Example sentences of "[noun sg] of [noun sg] [vb mod] be [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The sole result of anarchy would be to drive the ‘ honourable men of property ’ into the arms of the French . |
| 2 | With a net population gain in the South and West — regions where the Republicans had polled strongly in recent elections — it was widely believed that the effect of reapportionment would be to cost the Democrats at least 25 seats in the House . |
| 3 | However , the aggregate effect of arbitrage will be to bring the prices of shares and an index future on those shares into some no-arbitrage relationship . |
| 4 | This is not to argue that prior activation of one hemisphere can not introduce a bias towards the opposite ear ( Nachson , 1973 ; Morais and Landercy , 1977 ) but it does suggest that the effect of activation may be to engage the processing mechanisms of a particular hemisphere rather than upset a hemispheric balance of attention . |
| 5 | They confirmed that Laura 's best hope of life would be to give her a new bowel , stomach , pancreas , liver and kidneys . |
| 6 | Given that speech is primary , in that all peoples have speech but only some have writing , they assumed that the main function of writing must be to represent speech . |
| 7 | A simple but far-reaching reform in libel law which would enhance freedom of expression would be to reverse this burden : to oblige the plaintiff to prove , on balance , the falsity or unfairness of the criticism . |
| 8 | the object of the teaching of English should be to develop [ sic ] in pupils the power of thought and expression , and the power of appreciating the content of great literary works , rather than to inculcate a knowledge of grammatical , philological and literary detail . |
| 9 | To adopt this kind of approach would be to make the meaningfulness of prayer contingent on the acceptance of a particular concept of God . |
| 10 | Another possible course of action would be to set up an ‘ Old Students ’ or ‘ Alumni ’ Association with a wider membership than convocation . |
| 11 | Confident that Clasper would be brought down by his own members without any interference from him , Bunker concluded that his best course of action would be to emulate Brer Rabbit on this occasion , and ‘ lie low and say nuffin' . ’ |
| 12 | If due account is taken of the present state of the law in regard to mortgages and choses in action , it is apparent that to make a distinction in the case of land would be to make just such an exception . |
| 13 | If we 're vegetarian another possible act of penance would be to abstain from alcohol or cigarettes . |
| 14 | cross rail tender type of document would be to have a standard three or four sheets that were relative to the whole group . |
| 15 | Another type of evasion would be to create a situation where there was no contract at all , so that only certain liabilities under tort , in accordance with UCTA , s 2 , would remain . |
| 16 | The first step to developing a Christian philosophy of finance would be to commit ourselves to developing the character of Christ in our own lives and helping others do the same . |
| 17 | To report my inner thoughts at such a moment of crisis must be to vex anyone who listens to this tape . |
| 18 | ‘ For us to head for the Eye of Terror would be to invite almost certain death , ’ mused Jaq . |
| 19 | And the cause is manifest in every sordid glimpse we gain of their parents and their homes … the enduring lesson to be learned from this painful wartime experiment is that the primary aim of education must be to produce not merely cleverer children , but in the next generation wiser parents |
| 20 | decentralisation and delegation of authority : The aim of decentralisation should be to encourage decision-making at lower levels of management ‘ closer to the action ’ . |
| 21 | But since he can think only of a few things at a time , the routine function of his noble gift of reason must be to correct spontaneous reactions and keep them running in an intelligent direction . |
| 22 | The alternative and desired emphasis of policy would be to provide more resources to parents caring for their children at home so that they could do their job better , and to reunite with their parents , wherever possible , those children who have been removed . |
| 23 | A possible way of arguing against a causal theory of justification would be to claim that we have no guarantee that there is only one way in which beliefs come to be justified , and in particular no real reason for supposing that any acceptable way must somehow be causal , so that all justified beliefs that p must be caused by relevant facts . |
| 24 | In common with some other contributors to Essays in Criticism he had come around to the view that the object of English should be to develop in students a " trained mind " rather than to produce " literary critics " or even " good readers " . |
| 25 | The object of reform should be to require of trade unions the same degree of responsibility within law that is at present required of corporations . |
| 26 | In the context of large-scale industry , I have already shown that a substantial part of the means of production is the object of possession by impersonal institutions — capitalist enterprises — and the object of socialism must be to reconstruct this impersonal possession in such a way that enterprises both follow a plan of production consistent with the maximum satisfaction of the democratically-constructed ‘ needs ’ of the working population as a whole , and are open to democratic participation , on equal footing , of the workers within the enterprise . |
| 27 | The role of Government should be to ensure that such pensions met sensible regulation so that the public interest was protected . |
| 28 | For a given real money supply , the higher the level of income , the higher the rate of interest must be to allow the transactions demand for money to be met . |
| 29 | Meanwhile , as ministers ' eyes glaze over at the thousand ‘ what ifs ’ thrown up by war , they would do well to remember Lord Salisbury 's deflatingly modest dictum from more than a century ago : ‘ The first object of a treaty of peace should be to make a future war improbable . ’ |
| 30 | The only control open to the Secretary of State would be to prevent the property from being sold for a period . |