Example sentences of "which is [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This new PSW initiates the interrupt handling routine , a first task of which is to save the accumulator array . |
| 2 | The project , which is to create an unprecedented space for the products of Scottish artists up to the present day , needs all the friends it can get , as it has still to be sold to government and any private benefactors . |
| 3 | Le Corbusier talked of the " man-of-today … following in his leisure the organic development of his existence , which is to create a family and to live , like every animal on this earth and like men of all ages , an organized family life " ( 1927p 268 ) . |
| 4 | The writ of habeas corpus deals with the machinery of justice , and is essentially a procedural writ , the object of which is to enforce a legal right . |
| 5 | If a scheme for Northern Ireland is to have a real chance of success , it must not only enjoy the support of a majority — it must enjoy also the acquiescence of most of the rest , a vivid illustration of the need for an adequate social foundation for any constitutional structure which is to enjoy even a modicum of success . |
| 6 | Mr Large proposed changes to make the system work better ( see page 15 ) ; but he stopped short of the obvious answer , which is to revise the act itself . |
| 7 | But what is also clear is that it is unfair to litigants that they should meet the cost of a second appeal , one of the principal purposes of which is to resolve issues of law of general public importance . |
| 8 | But they do n't care that the only honest answer to the West Lothian Question — which is to deny the right of Scots MPs to share in legislating for England and Wales on those subjects which in Scotland have been devolved to the Scottish parliament — would render any British government unstable , since it might possess a majority on some issues but not on others . |
| 9 | It is also launching a new series called Wisley Companions , the intention of which is to collect information from a variety of Wisley Handbooks and compact it into a smaller number of volumes . |
| 10 | In chapter 2 I discussed one of the central aims of the English curriculum , which is to extend the range of language in which children are competent . |
| 11 | That this House urges Her Majesty 's Government to use the decision to postpone the passage of the European Communities ( Amendment ) Bill as an opportunity to make a fresh start with the future development of the EEC and in particular concentrate its efforts on the chosen agenda of the British presidency which is to extend the borders of the EEC and to create a fully competitive Common Market . |
| 12 | That , wrote Harsnet , is part of the reason why I have chosen glass and not canvas or wood , that is why in my notes I have called it a delay in glass , which is to say a refusal of shit . |
| 13 | I fear not , for indeed ‘ they hearkened not unto Moses ’ , they murmured against him , and against Aaron , which is to say , they murmured against the Lord , for was it not the Lord Himself , speaking and working in Moses , who had brought them out from the land of Egypt ? ’ |
| 14 | Meanwhile Svidrigailov has taken over the suicide role , which is to say the blanket boredom has become positively terminal . |
| 15 | Apart from that , we have ( at 25/1 15 ) ‘ that serene Lord King Frederic of Sicily ’ — which is to say , Frederick of Aragon ( 1272–1337 ) , who was Frederick II , king of Sicily ( 1296–1337 ) . |
| 16 | At her worst — which is to say , when her performances , all crust and no bread , seemed little more than a rash of mannerisms — she could strike one as impossibly tic-ridden and implausible . |
| 17 | Surfacing from that perplexity , which is to say between , and sometimes within , the lyrical meditations on love , is the sense of a truly disturbing proximity of antagonists , most powerfully articulated in Genet 's angry ‘ fantasy ’ of the palace and the shanty town : |
| 18 | The third main emphasis in his critique of the concept of the postmodern is to attempt to explain the hold exercised by a demonstrably deficient theory of culture and its dependence on a fundamentally irrationalist philosophy : which is to say he offers a politics of the postmodern . |
| 19 | Which is to say , the political commentary is a form of writing . |
| 20 | This officers ' group lasted for the duration of the occupation , which is to say , for six years , though most of its leaders were caught and executed in the course of the war . |
| 21 | She had taken it into her head to befriend the new lass whom she considered to be a cut above the rest — which is to say , she did n't curse or spit . |
| 22 | Their manifesto says that the government ‘ will continue to work strenuously for a political solution acceptable to all parties ’ , which is to say for a gravitational system in which apples fall upwards . |
| 23 | And until that changes — which is to say until human nature does — the opinion polls , spot on as they frequently are , will continue to experience gratifying humiliations such as last week 's . |
| 24 | ‘ Oh well , ’ said Marcus , capturing his left hand again , ‘ I suppose it 's about what makes human consciousness possible , or rather it 's about what human consciousness is , which is to say what , and how , the world is , how anything is . |
| 25 | But that Moorish Negress was so skilful in drawing the Turkish bow , that it was held for a marvel , and it is said that they called her in Arabic Nugueymat Turya , which is to say , the Star of the Archers . |
| 26 | It is said that the pattern is mentioned in records dating back to the fifth century BC , which is to say that it was known well before the Roman invasion . |
| 27 | But there are no contradictions in experience , only in propositions about experience , which is to say , in discourse and especially in ideological discourse . |
| 28 | These embellishments are crucial , for they give rise to the two forms of the Shakespearian Equation : ‘ In the first form , the tragic form , the hero rejects the Goddess and is killed by the boar ( arriving as madness ) , which is to say that he is transformed by it . |
| 29 | The other driver at Benetton , Martin Brundle , still has a Toyota Dealer 's Haircut — which is to say it 's reliable , functional and about as distinctive as a Camry — or is it a Corolla ? |
| 30 | In the old days , which is to say five years ago or so , the phrase you would most often hear issuing from the yet-to-be father was , ‘ Yes , of course we 'll have children . |