Example sentences of "is [to-vb] [art] [noun sg] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | To see a black smoke is to see a body of ore actually being formed . |
| 2 | He takes her to live in the Valley of Paradise , where all her desires are met except one , which is to see the face of her husband . |
| 3 | To read them in an historical frame of mind is to see the death of Rassendyll , by an assassin 's bullet , not as a fortunate escape from prolonged misery but as the formal seal on a pact of honour . |
| 4 | David Pool has little time for the mystification of artists and their art , and his sole intent is to see the momentum of improvement roll of regardless of fragile egos . |
| 5 | So one thing that I 'm sure we 'll want to do is to support the work of the Secondary Science Curriculum Review . |
| 6 | They also believe that their greatest responsibility is to support the future of the monarchy . |
| 7 | The LFA Directive differs from other CAP provisions in that its broad objective is to support an area of agriculture which may not be best suited for production . |
| 8 | The village is to enjoy the spectacle of me , pushing an old woman in a bath-chair . |
| 9 | It is unhistorical to assume that children in the last century responded to death in the same way as children today ; children 's attitudes are largely conditioned by those of adults , and in our day the usual adult attitude is to evade the subject of death , to treat it as ‘ morbid ’ and , so far as possible , to exclude it from the home . |
| 10 | Another important function of the board , at least in theory , is to monitor the performance of senior executives , and also the performance of the company 's operating divisions and subsidiaries . |
| 11 | The committee contains leading representatives of the tobacco industry and its task is to monitor the operation of the agreements on advertising and on sponsorship of sports by tobacco companies in the United Kingdom . |
| 12 | Another test for postsynaptic changes is to monitor the sensitivity of neurons to the application of agonists before and after the induction of LTP . |
| 13 | In perpetuating a financial structure which offers tremendous advantages to large firms , it is as important to consider the role of the state in maintaining the idiosyncrasies of the financial system as it is to debate the extent of state control over commercial banks . |
| 14 | What the formula has to do is to compare the title of the project in column B ( which has been left blank until this point ) with the column labels in columns F , G , H and so on . |
| 15 | The aim of this research is to compare the use of the two approaches in practice , on large datasets from various socio-economic sources . |
| 16 | The continuing work of the Anonymous Fellowships — and the definition of their prime purpose as stated in the 12 Traditions — is to carry the message of recovery to those who still suffer . |
| 17 | As I see it , my duty is to report the state of things at once . " |
| 18 | Its function is to report the status of some piece of software and can respond to a previously submitted SPR . |
| 19 | The motor with characteristics shown in Fig. 77 is to drive a load of 0.5 Nm and inertia a distance of 60 steps under closed-loop control . |
| 20 | Certainly a visit to the plains of Africa gives one an immediate impression of how conspicuous the stripes are and how easy it is to spot a herd of zebra in almost any terrain . |
| 21 | That round-the-clock open church door meant a succession of welcome visitors – the givers of goods , our learned advisers , chance visitors , and even a London actor , Roger Rees , of R.S.C. 's Nicholas Nickleby fame , who is to perform the Book of Revelation in St. A's & St. G 's Church in October . |
| 22 | The intention is to curb the spread of package-tour baroque and heavy irony . |
| 23 | Its aim is to promote a reunion of Czech Jews for the first time since the war . |
| 24 | And it really is to promote a couple of the initiatives of your instrument that I stand here . |
| 25 | The price subsidy creates a ‘ substitution ’ effect as well as an ‘ income effect ’ , and this substitution effect also encourages consumption of good X. If the objective is to promote the consumption of good X , it is clear that the price subsidy is the more ‘ efficient ’ fiscal instrument . |
| 26 | Here it is hardly ‘ shitwork ’ since it is shared : its purpose is to promote the kind of intimacy women enjoy and men often lack . |
| 27 | The aim of this campaign is to promote the expansion of floral displays of all types ( however small ) in the City of London . |
| 28 | The teacher is accountable in a way that the experimenter is not : her purpose is to promote the understanding of her pupils and not , except incidentally , her own . |
| 29 | Certainly one can agree with para. 3(b) ; and a further point here is to promote the use of warning devices viz. a bell or a hooter . |
| 30 | The role of the link programme is to promote an exchange of ideas and has led to visits in both directions . |