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Example sentences of "[adj] be [to-vb] [pron] [noun sg] " in BNC.

No	Sentence
1	The easiest way to ensure this is to leave your computer in the box !
2	The competitive Durham sides of recent years are rightly given much space , for this is to mark their elevation .
3	A worrying thing at the moment is as I said we 're in close contact with is that the Malaysian Government is sending representatives over to visit the European Community Ministers in May , to try and say that there 's absolutely nothing wrong with what 's going on in their country with the logging , and they 're saying that people like Friends of the Earth are calling for a ban on timber , not because they care about sustained yield , but because we want to be able to sell our own wood , and this is to depress their trade .
4	The way do does this is to represent its support as receiving the incidence of the actualization of the infinitive event in the time-stretch expressed by the auxiliary .
5	One way of doing this is to structure your paragraph as : First sentence ( topic sentence ) , makes the main claim of the paragraph ( and tries also to link the paragraph with what came before ) + subsequent sentences : justify or illustrate the claim ;
6	For this is to understand my experience in a certain way , a way that others can challenge and ask me to explain .
7	The best way to train for this is to have your partner hold a plastic foam impact pad against his chest .
8	The objective in 1993 is to make our budget , which is achievable providing we stop scoring own goals as we have done in th Northern Area of Wimpey Asphalt and the Eastern Area of Wimpey Hobbs over the last two years .
9	This was to give it movement and life and to ensure that the focus of attention was never blurred tor the audience .
10	The only way to dispel this was to drop their skinhead supporters — and this they did .
11	Ironically , I would argue cynically , the only way I could become acceptable was to turn my illness into a piece of work at one level .
12	Ironically , I would argue cynically , the only way I could become acceptable was to turn my illness into a piece of work at one level .
13	The second was to get my knitting room organised and the third was to buy a second machine ( a chunky ) .
14	Once these are to hand your Committee can decide whether or not we can afford the additional cost of up-grading the quality of the signs .
15	If James II were to recapture his throne , it would have to be by force , as the result of a successful foreign invasion , but William 's government proved more than a match , putting down the Jacobite rebellions in Scotland and Ireland , and defeating the prospect of a French-backed invasion with victory at La Hogue in 1692 .
16	Now News at Ten is to revamp its image and that revamp includes , for the first time in 25 years , the newsreader going solo .
17	In these early days there were various mottos : the first was to keep their eye off numbers , the second was to have fun , the third was not to recruit anyone and the fourth was not to defend themselves .
18	The point that my hon. Friend has made was graphically illustrated by the hon. Member for Livingston ( Mr. Cook ) , who is reported as having said that if Labour were to introduce its devolution plans he could not act as Secretary of State for Health for England and Wales .
19	The planning movement of the 1930s was to find its apotheosis in the conduct of the war and the plans for post-war reconstruction in almost every field from social security to new town development .
20	In literature either a device is presented exclusively for its defamiliarizing effect , or else it may be motivated — that is to say its presence as a device is disguised by a veneer of realism .
21	THERE is interest in society circles that William Waldegrave , the Cabinet minister responsible for pushing through the Citizens Charter , wears a signet ring on his right ( that is to say his wrong ) hand .
22	As we saw just now in that passage in Isaiah 63 , the Spirit is the personal expression of God himself , and can be grieved : he is holy , not only the divine power but the moral character of God : he is God in action for the benefit of his people — notice how the Spirit is equated with the ‘ arm ’ of Yahweh , that is to say his saving activity .
23	Mr replied that is what Mr was asking the other to do , that is to hold their hand and to enter into negotiations , now I fully appreciate that erm doctor feels strongly that the defendants have not been negotiating in good faith and have been simply dragging matters out for his benefit , now when I say that I 'm simply saying what I understand to be doctor view , I 'm certainly not suggesting that I 'm finding as a fact , but that was the decision , indeed I could n't cos I 've not heard all the evidence on this matter not as Mr to address me on that one , it seems to me with all respect to doctor missions on this matter that if there has been any dragging of feet or other improper conduct of either the defendants in connection with er they remain on in the premises and not paying what doctor would consider to be a full and proper rent or if there has been problem about their not disclosing documents when they should have done , the position is that doctor has er by making an appropriate application to the court , for maybe the appropriate relief arising out of the facts which he can establish , but that is not in general a matter which erm the court should go into on the question of taxation , it 's not , th this particular taxation of costs is a taxation as I understand it that are formally to the debt of the order of Mr Justice and there is thus no question of the court having to consider the question when the those tax those costs have been swollen or increased in any way by reason of spinning out negotiations whether to run up costs or otherwise , that simply does n't arising it seems to me in this case that maybe a matter which may arise possibly at some future date , though I would hope it would not do so , but er so far as the costs down to the end of the trial of the twentieth of March nineteen ninety one are concerned , it seems to me the fact that the parties maybe negotiating subsequently to deter to rece to resolve the outstanding issue , it 's not a matter which really goes to the question of erm what is the proper amount to allow for taxation of costs which have already been incurred , before these negotiations erm we do n't the figure of the costs appears to have been effectively agreed between the solicitors at forty two thousand pounds , the plaintiff solicitors made it quite clear that they were seeking interest , this was clear in apparently of nineteen ninety two , but this held their hand , er it seems to me the reason they held their hand rather than indicate it was because the defendant through his solicitor was asking them to do so and it seems to me that Mr was acting very sensibly in the defendants interest , because if in fact they had gone ahead and taxed their costs there and then the position would simply be that there would of been an award for taxation , in order , there would be a taxation resulting in an order for payment of of some cost probably in the region of forty two thousand pounds and er that order would itself carry interest under the judgements act , it does n't seem to me it can be sensibly said that erm any interest has to be in any way increased by reason of this delay and it seems to me that erm if one looks at order sixty two and twenty eight er certainly under paragraph B two erm there 's a reference there to any additional interest payable under section seventeen because of the failure on the May , erm , it does n't seem to me that the effect of what has in fact incurred , in this case has been , caused any additional interest to be paid and er it seems to me the only best that I can see in the evidence before me to , which would enable the court to erm , conclude that there should be a disallowance of interest would be as I say because the plaintiffs appear not to have perfected the order for the payment of perfectively two years , just over two years , erm it seems to me however that , that on balance probably it simply a matter of oversight and even if it had been perfected it would n't of made as I guess the least bit of difference to the way the negotiations er proceeded and accordingly I take the view that erm there are no grounds for disallowing interest from either the plaintiffs bill of costs or the defendants bill of costs , accordingly erm to allow the defendants appeal in preparation to the disallowance of costs er interest and to dismiss the defendants appeal for application in relation to an additional period , P sixty of course disallowed , I also propose to dismiss the sum of , the appeal by the plaintiffs from the refusal of taxing master to disallow the interest on the defendants bill of costs .
24	That is to feed my body through the hole left by the sidescreen until my head collides with whoever is in the passenger 's seat and then wriggle and squeeze my legs down either side of the steering wheel .
25	You 're paying for the hairdresser 's services and part of that is to receive whatever information about your hair you need .
26	Since this is the nature of the economic environment within which the agent operates it is rational for the agent to use that information about her environment to draw inferences from the information that she has about the current state of the economy , that is to solve her signal extraction problem .
27	A company may attempt to measure the degree to which the market is sensitive to price changes , that is to understand its price elasticity .
28	For Clark to bracket the self with trees and cats as something nameable is to mistake its use .
29	This was met with a reply of condonation , that 's to say his behaviour in Reno had demonstrated that he had forgiven his wife whatever actions on her part had forced him to seek a divorce in the first place .
30	‘ That 's to make him shit , ’ he said .