Example sentences of "be [to-vb] [art] [det] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Regional Council Highways Department is to install a kerb at this corner and the Community Council are to plant a few trees . |
| 2 | Whether in Ghana , the Philippines , Peru , Poland , India or Brazil , the same inflexible , totalising and unreasonable prescriptions are proffered by the experts of the IMF and the World Bank ; the aims of Gatt are to impose the same programmes — ‘ macro-economic correctives ’ , ‘ structural adjustment plans ’ — a more intensive use of resources , more exploitation of the people , a competitive demolition of the very elements of life , in order that countries may ‘ survive ’ the universal reign of the market . |
| 3 | John Clamp , the chief executive of Combined Actuarial Performance Services , which monitors the performance of 1,800 pension funds valued at £185 billion , said the immediate impact could be to force the many employers using fund surpluses to take contributions holidays to start funding again . |
| 4 | On the domestic front , our big drive — and to date our big failure — has been to get the few men who live in the camps into the communal kitchens and to share in other tasks , like washing their own clothes , for example . |
| 5 | One of the main objects of the occasion being to enable the many supporters of the Link to learn first hand from Mr Jim Coffey and his team how the results of their fund raising efforts have provided much needed aid in Romania . |
| 6 | If , for example , we were to find the same results in the Social Attitudes Survey in the year 2006 , we could assume that these results are conditional upon age . |
| 7 | We were to stay a few days longer here , for Flora 's sake . |
| 8 | Data in brackets indicate the values of change that would be ‘ expected ’ if employment in all individual manufacturing industries were to undergo the same changes as in Great Britain as a whole . |
| 9 | An exercise that is always valuable , is to rewrite a few articles that you have read . |
| 10 | all I want out of this life is to meet a few men with something more between their ears than the latest Donna Summer hit . |
| 11 | The evidence for this article was of a particular kind , and the proposal is to apply the same methods to the subsequent period , taking the whole revaluation as far as the First World War . |
| 12 | Under the Convention , a requested State is to apply the same measures of compulsion as would be available in purely domestic cases ; this is reflected in the provision in section 2(3) of the Act that an order under that section may not require any particular steps to be taken unless they are steps which can be required to be taken by way of obtaining evidence for the purposes of civil proceedings in the court making the order , i.e. , the High Court . |
| 13 | Before going ahead and mixing a perfume as directed in the ‘ Aromatic Concoctions ’ section , the easiest and perhaps the most economical way to experiment is to put a few drops on a damp cotton wool stick . |
| 14 | The usual method of taking the Bach Remedies is to put a few drops in a cup of springwater which is then sipped at intervals . |
| 15 | The simplest decoration is to put a few drops of vegetable dye into the water when you boil and egg . |
| 16 | The aim of this chapter is to summarise the many arguments currently being canvassed about the effects of high technology on employment . |
| 17 | One of the worst things you can do is to invite a few friends round who then chat in the background so that there is a continuous hubbub . |
| 18 | The main reason why people act in this manner is to save a few seconds — a high price to pay . |
| 19 | The idea of the ballet is to sketch a few facets of a man 's life as seen by him ( hence Unisoculous — one eye ) . |
| 20 | One good idea is to analyse a few stories by your favourite authors before you begin , not to begin , not to copy their style , but to find out how much plot you need for 5000 words or less . |
| 21 | Keith Richardson 's next task is to beat the all blacks … he 's in charge of the young England team to face New Zealand at Gloucester tomorrow night … |
| 22 | But to read Wittgenstein as a behaviourist is to ignore the many passages in which he explicitly disavows that he is attacking one experiential explanation only to embrace another , and to ignore his own fact-presupposing explanation of the meaning of pain-language . |
| 23 | The procedure is to spend a few hours ( as much as you feel you need ) studying the NZ Visual Flight Guide ( an officially-produced , loose-leaf sort of Flyer VFR Organiser or Pooley 's Guide equivalent ) and getting to know the various local vagaries of VFR , as well as learning to read an interpret the New Zealand half-million charts . |
| 24 | The idea is to spend a few days at a hotel and all you have to pay for are the meals and any extras , such as wine . |
| 25 | Thankfully that treatment went out of fashion , but the current fashion is to blame the same symptoms on poor circulation in the brain and give cerebral vasodilators , remedies that enlarge blood vessels in the brain . |
| 26 | ‘ All that remained was to kill a few hours in town , so I went to visit an old friend . |
| 27 | The intention was to publicise the many victories achieved in his long reign and the generous largesses given when celebrating his good fortune . |
| 28 | Since all they were achieving , by these repeated farewells , was to inflict the same wounds over and over . |
| 29 | The first step in the evaluation of the ANLT processing system was to select a few sentences from the Longman/Lancaster corpus and samples of recognised text ( the HP business text in Appendix 5 and estate agents details ) . |
| 30 | George Duffus , the council 's environmental development officer , said the aim of the open day — the first of its kind in Scotland — was to dispel the many myths and misunderstandings surrounding the crematorium service . |