Example sentences of "be [to-vb] the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A source close to the Law Commission suggests that , in the case of contracted-out services , one legal remedy might be to sue the relevant agency for breach of contract . |
| 2 | For example , one aim of a business plan may be to acquire the local authority housing department as a new client . |
| 3 | A rather more promising approach might be to treat the existential quantifier itself as a kind of predicate — a second-level predicate to be precise — which , in our example above , says something about the " first-level " predicate " is human " , namely that the latter can be completed to produce a true proposition . |
| 4 | Its primary role is likely to be to bolster the Australian government 's campaign to have Antarctica declared a world natural reserve . |
| 5 | ‘ The effect of deleting this subclause will be to continue the present basis of taxation of services , namely the cost to the employer of providing the service . |
| 6 | To find the best way in which to correct such an observation and to nullify its effect always poses a problem for the judge because , if he intervenes immediately , the effect will probably be to emphasise the obvious relevance and cogency of the comment which ought not to have been made . |
| 7 | He warned that the overall effect would be to drive the public back on to overcrowded roads . |
| 8 | So all I 'm arguing is that all such a gene for penis envy would have to do would be to promote the reproductive success of the little girls who 've had it to that gene eventually to become established throughout the entire female population , just as the gene for oedipal behaviour , or phallic behaviour , would become selective in males . |
| 9 | The Government 's principal task in the months to come will be to restore the right mix of monetary and fiscal policy — now badly out of balance — so that interest rates have a better chance of coming down , and staying down over the long run . |
| 10 | After the main battle , A Squadron 's tasks would be to harass the retreating enemy forces and signal bombing targets to the RAF . |
| 11 | The purpose of the pit would appear to be to provide the maximum headroom using the minimum raw materials in the superstructure ; this would make a ground level plank floor something of a nonsense , an opinion shared by Welch ( 1985 , p. 23 , n.1 ) . |
| 12 | One of the most interesting effects of the new technology ( significantly called ‘ high ’ ) may be to modify the pure/applied distinction , and thereby bring higher education and industry naturally closer together . |
| 13 | The EEB declaration makes it clear that European environment groups ‘ believe that when decisions are taken on the respective competence of the Community , Member States and regional and local government in actions to protect the environment , the overriding objective must be to secure the highest quality of life for the Community 's citizens . |
| 14 | The effect of such ‘ nocturnal surges ’ in sex hormones , as the increased release of these hormones is called , might be to increase the sexual drive at night . |
| 15 | Another might be to accuse the modern art museum of having neutered and sanitised ‘ radical ’ art by the simple act of collecting and displaying it . |
| 16 | In January he created eighteen regional Commissaires de la République , whose function would be to supervise the post-liberation transition . |
| 17 | An alternative to mining might be to pump the superheated brine emerging from the ‘ smokers ’ directly to the surface . |
| 18 | The likely effect of the additional tax would be to reverse the general direction of our increasingly motor-dependent patterns of activity , with all its attendant problems . |
| 19 | The BBC Scotland task force suggested that the best way to pursue these guarantees might be to reverse the previous arrangement and keep the licence money in Scotland , paying out from it those fees imposed for taking network programmes and utilising corporate resources . |
| 20 | The effect of jurisdictional error of law is said to be to render the affected decision void or a nullity in the sense that the decision is treated as never having had any legal effect . |
| 21 | .. perhaps the next step in future research can be to explore the detailed linkage between environment , scanning , and actual strategic adjustments . |
| 22 | If the above chord were required f or ff a good arrangement would be to replace the 1st trombone by a trumpet , and to lay out the chord thus : |
| 23 | For example , if music was being played in the background at the time the shots were being taken , the breaks at each shot change will be very noticeable and the remedy may then be to replace the original sound with a continuous background . |
| 24 | ' However eager sceptical Victorians might be to replace the superstitious world of their forefathers with a structure that seemed to them more solid and more rational , the alternative , namely that they lived in a meaningless world of chance , was repellent to many of them . |
| 25 | ‘ I know you 're tight , Woody , ’ Finlayson said , ‘ but the only thing you could do for us now would be to shoot the old man . |
| 26 | Could Satan 's plan be to belittle the miraculous element of Christianity by ‘ aping ’ it ? |
| 27 | What he would like even more would be to own the fine boat , the means to support the boat ; and the further means to enjoy a style of life which could so easily include a fine boat , because that would surely embrace fine horses , fine coaches , fine clothes : Wealth . |
| 28 | We also have concerns about how it could erm fit in to er the countryside erm of the area er with particular reference to erm paragraph thirty three of P P G three which states that erm the net effect of any new settlement will be to enhance the environmental cause only modest environmental impact , the area in Hambledon , as Mr Wincup outlined yesterday erm is occupied essentially by the vale of York , it 's an essentially flat and rolling landscape , er the intensification of agriculture 's produced a very open landscape erm in that area erm there are few erm landscape elements to reduce into visibility , erm there are no significant areas of derelict land which could be , which would be reclaimed or enhanced erm by a new settlement , erm and the Council believes that it would be very difficult to assimilate a new settlement into this landscape , and it would be er visible over extensive areas , to touch on erm the point raised by erm the panel about self sufficiency and self containment erm I think it 's recognized in the explanatory memorandum , erm to policy H two that a new settlement will need to maintain social and economic links with a city , erm perhaps from some , this statement is explicit that erm York will continue to exert considerable influence in terms of employment , social , and community links , erm and it 's unlikely that facilities which have provided a new settlement will divert much , if an , if er any , erm of this er demand for travel . |
| 29 | The objective will be to identify the financial effect of each transaction on both the company and its creditors or debtors . |
| 30 | The most obvious test would be to identify the religious allegiance of Europe 's most illustrious natural philosophers of the late sixteenth and seventeenth centuries . |