Example sentences of "[be] [to-vb] [adv] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The effect of this will be to dilute further the value of the company 's existing shares . |
| 2 | The effect will be to drive up the exchange rate . |
| 3 | Importantly , Sahlins does not privilege one perspective over the other : the British perspective is not treated as better or more informed because to treat it as such would be to accept unquestioningly the categories out of which this perspective constructed its realities . |
| 4 | The end-result of this will be to increase dramatically the proportion of local income which is funded by government grant , since the only sources of local income will be the community charge ( poll tax ) and specific fees and charges for planning applications and the use of leisure facilities , for example . |
| 5 | A better solution may well be to pick up the idea of rotating the audit partner every five to 10 years . |
| 6 | The function of a written constitution would be to set down the laws and conventions relating to the main institutions of the state , the relations among them , and between them and private citizens . |
| 7 | The next step could be to set down the factors which are important about where you live and then award them points on a sliding scale , ten for the very important , down to one . |
| 8 | The best possible way to do this will be to set down the account resulting from a different approach , so that one can see what it is that has been overlooked so far ; and this is something which this book sets out to do . |
| 9 | The next , more difficult step will be to clean up the mess . |
| 10 | One thing you might want to do as a way of putting an argument together would be to look up the word " Romanticism " in the dictionary , since Byron 's poetry belongs to this literary movement . |
| 11 | His advice to companies would be to try to make the costs of all types of accidents visible as a first step to targeting prevention , and the obvious way would be to put down the costs on to the already established cost centres within a company . |
| 12 | Its first job should be to draw up the Institute 's environment charter . |
| 13 | ‘ Our only escape would be to climb down the face of the rock ; but … ’ her eyes rested on Adam ’ … your brother could not do it , mortal . |
| 14 | Old ICM hands had nodded sagely and told us how difficult it would be to keep up the pace of attending the plenary , the working parties , the fringe meetings and the delegation briefings … and did we believe them ? |
| 15 | The brief of the Project will be to study only the feasibility of wiring up Chung Kuo 's population . |
| 16 | Rather , the thrust will be to consider not the initiatives themselves , but the interrelationship between them . |
| 17 | Finally , rather than stereotyping scientists as capitalist Frankensteins , making monsters for commercial gain , a more constructive approach would be to consider how the allocation of resources can be altered to meet the needs of the public majority rather than those of a minority in power . |
| 18 | An answer to these questions , if a satisfactory answer is to be possible at all , can not be given except as part of a theory of reality , and my purpose in the following pages will be to sketch out the fundamentals of just such a theory . |
| 19 | Molly and Peggy introduced children 's classes from the earliest days of Medau — how fascinating it would be to turn back the clock and take a look at those Hampstead and Sidcup children ! |
| 20 | Far from ‘ force feeding ’ , the problem would be to assess selectively the enterprises deserving investment funds . |
| 21 | One tempting remedy would be to speed up the SFO 's act . |
| 22 | The main effect of an enzyme , altering b1 to b2 , would be to speed up the rate at which bonds were broken . |
| 23 | Critics of the DAS claimed that his first task should be to root out the corruption within it and halt the systematic abuses of human rights by its police officers . |
| 24 | We noted earlier that the immediate effect of increased investment in investment trusts would be to push up the price of their shares without resulting in any extra flow of funds from savers to borrowers . |
| 25 | My first task will be to say why the focus upon mental representation has muddied the waters . |
| 26 | A second object of this essay will be to show how the law 's attempt to justify the power vested in corporate managers has failed . |
| 27 | A better move , would be to shore up the defence , Ken Monku might move considering Southampton position . |
| 28 | The safest course of action seemed to be to shore up the bunker and make sure I did nothing to upset the fragile eco-system that was supporting me , for however much we wanted to disguise it , I had nothing to fall back on . |
| 29 | A solution to this can be to cut down the skeg , as this provides the resistance at the back of the board . |
| 30 | One way of avoiding most of the problems associated with legislative guide-lines , while still ensuring a reasonable degree of control over the way sentencers exercise their discretion , would be to hand over the task of preparing the guide-lines to an independent sentencing commission or council , of the kind proposed by Ashworth ( 1993a : 447 , 1997 : 91 ) . |