Example sentences of "be [to-vb] on [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Because people moving at different speeds measure different distances between events , they must also measure different intervals of time if they are to agree on the speed of light . |
| 2 | ‘ Tax changes are going to have to be carefully considered if we are to continue on the path to recovery . ’ |
| 3 | This may mean we need younger managers , if we are to capitalize on the correlation of ‘ helicopter ’ ability with managerial performance . |
| 4 | LOGOS of firms who sponsor Arsenal and other top clubs are to appear on the shirts of Subbuteo table soccer ‘ players ’ . |
| 5 | Not that he had been to work on a Sunday for several years , but that was how he remembered it . |
| 6 | Nevertheless , although it is easy to see why the thrust of the arguments has throughout been to concentrate on the charging of the suspect and ( in the light of Ex parte Saunders ) on the association of a renewed caution with any exercise of the Director 's powers where the person under interrogation has already been charged , I believe that the result has been to set the inquiry off in the wrong direction . |
| 7 | The emphasis in such systems has been to concentrate on the representation , organisation and use of linguistic knowledge as encapsulated and expressed by linguistic rules and procedures . |
| 8 | The mandate , it seems , extends to discussing directly with Andrea Corcoran , the engaging lawyer whose unfortunate task it has been to negotiate on the CFTC 's behalf , a solution to the intricate questions of extra-territoriality and segregation of clients ' funds on the London Metal Exchange . |
| 9 | In principle there was no distinction between indirect interference at the first stage and such interference at a remoter stage , but the more indirect and remote the interference , the more difficult it may be to establish on the facts that A did intend to interfere with the particular contract relied on by the plaintiff and that that interference was a necessary consequence of A 's wrongful act . |
| 10 | Novices often like to hold the rope above them as a handrail , but in a slip their instinctive reaction will be to pull on the rope , giving a dangerous jerk on the leader . |
| 11 | On the next page we show how easy it will be to pile on the pounds tomorrow — and give you an alternative diet for the day . |
| 12 | Far more effective , he considered ( and there was no anti-Semitism involved , though inevitably most of the recent refugees were Jews ) , would be to put on the air people who , while speaking intelligible German , would be identified as representative British people . |
| 13 | The having adoption of a strategic exceptions policy is an invitation for many possible major developments to be to ride on the back of the strategic in exceptions policies and to argue that they come within in . |
| 14 | Phase two will be to build on the group 's strong brand names Union Locks , Lips Safes , and Pyrene fire detection all of which are well known . |
| 15 | The aims of the trust will be to build on the achievements , to become more responsive , to build a closer local link with the community and closer links with the health councils and with the GPs , to upgrade wards and facilities in the hospital , to upgrade theatres and equipment and to build on the success of recent years . |
| 16 | Your first step in setting up a FlexiLoan will be to decide on a borrowing limit . |
| 17 | and the first job for the new manager could be to decide on the future of two of United 's stars … |
| 18 | All living systems have a history which shapes the way they function today — to attempt to cure environmental ills without understanding their origin would be to operate on a patient without ever consulting the medical case notes . |
| 19 | Yet if we are to pronounce on the desirability or otherwise of individual monopoly situations , or proposed mergers , this is clearly what is required to provide an unambiguous policy recommendation . |
| 20 | Fields 's first scheme had been to capitalise on the aftermath of the Falklands conflict , by operating a service between Gatwick and Port Stanley . |
| 21 | If managers are to deliver on the contract they negotiate with purchasers , there needs to be a means of integrating medical and nursing staff into the management process to ensure that the terms of these contracts are met . |
| 22 | 1 Think about what your group will have to do if they are to survive on the island . |
| 23 | The other option , of course , would have been to survive on a diet of the same bananas until help arrived . |
| 24 | If Kinsella were to go on a binge , he would drink his way down to the last penny of whatever money is available , irrespective of who it belongs to . ’ |
| 25 | All were powered by GE engines and were to formate on a Lear Jet flown by H Clay Lacey for a public relations photographic sortie over the Mojave Desert . |
| 26 | UDCs were to concentrate on the reclamation and servicing of land and not , on the whole , on the development of that land . |
| 27 | If policy were to concentrate on the ghetto poor — those socially segregated in inner cities whose manufacturing jobs have fled to the suburbs — it could be aimed at very few places . |
| 28 | If ever the Royal Warrant were to appear on a headhunter 's letterhead , it would be Spencer Stuart 's , except that they would be too modest and discreet to make it public knowledge . |
| 29 | Throughout the period , a majority of working class women gave birth at home with no pain relief , the common practice being to pull on a towel knotted round the end of the bed when the pains came . |
| 30 | Before the post of Commissioner was established , it was considered in the Green Paper , Trade Unions and Their Members , that trade union members needed to be ‘ exceptionally determined and sometimes courageous ’ if they were to embark on the process of claiming and enforcing the full rights which the law gave to them . |