Example sentences of "be [to-vb] [pron] [verb] [art] " in BNC.
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1 | The purpose of the previous chapters has been to help you have the right preparation . |
2 | The final stages of analysis must be to see what questions the analysis suggests . |
3 | Roy Parker closes the book by reiterating the case for research : stressing that its ultimate purpose must be to help us to improve the quality of life of children generally and of some of the most disadvantaged in particular . |
4 | Broadly speaking , their best strategies to cope with a Labour win would be to ensure they make the most of allowances created through the independent taxation of husbands and wives , and — where possible — to take income on a self-employed basis rather than as employees . |
5 | One of their tasks will be to prevent anyone entering the magnetic scanner room carrying any metal objects and to watch for objects which store electronic data . |
6 | Supposing that I were to ask you to recommend a good , modern book to read , and I do n't mean good in the sense of morally uplifting , but perhaps more in the sense of exciting or interesting reading . |
7 | What is fascinating is to see his mastering a new style and technique , and still managing to rivet our attention as of old . |
8 | The purpose of serving a contemnor with a copy of the committal order is to enable him to have a written record of the findings made by the court and of the sentence and to provide him with the materials necessary to enable him to decide whether or not he wishes to appeal . |
9 | The aim is to enable them to lead an independent life . |
10 | The thinking behind it , according to the Employment Appeal Tribunal , is to enable you to have a ‘ piece of paper ’ explaining why you were dismissed to show to prospective employers . |
11 | The first step in helping parents cope with tantrums is to encourage them to identify the triggers for the behaviour . |
12 | Perhaps the most interesting is to discover what keeps the size of the population within such narrow bounds from year to year . |
13 | The aim here is to discover who uses the temple , and in what circumstances . |
14 | Viewing the game through the eyes of the six marines , your mission follows the film 's plot in a roundabout type of way : your task is to destroy anything resembling an alien on your way to a confrontation with the alien queen . |
15 | The result is to cause us to love the theatre : ‘ the play recuperates and intensifies our need for these ceremonies , even though we do not believe in them , and performs them , carefully marked out for us as frauds , for our continued consumption ’ . |
16 | You 're going to your object in life is to help her do the job better . |
17 | Our aim is to help them make the right purchase by giving them all the information they need . |
18 | So often people become almost paralysed by the apparent enormity of the tasks to be undertaken , that the only way to give the necessary support is to help them to partialise the tasks . |
19 | The task of the professional is to help them to produce a list or menu of rewards . |
20 | My ambition is to help them win the Cup or the League — or both . ’ |
21 | Part A of Exercise 10 is to help you to discover the subject from the recognition of possible clues . |
22 | The secret is to use them to create a striking feature , and not just hide them away in a shady corner of the garden . |
23 | The best way to discover what HGW is like is to use it to create a presentation . |
24 | The best birthday present we have given is to let them have the seven million pounds to buy the campus freehold |
25 | said : ‘ Our main objective is to ensure we retain the business achieved by ICI when it is transferred on to Courtaulds Aerospace sites or on to a Courtaulds Aerospace product . |
26 | This is to invite you to join a new Special Interest Group ( SIG ) on Co-operating Knowledge-Based Systems ( CKBS ) , as proposed at the international working conference on CKBS , held at the University of Keele on the 3rd–5th October 1990 . |
27 | All you have to do is to decide you want a complete transformation , find a partner who also wants one and send us a recent photograph of each of you ( we 'll return them if you enclose an SAE ) . |
28 | ‘ The aim of the programme is to assist them to improve the quality of the work they do and raise efficiency by giving them the task of analysing their own and their colleagues ’ activities and producing improvements . |
29 | One good idea is to get them to shout the response to the call of ‘ Oggy ’ , which originated in Cornwall . |
30 | The idea is to get them to trust the staff and their peer group and get them to open up a bit . |