Example sentences of "is [to-vb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Lydia Becker , a leading Victorian feminist , compared the position of middle class women unfavourably with that of working class women : ‘ What I most desire , is to see married women of the middle classes stand on the same terms of equality as prevail in the working classes and the highest aristocracy . |
| 2 | His suggestion is to see competing criteria as both compatible and congruent and to accept that ‘ organizational effectiveness is inherently paradoxical . |
| 3 | Our concern then Mr Mayor is to see social housing used correctly , for those in greatest need and this leads us to the conclusion that means testing is the best way to ensure , is positive discrimination in favour of people in such need . |
| 4 | All I 've come for is to see fair play . ’ |
| 5 | I think the worst thing for me is to see homeless people . |
| 6 | An alternative way , however , is to see national cohesion as secondary and to think of the UK economy as simply one site where the forces of a worldwide , supranational economy are in play . |
| 7 | The Governments ' primary aim is to see significant reductions in the amounts of waste requiring disposal . |
| 8 | The modern trend in medicine — like the ancient biblical view — is to see human beings as whole people , recognizing that it is bad practice to treat separate parts of a person without looking at the total man or woman . |
| 9 | Certainly er the higher up the the kind of er organisation at a university the tendency is to is to wear different things . |
| 10 | The European Community is to implement new moves to protect the environment which could raise petrol prices by up to four pence a gallon throughout Europe . |
| 11 | The parties can make provision in the agreement for a different measure of damages which , for example , may be appropriate if the acquirer is to invest large amounts of money in the offeree and hence could lose much more than merely the purchase consideration . |
| 12 | At present , like reputable healers worldwide , Boltwood 's concern is to heal sick people . |
| 13 | Tony Smith claims that the purpose of our newsletter is to support alternative medicine . |
| 14 | Support teachers sole brief is to support specific children may find that they have little room for manoeuvre to combat these likely problems . |
| 15 | BNFL is to plough £15,000 into a local organisation whose aim is to support new businesses and create jobs in an area with one of the highest levels of unemployment in Lancashire . |
| 16 | A prime function of nurses is to support optimum levels of wellness and function in elderly people , and community nurses , who are increasingly undertaking health screening for this client group , are ideally placed encourage them to maintain their level of wellness , and to offer or organise support when necessary . |
| 17 | ‘ Our directive is to support multinational companies moving into Eastern Europe , ’ says Andrew Gibson , BT 's director for Eastern Europe , whose group welcomes enquiries from accountancy firms thinking of setting up there , or whose clients intend to do so . |
| 18 | If the state is to support Catholic education , then why not state support for all religions ? |
| 19 | The aim , as stated in the company 's annual report is to support multiple servers ; Windows , Presentation Manager , Motif and Open Look graphical user interfaces ; the C and SQL development languages ; SNA and TCP/IP protocols ; and OS/2 , Unix and MVS operating systems . |
| 20 | The function of nerve fibres is to transmit coded information from one place to the other . |
| 21 | To write a novel is to conduct imaginary personages through imaginary space and time in a way that will be simultaneously interesting , perhaps amusing , surprising yet convincing , representative or significant in a more than merely personal , private sense . |
| 22 | The TEC 's main function is to channel public funds to training schemes for the unemployed . |
| 23 | The government apparently believes inspectors have been ‘ over-reaching ’ themselves and is to issue new guidance . |
| 24 | An obvious way to examine whether marking to the market in the presence of stochastic interest rates leads to a difference between futures and forward prices , is to compare actual futures and forward prices for the same asset . |
| 25 | As Vogue stated in a 1920 cruise report , ‘ The Master-At-Arms ' stern duty is to drive late lovers out of the lifeboats . ’ |
| 26 | The first approach is to perform syntactic analysis first then have a second pass convert the syntactic tree to a semantic representation . |
| 27 | The first is to promote liberal arts higher education , both at general degree and sub-degree levels . |
| 28 | The challenge is to promote mutual trust and understanding of the education and training systems in each country while respecting the diversity of their cultures . |
| 29 | The aim of these initiatives is to promote mutual trust and understanding ( transparency ) of the different qualification systems across the member states . |
| 30 | Second , a major function of the budget is to promote macroeconomic balance in the economy . |