Example sentences of "is [to-vb] [noun pl] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | and the role of the team worker is to support members of the team by building on their suggestions , , they improve communications and foster team spirit . |
| 2 | It is , it is to support unions like the U D M and encourage scab unions . |
| 3 | The main purpose of this paper , apart from saluting a distinguished colleague , is to alert excavators to the possible existence of evidence which could help to refine and clarify this present vague outline . |
| 4 | The easiest way is to channel resources into the regions . |
| 5 | The purpose of this study is to compare results from the Asthma Question Box with a conventional paper and pencil symptom diary to obtain information about missing records , retrospective completion ( from an analysis of electronic date records ) , and accuracy ( from comparison of data entry by the two methods ) . |
| 6 | One possibility is to perform experiments in the relatively constant conditions that exist near the poles . |
| 7 | Accordingly , a bidder which is a newly-incorporated or re-registered public company to be used as a vehicle for the takeover should be careful not to contravene s104 if it is to acquire shares in the target from its own subscribers or members ( eg in a management buy-out ) . |
| 8 | He suggests that their role is to signal rotations of the animal , and to do so using a co-ordinate system that is compatible with the other main organ for signalling rotations of the head , namely the semicircular canals , which are sensitive to angular accelerations . |
| 9 | Thus the premium need not necessarily be connected with the product that carried the premium ; the idea is to stimulate purchases of the product — selling the premium is of secondary importance . |
| 10 | Using horizontal streams , the simplest procedure is to write successions of the same series in each voice . |
| 11 | The second option is to concentrate resources on the earned-income tax credit ( EITC ) . |
| 12 | The aim is to provide students with the ability to analyse and evaluate selected topics which are related to the analysis of human performance . |
| 13 | What the counsellor has to do is to provide counsellees with the necessary knowledge and information to enable them to bring about change in their own lives . |
| 14 | Friends of Elizabeth Patterson have contributed handsomely to the Fund in her memory , one object of which is to provide books for the Library on the History of Science . |
| 15 | The main aim of this chapter is to provide guidelines for the introduction of a microcomputer into the school library or the extension of microcomputer work involving microcomputers in the school library and in the classroom . |
| 16 | The objective is to provide facilities for the investigation and recording of archaeological remains prior to development . |
| 17 | The nearest McIntosh comes to direct criticism is when he says : ‘ What we are trying to do is to provide clients with the services that they want and I think that will be the difference . |
| 18 | The purpose of teaching these topics explicitly and formally is to provide student-teachers with the opportunity to evaluate their own experience and to make professional judgments about their learners based on scientific principles and evaluated evidence . |
| 19 | The two legal reasons were that full adherence would require greater changes in English law than could be recommended , and that the Convention was concerned with service via official channels , whereas ‘ the great need is to obtain facilities for the use of less official channels ’ . |
| 20 | In this the aim is to find answers to the following questions : |
| 21 | To understand is to reproduce the order in the minds of actors ; to explain is to find causes in the scientific manner . |
| 22 | In my view , one of the tasks of this museum is to establish links between the world of industry and the world of art . |
| 23 | A delegation of Soviet miners is to meet officers from the fraud squad tomorrow over Arthur Scargill 's alleged mishandling of funds donated during the year-long pit strike . |
| 24 | The following day she is to meet representatives of the Irish community at London 's Camden Centre . |
| 25 | The effect of grouped updates is to cause parts of the file to require few , if any , updates so records are being skipped , and other areas in which all — or most — records are updated , and thus there will be lost revolutions because processing times exceed inter-record gap times . |
| 26 | The important thing is to create expectations in the school before the event takes place . |
| 27 | It is often said that one of the objectives of a commercial contract is to allocate risks between the contracting parties and the drafter 's client will generally wish to throw as many of the risks as possible onto its trading partners . |
| 28 | Teachers must always realise that the ‘ obvious purpose of school is to fit children to the society in which they will grow up ’ . |
| 29 | One technological fix for this problem is to fit carousels onto the welding machines . |
| 30 | The best way to achieve VARIETY and BALANCE is to select foods from the main groups shown below , together with smaller amounts of oils and fats . |