Example sentences of "[be] [to-vb] [noun] to [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | And the effect has been to reduce truth to timeliness , morality to usefulness and personal faith to a matter of what is fashionable . |
| 3 | A more practical idea would be to fix filters to car exhausts , but they would have to be changed fairly frequently . |
| 4 | ( 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 ) . |
| 5 | The first step would be to confine voting to life peers . |
| 6 | ‘ I think our first priority should be to get Kirsty to bed . ’ |
| 7 | ( Harry had decided that to pay for entertaining Nadine Cunningham would be to add insult to injury . ) |
| 8 | And Madam , I 'd also ask you to say that to him to pay compensation for the minor injuries she 's suf she 's suffered and of course you have to consider that 's a point in a case involving assault , would be to add insult to injury , and would not assist the parties in coming to terms with their relationship and hopefully attempting a reconciliation . |
| 9 | Even though these cases may be comparatively rare , it would still appear that such high costs present a problem needing resolution if people are to have access to justice as and when needed . |
| 10 | ‘ The day before we arrived in Gibraltar we received a signal from Admiral Sir James Somerville of Force ‘ H ’ who was in command of the operation , saying that on arrival in harbour we were to berth stern to stern to ‘ Ark Royal ’ so that some of our Hurricanes could be transferred to her and rolled off ‘ Furious ’ direct onto ‘ Ark Royal ’ . |
| 11 | I could see that if I were to give way to retroscendence the average supermarket gondola , stuck with myriad products like a hedgehog with spines , would become a mystic test-bed able through its thousand portals to suck me into individual sagas so complex , so durable , that I would perhaps never reemerge . |
| 12 | However , a central value of social work is to restore individuals to autonomy and to retain and support their social links . |
| 13 | While profit is the dominant goal for profit-orientated organizations the dominant goal of nonprofit organizations is to render services to society ( either in general or to qualifying applicants ) . |
| 14 | This has indeed been shown for some chemicals , but the usual effect is to lower resistance to disease , rather than to make allergies more likely . |
| 15 | What the court can do is to withhold consent to treatment of which it disapproves and it can express its approval of other treatment proposed by the authority and its doctors . ’ |
| 16 | The Yates factory in Tattershall Thorpe , near Lincoln , part of Unigroup , is to switch production to North Africa and Eastern Europe . |
| 17 | The important thing is to harness growth to self-knowledge , a ready acceptance of change , swift-moving business practice and sound judgement . |
| 18 | The aim of the walk is to demonstrate opposition to prospecting , quarrying , mining , dumping and speculative developments in the area and to support the maintenance of rights of way . |
| 19 | If the purpose of that is to transform attitudes to training , what effect will the lead handcuff clause that he proposes for the training contract have on attitudes to training ? |
| 20 | With the standard rose , apart from the aesthetic beauty of its form , the main purpose of the extra height is to lift blooms to eye and nose level where they can be more easily appreciated . |
| 21 | The real solution , predictably , is to attempt growth to maturity , i.e. , ‘ relationships of mature dependence in equal partnership ’ ( Guntrip , 1961 ) . |
| 22 | In 110 we find straightforward confession : Yet in the same sentence we find specious self-excuses : ‘ but , by all above ’ , — this unusual oath , calling the heavens to witness , is an anticipatory give-away — Well , the disbelieving reader will say , to claim that you betrayed your partner merely to test your love for him , which has supposedly been increased by the experiment — this is to add insult to injury . |
| 23 | Another form of competition policy is to remove obstacles to competition from foreign firms , by reducing or eliminating import tariffs and quotas , or technical standards and government purchasing contracts which favour domestic firms . |
| 24 | If the industry is not a natural monopoly then in order to promote allocative efficiency the appropriate policy for government is to remove barriers to competition in the marketplace . |
| 25 | ‘ The purpose is to introduce people to rhythm and blues , ’ says the musical crusader who appears at Middlesbrough Arena on June 4 . |
| 26 | Reading and Thinking in English is aimed at a wide range of learners whose ‘ main need is to gain access to information through English . ’ |
| 27 | Concluding a three-day visit to Vietnam on Feb. 1 , the US presidential envoy , Gen. John Vessey , announced that for the first time the USA was to provide assistance to typhoon victims . |
| 28 | Besides , the last thing she wanted was to come face to face with Rune again , especially if he was in the arms of a reconciled Lotta ! |
| 29 | Other Danuese , particularly the ex-FAKINTIL in the malai battalions , thought it was to help planes to home in more accurately . |
| 30 | Supplementary Benefit was to give way to Income Support and the much-abused system of single payment was to be replaced by a Social Fund ; Housing Benefit was to be reformed so that it did not discriminate against the low-paid in work ; and the whole social security system was to be simplified . |