Example sentences of "[be] [to-vb] [noun] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He points out that under John Akers , IBM has built its desktop computing business to $8,500m in worldwide sales in 1991 , giving it 19% market share ; remained the worldwide leader in information technology revenues , at $62,800m last year up nearly 30% from $48,500m in 1985 when Akers took over ; and avoided the worst crisis that could have befallen it — which would have been to sacrifice investments in research and development for the sake of a fast buck — it spent $6,600m last year . |
| 2 | One focus of our work on the development of platinum complexes with improved activity against cisplatin resistant cell lines has been to target platinum to DNA by its attachment to suitable DNA — affinic carrier ligands . |
| 3 | Over the five years of TRANSAID 's operations the most recurring need has been to provide advice on transport management and control . |
| 4 | Two Bristol detectives who disarmed a violent knifeman are to receive commendations for bravery . |
| 5 | Similarly , partnership deeds commonly state whether partners engaged full time on the firm 's business are to receive salaries in addition to their share of profits , such salaries to be paid before the figure for net profits can be determined . |
| 6 | In a similar vein Gibson ( this volume ) argues , ‘ The most basic issue is whether we are to define aggression without reference to native concepts . |
| 7 | The most basic issue is whether we are to define aggression without reference to native concepts . |
| 8 | Moreover people need an informed understanding if they are to evaluate claims about language use which are widely made ( in the correspondence columns of newspapers , for example ) . |
| 9 | They had n't been to visit Baby in hospital either . |
| 10 | The sampling theorem indicates that we must sample these phenomena at a frequency of no less than half their wavelength if we are to avoid bias in measurement . |
| 11 | Their permeable skins , however , still dictate that their surroundings are to be moist if the animals are to avoid death by desiccation . |
| 12 | Europe , of course , is something of a captive market ; not only is ESA funded by 13 European member-states but ESA 's procurement policy has been to award contracts in proportion to a country 's given contribution to its budget . |
| 13 | One effective solution to this has been to identify elements of maintenance that can safely be put into the hands of the users . |
| 14 | While one of the original purposes of trusts is believed to have been to avoid forfeiture for treason or escheat on a conviction of felony , the modern trust has been evolved as a useful instrument for protecting the weak and guarding the assets of those susceptible to stupid actions on account of age or facility . |
| 15 | Until now the only sure solution has been to grow peaches under glass , but help may be at hand . |
| 16 | There is little variation by sex or social class in these attitudes , and little consistent variation with age except that the older the respondents , the more likely they are to consider Respect for authority and Discipline and orderliness essential , and the less likely to consider Sex education essential . |
| 17 | TWO footballers from Darlington are to mix business with pleasure in America . |
| 18 | WHITEHALL chiefs are to keep tabs on phone calls made by civil servants in office time . |
| 19 | Recently carriers such as MCI Communications Corp have announced that they are to adopt SNMP for management and agents . |
| 20 | And the effect has been to reduce truth to timeliness , morality to usefulness and personal faith to a matter of what is fashionable . |
| 21 | It would be as inconceivable to find Richard II speaking prose as it would be to meet Thersites in verse . |
| 22 | One obvious approach to elucidate the function of DNA-PK-mediated phosphorylation will be to define sites of phosphorylation on transcription factors and determine whether mutation of these sites affects factor activity . |
| 23 | The brief for the scheme will be to identify areas of land by rivers and canals which can be developed . |
| 24 | To fail to have adequate stewarding would be to put participants at risk and to damage the good name of Christian Aid . |
| 25 | A more practical idea would be to fix filters to car exhausts , but they would have to be changed fairly frequently . |
| 26 | Desire , it is said , is one of the prime motivating powers of human existence and we believe that to curtail desire would be to leave life without meaning . |
| 27 | ( c ) by arguing that any subsequent inconsistent legislation was inadvertent , that the Westminster Parliament could not have intended to legislate in a manner conflicting with community obligations and that the " bounden duty of the courts would then be to give effect to community law " Macarthys v. Smith ( C.A. , 1979 ) . |
| 28 | The first step would be to confine voting to life peers . |
| 29 | The only alternative may be to match subsidy with subsidy . |
| 30 | The immediate effect of the latest decision will be to allow sales of timber already cut . |