Example sentences of "be [to-vb] [adv] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 A statement in its memorandum of association that the company 's object shall be to carry on business as a general commercial company shall mean that its object is to carry on any trade or business whatsoever , and in such a case the company has power to do all such things as are incidental or conducive to the carrying on of any trade or business by it .
2 How must it be to work here day after day , month after month , knowing there was no end to it ?
3 The most likely outcome of such action would be to speed up privatisation of the service , since the Government could hardly empty the jails , and somebody would have to supervise the inmates .
4 Whilst this at least saves National Insurance contributions the incentive must be to take out salary at least to a level of £71,400 so as to get the maximum allowance base for pension contributions .
5 I understand I 'm to take up residence at Number One , The Lime tree . ’
6 But it is as if , instead of trading actual items , book collectors were to trade only information about a particular novel .
7 The Garden 's main objective , set out in the Natural Heritage ( Scotland ) Act of 1985 , is to carry out research in plant sciences , and the particular branch which Edinburgh specialises in is plant taxonomy — the classification of plants .
8 The chief function of boundary commissions is to secure even representation amongst the constituencies within their jurisdiction , each of which will have a notional ‘ quota ’ consisting of the total number of electors divided by the number of constituencies .
9 A HAMBLETON businessman is to set up shop outside the area after allegedly being given a rough ride by the district council .
10 The thrust of the Government initiatives in education is to open up access to all of those in employment , and preparing for employment , to gain qualifications .
11 The aim is to fight off competition from developing nations like Brazil and South Korea .
12 Another idea is to stir up cornflour with the juice from raspberries or blackberries and boil it , stirring all the time until thick .
13 Baltimore-based Blue Cross & Blue Shield of Maryland is to turn over operation of its LifeCard electronic claims network to Electronic Data Systems Corp on undisclosed terms : the LifeCard operations , which transmit 5.8m claims annually over its network — 30% of the insurer 's total volume — will continue at the Owings Mills , Maryland location and all LifeCard employees will be offered employment by the General Motors Corp subsidiary , which will upgrade the network , expanded it and rename it the Maryland Health Information Network .
14 In the meantime , Gain is to take over responsibility for Sybase 's object-oriented front-end development projects .
15 What remains a problem is to explain why exposure to the context alone given after exposure to the stimulus can be quite without influence on the magnitude of latent inhibition ( Hall and Minor 1984 ) and why pre-exposure to the context should actually enhance the magnitude of the effect ( Hall and Channell 1985c ) .
16 ‘ All of this may not seem important to you , but in history who is to say where understanding of a particular series of events starts ?
17 His job is to stamp out opposition to Bonaparte within the French Empire .
18 THE VATICAN is to step up pressure on Mikhail Gorbachev with a demand by the Pope for the legalisation of the Ukranian Catholic Church , church sources said yesterday .
19 The aim of the projects is to bring about change in the degree curriculum which will encourage students to develop qualities and skills which extend beyond the specialised knowledge of their degree courses .
20 This is to tell only part of the story however Anna is diligent in all her studies with a determination to do as well as possible , while her powers of expression are adequate she has a fine sense of initiative and within her limitations can organise her materials persuasively .
21 They are to store up treasure in heaven and not on earth .
22 I ask , when the wife died intestate and her estate was to pass on intestacy to her brother , whether the sister 's sons can claim a trust from him .
23 And the job there was to pick up tray after tray of tiny little sprigs about that high in little tiny paper cardboard boxes .
24 Group 1 was to land at Hollevik on the island 's south shore , to clear a known defence point and villages a mile to a mile and a half from the town of South Vaagsö , and then move in support of Group 2 , which was to land just south of the town and capture it .
25 Their god was True Valiance , a splendid celibate of noble brow and sturdy limb , whose destiny was to seek out injustice in the world and restore what was lawful and proper .
26 Descartes , indeed , was with the armies of Maximilian of Bavaria in 1619 at the very beginning of the Thirty Years War when , at Neuberg on the Danube , he had that sequence of dreams which convinced him that his mission was to seek out truth by means of reason .
27 The style and ease of the execution of the coup gave credence to the view that Fujimori was still in control of the army which , in keeping with his claim that his main purpose was to root out corruption in the Congress and the judiciary , restricted its actions to seizing control of government buildings in the capital , Lima , and placing under house arrest a dozen opposition politicians ( who were subsequently released ) , including the main opposition American Popular Revolutionary Alliance ( APRA ) former Economy Minister Abel Salinas , the former Interior Minister Augustín Mantilla , and a leading APRA trade unionist , Luis Negreiros .
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