Example sentences of "[be] [to-vb] [subord] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A committee of the International Olympics Committee ( IOC ) has been to see if the changes qualify the country for readmission . |
| 2 | Some jobs are to go when the Aberystwyth based family owned Cambrian News weekly newspaper places the paper 's printing contract with another company , possibly in Swansea . |
| 3 | Others write letters ( in role ) to relatives and friends in other parts of the country telling them what has happened , and ( for the most part ) excitedly proclaiming how easy it will be to visit once the line is built . |
| 4 | His task was to be to assess whether the Commonwealth could assist with constitutional negotiations . |
| 5 | Its main function will be to ascertain whether the results of the first investigation would appear as firm to another team going over the same ground . |
| 6 | The first part of the research will focus on local authorities ' total expenditure , whilst the second principle objective of the research will be to investigate whether the reforms lead to a change in the pattern of service provision . |
| 7 | But if Chapman 's death is to provoke any analysis it might be to ask whether the Pythons achieved their original aim of breaking the mould of English television comedy , doing away with the studio applause , the guest star , the musical interlude , even on occasion the punchline . |
| 8 | At first sight there is force in Mr. Howell 's point that it is odd that Parliament should by section 6(3) ( b ) have limited the governors ' ability to apply selection criteria designed to preserve the character of the school in cases which do not fall within section 6(3) ( a ) ( i.e. where the school is not over-subscribed ) but have permitted such criteria to be applied in choosing which applicants are to succeed when the school is over-subscribed . |
| 9 | After that , the possibilities for the disturbed were very much what they were to remain until the introduction of the major tranquillisers — and indeed what they had been from Roman times . |
| 10 | Fifteen minutes were to pass before the bell rang a second time , succeeded by that awful rattle . |
| 11 | Two decades were to pass before the prison building programme reached a scale that was to become significant in terms of public expenditure . |
| 12 | This brought the Poles to the Lothians , Fife , Perthshire and Angus , the areas where many were to stay when the threat of invasion had lifted . |
| 13 | If anyone were to ask whether the cottage was for sale or rent , Mother Francis was always ready with a helpless shrug of the shoulders to say that things had n't been fully sorted out yet , but that it was in Eve 's name and nothing could be done until she was twenty-one . |
| 14 | Many incidents of a similarly charming nature were to follow as the years went by , without any diminution in the public fascination with this spinster lady from a remote Yorkshire dale dressed in complex layers of well-laundered rags . |
| 15 | A further twenty-seven years were to elapse before the railway reached its ultimate terminus at the Kyle of Lochalsh . |
| 16 | The first move , therefore , is to see whether the level of the available lighting can be improved without making any radical changes . |
| 17 | The jury 's task is to see whether the duty arose on the facts . |
| 18 | The idea is to see if the terms on which bargainers settle can be influenced by such cues . |
| 19 | The important point is to diagnose whether the short-fall is due to internal causes or external pressures . |
| 20 | All the pilot can do is to signal if the launch is too fast or abandon the launch if it is to slow . |
| 21 | The program 's task , given a diagram like that of Figure 2 , is to discover whether the arrangements of blocks depicted is stable , — if it is not — to predict the movements ( falling , sliding , motion ended by contact with another block ) and the final state of various blocks . |
| 22 | The key to almost all the page makeup software problems is to discover whether the program supports a page description language . |
| 23 | The purpose of the investigation is to establish whether the authority should make an application for a court order or exercise any other powers it may have under the Act ( s47(3) ( a ) ) . |
| 24 | In general , the rule with haggling is to do as the locals do , taking particular care not to beat down those who are selling items they have made themselves . |
| 25 | It is not stated who is to determine whether the conditions have been observed , or what is to be the consequence of subsequent non-observance . |
| 26 | This Fel test is to determine whether the Ghosts accept the adventurers ' intentions , or whether they remain unhappy about them . |
| 27 | The clearer a goal is , the easier it is to decide whether the goal is attainable , and if it is attainable , how you would go about achieving it . |
| 28 | ‘ What we have to do , ’ said Samuel , taking advantage of her exit from the ring , ‘ and I take it no one objects if I now chair this committee , ’ he added off-handedly , ‘ is to decide whether the Week of the Lion should continue or be cancelled . ’ |
| 29 | In the case of bivariate regression ( when only two variables are involved ) , one objective of the regression analysis is to learn whether the variable of concern ( i.e. the dependent variable ) , for instance birth weight , does depend on another variable ( i.e. the independent variable ) , say , on maternal age and , if so , what is the nature of the relationship . |
| 30 | For instance one can readily see how insects adapt themselves to many environments but the larger the animal the less likely it is to survive if the environment drastically changes . |