Example sentences of "is [to-vb] [noun pl] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The first release of Informix-Gateway will be Unix-based and is to support links to IBM 's Systems Application Architecture databases so that Informix users can transparently access DB2 data bases . |
| 2 | The first release of Informix-Gateway will be Unix-based and is to support links to IBM 's Systems Application Architecture databases so that Informix users can transparently access DB2 databases : however , the gateway has not yet been formally tested with AS/400 database . |
| 3 | An important role of the office is to alert researchers in UK higher education establishments to the opportunities available , and to provide them with advice on the programme most relevant to their research needs . |
| 4 | ‘ My brief is to channel funds from Britain into the Province . |
| 5 | One of the main aims of all financial institutions , including banks , is to channel funds from surplus to deficit units in an economy . |
| 6 | Even though I may be in a minority , I feel quite strongly that the job of the record companies is to issue recordings of music at prices the music loving public can afford — not to enhance that price by paying for learned disquisitions seeking to explain what ought to need no explanation . |
| 7 | The aim of the evening is to enable members of Convocation to learn more about the interests of the Faculty of Social Sciences and to become aware of its plans and proposals for the future . |
| 8 | The main purpose of this letter , however , is to enclose payments in respect of . |
| 9 | The prevailing mood is to treat foreigners as Krauts and Frogs . |
| 10 | However , a central value of social work is to restore individuals to autonomy and to retain and support their social links . |
| 11 | In particular in recent years , the Government 's response to large numbers of people fleeing from state oppression is to impose visas on nationals of that country . |
| 12 | Usually very very pessimistic and always look always look on the on the pessimistic side of things you know all that sort of stuff but you know they are a very important part of the group , you know given given their space to be like they are you know do n't take them too seriously remember their job is to criticise and their job is to pull things to pieces . |
| 13 | The initiative 's aim is to encourage children in schools , to think about the environment , and involve producing an environmental teaching pack , running an environmental course for teachers , and developing a green software application for us on personal computer in schools . |
| 14 | The purpose of a unit trust is to accept funds from individuals or companies and to invest those funds in a wide variety of assets . |
| 15 | On the contrary , the TEI community is a particularly demanding one : the purpose of research is to discover solutions to problems that have not yet been posed , and any scheme designed to support research must therefore place more emphasis on flexibility and extensibility to cope with the unforeseen than on highly optimized solutions to well understood problems . |
| 16 | The priority is to train others in communication/counselling skills . |
| 17 | The aim of this guidance document is to provide users with information that will enable them to use the new Sciences provision effectively . |
| 18 | The aim of the awards is to provide candidates with evidence in the form of certificates to show that they are proficient in the skills necessary for them to operate in a business environment in at least 2 European languages . |
| 19 | The purpose of this and future practice notes is to provide auditors with guidance on new or changing issues , with explanatory and other material to help them interpret and apply auditing standards . |
| 20 | All we can do is to find sets of conditions which are , and sets which are not , sufficient . |
| 21 | The point of the structure is to find patterns of relationship among variables ; patterns which can , hopefully , become established empirical generalisations and , ultimately , strongly established theoretical laws . |
| 22 | Simply expressed , the fact that party politicians are operating within an " unfair " electoral system in which the name of the game is to secure votes in order to win governmental power means that elections are turned into policy auctions in which the parties , through their manifestos , bid for popular support and the highest ( and most irresponsible ) bidder wins all . |
| 23 | The rationale is to secure markets for Kuwait 's oil production and refined products . |
| 24 | Whitby Town Council is to meet representatives of Tees bus company over the withdrawal of the service to the port 's St Andrew 's Road area . |
| 25 | We have already met Lyamshin , the member of the quintet whose party act is to mimic women in labour and new-born babies . |
| 26 | Its function is to receive applications from teachers of law for exemption ( full or partial ) from the requirements of the Consolidated Regulations in respect of |
| 27 | As the preceding paragraphs have shown , child care is , until the Children Bill becomes law in the early 1990s , based on the Child Care Act 1980 , under which one major duty of the local authorities is to receive children into care and provide them with adequate substitute homes unless or until they can be returned to their natural parents . |
| 28 | Pupils will be encouraged to use printed lists of keywords when the system is fully operational , One difficulty here is to create keys for subjects which begin with the same first three letters e.g. FARMING and FAROES but the school librarian sees this as a useful information problem for pupils to tackle . |
| 29 | Following the identification of serious problems with early Soviet designed nuclear power plants , the International Atomic Energy Agency ( IAEA ) is to create teams of specialist engineers to advise on and improve the safety of these plants in central and eastern Europe . |
| 30 | While profit is the dominant goal for profit-orientated organizations the dominant goal of nonprofit organizations is to render services to society ( either in general or to qualifying applicants ) . |