Example sentences of "is [to-vb] [conj] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Is is to see whether green consumer Rob and Trish want to , to have something . |
| 2 | One is to see if adventurous buying , lavish displays and good service ( which includes opening until 7pm and for a half-day on Sunday ) will galvanise the public . |
| 3 | A committee of MPs is to conduct and urgent inquiry into the running of the Child Support Agency , the organization set up earlier this year to track down absent fathers and extract maintenance payments . |
| 4 | In the context of the conventional debate over academic freedom , a standard move in response to this point is to claim that academic freedom is a concept applicable to individual persons , and that academic autonomy is a concept applicable to institutions . |
| 5 | Protagoras ' reply to this is to contend that political wisdom is not a matter of specialized knowledge , but something in which everyone has a share , and in which it is necessary that everyone has a share , " Otherwise the state could not exist " . |
| 6 | Adopting this pragmatic approach , I have thus sought to justify the main general conclusion to which my whole argument has been directed : that the way to heal the rift between holism and individualism is to recognise that concessive holism offers a superior approach to the business of social explanation . |
| 7 | An important priority is to ensure that extra income is spent on extra activity . |
| 8 | However , the Lord Chancellor wishes the Legal Aid Board to keep the arrangements governing eligibility and contributions for legal aid under review so as to fulfil the Board 's overall aim , which is to ensure that legal advice , assistance and representation is made available to those who need it . |
| 9 | I thought it particularly strange that the Labour party should label its new policy , ’ Made in Britain ’ , when its strategy is to ensure that British policy is made on the continent . |
| 10 | This project is to assess whether sufficient material exists to enable a more substantial research project to be undertaken . |
| 11 | Having obtained the appropriate transfer function , the next step is to appreciate that first-order response is provided by a filter incorporating just one reactive component . |
| 12 | The aim is to check that sufficient information has been gathered for each variable to make statistics upon them valid . |
| 13 | One is to say that substantial expansion is simply not possible , given planned expenditure levels . |
| 14 | That is to say that increased expenditure on elderly people occurred due to growing numbers of aged in the population but there was no overall shift in the way in which resources were allocated . |
| 15 | It is to say that mental disengagement from the region and its ‘ troubles ’ is hardly the way to achieve an historic compromise there . |
| 16 | A slightly technical way of putting this is to say that integrated letter writing is a fundamental pre-requisite of a successful recruitment system . |
| 17 | Another way of stating this thesis is to say that psychological life is essentially metaphorical in character . |
| 18 | But it is to say that compulsive gambling with all its damaging consequences can be seen just as much in the reputable halls of commerce as in the street corner betting shop . |
| 19 | And until that changes — which is to say until human nature does — the opinion polls , spot on as they frequently are , will continue to experience gratifying humiliations such as last week 's . |
| 20 | The aim of the project is to prove that high-powered laser technology can be harnessed by the oil and gas industry to save millions of pounds in manpower and equipment costs and lead to safety improvements . |
| 21 | In a sense this is what it is to become and experienced teacher rather than a novice . |