Example sentences of "is [to-vb] [noun sg] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | The ironic thing is that the flight is to publicize damage to the ozone layer and it 's gas from fridges that causes most of that damage . |
| 2 | One of the functions of their facial disc is to transmit sound to the ears . |
| 3 | Even ignoring its importance as a local employer , to say that a sector which earns 15 per cent of GDP , which finances most of the small business start-ups in Scotland , which provides capital for companies great and small , which finances pensions and insurance for thousands of Scots , as well as backing for a quarter of the UK 's institutional funds , does nothing to help the economy , is to carry ideology to the point of folly . |
| 4 | But possibly the most satisfying task for the Hercules and its crew is to carry aid to the needy . |
| 5 | This is to provide visibility to both sides of the tank from separate rooms . |
| 6 | So am I am I right in thinking that the western relief road is catering for a north south through traffic element , but its primary purpose is to provide relief to the main e the present A sixty one which runs through the centre of Harrogate and again would seek to distribute traffic around the network and bring it in on other radial roads from the West for example ? |
| 7 | The major role of the school librarian or resources manager is to provide access to the kind of information users require and especially in schools , to help users develop the skills which will enable them to identify the purpose of , find and use that information . |
| 8 | The reason for storing data and keeping it up to date is to provide information to managers for decisions . |
| 9 | A key aim of the VHPB is to provide information to professional associations , trade unions and employers and , through vaccination , to protect workers from the risk of hepatitis B infection at work |
| 10 | For the task of the Spirit is to bear witness to Jesus . |
| 11 | But he has done himself some damage and will need to work hard , and with some care , if he is to secure re-election to the shadow Cabinet in November . |
| 12 | The burden of Frankenstein 's thought is that man 's concern is to set nature to rights . |
| 13 | It is not possible , however , to say simply that whenever one man intentionally causes harm to another that is a tort for , as we have also seen , the mere fact that my motive in performing an otherwise lawful act is to cause damage to another will not of itself make the act tortious . |
| 14 | v. Veitch that if there is a combination of persons whose purpose is to cause damage to the plaintiff , that purpose may render unlawful acts which would otherwise be lawful . |
| 15 | This and other studies ( e.g. Cole and Fichtler 1983 , Stohlgren and Parsons 1986 ) have led to the conclusion that the most appropriate management strategy for such wilderness areas is to restrict camping to a few designated sites , where activity can be sustained without excessive damage . |
| 16 | In general terms it is to restrict access to judicial review . |
| 17 | The effect of s.2(3) of the HPA 1956 is to afford protection to an innkeeper . |
| 18 | This has indeed been shown for some chemicals , but the usual effect is to lower resistance to disease , rather than to make allergies more likely . |
| 19 | What the court can do is to withhold consent to treatment of which it disapproves and it can express its approval of other treatment proposed by the authority and its doctors . ’ |
| 20 | A supplementary approach to school art instruction is to draw attention to the types of subject in art , such as portraiture , narrative , landscape . |
| 21 | One of the major goals of plotting is to draw attention to any unusual data points . |
| 22 | The point of introducing these ideas here is to draw attention to the radical analysis which suggests that management may use rules and procedures , and other more complex organisational arrangements such as product groups or even matrix organisational structures , not just because they may be a more efficient means of co-ordination but because they are necessary if capital is to control recalcitrant labour . |
| 23 | After identification of the problem to be addressed , the next stage is to draw attention to ideas which bear upon it for interpretation and conceptual evaluation . |
| 24 | The principal aim of this event — which features paintings by Poussin , Lely , Gainsborough , Canaletto , Dujardin , Murillo and Tiepolo — is to draw attention to the current financial plight of the Gallery , which houses one of London 's finest collections of Old Master paintings . |
| 25 | The purpose of this paper is to draw attention to a hitherto generally unobserved feature of the parallelistic couplet in Hebrew poetry , a feature which may offer a point de départ for a revised perception of the nature of the parallelistic couplet as such . |
| 26 | Another , more useful in the log run , is to draw attention to prefixes and suffixes as being separate bits of words . |
| 27 | All we can do here is to draw attention to the existing divorce , and to suggest measures that may lead to reunion . |
| 28 | The first is to provide a sampling facility and the second is to draw attention to products which might otherwise be overlooked . |
| 29 | To focus upon the processes of characterization is to draw attention to the definition of act or event , and interaction between potential deviant and enforcement agent . |
| 30 | The first is to draw attention to what I and others believe to be clear injustices in the way in which he was treated before his death and the second is to expose the fact that the injustices faced by Mr. Docherty affect many others in similar circumstances , and are a direct consequence of Government policy . |