Example sentences of "be [to-vb] the [noun] that " in BNC.
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| 1 | But if we are to preserve the creatures that rely directly upon water as their medium , technique and science alone are not enough . |
| 2 | Clearly , theories of this sort must be extended in some way if they are to accommodate the fact that latent inhibition depends in part on what the target stimulus predicts . |
| 3 | Between them , they are better equipped than any group has ever been to combat the plague that affects eight women in ten . |
| 4 | If as a union we are to meet the challenges that lie ahead , then please support this resolution . |
| 5 | Ah , if you 're to believe the press that it costs about seven thousand pounds for a wedding , an average cost for a wedding |
| 6 | The aims of this research are to identify the conditions that have already led to either of these diverging trends in other countries and the likelihood of their influence in Britain ; the consequences for job opportunities and skill-use following from either of these patterns ; and the possibility of a conflict in relevant training and labour requirement arising from contrasting work practices . |
| 7 | The first and most general cost has been to give the impression that Official Unionists would not be welcome in the Free Church . |
| 8 | With regard to the now unimportant four percent increase which then if you may made I 'm sure councillors deny it and if we are to believe the reason that we have to bring our rents to this level is because government policy so dictates that we shall do . |
| 9 | If there was to be a common external policy , economic and strategic , which appeared more and more desirable , as between the parliamentarily self-governing populations around the world that were deemed all to be parts of one empire , the logical but crazy conclusion must be to defy the impracticability that had been so clear in the eighteenth century and to envisage an imperial parliament . |
| 10 | Furthermore , it is utter nonsense in any event to turn the mere similarity of habitation into a similarity of personality , for that would be to argue the proposition that if two people occupy the same room they thereby become exactly like each other in their minds and in their actions . |
| 11 | We have been arguing that changing concepts is a political activity ; that it is not value-free , but arises out of a particular ethical or political interpretation of the word , and that one of the aims of the dialogue between feminism and philosophy should precisely be to reconceptualise the world that is offered by philosophy as it is at present . |
| 12 | Now two Americans , Vincent Wilson and Peter Jones at the University of Southern California , have evidence that one of the actions of cancer-causing chemicals may be to jam the mechanism that normally keeps these genes — as well as other cellular genes — under control . |
| 13 | Given a situation where land is being used to provide agricultural produce for export , one solution to the problem of food shortages , would be to make the land that supplies the domestic market more productive . |
| 14 | If the content of a putatively infallible belief is merely that things are looking that way to me now , there is clearly less room for error than if I were to risk the belief that that way is pink . |
| 15 | His orders were to apply the methods that had proved so successful in Vienna to mop up the surviving Jewish influence at the heart of the Reich . |
| 16 | EC Foreign Ministers had on Nov. 4 told their five Arab Maghreb Union ( AMU ) counterparts , with whom they were meeting in Brussels , that they were unable for the time being to lift the sanctions that restricted arms sales to and diplomatic relations with Libya . |
| 17 | If the courts were to develop the idea that all errors of law are jurisdictional , defined the word law in a purely analytical way so that it embraced any , or almost any application of a statutory term and substituted judgment on the meaning of that term , then a prospective applicant would be clear that the courts would intervene using that standard . |
| 18 | ‘ He crumbled over those two little old ladies he met in Brighton , and did n't being to take the chance that had been offered to him . |
| 19 | I think that it would be helpful if , at this point , I were to remind the House that we have made special provision for students in certain groups . |
| 20 | They were to follow the track that skirted the south of the swampy depression and were then to take a path to the right which was marked by a great stone shaped like the head of a horse . |
| 21 | To read documents from French sources about space , and to meet officials of the CNES , is to acquire the impression that France tried to help Europe get its space act together ; but whenever the latter failed to meet the challenge , France did what it could regardless . |
| 22 | The role of the whole time branch secretary was raised and we , what we 've done here , is to continue the practice that operated in respect of national industrial conferences , and it says on page four , as is currently the case for national industrial conferences full-time officials and branch secretaries not working in the industry may attend by arrangement between the region and the section secretary with the right to speak but not to vote . |
| 23 | But that is to miss the point that it is not the unions , business to manage the firms with which they negotiate the settlements , nor to manage the national economy . |
| 24 | Dr Greenaway used The British Deaf News for making his own views known : " We do not intend to repeat yet once again all the arguments for and against the retention of the word " dumb " , he wrote in February 1970 ; " what is important , however , is to emphasise the fact that in the mind of the general public and even more completely in the minds of modem generations of deaf boys and girls the word " dumb " is out . |
| 25 | Number one is to acknowledge the fact that our line charge is not infinitely long , integrate between the limits -H and +H , differentiate to obtain the electric field , and let then H go to infinity . |
| 26 | The first is to accept the speeds that are actually being observed and redesign the surfaces to allow sight-lines which are consonant with these speeds . |
| 27 | But I think the the the hardest thing is to accept the fact that he is God . |
| 28 | But the defendant is left with a grievance and , in those circumstances , what I feel obliged to do is to accept the application that has been made on his behalf and to discharge you from returning a verdict in this case . ’ |
| 29 | The skill in midlife is to discover the beauty that belongs to that stage in life and to accept it willingly . |
| 30 | Among the Board 's principal aims is to provide the leadership that can negotiate a further reduction in betting tax to help put racing on a firm financial footing . |