Example sentences of "[noun] is [adv] to [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Their intention is not to drink , but to dance for hours on end . |
| 2 | According to , ‘ this provides early support for those that need it and is cost-effective for the company , because an employee is back to productivity sooner and there is no extended sick leave ’ . |
| 3 | And you do know that the data is up to date ( the first instruction given to students when studying bits of weather paper at a number of airfields these days should be to check the date on the top ) . |
| 4 | Personal study kits and work books are an integral part of the course , and it is in part up to each individual to ensure that his or her course work is up to date . |
| 5 | Thus the role of the coach is not to hand out advice passively but to act as a partner and a catalyst . |
| 6 | The management committee is also to beef up the criteria to be met by new members of the League . |
| 7 | How much flexibility is there to folio " a shifting target ? |
| 8 | The next test is more to Beau 's liking — dealing with a mob that gets out of control . |
| 9 | Certainly this alteration will ensure the strategic policy in North Yorkshire is up to date . |
| 10 | Demands for capital are still high until our infrastructure is up to standard ; that is why we are not all as rich as some would like to make out . |
| 11 | Both preferences reflect the power of domestic producer interests , whose aim is not to spur development abroad but to sell exports and block imports . |
| 12 | With newly-growing insights , Harry now knows ‘ that my business is not to run away , but to pursue , not to avoid being found , but to seek ’ . |
| 13 | ‘ The Artist 's gift is always to creation itself , to the ultimate meaning of life , to God . ’ |
| 14 | The group is also to affiliate to Mencap , Britain 's largest voluntary organisation for mentally handicapped children and adults and their families . |
| 15 | The founder 's desire is usually to hand on to his children a more prosperous business than he inherited , and under the latest provisions it will be extremely difficult to do so . |
| 16 | The rest is up to fate … fate and the Eastlea Rural District Council . |
| 17 | The duty of the court is neither to make nor to alter nor to pass judgment on the law . |
| 18 | Three European Community countries have introduced legal bans on tobacco advertising : France , where ban comes fully into effect on 1.1.93 , Italy , where the ban came in 1962 , partly to protect the state monopoly tobacco company , and was badly enforced until the mid-1980s and Portugal , where the effects appear indecisive but hard evidence is not to hand . |
| 19 | If this were a simple and one-way movement , the answer would lie in ensuring that the record of achievement is up to date and intelligible , that assessment records are accurate and that the pastoral record , if any , is both just and constructive . |
| 20 | The best remedy to all such difficulties is not to harbour grievances silently but to raise the problems as they arise and to deal with them before they get out of control . |
| 21 | This has ensured that the video is up to date , as well as giving me a few more grey hairs ! |
| 22 | Today almost anything goes as long as the right jacket is there to gull the public . |
| 23 | Right the idea of this little chat this briefing before we go out and do the er driving assessments next week is just to sort of give you an idea and a and a bit of an inroad into what we 're looking at and what we 'll be doing next week . |
| 24 | First , that the loyalty of most rural and many urban people is still to tribe rather than nation ; second , in the continuous drift towards authoritarian systems of government ; and , third , in the failure to resolve peacefully a system of succession of heads of state . |
| 25 | The intention of this paper is not to blame , but to understand . |
| 26 | Every notice is up to date , attractive , perfectly aligned on the purpose-built tacky surface . |
| 27 | A loose ferret is off to work |
| 28 | Any guidebook is only as good as the input of information into it , and this is an opportunity to make sure the guide is up to date and accurate . |
| 29 | It was there my husband and I began to develop our theories , Darcian Monetarism as it came to be called : that the answer to our current economic ills is not to control inflation but to encourage it until we cease to be a money economy altogether . |
| 30 | The Report of the Consultative Committee on Continuation Schools ( no doubt under the influence of Sadler ) quoted him approvingly when he wrote that apprentices should learn ‘ the truth of the maxim that the meaning of life is not to rule but to render service to one 's neighbour , service to one 's calling , service to one 's native country , service to truth and to justice ’ . |