Example sentences of "be [to-vb] at [art] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The lead managers of all Heron 's bonds are to meet at the offices of Credit Suisse in Zurich on Monday to plan a concerted response after hearing outline proposals from the company in London last Friday . |
| 2 | This chapter will have two aims , therefore : the first will be to look at the shades of difference and similarity between feminist approaches to education ; the second will be to ask whether , and in which ways , these approaches can inform our understanding of inequality in higher education . |
| 3 | No , we were to look at the houses round the small port , and at their inhabitants . |
| 4 | They were to cut at the roots . |
| 5 | I think erm there is some dispute as to erm what size the new settlement must be to become what 's termed an integrated and balanced community , and given the importance of this issue , and it has been with us for the last three years , ever since the new settlement was first proposed , erm I find it very surprising that North Yorkshire County Council have not undertaken any work of their own on this subject area , and have relied instead on a a residual approach to find the new settlement size , and I must say I find that very unsatisfactory , what North Yorkshire County Council are inviting you , erm , to accept is whatever size the residual for Greater York is , you know , has been in the past I should say , proposals from the public , from the private sector have come forward , an and the County Council have used those proposals as confirmation that the new settlement of that particular size was viable , it 's a sort of self fulfilling prophecy , now I think that 's unacceptable , what they have n't done is the second part of the technical exercise , which is to look at the thresholds of the various services and facilities required in the new settlement . |
| 6 | One , which could be seen as a little circular , is to look at the brains of mammals alive today and determine what they have in common . |
| 7 | One way to answer is to look at the interests converging in two marriages probably dateable to 839 . |
| 8 | One of the aims is to look at the links between commercial and industrial policy in order to see if one can devise any common criteria to distinguish legitimate goals of industrial policy from capricious protectionism . |
| 9 | Both are in accord in suggesting that the way to decide whether a disposition is a trust or not is to look at the words it employs . |
| 10 | It is to look at the characteristics of the land itself , rather than to associate it of necessity with the land on one side of it or the land on the other side of it . |
| 11 | Rather , my aim is to look at the kinds of assumption that informed the various strands of positivist criminology , and at the way they differed from classical assumptions in both theory and practice . |
| 12 | Having assumed a number of basic requirements for the survival of society , the next step is to look at the parts of the social structure to see how they meet such functional prerequisites . |
| 13 | The purpose of this book is to look at the ways in which judges of the High Court , the Court of Appeal , and the House of Lords have in recent years dealt with political cases which have come before them . |
| 14 | The notion that you have a group of children that you can categorize , say like partially sighted , or maladjusted , or educationally subnormal , and that they should have a special education , is one that 's been increasingly challenged over the years and I think the Warnock Report actually moves considerably away from that notion and says no , we do n't want to separate off a particular group because they appear to have a single erm or even a multiple disability , what we want to do is to look at the needs of each individual child and ask what is it about that particular child that makes the achievement of education objectives more difficult than another child . |
| 15 | The build-up to the crisis , comprising a description of Avarice ( a kind of jealousy ) as a metaphorical monster , Arion 's acceptance that he is to die at the hands of sailors who covet his riches , and his swansong , is in E major ( movements 5–7 : Vivement-Récitatif-Air ) . |
| 16 | Every day , almost my first act is to glance at the hills near my home . |
| 17 | A starting point for this exercise was to look at the courses due for validation or review in 1993 . |
| 18 | Its brief , according to a resolution unanimously agreed at the UN Security Council on March 17 , was to look at the requirements for a future peacekeeping operation and to create " mechanisms to ensure humanitarian aid can get through unhindered " . |