Example sentences of "be [verb] [conj] [vb infin] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One objective of the more recent theories has been to try and reconcile this apparent conflict in the different sets of statistical results . |
| 2 | More specifically the roles of the ACPCs are to establish and review local interagency guidelines about procedures ; tackle significant issues that arise , and establish good practice ; offer expert advice about the handling of cases in general ; make policy and review progress about prevention ; and oversee interagency training . |
| 3 | If rural areas are to absorb and retain more labour than they have been expected to do in the past then agriculture and other forms of primary production will have a key role to play . |
| 4 | It is evident , even from this brief review of the Act , that its overall effect has been to legitimise and encourage numerous police practices ( e.g. stop and search , roadblocks , forcible entry ) which have consistently alienated and antagonised large sections of society — notably , black communities and trade-unionists — and had the accumulated effect of generating public disorder . |
| 5 | I suspect that two or three really close friends are all that we can manage if we are to give and receive all the important things that friendship offers . |
| 6 | erm Indonesia 's policy in the past has been to clear and resettle excess population from Java , into the other , into Sumatra and town , the two other islands bordering over Sumatra . |
| 7 | The Awards announced on the Queen 's birthday are to recognise and encourage outstanding achievement in the field of export of goods or services from the UK , and together with Awards for Technological Achievement , were instituted by Royal Warrant in 1976 . |
| 8 | However , if you are to protect and preserve all you have worked so hard to achieve , then you simply have to face up to certain harsh realities . |
| 9 | Er and I suppose the great you know lesson of social sciences in , in some ways if it 's , if it 's for anything it ought to be to try and avoid that kind of disaster , because erm if we understood ourselves better we might you know in the future try and avoid that thing because we just would n't attempt if , if that was n't an attempt to be . |
| 10 | I see yes to transfer so the other aim would be to try and get some skills which er would improve your chances of doing whatever |
| 11 | The negative social effects of envy ( including , once for all , the fear of being envied ) may be to stultify and prevent all progress , by making variation between individuals and manifestation of individual superiority too dangerous to be persisted in . |
| 12 | For prevention of death from colorectal cancer at younger ages , a more effective strategy than population screening would be to identify and target high-risk individuals , such as those with a family history of colorectal cancer . |
| 13 | The dual purposes of this chapter are to describe and explain this major division in the distribution of resources in old age . |
| 14 | The er it 's actually giving light out , but if you were to try and grasp that light in your hand , you could n't . |
| 15 | There were 44 tournaments on the Challenge Tour this season , the idea behind its formation being to discover and launch new talent for the future good of European golf . |
| 16 | The study investigates by means of a mixture of systematic observation and simple experiments , those skills that are required to meet the additional demands of multiple-person situations , the intention being to identify and describe such skills and trace their development over age . |
| 17 | Those who were brought up on the older theories of the Westminster model in which , despite party loyalties , there was a balance between the executive and the legislature as a whole , expect that the House of Commons will still regard its main functions as being to consider and amend legislative proposals from the government ( and from private members ) , to scrutinize public expenditure and to expose government policies to continual questioning and debate . |
| 18 | His plan came to nothing , but successive railway engineers were to divert and canalize many miles of river as a by-product of their endeavours . |
| 19 | The super-ego is introduced as a concept to cope with this problem , its function being to censor and keep repressed material repressed . |
| 20 | This was at the limit of the effective range of canister but he could afford to wait no longer ; his men were so weak , their movements so sluggish that they would need every extra second if they were to re-load and fire another charge before the enemy reached the ramparts . |
| 21 | The Times of 16 June was nearer the mark when it said ‘ … comments have gone farther in the direction of pessimism than appears to be justified ’ and reminded readers that ‘ the objects of the ZETA experiments were to produce and maintain high temperatures and to study the conditions in which these temperatures are produced as an aid to later stages in design . ’ |
| 22 | Oh mostly that really , supposedly going to America in February the sixth and the doctor , she said to the doctor what 's the matter and he said you 're really , really run down then he said to her what I suggest you do is to go and buy some cartons of fresh orange juice , a jar of honey and some natural live yoghurt and she 's ate it all , now she 's got diarrhoea ca n't win can ya ? |
| 23 | What I am seeking to do is to go and support Conservative candidates up and down the country and I 'm supporting many of them during this local election campaign . |
| 24 | As Palmerston put it in the mid-19th century , ministers , especially the Prime Minister , must be able to defend themselves in Parliament daily , ‘ and in order to do this they must be minutely acquainted with all the details of the business of their offices , and the only way of being constantly armed with such information is to conduct and direct those details themselves ’ . |
| 25 | The association produces a regular newsletter — one aim of which is to publicise and coordinate research- and is planning a series of conference on appropriate themes . |
| 26 | However , an important secondary aim is to promote and protect Scottish interests . |
| 27 | Keeping track of the individual pupil 's exposure to health education is an even more difficult task , but one which is important if the purpose of health education is to promote and encourage future healthy living habits . |
| 28 | The annual award is to promote and encourage imaginative projects and management of wild game conservation and its habitat . |
| 29 | Following Marx , many contemporary Marxists maintain that one of two main functions of public expenditure is to enable and assist private capital to remain profitable . |
| 30 | When a solute is dissolved in a liquid , scattering from a volume element again arises from liquid inhomogeneities , but now an additional contribution from fluctuations in the solute concentration is present and for polymer solutions the problem is to isolate and measure these additional effects . |