Example sentences of "of [pron] is [to-vb] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | How do they decide which of them is to do the job that month ? |
| 2 | With a few exceptions , all fish have a swimbladder , the function of which is to allow the fish to float and maintain equilibrium in the water . |
| 3 | This device should more accurately be described as a freewheel , the intent of which is to allow the blades to rotate at high speed while the motor is idling or stopped . |
| 4 | None of which is to say the record labels are not trying hard to stretch country where they can . |
| 5 | Spadefoot toads have a number of anti-predator tactics , one of which is to inflate the lungs and hence the body , which may fool the snake into thinking the toad is larger than it really is and act as a deterrent . |
| 6 | We linked up with the Daily Express to help run the campaign , part of which is to champion the cause of Marine Nature Reserves . |
| 7 | The term ‘ flight recorder ’ is normally taken to include both the flight data recorder ( FDR ) which records the value of selected flight parameters like airspeed , altitude , magnetic heading , etc. and the cockpit voice recorder ( CVR ) , the primary purpose of which is to record the crew conversation . |
| 8 | SCOTVEC and centres have been engaged in an extensive development plan , the aim of which is to explore the issues which arose from the Consultative Paper of February 1987 ( ‘ SCOTVEC Higher Education Provision ’ ) and which were detailed in the Policy Paper ( ‘ Advanced Courses Development Programme : A Policy Paper — March 1988 ’ ) . |
| 9 | The fact of canonization puts any work beyond questions of establishing its merit and , instead , invites students to offer only increasingly more ingenious readings and interpretations , the purpose of which is to validate the greatness already imputed by the canonization . |
| 10 | As you know , SCOTVEC and colleges have been engaged in an extensive development plan , the aim of which is to transform the approach to the Advanced Courses provision . |
| 11 | He resigned his seat on the BDA 's executive on accepting this challenging task , the principal aim of which is to remedy the shortage of sign language tutors and interpreters . |
| 12 | This new PSW initiates the interrupt handling routine , a first task of which is to save the accumulator array . |
| 13 | The proposition that ‘ the history of all hitherto existing society is the history of class struggles ’ expresses only a partial truth , and the existence of ‘ peoples ’ and ‘ nations ’ , and the relations between them , constitute , I would argue , a largely independent basis for a political world view and political action , the effect of which is to limit the significance and the practical consequences of class membership . |
| 14 | This objection holds equally for Sartre 's Hegelian historicism , the effect of which is to reduce the multiplicity of different practices to a single practice , ‘ real ’ history ’ ( 136 ) . |
| 15 | In Fig. 9–12(a) a cash transfer is compared with a price subsidy the objective of which is to make the recipient as well off as possible . |
| 16 | A vacancy has arisen on the Women Chemists Committee , the role of which is to raise the profile of women in chemistry by : |
| 17 | Many people believe that the skin is an impervious covering , the sole function of which is to keep the blood and organs in and water out . |
| 18 | Thus , for example , the Court held in a 1970 decision that , since Community regulations are directly applicable in all the Member States , the Member States can not , in order to ensure their application , in the absence of a provision to the contrary , take measures the purpose of which is to alter the scope of or add to their provisions . |
| 19 | Gagné ( 1970 ) — whose work we will examine later — has compiled a hierarchy of eight types , the purpose of which is to help the teacher to match her teaching to the kind of learning she wishes to produce . |
| 20 | WE have just considered the problem of who is to bear the loss when goods perish . |
| 21 | The point of it is to take the church celebrations outside to the people . |
| 22 | I think a lot of it is to test the record company or maybe they are testing the fans . |
| 23 | The practical effect of it is to reduce the law 's interest in implying duties largely for the reason that public policy demands that an employee be free to work for whom he chooses . |
| 24 | ‘ The only way to get to the bottom of it is to confront the chairman . |
| 25 | ‘ The only way to get to the bottom of it is to confront the chairman . ’ |