Example sentences of "[adj] [be] [to-vb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The specific reasons for this are to do with the development of the English Labour movement in relation to the development of British capitalism in the latter half of the nineteenth century . |
| 2 | If this were to happen in the case of the CAB , they would have lost their primary purpose as first tier advisory agencies ; there would be duplication of effort , waste of public money and , in all probability , deterioration in the quality of specialised advice provided . ’ |
| 3 | Yet in 1340 Philip VI was already showing himself to be master of the tactic which the French were to employ in the years to come , that of avoiding direct contact with the enemy . |
| 4 | A study published by Age Concern Scotland asserts , that , ‘ to be dependent is to face the danger of being less than fully human because to be dependent is to live with the prospect of having our bodies cared for but our personal and social lives neglected or even dismissed as irrelevant . ’ |
| 5 | Another way of thinking of this is to return to the tap metaphor and to see that the tap represents demands and the glass represents resources . |
| 6 | But this is to talk of the nominal or official method of appointment . |
| 7 | The best way to do this is to go to the experts , the people who use the course every day , the teachers and the students . |
| 8 | But to talk like this is to fall into the trap mentioned above of emphasising maintenance not mission . |
| 9 | Often this is to do with the fact that the current bereavement has driven the person into emotional overload because of everything else that is happening in their life either currently or over a period of time . |
| 10 | Now this , is er , also , and this is to do with the interest earned and on revenue balances . |
| 11 | One important function of and in a piece of writing like this is to signal to the reader that the sentences are meant to be=read together as an integrated whole . |
| 12 | Perhaps the easiest way of looking at this is to think of the surface states as a charge store , which effectively shifts the switching level of the device . |
| 13 | One way of doing this is to look behind the literal , formal meaning of what is said or written , and to consider what the sender of a message intends to achieve with it , to try to understand its function . |
| 14 | One way of doing this is to look behind the literal , formal meaning of what is said or written , and to consider what the sender of a message intends to achieve with it , to try to understand its function . |
| 15 | That aside , English follows its normal mode of realization — marking qualification by word order — and , as tends to be the case except in entity-identifiers , having the subordinate item follow the item qualified ; the only overt marking is the choice of an adjectival rather than adverbial form for the second property , to show that this is to apply to the entity of the noun phrase and not to the property of the verb . |
| 16 | The best way to prepare for this is to work through the same processes as historians working with a wide range of documents . |
| 17 | One of the most infuriating habits of the scientifically illiterate is to talk of the ‘ ice age ’ as if there had been only one . |
| 18 | Another is to marvel at the pointlessness of many a sophisticated achievement and to be superior about it , the last , or one of the last , indulgences of a European . |
| 19 | What I want you to do as as the person who 's being assertive is to stick to the point . |
| 20 | All this was to feed into the stream of sexual radicalism in the early twentieth century . |
| 21 | This was to gather under the very roof of Darlington Hall the most influential of the gentlemen whose support had been won with a view to conducting an ‘ unofficial ’ international conference — a conference that would discuss the means by which the harshest terms of the Versailles treaty could be revised . |
| 22 | This was to do with the difficulty of financing conferences of this type . |
| 23 | My original purpose in writing this was to warn of the dangers of censorship and to provoke debate in the lesbian and gay communities . |
| 24 | Some graves have been found showing that bowls of food were buried with the body — this was to provide for the journey to the Underworld , which many people believed was made by a dead person 's spirit . |
| 25 | This was to change as the ‘ Mama-Sans ’ made an international impact in Europe in June 1985 . |
| 26 | All this was to change with the advent of Sir Ralph Furse , who from 1919 to 1948 was in sole charge of recruitment for the Colonial Service . |
| 27 | Its emphasis on careful measurement and exact analysis of the events mediated by receptors was to be justified by the key role this was to play in the subsequent development of novel drugs for the treatment of , for example , angina and hypertension . |
| 28 | This was to compensate for the lack of imported fruit and vegetables . |
| 29 | One aspect of this was to focus on the experiences of particular groups : the poor , women and ethnic minorities . |
| 30 | This was to get across the important difference between a living enemy , which itself is subject to evolutionary change , and an inanimate non-malevolent condition such as the weather , which is subject to change , but not systematic , evolutionary change . |