Example sentences of "[noun sg] [be] [to-vb] at the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Engineers from the DoT are to look at the southbound-only A1(M) and A66(M) interchange near the town to see if it can be adapted for northbound traffic . |
| 2 | The purpose of this chapter is to look at the infancy stories about Jesus as recorded by both Matthew and Luke . |
| 3 | The purpose of this chapter is to look at the varying responses to Jesus found in the Synoptic Gospels . |
| 4 | One of the aims of this chapter is to look at the effect on word discriminability in continuous speech of increasing the depth of the phoneme graph . |
| 5 | A good rule is to look at the shape and size of the flower before you press it , and then imagine what it will look like once it is flat . |
| 6 | The next phase of the study was to look at the quality of these ponds in terms of the numbers of species of animals and plants they support , the water chemistry and the surrounding land use of each pond or loch . |
| 7 | But my real ambition was to appear at the Royal Shakespeare Theatre , which I did eventually . ’ |
| 8 | The key was to act at the moment when conditions were most conducive to the course upon which de Gaulle had decided . |
| 9 | By the time morning came he was convinced he had been wide awake the whole night , though by that time he had remembered with the utmost clarity that the whole performance had taken place not in a television studio at all but in an enormous public lavatory , with Sir William and Lady Paice among the large crowd around the coffee table , and that his final humiliation was to discover at the end of the programme that he had been sitting on one of the lavatory seats throughout , with his trousers down around his ankles . |
| 10 | Carlie was to stay at the foster home ‘ until the home situation stabilises ’ . |
| 11 | Its terms of reference were to look at the management of the financial and manpower resources of the NHS . |
| 12 | Work is to start at the end of the present season with the Wheatfield stand in place by August 1993 and the whole project completed for Spring 1994 . |
| 13 | Every day , almost my first act is to glance at the hills near my home . |
| 14 | The walks come as the International Whaling Committee is to meet at the end of this month when the whaling nations are expected to ask to have a ban on whaling lifted . |
| 15 | I mean the foyer when you come in to the building when the place was refurbished that was that we got the consultant 's to look at the into the foyer and what you see as you come into the building is the recommendations of those consultants were talking about having a red foyer making it inviting and friendly that was their recommendation which was adopted . |
| 16 | A starting point for this exercise was to look at the courses due for validation or review in 1993 . |
| 17 | What I used to do with a youngster was to knock at the door and his mother would say , ‘ Oh , God , what have you done ? ’ |
| 18 | He says it 's hard in a new league with new players but his job is to look at the positive things and not the negative ones . |
| 19 | The critic must study the text with the maximum degree of attention to all its parts ( Richards suggests ( 1970 : 317 ) that four poems may be too many for a week 's reading ) , but his aim is to arrive at the ‘ relevant mental condition ’ ( Richards 1970 : 11 ) associated with it , and then to judge this mental condition according to the principles outlined above . |
| 20 | Rather , my aim is to look at the kinds of assumption that informed the various strands of positivist criminology , and at the way they differed from classical assumptions in both theory and practice . |
| 21 | Perhaps the most suitable starting point is to look at the major domestically based leisure groups , the activities of which are summed up in Table 11.13 . |
| 22 | The purpose of the present investigation is to look at the influence of psychosocial factors on these patterns of health in the middle years . |
| 23 | Von Kluck on the right wing was to strike at the French left , through Brussels , Mons and Le Cateau , toward the River Somme near Amiens , while Bülow wheeled south of Liège , up the River Sambre . |
| 24 | Whilst it is accepted that the total provision for the County , erm five hundred and sixteen hectares about twenty five he per cent above the approved plan provision , the County Council considers this is justified on the basis that it provides the most generous level which can be justified on the information which is available and at a time when changes in the distribution of business use are to say at the least unpredictable . |
| 25 | You will not be entitled to redundancy compensation under Section 10 of the Scheme in the event that your appointment were to terminate at the expiry of the fixed term without being renewed or extended . |
| 26 | The object is to look at the growth experience of the United Kingdom over the last 80 years or so as a whole — which strangely enough has not yet been examined . |
| 27 | Our policy is to recruit at the lower levels and train those staff who show aptitude for managerial responsibility . |
| 28 | The Wanless way out of trouble is to look at the detail . |
| 29 | If your strategy is to start at the starboard end of the line and carry on sailing on starboard tack , the situation is as illustrated in Diagram 1 . |
| 30 | A crude but effective method is to look at the rider 's backside and pick a horse with one to match ! |