Example sentences of "be [to-vb] [art] [det] [noun] " 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 | We gladly accept all these rightful strictures and if we are to enjoy the same success with councils we have to accept their bye-laws , too . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | ‘ Their effect will be to require the same accuracy of description in relation to property sales as is already required of sellers of goods and other service providers . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | To have been too radical , however , would have been to invite the same fate as the reports of previous committees . |
| 7 | Six other international plants are to get the same treatment , and their identities will be revealed within a week . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | If the painter were to use the same intensity of blue for the sea both near and far then the effect would not be at all realistic . |
| 12 | We were to stay a few days longer here , for Flora 's sake . |
| 13 | However , since tests are always used by different people in different settings , it is also necessary to know something about the extent to which the same tester may achieve stable scores , when the test is given to the same person on different occasions , or the extent to which the scores from different testers would be comparable if they were to test the same individual . |
| 14 | Whilst such an attitude to life is clearly desirable for hunters depending on highly unreliable food resources which would soon reduce them to chronic anxiety if they were to take a less prodigal view of things , it is evidently less suitable for seasonal hunters who must store food if they are to avoid starvation . |
| 15 | One may imagine the furore if the Court of Appeal were to take the same stance in a capital case , a contingency happily remote . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Now what 's happened , what would happen if we were to follow the same type of line there would be that the airfield would stay open as if needed a small commuter airfield . |
| 18 | The ‘ only means of modifying what they have done is to perform the same action when next invited to do so ’ . |
| 19 | An exercise that is always valuable , is to rewrite a few articles that you have read . |
| 20 | Are we to understand that all work , when not alienated , is to provide the same freedom for the creative development of mind and feeling as do those pursuits we may choose to follow when our time is our own ? |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | Radios 2 and 3 have irrevocably lost listeners now that they have been squeezed on to FM only ; so will Radio 1 , which is to meet the same fate . |
| 23 | If Sacu is to choose the latter road , the NSC may have to give them a clearer idea of what they will meet as they travel along it . |
| 24 | To argue with a Greek today is to experience the same mixture of exhilaration ( because he is so full of ideas , so quick with logic ) and exasperation ( when he slides around awkward facts ) that many a growlingly impressed Roman experienced two millennia ago . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | The simplest decoration is to put a few drops of vegetable dye into the water when you boil and egg . |
| 30 | The aim of this chapter is to summarise the many arguments currently being canvassed about the effects of high technology on employment . |