Example sentences of "[be] [to-vb] the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | By the time you read this ( Merry Chrimbo , by the way ! ) we will have held a social evening to welcome our new members on the 1st October , we will have been to see the chilling drama ‘ The Woman in Black ’ at the Fortune Theatre on the 19th November and we will have had Christmas drinks on the 12th December . |
| 2 | In the early days I had been a bit disappointed that the NUJ had n't immediately leapt to John 's defence , but ever since I had first been to see the General Secretary , Harry Conroy , and his assistant , Tom Nash , the union had done what it could to respond to what was asked of them . |
| 3 | The father was distraught ; he had appealed to the Prime Minister , had been to see the Foreign Secretary , he had been in fact everywhere , and finally asked Max Rayne whether he could come to see me . |
| 4 | A practical solution to this problem has been to compare the monetary inputs ( costs ) with non-monetary outputs . |
| 5 | You need a very powerful microscope if you are to see the fundamental crystal structure of our environment . |
| 6 | If we are to continue the high levels of payment to those affected by restructuring , the Bill is essential . |
| 7 | If you are to attend the monthly progress review meeting , think carefully about the end-result you wish to achieve by attending . |
| 8 | The main objectives of the research are to estimate the total compliance costs of personal income tax and capital gains tax in the UK , ie the costs incurred by taxpayers over and above their tax liability . |
| 9 | The main objectives of this research are to estimate the total costs of operating the tax system ; to estimate the benefits accruing to businesses as a result of the operation of the system ( particularly cash flow benefits ) ; to compare costs of operating the main taxes ; and to identify areas of high compliance costs with a view to their reduction . |
| 10 | If we are to connect the small towns and other settlements which were provided with fortifications with the needs of provincial administration , then they should contain buildings identifiable as either the residences and offices of the local officials , or granaries and stores-buildings for the collection and security of taxes in kind . |
| 11 | But if we are to relate the romantic picture of historical generalization to the hard facts of life as it was lived , we need examples , great and small , of cities at work . |
| 12 | Accordingly , on 12 June 1940 Lord Woolton , Minister of Food , despatched a memorandum to the Food Policy Committee of the War Cabinet in which he identified three groups in the population to whom food distribution should be improved : workers in factories ( ‘ if we are to obtain the maximum production over a long period of time from them ’ ) , people on low incomes and ‘ children of school age and under and nursing mothers whom , on grounds both of humanity and of racial preservation , it is essential we should protect against malnutrition ’ . |
| 13 | Our objectives are to secure the long-term interests of the fishing industry by ensuring effective measures to secure stocks . |
| 14 | One largely unforeseen consequence of rural housing policies has therefore been to increase the relative deprivation of low-paid rural workers ( and their newly married offspring ) . |
| 15 | ‘ The most critical factor in achieving this has been to establish the correct balance between the CHP units and the ( supplementing ) boiler plants and to maintain that balance , ’ he said . |
| 16 | Franco believed that one of General Primo de Rivera 's mistakes had been to establish the provisional nature of his regime at the outset . |
| 17 | Although in its current form participation in the scheme is voluntary , companies will need to sign up in numbers if they are to meet the mandatory rules which might come into play towards the turn of the century . |
| 18 | The obvious impact of these principles has been to graft the legal aid scheme onto the existing structure of private practice . |
| 19 | The plan had allegedly been to bomb the main parade stand at the celebrations of Armed Forces Day on June 1 at La Coruña , and then to blame the incident on the Basque separatist organization ETA [ see below ] and to organize a military coup in the aftermath . |
| 20 | For others , governments are to provide the main resources for and be the principal actors in public communication . |
| 21 | We are to find the corrected sum of squares of three numbers using the formulae |
| 22 | He needs to think of how we are to find the right ministers , men and women — to let people know that there is a vocation called holy orders , of ‘ unique difficulty and unique happiness ’ ; the variety of ministers , deaconesses , teachers in schools , lay preachers , monks and nuns and friars who belong to ‘ the praying heart of the Church ’ , without which its mission would not have the power of God within it . |
| 23 | This is so necessary for port facilities and absolutely vital if we are to attract the long term users necessary for the prosperity and long term employment prospects of the port . |
| 24 | One of the more pleasant surprises , on a protracted visit to The Towers in January , had been to meet the new bride at the Hall . |
| 25 | The assistant porter is a much less colourful personality whose main tasks are to clean the public rooms and to cover the boiler along with the maintenance/odd-job man . |
| 26 | The basic logic of her programme since 1979 had been to reverse the main lines of her country 's history as it had developed since the Second World War . |
| 27 | The Commission affirms , therefore , that music in worship is not an extravagance but a necessity if people are to receive the special blessings which God gives through it , and if they are to offer to him their best and their most . |
| 28 | One consequence of the recent shift in patterns of provision introduced to combat falling rolls and to widen educational/vocational opportunities has been to highlight the different sizes found there . |
| 29 | Morally speaking , one of the worst aspects of the autonomy-centred Enlightenment attitude has been to denigrate the receptive virtues , to make us so obsessed with giving that we do not know how to receive . |
| 30 | Thus the approach in the report has been to state the differing philosophies as well as stating what is , at present , practically and commercially acceptable to all , to show what techniques and systems may be available in the future . |