Example sentences of "[pron] [is] [to-vb] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The writ of habeas corpus deals with the machinery of justice , and is essentially a procedural writ , the object of which is to enforce a legal right . |
| 2 | Then , in order to jump to store address C if the contents of accumulator A are not less than the contents of store address B , we write Compare Accumulator A to store address B Jump to C if condition code is 00 or 10 The set of condition code patterns , any one of which is to cause a successful jump , is specified in the IBM 370 range by a four-bit subsidiary information field . |
| 3 | Most powerful of all Clios will be the limited edition Clio Williams model , due to go on sale in August 1993 with a 1998cc version of the 1 6-valve model which is to boast a massive 150bhp . |
| 4 | The Liberal Democrats were seeking three places on the 24-member body , which is to play a consultative role in securing adequate resources for the EC 's regional communities . |
| 5 | There is a new John Trenhaile , The Tiger of Desire ( HarperCollins ) ; David Gemmell has Waylander II ( Legend ) ; Inadmissible Evidence ( Headline ) is another courtroom drama from the author of Reasonable Doubt , Philip Friedman ; the writing duo of Laura Gilmour Bennett give us their last one together in Distant Echoes ( Penguin ) ; Hodder is keen on a gentle tale about organic horticulture in Rosemary Enright 's The Walled Garden ( Coronet ) ; Pan is building Graham Hurley , who has a Gulf War thriller in The Devil 's Breath ; and Orion is keen on Edmund McCoy ( a pseudonym for an established thriller writer ) with Blood of the Fathers , which is to have a three-part television series , and A J Quinnell 's The Perfect Kill , a Chapmans title which was originally scheduled for March . |
| 6 | A thesaurus could be defined as ‘ a compilation of words and phrases showing synonyms , hierarchical and other relationships and dependencies , the function of which is to provide a standardized vocabulary for information storage and retrieval systems ’ . |
| 7 | Pacific Telesis Group Inc , which wants to separate its regulated and unregulated businesses , has set an initial stock offering for the wireless operations of its PacTel Corp subsidiary , which is to become a separate company by year-end ; the amount to be raised in the offering has yet to be determined , but it has already said it plans to up the capitalisation of the wireless operations by raising at least $750m through public or private sources . |
| 8 | The latest unit to go in IBM Corp 's cutting loose of its surplus manufacturing plants , which started with four factories in Europe last week , is IBM Canada Ltd 's Toronto manufacturing division , which is to become a separate , wholly owned subsidiary with a different , but as yet undetermined , name and logo : the Toronto division employs about 900 and has export revenues of some $800m annually ; all employees will be offered positions with the new company , which will continue to manufacture products for IBM — for the time being at least , and will also seek work outside the company . |
| 9 | She heard the impatience in his tone and went on even more firmly , ‘ It would simply be that it fits in with my long-term plan , which is to get a wide range of experience before going on an extended working holiday overseas . ’ |
| 10 | ‘ So she 's to see a head man , is she ? |
| 11 | Comic look at American racism in MRS DELAFIELD WANTS TO MARRY , where Katherine Hepburn shocks her family with the news she 's to wed a Jewish doctor . |
| 12 | Bean , writing a year later in 1984 , supported this view by saying that ‘ when the adopted child is an older child who has already acquired a cultural background and a set of cultural responses , these will have to be unlearned if he or she is to acquire a new cultural identity ’ . |
| 13 | I am resigned to being addressed by the new name of Pax-Wanxie , but if she is to become a mere conduit of the Paxford philosophy it will be a very great bore . |
| 14 | If she is severely disturbed emotionally , above the level normally expected in bereavement , and if she can not sleep , he may prescribe tranquillisers and a night sedative ; but this will usually be only for a limited period to help her over a particularly bad patch , as he will not want her to become addicted to these drugs , which if taken for too long may delay the normal grieving process which she will need to experience if she is to make a satisfactory recovery . |
| 15 | Mobile minister the Rev Bill Harper , who is to conduct a special service for Maude , is to take her a letter from the Queen Mother and a signed photograph from Dr George Carey . |
| 16 | Sitting pretty : Eddie George , who is to take a five-year pay freeze as new governor of the Bank of England |
| 17 | A favourite and well-tried one is to appoint a Kenyan director with good political connections and capable of finding ways to smooth the flow of import licenses and local credit . |
| 18 | One is to allocate a particular colour to a number of contiguous levels in the image so that , for example , the levels 0–32 might be displayed in dark blue , 33–67 in dark green , 68–87 in cyan , and so on . |
| 19 | One is to offer a coherent and persuasive statement of the government 's macro-economic policy , and the other is to make the tax system work better . |
| 20 | If one is to present a credible case for investment planning as a progressive development one has to consider the problems raised by the choice of criteria of operation for a national investment bank . |
| 21 | The Jockey Club has announced it 's to hold a full-scale inquiry into exactly what went wrong at last Saturday 's Grand National in an effort to prevent it happening again . |
| 22 | It 's to recover a pedalling rhythm that has been temporarily lost . |
| 23 | It is to hold a humanist position , to be one who , like Gandhi , finds Jesus ' message striking . |
| 24 | Because the majority of tiles are simply hooked on to the battens , it is easier to replace a slipped or broken tile with a new unit than it is to replace a nail-fixed tile . |
| 25 | ‘ As a footballer , my ambition was to play next week , and now as a manager , where the average expectancy is two-and-a-half years , it is to manage a winning team next week . |
| 26 | She , too , places her professional reputation on the line and any criticism of the clinical environment or her style of management needs to be handled tactfully if it is to receive a good hearing . |
| 27 | I had hoped to be writing a birth report about how wonderful it is to use a large pool of warm water in labour . |
| 28 | And the woman respected for her concern for the sick and deprived is told : ‘ Not to love is not to live , or it is to live a living death . |
| 29 | Meanwhile , the USA announces it is to explode a nuclear weapon in outer space during the tests in the Pacific next month . |
| 30 | Lastly we must all learn how to protect the Earth from pollution , acid rain and the Greenhouse Effect if it is to remain a safe and healthy place to live in in the future — your future . |