Example sentences of "[noun sg] [be] to bring the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some earlier teams collecting wild cocoa had lost 50 per cent or more of their material by attempting to send it directly to distant breeding centres ; our intention was to bring the collections back to a local base for propagation and planting . |
| 2 | The task of psychoanalysis is to bring the intellect to bear on religion , and to replace the effects of repressions with the rational operations of the intellect . |
| 3 | If in any doubt as to whether one of these leather corals is alive or dead , a simple test is to bring the animal to the water 's surface and take a good sniff . |
| 4 | Its aim is to bring the machine to the market by late 1993 , and in order to achieve this goal it needs additional engineers . |
| 5 | The common aim is to bring the company back in line with the profit-maximizing firm of the model of perfect competition . |
| 6 | The aim is to bring the improvement process into the day-to-day management of each section 's work programme and encourage full participation by everyone . |
| 7 | The aim is to bring the theory of a market economy closer to reality . |
| 8 | For ‘ stand alone ’ dormant companies , the answer is to bring the company back within the scope of charge to corporation tax ( s 12(2) ( a ) , ICTA 1988 ) . |
| 9 | She kept telling her father that there was no future for an independent shipping company , there 'd be no one to run it after he 'd gone , and that the modern thing was to bring the company into a big group . |
| 10 | One way over this problem is to bring the animals to the habitat . |
| 11 | He says the idea is to bring the water to the pupil rather than the other way round . |
| 12 | A source close to the Clinton campaign said the idea is to bring the Bush rumours into the open ‘ to counter what 's already happened , then get this all out there , out of the way , enough to prevent the campaign from being preoccupied with these questions , then to prevent the Republicans , who are very good at it , from taking this low road ’ . |
| 13 | Aware of the constant potential threat from gangs of gunmen , their mission was to bring the food into the country and make sure it got through to the people most deserving of it . |