Example sentences of "be [to-vb] [noun sg] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was quick to point out , however , that one should not therefore equate the law of value with the law of labour expenditure , since to do so would be to lose sight of the specific historical form and character of value relations . |
| 2 | Liberal leader and Premier-elect Ray Groom promised that his new government 's first priority would be to combat unemployment within the state . |
| 3 | A member of the Council of Overseas Research Centers of the Smithsonian Institution , the Academy 's mission will be to support research in the arts and humanities by American and Central European scholars and to become an important part of a new American presence in Europe . |
| 4 | An alternative means of increasing the number of units in the input utterance , and thereby decreasing the number of word paths found , would be to include stress in the lexicon and input utterance . |
| 5 | in some cases , the aim of nursing care may be to promote adaptation to the new situation , as previous function has not been restored completely . |
| 6 | His immediate tasks will be to restore morale on the railways , implement safety measures proposed after the Clapham Junction crash and match BR 's operations to the strict financial regime imposed by the Government . |
| 7 | A main task of party renovation would be to restore confidence in the party as the defender of working class interests . |
| 8 | There is no logical reason why a person ought not to be allowed to represent another in order to protect that other 's individual interests , but in such a case the main function of representation would probably be to provide finance for the action rather than organizational efficiency ; and in most cases there is no reason why one person should not provide another with finance to enable that other to bring an action in his or her own name . |
| 9 | It is planned that the less literate and less articulate will be given the chance to contribute and one of the main aims of the project will be to provide information on the position of poorly-qualified 15-19 year olds today . |
| 10 | He has said one of his main goals will be to encourage promotion of the benefits of membership . |
| 11 | I do not know how easy it will be to find Paradise in the Sea of Sorrow outside Japan . |
| 12 | The object or purpose of the combination must be to cause damage to the plaintiff . |
| 13 | The purpose of an interim agreement would be to create confidence in the democratic process and to unite the law-abiding people and the two sovereign governments , to defeat ‘ political violence ’ . |
| 14 | There would probably be no need to transfer substantial assets of the business into the new company and the appropriate step might be to allocate part of the solicitors ' clientele to the company partner to establish it as having a regular practice . |
| 15 | Its purpose should be to mobilize support for the policies , personalities , and institutions of the regime . |
| 16 | He worries that as a result of all these shortcomings , the net effect of Sun propagating Wabi will be to do damage to the whole Unix business . |
| 17 | One solution would be to extend regulation to the press to ensure the same kind of impartiality as on television . |
| 18 | Mr Hill , appointed chairman this week , said one of his first moves would be to separate management of the company from Bond Corp , which is struggling under huge debts . |
| 19 | At most periods of the twenty-four hours to run into the middle of Southwark Bridge would be to invite suicide in the stream of traffic pouring across it , but at that time of morning traffic was relatively light , and there were some gaps between the cars and lorries . |
| 20 | One advantage of that approach would be to direct attention to the particular source of danger , thus labelling the offence in a way which both describes the circumstances of the offence and serves an educative or even deterrent purpose . |
| 21 | Mr Smith made clear that Labour 's first response would be to seek entry to the exchange rate mechanism of the European Monetary System and that its spending priorities would be pensions and child poverty . |
| 22 | ‘ The challenge will be to maintain morale among the staff because what really matters is to make sure that services to people who need them are not disrupted during a period of change . ’ |
| 23 | Eleanor Rathbone firmly believed that the only way to remove a major barrier against equal pay in professions such as teaching would be to take account of the differences in standards of living reflected in the higher costs of bringing up children in the higher income groups . |
| 24 | The court in effect decided that certain types of award made in the 1970s , up-lifted as they must be to take account of the subsequent decline in the value of money , were too high . |
| 25 | Similarly , a transfer of mortgaged property from joint names to one name alone is likely to incur a liability for stamp duty , although the Revenue 's practice would be to charge duty on the proportion of debt assumed by the transferee ( usually one half ) . |
| 26 | One of the main aims of the programme will be to collect information over the next 15 years to measure the impact of global warming . |
| 27 | An important strategic requirement over the next few years will be to make progress with the resolution of these questions which bear crucially on the structure of a collegiate university and raise fundamental questions about the nature of undergraduate teaching at Oxford and its relationship with graduate teaching and supervision . |
| 28 | The proper procedure would be to make contact with the local force , and turn over the situation to them . |
| 29 | Secondly , if the tenant is entitled to break at a specified date linked to a rent review , the effect of the break-clause may be to make time of the essence as far as the review is concerned ( United Scientific Holdings Ltd v Burnley Borough Council [ 1977 ] 2 All ER 62 at 77 , 98 ) . |
| 30 | Our first and chief objective must be to prevent war by the maintenance of the Allied deterrent , to which we have begun to make our own substantial contribution . |