Example sentences of "[adj] [be] [to-vb] [prep] [art] " 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 | A relatively safe way of doing this is to go through a local agency or someone who has passed the test to become a member of the Magic Circle . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | But to talk like this is to fall into the trap mentioned above of emphasising maintenance not mission . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Now this , is er , also , and this is to do with the interest earned and on revenue balances . |
| 12 | The objective is always the same , however , and this is to aim for a real , worthwhile improvement in bottom line performance . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | The most common way of doing this is to put in a box-shaped insert at the bottom of the bag . |
| 15 | One abstract way of thinking about this is to think of a pragmatic theory as a " black box " ( an as yet unexplicated mechanism ) , and to ask : what should be the input to such a theory , and what should be the output ( or : what is the theory meant to predict , given what particular information ) ? |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | One way to avoid this is to think for a moment before beginning , searching for some idea , however brief , on which our imagination can work . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | The best way to prepare for this is to work through the same processes as historians working with a wide range of documents . |
| 22 | This is to imply to a bystander that the biker is an athlete in training , with no time to stop and take a drink in a punishing schedule . |
| 23 | One of the most infuriating habits of the scientifically illiterate is to talk of the ‘ ice age ’ as if there had been only one . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | What I want you to do as as the person who 's being assertive is to stick to the point . |
| 26 | All this was to feed into the stream of sexual radicalism in the early twentieth century . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | This was to do with the difficulty of financing conferences of this type . |
| 29 | This was to lead to an increase in real wages and to a decline in rents for land , and in so far as these can be used to measure the standard of living of the people , they suggest that the condition of the peasantry improved markedly in the fifteenth century . |
| 30 | My original purpose in writing this was to warn of the dangers of censorship and to provoke debate in the lesbian and gay communities . |