Example sentences of "[adv] [be] [to-vb] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Our limited ambition can , therefore , only be to sustain a reasonable quality of life for ourselves and for those animals that serve us . |
| 2 | For George Eliot , as for Dickens in the case of Chesney Wold , to stand outside and look in is to perceive a perfect picture ; to stand within and look out is to experience a moral chill . |
| 3 | What would be helpful perhaps is to have a close relationship with a mother-type figure who is not your mother . |
| 4 | You were talking earlier about er applying the lessons learned here from the tornado programme to Eurofighter , surely the best way of doing so is to involve the same people , they 're in the same building . |
| 5 | For since , just as in any conventionally organised manufacturing enterprise , capital employed labour , its first priority naturally and necessarily was to secure a sufficient return for the investors on their investment . |
| 6 | The end-result might just be to get a better understanding with his colleagues , or some improvement in team morale . |
| 7 | Greenfield told the court he had regarded the university as a ‘ playground for the wealthy ’ and decided , whatever he did with his life , it would not be to help the rich get richer and more powerful . |
| 8 | What is possible already is to detect the chromosomal sex of a fetus either by amniocentesis or , at an earlier stage of development , by sampling of chorionic villi ; and if the fetus is of the unwanted sex , it could be aborted . |
| 9 | To offer the best was to set a general standard and to create a wider public expectation . |
| 10 | The aim of all schools of initiation the world over has always been to guide a human mind from an ordinary state of consciousness which is considered as a conscious state of ignorance or illusion , to a higher , more aware , enlightened condition . |
| 11 | Management 's key objective has always been to introduce a simpler , single status pay and staffing structure , with sufficient flexibility to meet the needs of different parts of AEA . |
| 12 | ‘ My target has always been to bring the English title to Ewood Park , and nothing has happened to change that . ’ |
| 13 | These figures are too high , but the only way to get them down permanently is to have the right structure of development in the economy : low inflation and stable exchange rates . |
| 14 | The way in which community care projects get off the ground quickly is to have a small project team of three or four people with the task of steering it through from start to finish , working under the guidance of a strong chairman . |
| 15 | Who can not the price also be to guarantee the future pension rights of the workers who happen to work in the public company ? |
| 16 | To find the best way in which to correct such an observation and to nullify its effect always poses a problem for the judge because , if he intervenes immediately , the effect will probably be to emphasise the obvious relevance and cogency of the comment which ought not to have been made . |
| 17 | The proposal was made by the civil engineering firm Rendel Palmer and Tritton who , 30 years later were to play the key role in the Thames Barrier project . |
| 18 | Cottle , who four years later was to publish the Lyrical Ballads and in old age produced his garrulous and unreliable Reminiscences , immediately saw in Coleridge the signs of ‘ commanding genius ’ , but reserved for Southey 's ‘ great suavity of manners ’ his more enthusiastic praise . |
| 19 | Neither the murder of Sigibert in 575 , nor that of Chilperic nine years later was to alter the political map of the Merovingian kingdoms in the way that the death of Charibert had done , since they each left a single male heir . |
| 20 | An expert 's instructions will often be to reach a final decision , and it should usually not be difficult to imply that obligation . |
| 21 | The costs of running a club of the size of Leeds is large and the easy way out is to sell the best players . |
| 22 | The costs of running a club of the size of Leeds is large and the easy way out is to sell the best players . |
| 23 | Our first thought might be that the easy way out is to develop a subject-orientated curriculum . |
| 24 | An alternative in churches where hymn books are given out is to note the empty spaces in the shelves where they are stacked or count those that remain and deduct them from the total . |
| 25 | For George Eliot , as for Dickens in the case of Chesney Wold , to stand outside and look in is to perceive a perfect picture ; to stand within and look out is to experience a moral chill . |
| 26 | He would not treat them as sources of law past that point , but his general responsibility when he believes that law has run out is to make the best new law he can for the future , and he might be concerned with past legal doctrine for special reasons bearing on that issue . |
| 27 | The main thrust now is to analyse the main business processes of the station with two each per department being targeted for this financial year . |
| 28 | After all , they have taken almost all the land they want ; their main territorial concern now is to widen the northern corridor linking their western possessions to their eastern ones , and thus to Serbia itself . |
| 29 | ‘ But their only way out now is to increase the sheer percentage of housing to rent . ’ |
| 30 | The great problem now is to find a versatile and economic replacement for the ageing BN3 . |