Example sentences of "[pron] is [to-vb] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What we have done to ourselves is to destroy the adventure of life by rooting ourselves to one spot in the physical sense , and demoralising ourselves by forcing the mind to spend its time on nuts and bolts and the rest of our shoddy interests , when it is thirsting for the trackless regions of the nomads . |
| 2 | This new PSW initiates the interrupt handling routine , a first task of which is to save the accumulator array . |
| 3 | Mr Large proposed changes to make the system work better ( see page 15 ) ; but he stopped short of the obvious answer , which is to revise the act itself . |
| 4 | But they do n't care that the only honest answer to the West Lothian Question — which is to deny the right of Scots MPs to share in legislating for England and Wales on those subjects which in Scotland have been devolved to the Scottish parliament — would render any British government unstable , since it might possess a majority on some issues but not on others . |
| 5 | In chapter 2 I discussed one of the central aims of the English curriculum , which is to extend the range of language in which children are competent . |
| 6 | Meanwhile Svidrigailov has taken over the suicide role , which is to say the blanket boredom has become positively terminal . |
| 7 | They take place in and indeed are sometimes identified in part by a location , which is to say the location of a person or other organism . |
| 8 | None of which is to say the record labels are not trying hard to stretch country where they can . |
| 9 | We linked up with the Daily Express to help run the campaign , part of which is to champion the cause of Marine Nature Reserves . |
| 10 | As you know , SCOTVEC and colleges have been engaged in an extensive development plan , the aim of which is to transform the approach to the Advanced Courses provision . |
| 11 | He must tighten that clause and accept the argument that he claimed to be attempting to grasp , which is to target the offence on violent offenders . |
| 12 | For example , if you wish to create a new Charge Code 1234 for your LSLIVE process , which is to use the directory $DISK7 : [ CONFIG_MAN.LIFESPAN.LSLIVE.S1234 ] , follow this procedure : |
| 13 | According to Dr Declan Murphy , project director in Washington , Rome has not forgotten this help and despite a certain weariness engendered by the numerous calls for loans of 1492 material received last year , it cooperated enthusiastically with Washington over the exhibition ( which is to mark the reopening of the Great Hall of the Library of Congress after a three-year renovation ) . |
| 14 | The term ‘ flight recorder ’ is normally taken to include both the flight data recorder ( FDR ) which records the value of selected flight parameters like airspeed , altitude , magnetic heading , etc. and the cockpit voice recorder ( CVR ) , the primary purpose of which is to record the crew conversation . |
| 15 | The finished case is thrown upon the floor ; the long narrow strip which is to form the frame of the drawer is laid upon the bright strip of ready-pasted paper , then bent together and joined by an overlapping bit of paper ; the edges of paper below are bent flat , the ready-cut bottom is dropped in and pressed down and before the fingers are withdrawn they fold over the upper edges of the paper inside the top . |
| 16 | The former makes for a flexibility in design and allows for local idiosyncrasies , while the latter are slightly quicker and ensure that the craftsman spends less time working in the room which is to receive the decoration . |
| 17 | To obtain interest relief on loans to subscribe shares in a Newco which is to purchase the business of , rather than shares in , Target , it appears that management no longer has the difficulty of persuading the Revenue that Newco " exists wholly or mainly for the purpose of carrying on a trade … " , as required by s13A(2) ( a ) . |
| 18 | The fact of canonization puts any work beyond questions of establishing its merit and , instead , invites students to offer only increasingly more ingenious readings and interpretations , the purpose of which is to validate the greatness already imputed by the canonization . |
| 19 | The problems of valuation and banding will also be compounded by the Government 's proposed method of valuation , which is to give the job to people such as estate agents who have a vested interest in ensuring that the valuations are as high as possible . |
| 20 | He takes her to live in the Valley of Paradise , where all her desires are met except one , which is to see the face of her husband . |
| 21 | The Bosnian government yesterday ordered all armed formations to submit to the Interior Ministry , which is to oversee the reorganisation of security forces into a multi-ethnic defence force , said Mr Mirsad Srebrenikovic , assistant Interior Minister . |
| 22 | Having reached a consensus on the shape of the interim administration , which is to steer the country to full democracy , and what that democracy should look like , they have come under pressure from the others involved in the stalled multi-party discussions about South Africa 's future . |
| 23 | Reid 's role in this coup is not to put money on the eventual winner but to back other horses in the race , thus distracting the bookies ' attention and stopping them pulling their usual trick which is to depress the winner 's official starting price by similar last-minute shenanigans . |
| 24 | He resigned his seat on the BDA 's executive on accepting this challenging task , the principal aim of which is to remedy the shortage of sign language tutors and interpreters . |
| 25 | Er so in other words it it muddies the water and it seems to me that it 's quite unnoted because it be suggesting a policy which is to counteract the effect of erm section fifty four A. |
| 26 | In Fig. 9–12(a) a cash transfer is compared with a price subsidy the objective of which is to make the recipient as well off as possible . |
| 27 | Today he has shed a good deal of that ideology — his speech yesterday was social democratic through and through — but he remains devoid of the work experience relevant to his next task which is to convince the country that he , and Labour , are qualified to form the next government . |
| 28 | So I 'll do this and I think Amanda would agree with this that this is the ultimate test that will help us in establishing can we actually do something about target one of the World Health Organisation , which is to narrow the health divide . |
| 29 | Next resolution five which is an ordinary resolution er , set ou set out in the notice of the meeting which is to authorize the company to make market purchases of the ordinary shares of the company . |
| 30 | Many people believe that the skin is an impervious covering , the sole function of which is to keep the blood and organs in and water out . |