Example sentences of "[noun pl] [be] [to-vb] [adv] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | On the contrary , one of its chief characteristics is to sieve out the workers into grades according to the degree in which they possess the required kinds of ability and alertness . |
| 2 | Harry Agg , the old man who had helped on the farm for very many years , was still employed there , but he did little more than potter , his main duties being to clean out the stables and cowshed . |
| 3 | These cogitations are worth quoting in full , as they so accurately reflect , albeit in a more lucid form than that usually encountered , the thinking of those who in the next few decades were to give away the empire in the belief that they were acting to preserve it . |
| 4 | The aim of such models is to explain how the constraints and incentives implied by the institutional structure affect the working out of divergent objectives . |
| 5 | ( More generally , the aim of most hypertext models is to separate out the components of hypertext into distinct layers , rather than having mechanisms that intermix content , structure and appearance . ) |
| 6 | The principal repercussion of introducing rational expectations into macroeconomic models is to shorten dramatically the lags in adjustment which have traditionally preoccupied macroeconomists from widely differing ideological positions . |
| 7 | One of their key concerns is to examine how the labour management practices of in-coming companies differ from those older , indigenous enterprises . |
| 8 | For a human swimmer , to step on one of these almost invisible bottom-dwellers is to experience perhaps the worst possible pain . |
| 9 | 6.3 Articles of Association The purpose of the Articles is to set out the manner in which the Company is to be governed and to regulate the relationship between the directors and the different classes of shareholder . |
| 10 | Many people have employed a variety of mouse and rat poisons without stopping to think that the initial effect of such toxins is to slow down the victim which then becomes an easy target for a hunting cat . |
| 11 | The effect of this explosion of trade between the advanced countries was to increase sharply the proportion of imported manufactured goods consumed inside these countries . |
| 12 | The task of the Conservatives was to kill off the Liberals as a credible third alternative and then project the Conservative Party as offering a dynamic alternative to socialism . |
| 13 | One of my duties was to send in the weekly result and a brief report for the Bideford Gazette . |
| 14 | More seriously , two other possibilities are to knit only the front of the garment in the pattern and the back and sleeves in stocking stitch , or in the case of this pattern , perhaps in stripes of pattern based on stitches 12 and 13 of the pattern . |
| 15 | Police said social services officers are to investigate why the children had been left alone in the house . |
| 16 | The obvious way of handling things is to connect together the two 0 volt terminals in order to give the central 0 volt output . |
| 17 | The whole trust of the reforms is to break up the N H S piece by piece . |
| 18 | Sheets are usually 300mm ( 12in ) square , and are often sold in packs of five or 10 ; the best way of estimating quantities is to work out the area to be covered , and to divide that by the coverage figure given on the pack , which will tell you how many packs to buy . |
| 19 | Club leaders were trained to act as autocratic , democratic or laissez-faire leaders , and the purpose of the experiments was to learn how the children reacted to different styles of leadership . |
| 20 | The parish schoolmasters are to make up the lists , and I am sure they will oblige . |
| 21 | The declared aim of such finance pirates is to break up the giants , and sell them off bit by bit . |
| 22 | DURING the housing boom they used to say that the only contact an architect had with the design of many high-volume , speculative developments was to lay out the site so that the maximum number of little boxes could be squeezed in . |
| 23 | Local authorities were to decide how the legislation might be applied in communities where at least 15 per cent of the inhabitants spoke one of the " minority languages " . |
| 24 | Ryzhkov told Prunskiene that the Soviet authorities were to allow unconditionally the partial resumption of natural gas and raw material supplies to selected Lithuanian enterprises ( the gas supplies resumed on June 16 ) . |
| 25 | There is no tort or crime , as there would be if the police were to beat up the suspect or wrongly apprehend him or her in the first place . |
| 26 | The main purpose of the seminars was to show how the information and library profession is adapting to new technology and merge new techniques with old to produce an unbeatable combination of management skills and techniques . |
| 27 | The job of the statisticians employed by government to produce national accounts is to piece together the picture as best they can , using both methods , and as much of the available data as possible . |
| 28 | The final stage in preparing the ground for the elaboration of particular arguments for specific groups is to put forward the broad arguments presented by the National Curriculum History Working Group in their formal report in April 1990 . |
| 29 | More prophetic of the place women were to fill in the sewing trades was his description of those who sewed stays and bodices . |
| 30 | By that date , he was an ailing man , and apart from his routine duties , his first tasks were to clear up the muddles of the last few years and re-establish an acceptable procedure for future episcopal elections , investitures , and acts of homage . |