Example sentences of "be [to-vb] [adv prt] the [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | The response has been to bolster up the procedural checks attendant upon the disbursement of such benefits . |
2 | Mr Ciampi 's first priority will be to carry out the electoral reforms overwhelmingly endorsed by Italian voters by referendum in mid April . |
3 | ‘ The fascinating thing ’ , Miss Honey said , ‘ would be to find out the real limit of this power of yours . |
4 | So what would The Inspirals T-shirt slogan be to sum up the current attitude ? |
5 | In the case of a company limited by shares , normally the only liability imposed on a shareholder as such will be to pay up the nominal value of the shares and any premium in so far as payment has not already been made by a previous holder . |
6 | One of his tasks will be to bring in the national lottery . |
7 | He has now undergone a total of 10 operations , of which five have been to straighten up the three remaining toes on his left foot . |
8 | The prime task of the 1905 revolution had been to break up the large estates and with them the political and economic power of the nobility . |
9 | By the end of this period the political groupings which were to carry out the great changes of the next century in Britain , though very far from having assumed their late-Victorian form , were slowly evolving . |
10 | The intentions behind the important reforms of 1988 were to tighten up the social security system in order to reduce the disincentives to work recognized as inherent in the poverty and unemployment ‘ traps ’ ( see Tables 16.7 and 16 . |
11 | Intentionality is usually overlooked by causal theorists who tend to see their job as being to sort out the afferent limb . |
12 | Then came the two incidents that were to echo down the long ages of Elf history and set the stage for the great dramas that were to follow . |
13 | This time we were to follow up the three months with a twelve-week season at the Long Wharf Theatre in New Haven , Connecticut . |
14 | It was the random collisions melding the rocky substances , plus turbulent accretions , that were to make up the inner planets . |
15 | Clubs with water between Congleton and Kidscrobe are to thrash out the best way of removing the mink which have spiralled in numbers . |
16 | Embedded in his initial instructions to Joshua concerning the actions the people are to take on the seventh day we find the clause , ‘ … when they make a long blast with the ram 's horn ’ . |
17 | The best strategy with this project is to carry out the initial development and , if it is successful within 2 years , launch the project . |
18 | The best strategy with this project is to carry out the initial development and , if it is successful within 2 years , launch the project . |
19 | Sodium channels are uniquely found in animal cells , they 're not present in plants or fungi or bacteria , and they 're found on the plasma membrane , and their role is to carry out the depolarizing phase of an action potential . |
20 | Again , this is to drive down the net asset value of the business . |
21 | Okay and in fact I 've given you part of your homework is to write out the technical names . |
22 | Again , the trick is to work out the net marginal revenue at the required level of activity and charge a transfer price equal to that . |
23 | One possible method is to work out the electric field due to a point charge pi dz located at z and then add the field due to all the other point charges present . |
24 | The purpose of the project is to spell out the explicit philosophy of power , equality , and materiality expressed by the Piaroa in cosmology , shamanic exegesis of it , and in daily rhetoric , to relate this philosophy to everyday practice , and to define in which ways the Piaroa rhetoric of equality and individualism is to be taken seriously as a fact of daily life . |
25 | So the usual thing eventually after five months waiting for payment is to find out the bloody solicitor that told them this you see and inform the the solicitors that er his client has not yet paid us and we it ought to be done and eventually that 's how we get the money . |
26 | The Prime Minister was attending the first meeting at the Royal Society of Arts in London of the Walpole Committee , an amalgam of private industry whose objective is to talk up the best that Britain has to offer . |
27 | The first thing we need to do is to set up the vertical grid on the page . |
28 | The purpose of the Corporate Finance Manual is to set out the required procedures and technical standards for all Special Engagements . |
29 | My purpose in the remainder of this chapter is to set out the main principles of exploring multidimensional language states in present-day communities , on the assumption that historical states of language must also have been multidimensional . |
30 | Its primary function is to sharpen up the best of good practice . ’ |