Example sentences of "the [noun sg] [to-vb] [be] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sexual abuse in any circumstances is not to be tolerated , but denying men the opportunity to care is a particularly Draconian solution . |
| 2 | With even a fairly low-level British qualification , a teacher can find employment in many countries , and for many the opportunity to travel is a very significant aspect of the attraction of a career in this field . |
| 3 | However , economists judged the experiment to have been a failure , as the coupons , for a total of 12,000 million roubles , were insufficient , encouraging shopkeepers to raise prices and thus fuelling inflation . |
| 4 | The move to withdraw is a calculated gamble by the agencies to provoke further debate about the future of Mar Lodge in the hope that a new initiative might overcome the remaining obstacles to securing the estate 's future . |
| 5 | In me the need to talk is a primary impulse , and I ca n't help saying right off what comes to my tongue . |
| 6 | The need to communicate is a key characteristic of human society ; it serves basic social functions and it signals the ability to store information and to learn from it . |
| 7 | Hence the establishment of the right to enclose land , to sell or rent it , subject only to the ‘ will of the contracting parties ’ : the right to enclose was a blow at the pasturing rights of the Mesta which patently infringed the individual 's right to dispose of his property . |
| 8 | Limitation on employment , property ownership and the right to vote were a surefire recipe for disaster in Northern Ireland . |
| 9 | So we 're hoping to address all these issues and er and also to try to bring people back to the awareness that food is a basic human right , the right to eat is a basic human right and , and that we have to find ways to make sure people enjoy that basic human right . |
| 10 | The right to present was a doubtful political asset , for although it was a means of obliging some who might be useful upon a future occasion , many more might easily be alienated and mindful of the offence every Sunday . |
| 11 | So choose an opponent and prepare to play five-card poker : the incentive to win is a sequence of ( very blurry ) digitised photos of your chose model in various states of undress . |
| 12 | The colour to possess is a golden glow for six months a year . |
| 13 | And , and also that , he then goes on to say that the revolution , it is n't , it 's not a re re final thing , it 's not an insurrection , er he says it 's not like writing an essay , you know all these er analogies , that I mean basically the revolution is an over , it needs force er and i it 's , it is a violent , y y you do n't , in order for the revolution to have been a success it , it needs to be |
| 14 | Arguably the urge to dichotomise is a product of indoctrination and not a native habit . |
| 15 | The child 's greed is obstructing awareness of consequences the facing of which would cause him to refrain ; therefore to let the impulse to refrain prevail over the impulse to eat is a causally necessary condition of obeying the imperative . |
| 16 | Of course if such an appeal is in effect a way of jettisoning the unexplained clause and opening the door to an explanation in terms of some other theory — say , a theory of relations — then it may turn out in the end to have been a step forward , but no credit can be claimed for the step until a reasonably clear , comprehensive , and persuasive account of the alternative theory has been presented . |
| 17 | The ability to lead was a characteristic once associated with nobility , an attribute of social rank . |
| 18 | The ability to fly is a property of an airliner that we specify in advance . |
| 19 | Evans listed 135 hieroglyphic signs ; although the total is actually rather greater than this , there are still not enough for the system to have been a purely ideographic one , with one sign for each idea . |
| 20 | The power to evaluate is a power to control . |
| 21 | The resulting film , Royal Family ( or ‘ Corgi and Beth ’ as it was nicknamed ) , in which , among other things , the Queen was shown cooking the steaks at a barbecue , was revolutionary in its revelations , and considered inside the Palace to have been a public relations triumph . |