Example sentences of "[noun sg] is [verb] [to-vb] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The American Plywood Association is aiming to correct that impression by building a village of timber-framed houses in south east London . |
| 2 | This entry is used to list any known reported errors which relate to the module . |
| 3 | No further testament is needed to illustrate both the strengths and weaknesses of Marxist accounts of power and the state . |
| 4 | No , it really is n't necessary — if you 're eating a healthy balance of foods then no extra vitamin is going to make any difference . |
| 5 | This result is interpreted to mean that , in the long run , the system ( atmospheric state ) will be in state one ( foggy ) 51% of the time and in state two ( clear ) 49% of the time . |
| 6 | The club is having to play all its fixtures away from home for the second successive season because a new roof is being built at a cost of £1.3million . |
| 7 | They 've had a practice match this morning , and every striker in the club is going to do some finishing this afternoon . |
| 8 | The programme is intended to start this summer with an introduction period of three years . |
| 9 | The Work Organisation Research Centre 's programme is intended to address some of these limitations . |
| 10 | This batch is expected to include all the main hospitals in Edinburgh , Glasgow , Lanarkshire and Central region . |
| 11 | I am convinced that a special kind of solitary mind is required to endure such a voyage . |
| 12 | 8.1 The Department is committed to support any member of staff who is assaulted either whilst carrying out their official duties or as a consequence of official duties . |
| 13 | However , it seems that whereas in the first and last instances the hearer is expected to endorse both the implicatures derived from the original and those derived from the reformulation , in the second ( the correction ) the reader is expected to endorse the implicatures derived from the reformulation instead of those derived from the original . |
| 14 | It proved very successful in terms of the increase in exports [ Worswick and Ady , 1952 ] , though new research is beginning to suggest that official efforts ( largely through the agency of the Board of Trade ) made only a marginal contribution as compared with general forces leading to an expansion of international trade . |
| 15 | This research is intended to explore these matters through a study of the enforcement machinery of a county court and an examination of social and economic consequences of this machinery for creditors and debtors involved with it . |
| 16 | The research is intended to cover both the quantitative , ie of changes in payroll , capital , turnover and other quantifiable variables on the one side , and the options and interpretations of leaders of the industry on the other . |
| 17 | The research is designed to test these suppositions : on the one hand , by documenting the extent of street life in inner-city areas , its meaning and significance for those who participate in it , and its variation between social ( particularly ethnic ) groups ; and on the other , by analysing the factors which give rise to it , together with the nature of its contribution ( if any ) to riotous behaviour . |
| 18 | This research is designed to investigate this flow of information to see how well the public is being informed about such a major piece of legislation . |
| 19 | However , further research is needed to confirm these impressions . |
| 20 | This chapter is intended to justify those priorities . |
| 21 | Zerorating has been reprieved until 1997 , and as a unanimous vote is needed to enforce any change , Britain hopes to hang on to its zero rate . |
| 22 | If the chick is going to do this to remember everything that goes on during its lifetime , how will it find enough room in its little brain for all that synaptic machinery ? |
| 23 | This study is designed to provide such evidence . |
| 24 | This pilot study is designed to throw some light on these important questions . |
| 25 | Perhaps the best way of explaining about legal study is to try to remove some of the misconceptions which have grown up around it . |
| 26 | Although brief mention is made of a reduction in general medical referral rates , no attempt is made to compare this 9.8% reduction with the 22.6% increase in the non-fundholders ' referral rate to general medicine . |
| 27 | In this chapter , then , the term ‘ permissiveness ’ is subjected to further critical scrutiny , and an attempt is made to isolate those ‘ factors ’ or characteristics that are most usually invoked by moral entrepreneurs in their discussions of the ‘ permissive society ’ . |
| 28 | Carr commented that ‘ as soon as the attempt is made to apply these supposedly abstract principles to a concrete political situation , they are revealed as the transparent disguises of selfish vested interests . ’ |
| 29 | Unless some attempt is made to address such problems it is unreasonable to suppose that such findings have any privileged status over any other kinds of assertion . |
| 30 | These corporations are non-elected and , although an attempt is made to ensure some representation of different interests at board levels , their tasks are clearly defined in advance in terms of development and infrastructure . |