Example sentences of "is [to-vb] [adj] [noun pl] " 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 | The Governments ' primary aim is to see significant reductions in the amounts of waste requiring disposal . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Certainly er the higher up the the kind of er organisation at a university the tendency is to is to wear different things . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Support teachers sole brief is to support specific children may find that they have little room for manoeuvre to combat these likely problems . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | ‘ 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | The TEC 's main function is to channel public funds to training schemes for the unemployed . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | As Vogue stated in a 1920 cruise report , ‘ The Master-At-Arms ' stern duty is to drive late lovers out of the lifeboats . ’ |
| 17 | The first is to promote liberal arts higher education , both at general degree and sub-degree levels . |
| 18 | The chairman of the agency , Councillor Malachi Curran , revealed yesterday : ‘ The aim is to promote cross-border contacts and to provide sourcing information . |
| 19 | The festival 's aim is to promote interesting activities in the countryside which at the same time encourage environmental awareness and boost the local economy . |
| 20 | Since bookkeeping is systematic , then one way of achieving this objective is to include budgeted amounts within it . |
| 21 | The drafter should therefore draft clauses so as to maximise the chances of severance : the easiest way to do that is to draft separate limitations in separate sub-clauses . |
| 22 | One might think that with the nation stuffed full of church buildings , few of which are stuffed full of people , the last thing needed is to plant new ones . |
| 23 | Our solution is to plant other asters which are mildew-resistant . |
| 24 | The aim is to target small areas of the country initially , and then gradually expand operations , possibly by joint ventures , partnerships or by setting up offices there . |
| 25 | FRANCE is to suspend nuclear tests at its South Pacific atoll site , Mururoa , this year , M Pierre Beregovoy , Prime Minister , said in his inaugural speech to parliament yesterday . |
| 26 | The main purpose of the rearing station is to re-introduce juvenile conchs into areas which have been depleted by non-sustainable fishing . |
| 27 | For instance , the main function of the tense system in Hopi is to signal modal meanings such as certainty , uncertainty , possibility , and obligation . |
| 28 | The purpose of this is to enable regular discussions to take place thus developing a good working relationship within which problems can be talked through . |
| 29 | The idea behind the language is to enable untrained operators to scan through a data base posing questions in ordinary English , rather than in the stilted query languages that most database systems involve . |
| 30 | The idea is to enable packaged objects to be accessed from anywhere on the network and from any programming language . |