Example sentences of "be [to-vb] [pron] [noun sg] of " in BNC.
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1 | ‘ Nuclear will be needed if we are to sustain our quality of life whilst ensuring we do not damage planet earth beyond repair . ’ |
2 | My right hon. Friend says that we are to continue our tradition of offering a haven to refugees . |
3 | It will be vital if we are to ensure our objective of developing a European monetary union while retaining the bulk of fiscal powers unadulterated in national hands — in the hands of national Governments and Parliaments , where they should remain . |
4 | How must it be to tend your bit of land and sow crops and vegetables and perhaps rear animals , knowing you were building up a comfortable home and an inheritance for your children and then see your children taken and forced into slavery by the Robemaker ? |
5 | The aim , as Peter Hollins explains , ‘ must be to increase our level of performance to the point where , even if external factors turn against us still further , we will not only survive but prosper . ’ |
6 | The value of the project will be to increase our understanding of the conditions for social and political stability and instability in the contemporary world . |
7 | Rather , an essential starting-point must be to identify what variety of this right is being invoked , and what are the reasons for believing that the right in question ought at all costs to be maintained . |
8 | Papert said that people at MIT considered it was ‘ as unacceptable for children to enter the computer culture by learning computer languages , such as BASIC as it would be to confine their reading of English poetry to pidgin English translations ’ . |
9 | What professional printers do at this stage or fine art printers would be to take their piece of paper using little paper fingerstalls so they did n't get their fingerprints on the paper . |
10 | A solution to this problem would be to complement our study of village-based micro-processes with a study of the planners and the plan . |
11 | The oddity of the British achievement has been to turn its sense of social conformity into an international commodity . |
12 | The only words they exchanged during the engagements were to discuss which side of the car they were going to step out of . |
13 | If I remember correctly , neither of us were to cross her line of vision again , ever . ’ |
14 | If the USA were to solve its balance of trade problem by internal deflationary policies aimed at reducing USA demand for imports , then the effect on the exports of the rest of the world would be noticeable and serious . |
15 | Because this is so , I do not believe that their position is as different from that of nineteenth-century anthropologists and Marx and Engels as they would like us to believe , if we were to take their rejection of ‘ evolutionism ’ at its face value . |
16 | Ford of Great Britain is to promote its manager of sales analysis Nigel Brackenbury to its most senior advertising job , advertising manager . |
17 | One is to continue his war of attrition against parliament , albeit from a position of greater strength since the referendum . |
18 | In his early discussion of defamiliarization Shklovsky chooses a number of examples which imply that the business of art is to restore our perception of the world outside art , ‘ to make one feel things , to make the stone stony ’ ( 1965a : 12 ) . |
19 | The basis of his theory of democracy is a theory of capitalist enterprise , and Schumpeter emphasizes the connection not only by discussing the historical relation between capitalism and democracy , but by treating political parties as analogous to business concerns engaged in a competitive struggle ( for power in one case , profits in the other ) the aim of which for each party/enterprise is to increase its share of the market ( constituted by voters or consumers ) . |
20 | Crosfield is to increase its production of granular sodium disilicate at its site in Eijsden , The Netherlands . |
21 | ICI is to halve its output of all chemical waste and double its worldwide environmental spending to £1 billion by 1995 . |
22 | Air Products and Chemicals is to consolidate its manufacture of Dabco , Polycat and Surfynol at a new factory in Heijningen , The Netherlands . |
23 | A massive increase in the contribution currently made by renewable sources to Europe 's overall energy needs is required if the Community is to meet its goal of stabilising carbon dioxide output by the year 2000 , according to the European Commission . |
24 | The important point to remember is that all the sub-units are needed if the production function is to meet its aim of providing the goods required by its customers , and to do so in a way that meets the profit , growth and other objectives of the organization as a whole . |
25 | When the manager faces in four directions — fellow-staff , parents , governors and local authority — the first need is to remember which type of management is being exercised at any one moment . |
26 | IBM , already a member , is to announce its support of OMG 's Common Object Request Broker Architecture , CORBA . |
27 | Having described the job the next step is to identify what kind of person will fit it . |
28 | This is essential if assessment is to fulfil its promise of meeting better the needs of older people and their carers . |
29 | The report found that the inspectorate will need to double its current staff by 1994 if it is to fulfil its role of monitoring compliance with the Environment Protection Act of 1990 . |
30 | However , even though it expresses my belief that you did steal the money , the distinctively ethical role of the sentence is to express my attitude of disfavour towards you for this act . |