Example sentences of "[adv] [pers pn] is to " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Perhaps it is to be applied to some kind of child 's toy — a gunpowder-propelled kite ! ’ |
| 2 | So it is to Mr Binyon that I owe , initially , |
| 3 | So it is to them , the creators of American literature , that I look for clarification about the invention and effect of Africanism in the United States . |
| 4 | Young sculptors seem generally indifferent to its lures and so it is to veterans in the field that one must look for nourishment . |
| 5 | So it is to the consequences of structural change for the economics of global competition and the adjustments of firms ' strategies that we now turn . |
| 6 | Whichever explanation is revealed by the major research effort that is still needed for the rest of the 1980s , the population changes discussed above have also had a major impact on rural communities , and so it is to this topic that attention is now turned . |
| 7 | So it is to most fish 's advantage to grow to their maximum size as quickly as possible . |
| 8 | So it is to be business as usual . |
| 9 | In this he suggests that description in terms of either permissiveness or control would be too simple and too binary , and thus it is to the nature of reformism that one must look . |
| 10 | Local knowledge matters in these firms , it supports innovation , and thus it is to be fostered . |
| 11 | To the idealist , the whole world is a manifestation of a rational pattern in the mind of its Creator , and thus it is to be expected that natural forms should reveal a harmony and an underlying unity . |
| 12 | Third , a purely training model is inherently mechanistic and conservative : the task to be accomplished is given , assumed ; the training consists of instruction as to how best it is to be accomplished . |
| 13 | WHEN 20 representatives of the South African Cricket Union and the National Sports Congress sit down together in a Johannesburg hotel tonight it is to be hoped that among them is someone with the wisdom of Solomon . |
| 14 | There is no further mention of Ambrosia in the records , and possibly she is to be identified with the ‘ Dame Ambroise de Saint-Joire ’ named in 1288 among the first entrants to the Carthusian nunnery of Melan ( Haute-Savoie ) founded in 1282 by Beatrice de Faucigny . |
| 15 | Also it is to be noted that all the property given to the donee by the donor will be dutiable if the donor retains any benefit , etc and not just an apportioned part quantified with respect to the benefit . |
| 16 | Now it is to be sold , along with snaps of the late Mirror newspaper tycoon with Ronald Reagan valued at up to £300 . |
| 17 | Some writers appear still to feel that the criterion remains one of recognition by the government of this country , the difference being that , whereas before 1980 the government would say expressly whether it recognised the foreign government , now it is to be left to be ascertained as a matter of inference : see Professor J. Crawford ‘ Decisions of British Courts during 1985–86 involving questions of Public or Private International Law ’ ( 1986 ) 57 B.Y . |
| 18 | After we have chosen the appropriate remedy to give in LM form , the first choice , after the potency , is how much of the granule is the patient to take i.e. the dose , how often it is to be repeated and for how many days are they to be on that particular potency . |
| 19 | Equally it is to be welcomed that two major attempts have been made to address the general nature of Conservative ideology . |
| 20 | Increasingly it is to be found and in a number of different forms . |
| 21 | Well it is to a certain extent it 's a bit of a typing pool as well as a sales office but in |
| 22 | Certain features , such as high rigidity ( modulus ) and impact strength , combined with low creep characteristics are desirable in a polymer if eventually it is to be subjected to loading . |
| 23 | Rather it is to be encouraged as a means to improving economic efficiency , where ‘ efficiency ’ is defined in terms of partial equilibrium welfare economics , that is the maximization of the sum of the discounted present value of consumer and producer surpluses ( Hay and Morris , 1991 , Chs. 16 and 17 ) . |
| 24 | Planning is the managerial process of deciding in advance what is to be done and how it is to be done . |
| 25 | You must now determine what financial help you need ( including Government subsidies for such things as new buildings , fencing , hedging , hill cattle , and sheep ) , what it will cost , and how it is to be repaid . |
| 26 | Legislation has put the matter beyond doubt in eight jurisdictions in the United States and elsewhere — for example , in France.15 In the United Kingdom , although some advocate legislation , it is likely that the new description will merely be incorporated into the law without more.16 The acceptance of brain-stem death may resolve a number of problems , but there is still the problem of how it is to be established in a particular case . |
| 27 | How it is to be supplied is however a matter of controversy . |
| 28 | It is important to consider what sort of data we shall be using and how it is to be obtained before we become over-committed to the project . |
| 29 | This means that it is important that all those likely to be affected by the introduction of new technology should be involved in the decisions about how it is to be used . |
| 30 | If , for example , I am engaged in reading a text on a subject in which I am well versed ( where the ideational or content schema is familiar ) , which has been written in a manner conventionally associated with writing on this subject ( where the interpersonal or formal schema is familiar ) , then I shall only need to pay attention to the linguistic signs to the extent that they key in this schematic knowledge and indicate how it is to be extended . |