Example sentences of "is [to-vb] [adv] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | RUGBY UNION : David Sole , who led Scotland to the Grand Slam in 1990 , is to retire later this year . |
| 2 | What we are trying to argue for is to try to prevent the cost , the pain , the hurt that is experienced after a divorce by alerting people to the fact that a divorce wo n't solve all their problems , it will transfer one set of problems for another and our great concern in this report is to go back one step , not just to speak to people who are experiencing hurt , but in the hope that we can say something before it reaches the stage that it had reached when they came to you . |
| 3 | A useful starting point is to go back twenty years to a time when computers were still huge , unfriendly devices demanding air-conditioned environments and costing millions . |
| 4 | A ROYAL visitor is to see mentally ill people brushing up their social skills and learning relaxation techniques at a Darlington centre next The Duke of Gloucester will visit the Mind centre in Borough Road , Darlington , which was opened last year by the Bishop of Durham , the Rt Rev David Jenkins . |
| 5 | The other factor probably the way to look at that more objectively is to see how many houses are in proximity to each of the routes which is a standard way again in the departments own er manual of environmental appraisal , of doing that and that is the information which is contained find it er which is a way of looking at noise effects . |
| 6 | And the excitement of democracy , of being a member of a cabinet or whatever , is to see how these forces inter-relate . ’ |
| 7 | One of the great pleasures of the exhibition is to see so many works of high quality brought into close proximity . |
| 8 | Gangs of so-called anglers arrive , mostly from Central Scotland or the North of England , and their sole aim is to kill as many fish as possible . |
| 9 | A statement in its memorandum of association that the company 's object shall be to carry on business as a general commercial company shall mean that its object is to carry on any trade or business whatsoever , and in such a case the company has power to do all such things as are incidental or conducive to the carrying on of any trade or business by it . |
| 10 | My right hon. Friend the Secretary of State will announce who is to carry out that review as soon as the consultants have been chosen . |
| 11 | Staff at the complex will shortly embark on training in disability awareness and Derry City Council is to carry out extensive renovations to the complex to improve access and comfort for people with disabilities . |
| 12 | The solution here is to perform very short hops and observe the behaviour of the model . |
| 13 | One major reason for breaking your essay into parts is to signal how each part relates to the whole . |
| 14 | Dell and AST have apparently been working closely with Sunsoft , say sources , and might be a good bet for the mystery OEMs Sunsoft is to trot out this week . |
| 15 | Our problem now is to accommodate both political polls and commercial research , ’ he said . |
| 16 | We might extend this in many church investigations to state that even when the statistics prove your point , your next course of action is to gather yet more statistics . |
| 17 | With population-based contracts , ie contracts to provide a defined population with its full requirements for a specified range of services , the incentive to the provider is to treat as few patients as possible , to undersupply and to reduce the level of service to the minimum specified in the contract . |
| 18 | The approach taken by the EC is to impose not uniform standards but essential standards . |
| 19 | The purpose of this research project is to discover why lone parent poverty rates vary across countries : is it simply that some transfer systems are more generous ? |
| 20 | The aim is to discover how far mutation has depressed survival and fertility below their optimal values . |
| 21 | They were going to London for some weeks : they have friends in high places , you know , and the eldest Miss Bretton-Fawcett , the daughter you know , is to come out next year . |
| 22 | He said yesterday : ‘ What I have to do to clear my reputation is to catch more big fish . ’ |
| 23 | The principal aim of this national survey of these small businesses is to provide previously unavailable data regarding the nature of their operating efficiency , staffing , and potential training needs , in order to identify strategies for improving performance . |
| 24 | Our sole function is to provide as much information as possible to our member organizations and to the general public on the environmental , social and economic impacts of gold-mining in the north Galway and South Mayo areas . |
| 25 | The basic objective of current cost accounting is to provide more useful information than is available from historical cost accounts alone for the guidance of management , shareholders and others on such matters as 1 the financial viability of a business 2 return on investment 3 pricing policy and cost control . |
| 26 | Legislation in the 1970s attempted to improve matters , but the only way realistically to overcome the problem is to provide more local authority dwellings near farms since owner-occupancy is beyond the means of virtually all agricultural employees . |
| 27 | The purpose of the pre-hearing assessment is to sift out those applications which are unlikely to succeed . |
| 28 | The central purpose is to hammer out long-term strategies for the nation as a whole . |
| 29 | The main object of a meeting , having agreed a quotation , is to obtain as much information as possible to make up the initial Protocol package for the seller or buyer . |
| 30 | ‘ What I want you to do is to find out some information from another solicitor . ’ |