Example sentences of "is [to-vb] [adv prt] the [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mr Abdul Halim Arshat , the secretary-general of Malaysia 's leading Islamic political party , has claimed that ‘ support for Iraq is necessary as the real motive of the US is to kill off the Muslims in Baghdad and to destroy the city . ’ |
| 2 | On the contrary , one of its chief characteristics is to sieve out the workers into grades according to the degree in which they possess the required kinds of ability and alertness . |
| 3 | Deciding what is to be done , and who is to carry out the tasks involved . |
| 4 | Apple Computer Inc is to strip out the bits that wo n't be needed in its Quadra machines to create its first-ever dedicated server , MacWeek reports . |
| 5 | through , through the system , but what that ca n't do is to pull off the arrears amount . |
| 6 | It follows that if teachers believe they are incompetent or impotent in these matters , they will accept and expect that the proper strategy is to pass on the problems to suitably qualified colleagues . |
| 7 | A basic principle is to try out the things you think you are most likely to enjoy and to incorporate them into your routine on a long-term basis . |
| 8 | When I talk about implementation of the Maastricht treaty I mean that one of the things that must be done is to set up the arrangements agreed at Maastricht by which member states can be taken to the European Court and punished if they do not carry out obligations that they have assumed . |
| 9 | The purpose of this Code of Conduct is to set out the standards of professional conduct expected of members of the Association and to indicate what matters may be regarded by the Disciplinary Committee as being contrary to the aims , objects and interests of the Association or contrary to the profession of librarianship . |
| 10 | Above all else the guiding principle is to tease out the meanings inherent in the images ; to ask : " What 's important here ? " |
| 11 | Its principal practical impact is to fill in the gaps in the other , long-established torts involving unlawful means by imposing liability where there is no combination , no threat and no interference with a subsisting contract . |
| 12 | All you have to do is to fill in the details , including your name and address and the amount you wish to give , and sign and date the document in front of a witness . |
| 13 | The well-planned research will not present difficulties at the analysis stage , since the purpose of the answers will have been thought of in advance , and all the analysis really does is to fill in the details . |
| 14 | The purpose of this study is to draw out the lessons of US experience as they relate to the situation in Britain . |
| 15 | If you find pegged tenons , the next stage is to drill out the pegs without damaging the surrounding wood . |
| 16 | ( More generally , the aim of most hypertext models is to separate out the components of hypertext into distinct layers , rather than having mechanisms that intermix content , structure and appearance . ) |
| 17 | The first step is to separate out the types of social episode in which a particular social action has a place , for example , the action of shaking hands . |
| 18 | The simplest method is to switch off the lights and to lighten the shadow areas by reflecting some of the daylight back onto the subject . |
| 19 | A natural tendency in times of recession is to batten down the hatches and look after our own needs , but as we sold raffle tickets in aid of our livestock projects in Uganda , people at the Royal certainly supported our scheme with cheerful generosity . |
| 20 | The objective this time is to shift down the injections line or to shift up the withdrawals line by the full amount of the inflationary gap . |
| 21 | The instinct of Eva 's husband , Bee , is to tone down the services and comply with the law . |
| 22 | The declared aim of such finance pirates is to break up the giants , and sell them off bit by bit . |
| 23 | To visit the Forge at Titley on the Herefordshire / Wales border , is to roll back the centuries . |
| 24 | All you have to do then is to take up the handles maintaining line tension , and either take two steps backwards smartly or pull the arms backwards and downwards in a smooth tugging action to set the kite aloft . |
| 25 | The second is to lay down the ground-rules for generalizing from one set of conditions to another , for example , from the laboratory to the real world . |
| 26 | The campaign is up and running-the aim is to link up the campaigns already flourishing in different districts . |
| 27 | The structuralist brief , then , is to map out the conventions and rules governing all aspects of social behaviour . |
| 28 | But not everyone here thinks the answer is to dig up the fields and destroy the character of the community . |
| 29 | Finally , it should be emphasized that the constraint , is an artificial one ; the main purpose of introducing it is to bring out the consequences of the assumptions made in different studies . |
| 30 | The purpose of critical appraisal is to show up the effects of a proposal before time and effort are invested in putting an idea into action . |