Example sentences of "be [to-vb] the [noun] and " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I 've been to see the referee and he told me to ask the linesman because it was his decision . |
| 2 | The AIMS of the CUCGA are to sustain the position and influence of Convocations and similar bodies as continuing but independent constituent parts of their institutions ; to promote the status and development of Higher Education ; to provide a focus and forum for the expression of graduate opinion on matters relating to education ; and to foster the development and use of graduate bodies for the support and enhancement of universities , polytechnics and equivalent institutions . |
| 3 | If we are to continue the retraining and employment schemes , we need the Bill . |
| 4 | The government 's answer had been to increase the responsibilities and accountability of management and put a good deal of political energy into the efficiency strategy . |
| 5 | or the L.T.A. , a formal organisation is essential if we are to receive the support and guidance of the Sports Council and the C.C.P.R. |
| 6 | Hewlett-Packard 's peripherals division in Bblingen , Germany has announced two new 600dpi , 16 page per minute printers , the LaserJet 4si and 4si Mx which are to replace the IIIsi and IIID range . |
| 7 | Betty demonstrates the way they are to tackle the task and the pupils carry it out in unison , at least initially . |
| 8 | The aim of this chapter has been to discuss the opportunities and problems associated with ward learning . |
| 9 | The primary objectives of this project are to identify the determinants and consequences of third world military expenditure over the period 1950 to the present . |
| 10 | Whilst physical infirmity may make physical care of great significance to the old person and mental infirmity may limit their capacity to give and receive other kinds of care , the efforts we make to relate to the whole person are critical if we are to avoid the stigmatising and depersonalising processes which insult the integrity of the old person . |
| 11 | Our priority all along has been to win the League and nothing has altered that . ’ |
| 12 | Thus for those choosing to work with vertebrates , the tendency has been to abandon the mazes and skinner boxes of earlier generations of psychologists in favour of classical conditioning of very simple reflexes ( such as heart-rate or eye-blink ) in rabbits , where the neural circuitry can be reasonably clearly mapped . |
| 13 | Part of my job as your representative has been to put the views and ideas offered by you , the teacher , to the organising committees of the Society . |
| 14 | It was not so much a guidance note as a review ; the Committee 's terms of reference had been to consider the design and layout most appropriate to various types of roads in built-up areas , with due regard to safety , the free Mow of road traffic , economy and the requirements of town planning , and to make recommendations . |
| 15 | The second aim has been to reduce the attractiveness and the scope of the welfare state , in order that people begin seeking private or company provision . |
| 16 | During our 64th year , CPRW 's founding philosophy that careful use of natural resources is vital if we are to protect the beauty and amenity of Wales ' coast and countryside , was as strong as ever . |
| 17 | Sober reflection would have shown him that the sensible procedure would have been to phone the police and get them to ask the Bomb Disposal Squad to come and check the bag out . |
| 18 | If this does happen , the only solution seems to be to disconnect the instruments and to pump air through the system to blow out the water and dry the tubing . |
| 19 | The mission statement of a health authority may be to promote the health and hygiene of the people in its catchment area . |
| 20 | Ziaur Rahman , President from April 1977 until his assassination in May 1981 , said that the first and foremost task of her government would be to restore the economy and rebuild the financial and other institutions " destroyed by nine years of autocratic regime " . |
| 21 | This is an area which is only susceptible to research via detailed investigation which , however it is carried out , certainly can not be in terms of the ‘ normality ’ of disabled people , since its concerns must be to explicate the kinds and degrees of difference between the needs of impaired people and the general population , and with the multifarious features of ‘ normal ’ social life which prevent disabled people from being ‘ normal ’ . |
| 22 | In each case , the seller 's first objective will be to discover the problems and needs of his customers . |
| 23 | Their role during the daytime , when the body is primed , will be to increase the ease and efficiency with which such mechanisms come into play . |
| 24 | The first step must be to visit the LOCUS and familiarize oneself with , for example , road layout in an R.T.A. or operation of machinery relative to a factory accident , where one has access thereto . |
| 25 | The first stage would be to visit the school and then return to discuss the matter again . |
| 26 | All that would be needed to perfect the system would be to eliminate the final and most tiresome source of error — the electors . |
| 27 | The point of this would be to escape the duopoly and some of the rigidity of the franchise system . |
| 28 | Well we er the obvious er immediate i idea would be to sack the management and promote the junior staff . |
| 29 | The effect of this would be to lower the cost and increase the quantity of lending and borrowing . |
| 30 | The effect would be to lower the reflectance and thus enhance the discrepancy between shale velocity and vitrinite reflectance estimates . |