Example sentences of "[noun] [is] [to-vb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Porfiry means that he does n't really believe in his theory ; to wonder if he is a Napoleon is to prove to himself that he is n't . |
| 2 | The reader 's only remedy is to go to the exhibition . |
| 3 | If your stomach feels tender and you have a slight temperature ( cystitis is an infection ) the best remedy is to go to bed with a hot water bottle wrapped in a towel against your stomach . |
| 4 | Once the right to reject the goods has lapsed , the buyer 's only remedy is to sue for damages for breach of contract . |
| 5 | Another way of learning vocabulary by direct association is to participate in local activities , and find out the names of objects , actions , processes , etc. , " on the job " . |
| 6 | Your report today ( earlier editions ) on Berwickshire District Council 's plans to sell 2,200 council houses makes interesting reading , especially as the proposed housing association is to operate at arms length . |
| 7 | The current thinking is to sell off freight services first . |
| 8 | There will be family backing — no doubt the McTavish branch will be muscling in on the act , if Deirdre is to act as captain . |
| 9 | The effect of the new subsection is to cater for this problem by limiting the amount of the capital sum which can be brought into charge to income tax upon the settlor where a loan is repaid . |
| 10 | But you got to have Saturday 's to start with . |
| 11 | But you got to have Saturday 's to start with but you got |
| 12 | A new £250,000 refuge for Cleveland 's Asian women fleeing from violent husbands is to open without an official ceremony in order to safeguard its residents . |
| 13 | Only 5 games ; - ) Another ‘ famous ’ thing in football is to wait until at least xmas . |
| 14 | SINGER Cathy Dennis is to star in an episode of Beverly Hills 90210 . |
| 15 | An alternative and equally fruitful approach to the study of power in organizations is to concentrate on the formal structure of authority and look for correspondence between this and patterns of social relations within the type of society in which the organization is located . |
| 16 | The corollary for the trainer is to look for patterns which exist in complex material and introduce the trainee to the patterns as well as to the separate facts . |
| 17 | Reminiscence is to do with getting people to use parts of their memory that actually do work . |
| 18 | Darlington Rucksack Club is to go on a moderate going circular walk around Castle Bolton tomorrow , starting from Darlington Market Place at 9am . |
| 19 | Darlington Rucksack Club is to go on a moderate going circular walk around Castle Bolton tomorrow . |
| 20 | If the problem is to be resolved now , the only option open to the Killinchy Club is to try for a date outside of the month of May 1994 , which would leave all the options open for any North West date . |
| 21 | So far about 400 hectares of land have been reclaimed and the programme is to continue for as long as is necessary . |
| 22 | The primary purpose of any public relations programme is to act on opinion . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | If as part of the task you specify the effect the programme is to have on the audience , you are building in the criteria by which that audience can judge the programme and you are giving them a purpose in viewing . |
| 25 | Many readers will be aware that because of a lower than expected settlement for the civil service in the Chancellor 's 1990 Autumn Statement , higher than expected inflation , and exchange rate effects on international subscriptions , SERC has announced that certain activities will have to be curtailed if the Council 's programme is to stay within its budget . |
| 26 | This would at least have allowed the dollar banana firms , such as Chiquita , to import as much as they want , and it is not clear how the dollar banana quota is to cope with a possible increase in demand . |
| 27 | One of them needs Pond 's to look after it . |
| 28 | It is clear that one of the challenges of molecular systematics is to deal with sequence data of ancient and possibly highly specialized lineages . |
| 29 | ‘ The iniquity of the Amorite ’ , wrote Austin Farrer , ‘ is at length full , and the progeny of Hoskyns is to return on the third decade to the Promised land . ’ |
| 30 | If it is assumed that the alternative to investing in equity is to invest in bonds , then , in the long run , it would be expected that the returns to these two investments would be equal after allowing for risk differentials . |