Example sentences of "[be] [to-vb] [conj] [det] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In each case , if I am to claim that this revelation or experience is of ‘ God ’ , and is not simply an expression of some form of mental delusion which should be referred to a psychoanalyst , then I am forced to debate the interpretation that I am giving . |
| 2 | It made him seem altogether too human , and the safest thing for her to do would be to remember that this man was very nearly the devil incarnate . |
| 3 | The initial reaction of an efficiency expert may be to suggest that each adviser has the information system in their interviewing room in order to save time and energy . |
| 4 | A broad position would be to hold that any threat may negative consent , and this might include a threat to send a compromising photograph to someone , a threat to report a driver for exceeding the speed limit , and so on . |
| 5 | They were to discover that these country lads were the equals — perhaps the superiors — of their Indian counterparts in political sagacity . |
| 6 | Compared with Barry 's Board of Trade , the Broad Sanctuary houses were hideous and it ‘ would excite one 's horror , if one were to imagine that any portion of London was to be covered with such edifices ’ . |
| 7 | In this connection , it is interesting that many of the restrictions on economic life in the Pentateuch were to ensure that each family always had access to part of the society 's capital — namely a plot of land and some animals . |
| 8 | This is to see whether any health problems you might have had recently could be affected by your diet , or alcohol and cigarette consumption . |
| 9 | The objective is to confirm that all response times are less than the agreed target , and that response times for identical processes are consistent . |
| 10 | ( The alternative is to guess that some training examples are erroneous , and leave them out of the training set . ) |
| 11 | The starting point is to accept that each individual develops and evolves throughout life , and that the final stages of life are as important as any other . |
| 12 | The safest course is to provide that any capital gains tax assessed on the settlor shall not be borne by the trust . |
| 13 | The important point here is to remember that this grid has a central point located at 30,80 . |
| 14 | The New York court is to rule whether former lover Woody Allen , 57 , should pick up her £150,000 legal bill in their custody battle . |
| 15 | The objective of a phase II type study is to determine whether this procedure is a useful addition to those already available for treating gall stones . |
| 16 | The objective of the national facilities programme is to ensure that each sport — if appropriate — has access to at least one venue suitable for the staging of international events and for national squad training . |
| 17 | Clonal selection now concerns all three of Champagne 's major varieties and the current emphasis is to ensure that each village has the clones best suited to its own terroir . |
| 18 | At a time when the largest nuclear power in the world is in the process of disintegration into separate republics , when that massive nuclear arsenal is under some central control of the remaining central authorities , and when our keen concern is to ensure that that security is real , it seems absolutely unthinkable that we should not have our own protection and the ultimate assurance of an independent deterrent . |
| 19 | the prime factor at present is to ensure that all land need for the schemes should protect against other developments and that flexibility is divided in |
| 20 | The simple solution in this case is to ensure that all food remains out of their reach . |
| 21 | Here your role is to ensure that any plan has been developed in enough detail to satisfy you as manager that it is workable . |
| 22 | The object of the project is to ensure that this plan is founded on a thorough knowledge and understanding of local business development , and of the specific opportunities and constraints operating in Stirling . |
| 23 | The point for teachers now is to ensure that this debate is held within their schools , within their governing bodies . |
| 24 | The object of this chapter is to consider whether this assessment is accurate . |
| 25 | Its job is to decide whether some change in activity in a cell reflects the presence of such an event or is simply a spontaneous change unrelated to function . |
| 26 | To reflect society can only mean comedy , in such a world , if a work is to convince as any sort of mirror , and the preference of other nations for melodrama and the bleeding heart has nothing to do with the habitual temper of British life . |
| 27 | The emotional help that we can offer most directly to bereaved people is to explain that such behaviour is not an indication that they have gone mad , but in fact rather the opposite . |
| 28 | However , who 's to say that this figure would n't be as open to exaggeration as amp output always used to be ? |
| 29 | Well , I think all I can do is to reiterate that this road would not be considered for construction at all at this stage if it was n't for the probable re-siting of the erm transfer station and therefore we would not be looking at any aspect of it at this time if it were not for that . |
| 30 | There is ‘ unity of command ’ which is to say that each member of the organisation only has one direct supervisor . |