Example sentences of "[det] [be] [to-vb] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some were to die in jail . |
| 2 | This is to allow for dispersal of heat — yes , heat ! |
| 3 | possible-world co-ordinate : this is to account for states of affairs which might be , or could be supposed to be or are |
| 4 | What we said in the introductory session is a lot of this is to do with skills . |
| 5 | ‘ This is to do with Mary Connon , is it ? ’ |
| 6 | And er sh it had on there this is to do with crisps right , and it , and it had on the survey how warm do you think the weather is ? |
| 7 | The way to do this is to look at products from the customer 's point of view . |
| 8 | New Historicism 's usual response to this is to expand on Montrose 's point about the inevitability of critical partiality existing . |
| 9 | One of the best ways to do this is to study in depth particular people who have claimed to have religious experience . |
| 10 | The purpose of this is to increase through rewards and punishments the number of times the child chooses to perform acceptable behaviour and not to perform unacceptable behaviour . |
| 11 | The DES published a paper early in 1088 , entitled Local Management of Schools , setting out how this is to work in practice . |
| 12 | My answer to this was to appeal to Darwin 's theory of natural selection : Only those individuals who drew the appropriate conclusions about the world around them would be likely to survive and reproduce . |
| 13 | This was to come to light two years later when the Football Association appointed a commission to inquire into allegations that Sir Henry had offered financial inducements above the legal fees to attract players to Highbury and that he had diverted club funds to his private account . |
| 14 | Two-thirds of this was to come from EC funds and the remainder from member countries . |
| 15 | Er , those units are used to purchase X amount of life cover , depending on how much you w , er , assurance you want in your claim , how much is to go towards savings , how much to go towards , whatever you want in your plan . |
| 16 | Having declared the new music to be — incomprehensible on the basis of traditional aesthetics ' , Nietzsche at once went on to sum up the task he saw before him : " the thing above all is to get beyond Lessing 's Laocoon " . |
| 17 | Discerning Greeks like Thucydides ( i. 10 ) knew that the relative splendour of the physical remains of Sparta and Athens was no index of their real strengths : suppose , he says , that the city of Sparta were to become deserted , future generations would find it hard to believe that the place , an old-fashioned , higgledy-piggledy collection of villages , was really as powerful as it was represented to be ; whereas if the same were to happen to Athens , one would think that she was twice as powerful as she really was . |
| 18 | The maintenance of the status quo by default ; that is to say through apathy , impotence or ignorance . |
| 19 | Well the first thing is to make sure that the magistrates and the police use their licencing powers to crack down on illegal drinking , that is to say under age drinking , and to crack down on unruly pubs and the hours that discos are open and that 's beginning to happen . |
| 20 | Most of the marks will be awarded for demonstrating more sophisticated skills , that is to say for analysis , judgement , interpretation and assessment of knowledge . |
| 21 | The notion of thinking , as soon as it appears , becomes confused with that of voice , that is to say with words , either spoken or heard . ’ |
| 22 | Nevertheless , it is readily intelligible that Luxmoore J. should have considered that , when the discretion fell to be exercised , the equities were all on one side — that is to say in favour of the chargees , who had acted on the faith of a document of transfer which the mother had herself executed after having failed to make inquiries which would have revealed that the document related to the property . |
| 23 | However , in its reply in Commission of the European Communities v. United Kingdom ( Case C 246/89 ) , which was lodged after the judgments were delivered , the Commission discussed the compatibility of the nationality requirements with Community law also in the light of those judgments , that is to say in relation to the aims of the quota system . |
| 24 | It follows that the approach of the coroner was : whatever other facts there may be , whatever the impact on the cause of death of any extraneous supervening or concurrent event , the death must be regarded as ‘ natural ’ and an inquest will not be held , unless it qualifies , in the opinion of the coroner , as something equivalent to gross negligence , that is to say in effect , manslaughter either by act or by neglect . |
| 25 | One of the questions the committee considered was whether an ‘ author of a literary or artistic work should have exclusive right to authorise the public display of the original work or a copy thereof , that is to say to display the work directly ( exhibition ) or indirectly , that is to say by means of a device ( example : a screen ) ’ . |
| 26 | The state of how things are , as evidenced by who has rights over what and over whom , is justified by " myth " , that is to say by tales about the past which have a sacred or religious quality ( after the fashion of the Christian Bible ) , rather than by legislative enactments or precedents recorded in historical documents . |
| 27 | As potential primitive terms , not to be subjected to further analysis , they are here defined ostensively , that is to say by exemplification : |
| 28 | And just one final word of warning , and that is to do with newspapers . |
| 29 | That is to wear to bed ! |
| 30 | The purpose of that is to remove from Mr Jewitt at Hambleton and Mr Earle at Richmondshire and any others erm who just do n't want this kind of pressure brought upon them , er by putting criteria in at the strategic scale you could derive that criteria and maybe even name local authority areas to make to protect those who do not want this feature . |