Example sentences of "be [to-vb] [noun pl] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He points out that under John Akers , IBM has built its desktop computing business to $8,500m in worldwide sales in 1991 , giving it 19% market share ; remained the worldwide leader in information technology revenues , at $62,800m last year up nearly 30% from $48,500m in 1985 when Akers took over ; and avoided the worst crisis that could have befallen it — which would have been to sacrifice investments in research and development for the sake of a fast buck — it spent $6,600m last year . |
| 2 | Whereas research groups in each area are to conduct surveys of workers , the parallel survey of employers is to be conducted centrally for all the areas by the Policy Studies Institute , but in close collaboration with the local research groups . |
| 3 | The trend has been to increase differences between institutions rather than to treat them equally . |
| 4 | Two Bristol detectives who disarmed a violent knifeman are to receive commendations for bravery . |
| 5 | Similarly , partnership deeds commonly state whether partners engaged full time on the firm 's business are to receive salaries in addition to their share of profits , such salaries to be paid before the figure for net profits can be determined . |
| 6 | Moreover people need an informed understanding if they are to evaluate claims about language use which are widely made ( in the correspondence columns of newspapers , for example ) . |
| 7 | A GROUP of Norwegians are to view courses at Darlington College as part of a Vocational Education and Training Project . |
| 8 | Europe , of course , is something of a captive market ; not only is ESA funded by 13 European member-states but ESA 's procurement policy has been to award contracts in proportion to a country 's given contribution to its budget . |
| 9 | One effective solution to this has been to identify elements of maintenance that can safely be put into the hands of the users . |
| 10 | Until now the only sure solution has been to grow peaches under glass , but help may be at hand . |
| 11 | WHITEHALL chiefs are to keep tabs on phone calls made by civil servants in office time . |
| 12 | This can be used to calculate the required information ; it turns out that the improvements that can be achieved by access frequency loading are to reduce accesses to synonyms from 34.06 per cent to 28.4 per cent for single — record buckets , and from 8.59 per cent to 4.90 per cent for ten-record buckets . |
| 13 | Our purpose should be to provide visitors with experiences which will enhance their knowledge , enjoyment and appreciation of the work carried out here in ways that will make them wish to support us , but not overwhelm us . |
| 14 | The objective would be to provide funds for startups and for small and medium-sized businesses in general . |
| 15 | It would be as inconceivable to find Richard II speaking prose as it would be to meet Thersites in verse . |
| 16 | Hay & Maddock note that in the United Kingdom there is no statutory obligation to notify theses to any central body , and Urquhart said in 1971 that it was often more difficult to obtain sight of a British doctoral thesis than it would be to obtain copies of theses emanating from European and North American Universities . |
| 17 | One obvious approach to elucidate the function of DNA-PK-mediated phosphorylation will be to define sites of phosphorylation on transcription factors and determine whether mutation of these sites affects factor activity . |
| 18 | One partial solution to the problem of accounting for intra-regional cross-boundary flows would be to allocate resources to authorities taking no account of the cross-boundary flows and to leave them to take the responsibility of paying for their own residents treated elsewhere … there would be far more flexibility for the Area planners to arrange health care for their population . |
| 19 | However , the main use would be to identify groups of patients to whom special attention should be paid because of changing patterns of self-poisoning and self-injury in the area . |
| 20 | The brief for the scheme will be to identify areas of land by rivers and canals which can be developed . |
| 21 | To fail to have adequate stewarding would be to put participants at risk and to damage the good name of Christian Aid . |
| 22 | A more practical idea would be to fix filters to car exhausts , but they would have to be changed fairly frequently . |
| 23 | As to political issues : the Foreign Secretary had stated on 24 June 1991 that the aim at the Intergovernmental Conferences would be to conclude negotiations at Maastricht in December . |
| 24 | I felt I deserved a break halfway up the M1 after negotiating the usual flurry of roadworks and contraflow systems and dodging the playful lane changes of juggernauts whose sole aim seems to be to persuade drivers of cars , and especially drivers of Porsches , that motorways are too dangerous for anything but lorries . |
| 25 | The second would be to hold by-elections in areas that were excluded from this week 's election because they were controlled by the Khmers Rouges . |
| 26 | It was this which Donald Wilson studied , approved , and finally placed before David Whitaker , whose job it would now be to develop ideas into stories . |
| 27 | The most fruitful procedure might well be to seek lines of explanation other than those associated with the notion of prestige . |
| 28 | His solution will be to seek causes of unrest and frustration within the contemporary physical and social environment in which workers live . |
| 29 | I suppose that 'd be to stop folks like Vern — like me and Vern — using them to doss down in . |
| 30 | The fairest policy would be to take bookings like CAL — one hour maximum — but free . |