Example sentences of "[pron] [noun] [is] [to-vb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | My function is to lay before you , in a logical and detached manner , the fruits of my experience . |
| 2 | My ambition is to progress to the top 300 in the world . |
| 3 | Satisfy me about your intention and my lady 's to live at Tunbridge together . |
| 4 | Rather , my aim is to look at the kinds of assumption that informed the various strands of positivist criminology , and at the way they differed from classical assumptions in both theory and practice . |
| 5 | ‘ My job is to go on stage and make people forget about their problems — I do n't want to tell them about mine . ’ |
| 6 | My job is to go to Whitehall , not Oxford , and to read the appropriate documents , not interrogate witnesses . |
| 7 | ‘ My job is to build on what they have done . ’ |
| 8 | My policy is to vote in local elections for the person who , in my opinion , is going to serve the locality best , regardless of political views , but how can one vote without some knowledge of who is putting up for election ? |
| 9 | For avid fans of the movies my advice is to stick with The Empire Strikes Back . |
| 10 | At least ten works have already been snapped up at the private view , so my advice is to get to Billingham as soon as you can . |
| 11 | My tip is to go for really good quality ski pants in black with braces and team that with a jacket that suits your style . |
| 12 | His great purpose in your life and in my life is to reproduce in our lives , the life of Jesus Christ . |
| 13 | My will is to pay in full for all my sins . ’ |
| 14 | Their hope is to succeed as the consolidator of post-Thatcherism after the fourth election win . |
| 15 | Their function is to act as a ‘ buffer ’ between the rest of the monetary sector and the Bank of England . |
| 16 | Its function is to act as a filing system … . ’ |
| 17 | Her technique is to paint with acrylics directly on to the surface , making no preliminary drawings . |
| 18 | Its ethos is to work through existing organisations to bring about change . |
| 19 | Their technique is to look for the process known as ‘ inverse beta decay ’ , in which an electron- anti neutrino reacts with a proton to produce a positron ( positive electron ) and a neutron . |
| 20 | Wealth is only desirable in so far as it enables them to indulge in litigation , and the height of their ambition is to succeed in a case , especially if thereby their enemy is punished . ’ |
| 21 | Relaunched on a regular basis , its intention is to bring to the public 's attention the fact that many who would otherwise have valid personal injury cl aims never proceed with them . |
| 22 | Nevertheless , I think its effect is to distort in some ways the dualism set up by Proust . |
| 23 | Its effect is to expose to restraining action in the courts any local authority activity not backed by statutory authority . |
| 24 | Their crime is to protest against the day-to-day control which the Guatemalan army has exercised over their lives — an army which consumes about a third of the national budget . |
| 25 | Choreographers today also need to understand what can be called a Grammar of Choreography if their work is to emerge as a valid stage presentation . |
| 26 | I 'd heard so much about the blinking cruise being in October and not in September that I 'd considered it done and June , fool that she is , chose not to challenge me outright because her tactic is to suffer in silence until her suffering spills from her like lava , devastating everyone in its path . |
| 27 | Nonetheless , her gift is to write about her characters as if they are known to her : her stories unfold through their eyes , with no apparent authorial manipulation . |
| 28 | Its job is to look at all instruments laid before the Houses with a view to drawing the attention of the Houses to such instruments as are specified in its terms of reference . |
| 29 | The Transatlantic strategists ’ , it was claimed , ‘ do not conceal the fact that from a military point of view their aim is to create in the Persian Gulf a third centre — in addition to Western Europe and the Far East of military might outside the USA and covered by an atomic umbrella . ’ |
| 30 | His or her job is to deal with the child 's physical needs ( e.g. arising from incontinence , lack of mobility or impaired speech ) rather than to help teach the whole class . |