Example sentences of "[is] [adv] [to-vb] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The efficient solution is rarely to have a zero quantity of the externality . |
| 2 | She 's only to give an envelope to Louise . |
| 3 | It 's only to create an impression when you 're doing it in the day time . |
| 4 | Its function is basically to cover a woman 's hair and hide the shape of her breasts but it can be worn in a variety of ways , draped round the top half of her body and head , folded over her chest and hanging over her shoulders or loosely placed round her neck . |
| 5 | To assert this is merely to reiterate a point that should be obvious : that science , however sophisticated its instrumentation , can not generate observations that somehow enable us to look at the relationship between experience and the world as it were from outside of experience . |
| 6 | The DPP 's worries are premature : the KMT 's aim in the talks is merely to establish a framework for dealing with the problems that crop up between two commercial partners whose business is booming , but whose governments have no relations . |
| 7 | And I think the way forward is perhaps to have a meeting with R and D and for them to come to us and discuss with us the aspects of work that we will not be in a position to do come the revolution . |
| 8 | And at the more maths you know , I think , the easier it is perhaps to get a job , and perhaps to be able to choose an interesting field . |
| 9 | To describe companies as social enterprises is thus to make a claim about the grounds of their legitimacy , and its practical significance is to hold that the state is entitled to prescribe the terms on which corporate power may be possessed and exercised . |
| 10 | Mike Wearing senior warden of the Queen Elizabeth Country Park , is soon to give a talk to the group . |
| 11 | He tells me he is soon to release a single on his own . |
| 12 | The Supreme Court is soon to deliver a verdict in a case brought by the Independent Insurance Agents of America . |
| 13 | TENNIS ace Boris Becker is soon to become a father , friends have claimed . |
| 14 | This combination of family capacity ( Michael is soon to become a father of two ) and a sporty feel appealed to him . |
| 15 | The Moscow International Currency Exchange is soon to become a Sprint Networks customer : according to Izvestiya , the exchange will be using Sprint 's electronic mail service ; the currency exchange determines the official exchange rate of the rouble against foreign currencies at twice weekly exchange sessions . |
| 16 | All can be upgraded using Intel 's clock-doubling OverDrive technology which is soon to offer an upgrade path to Pentium standard performance . |
| 17 | Gordon Craig once said that ‘ a bookplate is to the book what a collar is to the dog ’ — a wisecrack not wholly true , since the purpose of the plate is not to enable a book to be led round by its owner , or even for it to be returned by the police when lost . |
| 18 | ‘ This is not to seal a bargain . |
| 19 | This is not to condone a boycott lightened only slightly before the start by a placard reading ‘ No Cummins , No Goings ’ . |
| 20 | Professor Stewart and his colleagues at the University of Birmingham identified a number of difficulties with these proposed changes , although with academic care they added the proviso : ‘ to identify problems is not to draw a conclusion ’ ( Stewart et al . |
| 21 | What then is the function of the student in the lecture period , if it is not to fill a notebook with what is written on the blackboard ? |
| 22 | The first aim of this chapter , however , is not to give an account of cognitio and its development . |
| 23 | " The only safe and correct approach is not to allow an injunction to remain , even for a single day , if it was clearly wrong for it to have been granted . " |
| 24 | And to think one is obeying a rule is not to obey a rule . |
| 25 | A study of Dalcroze Eurythmics from which such ideas emanate is valuable , but the practice must be used with discretion if the resultant ballet is not to resemble an examination of machinery rather than a feeling fur the rhythm and shape of the engine that makes the dancers perform . |
| 26 | Indeed , their policy is not to have a policy . |
| 27 | If the duty is framed in subjective terms , as we have seen , the practical effect is not to impose a duty but to confer a discretion and hence a management which is not disposed to sacrifice profits ( or otherwise depart from its chosen course ) in order to advance other interests will not be compelled to alter its behaviour . |
| 28 | Overall , my object is not to build a system fully linking up tempos and tempo words . |
| 29 | It is important to remember that the reason for letting your customers buy now and pay later is not to make a sale , but to make a profit . |
| 30 | ‘ Our policy is not to make a fuss of one more than the others — that way there 's no aggro . |