Example sentences of "[conj] [pron] [is] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In terms of historical change , manual workers of both sexes work today almost as many hours each week as they did in the late 1930s and early 1940s ; this demonstrates the fact that , where available , overtime is a crucial necessity for the manual worker if he or she is to receive a wage at or above the ‘ average ’ for all manual occupations . |
| 2 | Every choreographer must have a motive if he or she is to give proper thought , impetus and significance to the movements made by the dancers whether : they are telling a story ; describing and/or expressing the thoughts behind a theme ; or interpreting music either by expressing personal feelings about the melody and rhythm or by so framing the dance that it parallels the music and reveals its structure . |
| 3 | In general , the lower an individual 's class position , the more likely he or she is to leave school at the minimum leaving age and the less likely to aspire and strive for a highly rewarded position . |
| 4 | Bean , writing a year later in 1984 , supported this view by saying that ‘ when the adopted child is an older child who has already acquired a cultural background and a set of cultural responses , these will have to be unlearned if he or she is to acquire a new cultural identity ’ . |
| 5 | If there is a dispute between people as to where children should live or who is to have contact with the children then magistrates can make the appropriate residence orders or contact orders . |
| 6 | But first there are further instructions about how the Passover is to be celebrated , who may join in , and where it is to take place . |
| 7 | However , we will certainly look very carefully indeed at the qualifications and at the control of any potential incinerator and where it is to go , should one come forward in Northern Ireland . |
| 8 | Fennel can be grown from seed sown in spring where it is to remain . |
| 9 | It should be sown where it is to grow , as it transplants badly , and thinned to 23cm ( 9in ) each way . |
| 10 | And the woman respected for her concern for the sick and deprived is told : ‘ Not to love is not to live , or it is to live a living death . |
| 11 | Who or what is to blame for the production of this sex monster who terrorised five counties for nearly six months ? |
| 12 | Excuse me I have to say Princess Diana yesterday stunned the world announcing that she is to quit public life . |
| 13 | Alison Halford has dropped her sex discrimination case against Merseyside Police and announced that she is to retire on medical grounds with a lump sum payment and pension . |
| 14 | Not , of course , that she is to know that , and not , of course , that I shall tell her . |
| 15 | The Princess of Wales has announced that she is to cut dramatically the number of public duties she performs . |
| 16 | The angel goes on to inform Mary that she is to have a child . |
| 17 | But Wallasey MP Angela Eagle said today that she is to raise the matter in Parliament . |
| 18 | But Wallasey MP Angela Eagle said today that she is to raise the matter in Parliament . |
| 19 | However , I regret that it does not appear that she is to address the Council of Europe , of which the hon. Gentleman and I are Assembly members . |
| 20 | She confirmed at the weekend that she is to try for election to Europe in next year 's polls in the Conservative marginal Euro-constituency of Bedfordshire South . |
| 21 | Mrs Thatcher will today announce that she is to double the British contribution of £3 million to the UN Environment Project in Nairobi and give new money to tropical rain forest schemes . |
| 22 | ‘ So she 's to see a head man , is she ? |
| 23 | Or that one is to continue to believe in the biblical God despite all experiences to the contrary , that is to say believe that God is bound up with a religion and a community in which women are counted inferior ( in which case one is attempting to believe in an evil God ) ? |
| 24 | Can you adjust your memory of our time together , now that you know all that there is to know ? |
| 25 | One realises from studying the affairs surrounding the Maxwell Group that the Opposition know everything that there is to know about sleaze . |
| 26 | that there is to know about |
| 27 | When it 's a cold , wet , miserable day and all that there is to look forward to is another day at the office dream on , is what I say . |
| 28 | Of course there is no obligation to use the language of algebra in this way any more than there is to use the symbol x in solving problems involving quadratic equations : as mentioned earlier the Babylonians readily solved such problems writing down everything in longhand . |
| 29 | He wrote of this machine in 1912 : ‘ there is no more reason to ascribe the heliotropic reactions of lower animals to any form of sensation , e.g. of brightness or colour or pleasure or curiosity , than there is to ascribe the heliotropic reactions of Mr Hammond 's machine to such sensations . ’ |
| 30 | People are people and there is more in common than there is to separate them . |