Example sentences of "[prep] [det] [be] to [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 The effect of this is to decentre the subject by locating social being in the social practices of groups .
2 When this was first published ( Hawkes and Hull , 1947 ) , Period I was placed in the bracket AD 10 — 42 , on the basis of Tiberian sigillata and Arretine wares , and one interesting result of this was to date the Roman pottery from Bagendon to the pre-conquest period ( Clifford , 1961 , 257 ) .
3 One effect of this was to fuel concern in Israel that a deal might be struck which would somehow link the Kuwait and Palestinian issues .
4 Oh , yes , but they 're going on that 's to sake of free , at the moment so the last thing that they 're interested in doing is talking to me about if I know what I 'm doing .
5 I think the best way of looking at this is to kind of take an open-ended version of what the Vienna settlement is all about .
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