Example sentences of "[adj] is [to-vb] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Once again this is to retain larger numbers in the analysis and maximize the statistical reliability of the conclusions . |
| 2 | The purpose of this is to enable regular discussions to take place thus developing a good working relationship within which problems can be talked through . |
| 3 | The reason for this is to prevent additional symptoms occurring at a time when you might be suffering from PMT . |
| 4 | This is to prevent legal problems arising either during or at the end of the tenancy . |
| 5 | This is to prevent trivial claims for property damage . |
| 6 | Internally , one way of achieving this is to emphasize greater elements of democracy and self-management , albeit within structural parameters , in organizational work teams . |
| 7 | ‘ The people of Lanarkshire must be helped to overcome the devastating effects of industrial depression , and one way of doing this is to increase educational opportunities and access to universities , ’ said Mr Reid . |
| 8 | The second is to relate these findings to the analytical terms and theoretical models on social policy developed in the West . |
| 9 | The first is to increase production through new discoveries — the second is to encourage alternative fuels . |
| 10 | and the changed is to have those charges automatically updated once a year |
| 11 | In my view the challenge to us all is to find adoptive families for those children for whom this is appropriate and to offer security to those new families and children for whom adoption is not appropriate , and to convince them . |
| 12 | Or does it accept that the only way to make things better is to lavish ever-greater sums of public money on the public services ? |
| 13 | What is important is to explore these possibilities with the students and to use the example to illustrate the difficulty of the latter method if we try to apply it at the end of 1989 when the costs to completion are uncertain . |
| 14 | This makes their speed of acquisition initially faster , but with the lack of knowledge of BSL grammar and rules the only strategy available is to impose English rules . |
| 15 | The first is to promote liberal arts higher education , both at general degree and sub-degree levels . |
| 16 | The first is to take visual systems apart , identify their components and characterize the way these components work . |
| 17 | The first is to provide simple descriptions of complex data so that we can understand what is going on in our experiments . |
| 18 | The syndrome would be regarded by many as including honeymoon cystitis , that is to say urethral symptoms related to sexual intercourse , but also covers a host of other bacteria-negative causes . |
| 19 | While it is difficult to be firm about the exact numbers required , the generally accepted " bed norm " in Scotland for geriatric psychiatry beds specifically for the confused elderly is as recommended in Timbury , that is to say 10 beds per 1,000 population aged 65+ . |
| 20 | The results of these studies were published extensively in catalogues of private and public collections , and in what in French are termed catalogues raisonnés , that is to say complete lists of artists ' works . |
| 21 | The system does not necessarily include a balance lift that is to say duplicate tanks working up and down duplicate inclines in reverse direction . |
| 22 | This religion concentrates upon a particular person , Jesus of Nazareth , but in its definition of God it describes the divine being as a Trinity — that is to say three persons . |
| 23 | Prior to getting around to the job I have to do , and that is to honour those men that gave their lives so that we could be free , I 'd like to just share a few things with you as we return to this wonderful country . |
| 24 | The drafter should therefore draft clauses so as to maximise the chances of severance : the easiest way to do that is to draft separate limitations in separate sub-clauses . |
| 25 | At the end of the day , the only way to do something about that is to put more men on the streets . |
| 26 | We must have one over-riding goal for the 1990s , that is to convert low skills and low expectations to high skills and high expectations . |
| 27 | ‘ We have to keep costs to a minimum and one way to do that is to have driver-operated buses on some routes , ’ says Morag Petrie , press officer for London buses . |
| 28 | So , in Hudson v. Hermann Pfauter G.m.b.H . & Co . a District Court held that the party opposing the use of the Convention 's procedures had the burden of proof , had that is to show good reasons for departing from its prima facie applicability . |
| 29 | Grand Metropolitan is to sponsor five sportsmobiles — Landrovers and trailers packed with sports equipment . |
| 30 | All that is necessary is to select two numbers from random number tables in the range 1 to 586 . |