Example sentences of "[is] [to-vb] [adv prt] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The best strategy with this project is to carry out the initial development and , if it is successful within 2 years , launch the project . |
| 2 | The best strategy with this project is to carry out the initial development and , if it is successful within 2 years , launch the project . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Again , this is to drive down the net asset value of the business . |
| 5 | Okay and in fact I 've given you part of your homework is to write out the technical names . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | The first thing we need to do is to set up the vertical grid on the page . |
| 12 | The purpose of the Corporate Finance Manual is to set out the required procedures and technical standards for all Special Engagements . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Its primary function is to sharpen up the best of good practice . ’ |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Charles Saatchi once said : ‘ The reason most companies make an acquisition is to cover up the dreadful mistakes of the last acquisition . ’ |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | Perhaps the only answer is to send up the whole pantomime . |
| 22 | They may disclose only their name , rank , date of birth and serial number ‘ or equivalent ’ ; if bullied , their best technique is to send up the unseen questioner . |
| 23 | When we 've got an economic mess , the first duty of a government is to clear up the economic mess . |
| 24 | The child 's problem is to figure out the precise way in which the conceptual categories established during the sensori-motor stage map on to the semantic categories which are expressed in adult speech ( Edwards 1973 ) . |
| 25 | A compromise is to filter out the damaged records ( any with an entry in Field 13 ) to a separate table , to be scanned visually , corrected with the script , inspected and returned to the original table . |
| 26 | The only answer in this situation is to seek out the appropriate standard bibliography , if it exists , and to read expert articles in specialist periodicals . |
| 27 | Once the style of document which you wish to publish has been established the second stage of the process is to seek out the suitable hardware and software . |
| 28 | Carmen Callil is to take up the new role of Publisher at Large of the Random House Group , continuing to work in particular with Chatto & Windus in London and Random House Australia , and she will assume the additional role of Editor at Large for the Knopf Publishing Group in the US ( Vintage , Pantheon and Alfred A Knopf ) . |
| 29 | National Transcommunications Ltd , the buyout of the Independent Broadcasting Authority 's engineering and transmitters arm , is to build a cable link between London and Birmingham capable of carrying television and telephone services and has signed a 10-year contract in which the UK 's largest cable television operator , Birmingham Cable Ltd , is to take up the initial capacity ; the line from Birmingham to United Artists ' London South in Croydon will link the two cable-franchise areas , according to the Daily Telegraph . |
| 30 | Argos , the high street catalogue shopping shop , is to take over the former Tesco Home and Wear store in Newborough , Scarborough , which closed five months ago . |