Example sentences of "[noun] [be] [to-vb] [adv] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Clubs with water between Congleton and Kidscrobe are to thrash out the best way of removing the mink which have spiralled in numbers . |
| 2 | Also , if a contractor is to carry out the work the more information we can supply to them the easier it is for them to provide an accurate tender . |
| 3 | On the contrary , one of its chief characteristics is to sieve out the workers into grades according to the degree in which they possess the required kinds of ability and alertness . |
| 4 | If the Opposition is to achieve even the most limited of its ambitions , and push John Mayor into a minority government , Labour 's bottom line is to achieve a swing larger than that seen at any election since the war . |
| 5 | Another good way of obtaining animals from a pond is to scoop up the surface layers of soft mud from the bottom-use the net ( carefully ! ) , a small shovel or a large spoon . |
| 6 | The aim of the research is to examine how the right to buy policy has affected the Afro Caribbean community . |
| 7 | The secret of successful research is to identify clearly the " profit " goal you are trying to achieve and then research all the options for achieving that goal as well as all the factors affecting its achievement . |
| 8 | The aim of this research is to investigate empirically the variations in Britain 's strike activity over time and the variations between Britain and other EEC countries in the post-war period . |
| 9 | The aim of the proposed research is to investigate how the subsidiary skills relate to the development of braille reading , to identify the sources of difficulty at different levels of proficiency , and to test application for improving reading speed and accuracy . |
| 10 | The chief purpose of the chapter is to outline how the two opposing groups in Ireland developed their dominant beliefs in the context of the new states of Ireland , and moulded the states to support them , strengthening antagonisms between the two groups . |
| 11 | My purpose in the remainder of this chapter is to set out the main principles of exploring multidimensional language states in present-day communities , on the assumption that historical states of language must also have been multidimensional . |
| 12 | The object of this chapter is to show how the ideas presented in the earlier chapters can be used to collect and collate information on a specific question : ‘ Can smoking cause lung cancer ? ’ |
| 13 | The purpose of this study is to draw out the lessons of US experience as they relate to the situation in Britain . |
| 14 | The aim of the present study is to identify how the press , radio and TV determine how they cover religious issues . |
| 15 | The purpose of the study is to identify how the policy was implemented , and what its consequences were for the curriculum , pupils ' experience of school science and teachers ' professional situation . |
| 16 | The purpose of critical appraisal is to show up the effects of a proposal before time and effort are invested in putting an idea into action . |
| 17 | The intention is to link directly the employment policies and practices of firms to the attitudes , skills and job orientation of their employees . |
| 18 | The intention is to illustrate how the conclusions regarding tax incidence may need to be modified when markets do not clear . |
| 19 | The intention is to speed up the taking of kick-offs and to stop the time wasting practice of kicking the ball dead instead of keeping it in play from the kick-off . |
| 20 | A trick I like to play when using a record or tape is to switch off the music two or three times to get everyone predicting when the end will come . |
| 21 | This inevitably causes modulations , but the effect is to stretch out the sense of ‘ questioning ’ over the whole sentence , so that it is resolved only in bar 9 . |
| 22 | The purpose of the experiment was to investigate how the wearing of prisms affected perception and motor response under certain circumstances . |
| 23 | The result was to force up the price both of renting and of buying land . |
| 24 | Radio Bangladesh quoted an official spokesman as saying on Aug. 10 that the independent Mecca-based Islamic body , Rabitah , had agreed to fund half the estimated US$50,000,000 cost of repatriation and rehousing , and Pakistan was to make up the rest . |
| 25 | Thus , the aim of this study was to evaluate retrospectively the characteristics and outcome of 56 cases of primary gastric lymphoma that have been morphologically reclassified according to recent knowledge of the MALT derived lymphomas . |
| 26 | The aim of this study was to evaluate how the proliferation index obtained by PCNA ( 19A2 ) correlates with that determined by conventional BrdU immunocytochemistry . |
| 27 | His intention was to pick up the 18,000 troops assembled in the area behind Quiberon known as the Morbihan and transport them to Scotland , as the first stage of the great invasion plan . |
| 28 | The overall effect was to speed up the disintegration of the larger estates , but to leave the smallholdings virtually untouched but constantly threatened . |
| 29 | The long-term effect was to damage severely the profitability of the county 's coastal trade , to raise the levels of taxation and to cause a lengthy period of economic decline . |
| 30 | Harry Agg , the old man who had helped on the farm for very many years , was still employed there , but he did little more than potter , his main duties being to clean out the stables and cowshed . |