Example sentences of "[is] [vb pp] [adv] [to-vb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Character is calculated exactly to support the theme of hierarchy on shipboard in Trial Trip , where a galley boy discovers that he is not entirely free to resume a schoolboy friendship with Tich , now in the second year of his apprenticeship , and in Out of the Shallows , where a sixteen-year-old apprentice with a decided chip on his shoulder suffers from the complications which friendship with a steward brings , particularly as the steward , a thoroughly shifty individual , is merely using him as a way of furthering his own ends . |
| 2 | The four system units will be organised around products — mainframe computers , mid-range , self-service terminal systems and application software , and is intended significantly to cut the time it takes for products to get to market — the aim is to cut in half the time it takes to develop products and bring them to the market . |
| 3 | This division is intended only to simplify the analysis and should not be taken to imply that the aggregate level of unemployment in a country can readily be divided into completely separate and distinguishable categories . |
| 4 | This stage is intended mainly to ease the initial awkwardness , the interviewer does not really want your detailed impressions of the weather or the route you took to get to the interview . |
| 5 | It is a matter of construction of the contract and the surrounding circumstances as to whether the prohibition is intended merely to place the vendor in breach of contract and exposed to a claim for damages or whether the prohibition is intended to render the assignment ineffective and make it clear that the contract is personal . |
| 6 | This is of flannel : the round part is plaited up to form the front , and a quilling of the bordering put on , a band of the same laid on at the back , and strings . ’ |
| 7 | Likewise we suspect , from the ignorance he displays in scene one of Chetwyn and his work , that his praise of Chetwyn 's university , in the next scene , is given merely to uphold the approbation maxim and thus the Politeness Principle . |
| 8 | The rear of the standing male is slotted vertically to take the folded iron blade ( now missing ) . |
| 9 | A bruising-looking man in a navy-blue , pin-striped suit with trousers frayed at the turn-ups and a beige and brown shirt of the sort that is supposed not to show the dirt . |
| 10 | Whatever plan of management is adopted , however , it is important that some form of biliary drainage is instituted urgently to lessen the risk of cholangitis . |
| 11 | Haulm destruction is carried out to stop the specific gravity from getting too high . |
| 12 | Part of this process is ‘ trouble shooting ’ which is carried out to establish the reason for the fault . |
| 13 | The Scottish Secretary , Ian Lang , is expected not to accept the report 's recommendations and instead opt for a period of public consultation . |
| 14 | ( That student 's essay , by the way , was graded C. ) But when the assessor is expected merely to grade the product he/she will keep such insights to him or herself . |
| 15 | In the end an expensive system is installed not to fulfil the task but to do lots of other fascinating things that do not need doing . |
| 16 | Their use ( down to say , D ) is recommended only to complete the contour of a phrase which would otherwise lose its shape . |
| 17 | They fear that they are now looking at a successor tax which is designed simply to allow the Government to muddle through to the next election . |
| 18 | We add the commentary at the very last minute and it is designed simply to strengthen the picture-story , not to add to it . |
| 19 | The curriculum already exists and is external and objective to both teacher and pupil , and their interaction is designed simply to bring the learner to that state of knowledge at which the teacher has already arrived . |
| 20 | It is a bucket-shaped attachment that deploys when a plane lands ; it is designed solely to stop the plane flying . |
| 21 | The list is presented mainly to alert the design team to the many dimensions that it is possible to work in . |
| 22 | It is said only to underline the specific nature of the German revolution . |
| 23 | Only a lightly sketched attempt is made here to place the ‘ kinship defenders ’ and the ‘ society-as-parent protagonists ’ in the context of broader viewpoints and sets of values ; a thorough analysis could be a very lengthy exercise . |
| 24 | My chair with its high back and strong iron wheels is positioned correctly to catch the sun . |
| 25 | If this is correct then there are important implications for people who are ‘ near the borderline ’ , if it is decided not to change the clocks between the summer and winter , but rather to retain Daylight Saving Time throughout the year . |
| 26 | Unfortunately , it is decided not to reveal the fact that Johnson is not dead in this video , as this would affect sales of the ten-album box set of his old songs , so Richards thumps him with a Gibson L5 and Johnson finally dies , leaving behind one last blues classic : ‘ Devil Dog On My Trail ’ . |
| 27 | He says he 's done well to survive the monastic life for so long ! |
| 28 | The depletion of stocks of minerals and fossil fuel is done mainly to satisfy the First World 's boundless greed for gadgetry , and to encourage the Third World to follow its degrading example . |
| 29 | In a nutshell : young country bumpkin black cop is drafted in to defuse the tension on a London estate and discovers who 's really doing the dirty work . |
| 30 | Elsewhere , it was stressed that no one wished to interfere with the ‘ responsible and competent parent ’ , but where they were not so , ‘ action is needed either to reinforce the consciousness or replace the incompetency ’ . |