Example sentences of "is [verb] to [noun] " in BNC.

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1 By far the best I ever used was ‘ Humber Eclipse Fish Manure ’ which used the waste from the fishing industry as the raw material , but it is no longer obtainable as such because the fish content is redirected to cattle and poultry feeds .
2 ‘ The best we can hope for is to go to Wolves on May 2 in need of one or three points . ’
3 ‘ Besides , ’ said Garvin , ‘ all he wants it for is to go to Monte Carlo again .
4 ‘ Anyway , Anne , the important thing is to go to court and accustom yourself to its ways , ’ she said practically .
5 That issue is to go to court .
6 Anyway , all we have to do is to go to Florida and put the Thing on one of these going-up jets and it can do the rest , it says . ’
7 Chief officers and chairs will begin the process of deciding the share of the budget that is to go to education , social services and housing in the light of the strategic analysis discussed above .
8 Tell him often Ellen that he is to go to Italy soon where his mother and father who love him greatly await him .
9 Our regiment is to go to Colrane and twenty four soldiers stay in Ballycastle with one gentleman to be their .
10 My job is to go to Whitehall , not Oxford , and to read the appropriate documents , not interrogate witnesses .
11 One possibility is to go to bed one to two hours later than normal each night and get up one to two hours later each morning .
12 If your stomach feels tender and you have a slight temperature ( cystitis is an infection ) the best remedy is to go to bed with a hot water bottle wrapped in a towel against your stomach .
13 Another option is to go to America to defend against Toney victim , Iran Barkley .
14 The plan is to go to Llandovery and spend a couple of hours meeting members of HOWLTA , to be informed of campaigns to improve services on the line .
15 That is to wear to bed !
16 Green and Shepherd ( 1975 ) used the Semantic Differential ( a technique to examine how meaning is assigned to concepts ) to show that deaf children share major dimensions of meaning with hearing children but lack a factor concerning abstract meaning and have an additional one of sensory judgements based on vision and touch .
17 The doublet is assigned to ionization from the n-non-bonding orbitals of Cl , split by spin-orbit coupling [ see Section 6.6.4 below ] ; the progression is due to ionization from the H-Cl bonding level .
18 Moreover , the second band shows a progression with a reduced NN stretching frequency , and is assigned to ionization from the π u bonding level .
19 Most inexplicably of all , the Master of Lovat 's Regiment at Dunbar is assigned to Sir James Fraser of Brea , who is then alleged to have died of his wounds shortly after .
20 More specifically , part of the curriculum is assigned to tools for input , writing , design and composition .
21 And and when that when the when the assignment comes up when Ron is assigned to X club wherever that is erm that will be the sheet the sheet will be provided
22 If we write x i j = 1 if individual i is assigned to task j and x i j = 0 otherwise , the problem can be written :
23 On housing ‘ it is not in general desirable to seek to control the disposal of private houses through planning restrictions ’ ; on industry and commerce ‘ policies and proposals … should promote and not hinder the regeneration of industry and reflect an up to date and realistic view of the scale , pattern and diversity of industry ’ ; on retail development ‘ policies and proposals should neither seek to regulate competition between retailers nor to stifle the evolution of new forms of retail provision ’ ; and on agriculture and forestry ‘ authorities should take account of the need to ensure that no more than an essential minimum of agricultural land is diverted to development ’ .
24 The more that their budget is diverted to fundholding practices , the more their capacity to do so will be undermined , to the detriment of important areas of service for all patients .
25 ‘ Perhaps the best thing is that he is reacting to noises and the sound of his name .
26 There are at least three kinds of validity : construct validity which refers to the degree to which the test seems to be based on psychological theory , content validity which describes how well the test measures what it is intended to measure and criterion validity which indicates its value as a predictor using as criteria other measures of relevant performance .
27 Designer Labels is intended to short-cut the procedure , and allow you to do what you want with labels in a short time , and for the most part , it succeeds .
28 ‘ Mr and Mrs Brown ’ , a pair of shuffling shoe trees , is one of several existing works which Horn is bringing to London , but greater attention will concentrate around the four new installations which the artist is creating for the gallery .
29 Assuming that you have determined that the line is biased to starboard , and you therefore want to start near the starboard end of the line , there are still a number of considerations which you must take into account before you can put yourself in the right place as the gun is fired .
30 When aurichalcite ( Cu 5-x Zn x ( OH ) 6 ( Co 3 ) 2 ) is heated to 450°C it converts into a copper-on-zinc oxide material that can be prepared as a catalyst for the water-gas shift reaction ( CO 2 + H 2 CO + H 2 O ) .
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