Example sentences of "is [to-vb] [prep] [adj] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Government say that in all this , one of their main aims is to go for greater local accountability , er but this h people can hardly claim to know more about the community than the elected representatives , or more for example about educational or social service activities which can be relevant to police concerns and there are many local government member as enquiries have shown who can claim outside management and financial expertise . |
| 2 | Surely the best way to protect the environment is to invest in better public transport and build fewer roads ? |
| 3 | The usual advice is to wait for three menstrual cycles to go by , which is roughly the same as three months . |
| 4 | The Finnish government is to appeal to other Western countries to give aid to East European countries in the form of technical , industrial and scientific expertise rather than direct financial help . |
| 5 | The toddler is to remain with temporary foster parents in Wirral pending a court hearing next week . |
| 6 | What we have done is to concentrate on two particular themes . |
| 7 | The Programme is to concentrate on six main themes : 1 ) Communication Ethics ; 2 ) The Right to Communicate ; 3 ) Communication and Religion ; 4 ) Communication , Culture and Change ; 5 ) Communication Education ; 6 ) Women 's Issues . |
| 8 | The secret of success is to concentrate on some simple combinations . |
| 9 | If the scheme is to provide for any financial assistance this will be detailed here . |
| 10 | If evolution by natural selection is to lead from some random sequence to one unique optimal sequence , there must be a series of intermediate sequences , between the random and the optimal , each being a slight improvement on the one before , the steps from one sequence to the next being a change in one amino acid , or at most of two or three amino acids . |
| 11 | A very simple but effective way is to stick to one major colour livened up with accent colours in cushions , rugs , the odd chair , blinds , borders , prints , paintings , books and plants . |
| 12 | Wedgwood 's policy is to comply with all legislative requirements and to make the workplace as comfortable as possible for VDU users . |
| 13 | A newly discovered fifth-century inscription ( recording an alliance between Sparta and a people called the Erxadieis in Aitolia : ML 67 bis ) suggests that Sparta normally had the obligation to help her league allies if they were attacked ( ‘ if anyone marches against the Erxadieis with warlike intent , Sparta is to help with all possible force ’ ) ; that she did not intervene to help Aigina is the measure of her lack of will to fight . |
| 14 | The second issue is to do with other existing roles and job specifications . |
| 15 | Her major problem is to do with two new girls who have just joined as WP operators . |
| 16 | Generally this state is to do with basic physical facts surrounding women 's ability to give birth , which equates them with the animal side of Man 's state ; or with Nature rather than Culture . |
| 17 | And what it 's actually to do is is to do with this National Standards and Indicators that have been written for the careers service . |
| 18 | In a case like this the best plan , to ensure a solid and uniform body of tone , is to give to each orchestral group — strings , woodwind , and brass the complete harmony . |
| 19 | But if a Basquiat legend is to emerge from all this activity , Basquiat père will have to alter his practice of refusing to talk to reporters . |
| 20 | First is the issue of sex determination : how the law is to deal with changing scientific opinion which challenges old certainties , and the legality of medical procedures designed to deal with abnormal sexual conditions . |
| 21 | One very exciting and yet subtle way to treat the subject is to keep to one main colour but to introduce it in all its different shades and tones . |
| 22 | Rather , the purpose here is to build on that recent research in order to situate the debates on sexuality and disease in the light of the longer-term history of medico-moral regulation . |
| 23 | Thus the principal task of theories which specifically address modem football hooliganism is to account for these dominant forms of behaviour . |
| 24 | We live in a highly mobile society where the norm is to live in small nuclear family groups , probably many miles away from the rest of the family and maybe having very little physical contact or communication with other members of the ‘ tribe ’ . |
| 25 | If a society is to live by such primary rules alone , there are certain conditions which , granted a few of the most obvious truisms about human nature and the world we live in , must clearly be satisfied . |
| 26 | I know without being told what a difficult language it is to pronounce with English oral equipment , but they also beat their brows in anguish wailing , ‘ Oh , the mutations . ’ |
| 27 | The British government er not only went along with this agreement at the time of the Edinburgh summit , they positively endorsed this arrangement er as being something that they er strongly supported and urged upon other member states in the European community er and that I think is a relevant matter with respect er Mr Deputy Speaker , I I appreciate that er there are other issues relating to these er er constituencies that are of greater concern perhaps to er honourable and right honourable members but this question of who actually is to pay for any new building in the European parliament is something that I believe the government can not avoid . |
| 28 | In his schemata of reproduction Marx suggested that if equilibrium is to subsist for total social production , then there must exist definite proportions between the two departments and proportionality in the exchanges between the two departments . |
| 29 | The company 's long-term plan is to migrate to Windows-based personal computers after establishing dominance and market share on Unix platforms starting in 1993 . |
| 30 | The artificial football pitch at Middlesbrough 's Southlands Centre is to close for further remedial work from May 27-June 5 . |