Example sentences of "[is] [to-vb] [adv] the [adj] " in BNC.

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1 To visit the Lovell village of Puebla Aida is to see possibly the greatest commitment by any developer to real individuality and imagination .
2 The second aim is to see how the above measures over the course of a school year .
3 The particular purpose of this Synod is to see how the consecrated life can ‘ shine forth ’ more fully in the church 's life and mission .
4 The best strategy with this project is to carry out the initial development and , if it is successful within 2 years , launch the project .
5 The best strategy with this project is to carry out the initial development and , if it is successful within 2 years , launch the project .
6 Sodium channels are uniquely found in animal cells , they 're not present in plants or fungi or bacteria , and they 're found on the plasma membrane , and their role is to carry out the depolarizing phase of an action potential .
7 Again , this is to drive down the net asset value of the business .
8 The obvious way of handling things is to connect together the two 0 volt terminals in order to give the central 0 volt output .
9 Okay and in fact I 've given you part of your homework is to write out the technical names .
10 Again , the trick is to work out the net marginal revenue at the required level of activity and charge a transfer price equal to that .
11 One possible method is to work out the electric field due to a point charge pi dz located at z and then add the field due to all the other point charges present .
12 The purpose of the project is to spell out the explicit philosophy of power , equality , and materiality expressed by the Piaroa in cosmology , shamanic exegesis of it , and in daily rhetoric , to relate this philosophy to everyday practice , and to define in which ways the Piaroa rhetoric of equality and individualism is to be taken seriously as a fact of daily life .
13 So the usual thing eventually after five months waiting for payment is to find out the bloody solicitor that told them this you see and inform the the solicitors that er his client has not yet paid us and we it ought to be done and eventually that 's how we get the money .
14 The Prime Minister was attending the first meeting at the Royal Society of Arts in London of the Walpole Committee , an amalgam of private industry whose objective is to talk up the best that Britain has to offer .
15 The first thing we need to do is to set up the vertical grid on the page .
16 The purpose of the Corporate Finance Manual is to set out the required procedures and technical standards for all Special Engagements .
17 My purpose in the remainder of this chapter is to set out the main principles of exploring multidimensional language states in present-day communities , on the assumption that historical states of language must also have been multidimensional .
18 Often books will have a list of different places ; the convention is to choose only the first .
19 Its primary function is to sharpen up the best of good practice . ’
20 will be the respect and regard with which the populace hold their own Chiefs and Elders , and not him , combined with general good relations between the private individuals which compose the clan , and the general prosperity of the unit … where the policy of the government is to rule indirectly the political officer must be satisfied with the knowledge , locked securely in his breast , that he is very important to the native population although they are not aware of it .
21 The basic purpose of this filter is to smooth out the chopped waveform appearing from the switch and so provide a steady output voltage across a load resistance R L , though it does this job in an unconventional way .
22 Part of the function of an external UPS is to smooth out the incoming power , but that can only be done before it reaches the PC 's power supply .
23 For a human swimmer , to step on one of these almost invisible bottom-dwellers is to experience perhaps the worst possible pain .
24 Another approach is to apply consistently the supposed advantages of present spelling .
25 Charles Saatchi once said : ‘ The reason most companies make an acquisition is to cover up the dreadful mistakes of the last acquisition . ’
26 In fact the only way to find out just how much space you 're going to get is to fill up the hard disk , but because disk compressors need some room to work , this is n't a particularly healthy idea .
27 The satellite 's primary role is to fill in the existing picture of the heavens , revealing stars , galaxies , clouds and so on that are not seen at the shorter optical and ‘ near ’ infrared wavelengths ( less than 5 micrometres ) , or at the longer wavelengths observed by radio telescopes .
28 There is a totally painless way of establishing whether summer is really over , and that is to fill in the following checklist of autumnal signs as they occur .
29 ‘ The aim is to draw together the various industry bodies so we can discuss issues of common interest .
30 Another simple way to continue a theme is to use exactly the same phrase , but beginning on another note , usually higher .
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