Example sentences of "[noun pl] be [to-vb] [pron] the " in BNC.

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1 The rationale for school self-evaluation is that the most effective means of improving the quality of the education provided by schools is to give them the responsibility for reviewing their own performance and for carrying out any reforms which seem necessary in consequence .
2 We had no way of knowing it , but those messages were to bring us the first concrete news of John for eighteen months .
3 In preparing our views for the Government we felt one of the most pressing needs was to explain what the National Sustainability Plan is and why it is important , to a wider audience of opinion- formers and decision-takers in Wales .
4 In preparing our views for the Government we felt one of the most pressing needs was to explain what the National Sustainability Plan is and why it is important , to a wider audience of opinion- formers and decision-takers in Wales .
5 Secondary aims are to study what the postlingual deaf feel about their state and others ' attitudes to it , and their lipreading skills .
6 The hardest task for his subordinates is to decide what the phrase ( now often shortened to NWO and not to be confused with the airline that used to be called Northwest Orient ) might mean .
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