematical theorem is to start at both ends , and try to meet in the middle . |