Example sentences of "'s [noun] [is] [to-vb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Hill 's hope is to stay with Williams , but if not , to be in a competitive car . |
| 2 | Barwick 's intention is to stick with cutters . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | If they doubt that , there is an ominous warning in today 's London Times : ‘ Their actions will only increase the mounting pressure upon British politicians to wash their hands entirely of the Irish dilemma ; to imitate the IRA 's tactics is to play into its hands . ’ |
| 5 | The problem can also arise where Y takes goods from X under a sale of goods contract which contains a retention of title clause , i.e. a clause stating that Y is not to become the owner unless and until he has paid for them and that if Y re-sells them before paying for them , X 's ownership is to transfer from the goods to the proceeds of the re-sale received by Y. Suppose Y sells the goods to Z before he has paid X for them . |
| 6 | And it would seem to me that unless this morning 's exercise which has been so rewarding and so profitable unless this morning 's exercise is to dissipate into another piece of feeling and er pleasurable discussion then we ought to take quite seriously the , the words of Jesus . |
| 7 | The critic 's skill is to identify for each and every work just what the various priorities are , and apply those criteria uniformly to every version . |
| 8 | There the Church 's work is to point to Jesus the Messiah and his death , and to sin , and to judgement . |
| 9 | ‘ As you may guess , his Grace 's business is to do with the fellow who rode in here yesterday morning . |
| 10 | The author 's job is to know about literature ; what he might or might not know about life is irrelevant to that job . |
| 11 | Having decided the touring period and the size of halls a band will play , the agent 's job is to work with local promoters to determine the ticket price . |
| 12 | It is also worth remembering that the way to hold someone 's attention is to look at them . |
| 13 | A further way of introducing some purpose to a day 's sailing is to experiment with different ways of doing things , since you can only be sure that you have found the best way by deliberately trying different ways . |
| 14 | Eubank 's priority is to recover from a badly-bruised right forearm , sustained as early as the second round of a unanimous victory which stretched his winning sequence to 35 . |
| 15 | Indeed , even in the as yet relatively non-totalitarian welfare states of the West some have already discerned the same paternalistic and enslaving trend : ‘ government 's role is to serve as a parent charged with the duty of coercing some to aid others , ’ while government-funded welfare programmes ‘ put some people in a position to decide what is good for other people . |
| 16 | Part of the presenter 's role is to watch for good photo opportunities as they arise spontaneously in the course of events . |
| 17 | The Enterprise Centre 's role is to act as a catalyst to encourage further development of live project work so that an increasing number of students get an opportunity to tackle this special combination of project work and contact with industry and to co-ordinate the evaluation of the ‘ Live Projects ’ scheme . |
| 18 | And the panel 's role is to report on those issues . |
| 19 | The clinician 's role is to bring into focus some areas that parents may not have thought affected the problem . |
| 20 | Wedgwood 's policy is to comply with all legislative requirements and to make the workplace as comfortable as possible for VDU users . |
| 21 | As to the range of fish available , Ken 's policy is to buy in four to six-inch high grade Japanese Koi and grow them on under cover for a year before they go on sale . |
| 22 | With Kuwait 's refinery capacity going up to 664,000 barrels of oil per day by the end of 1986 , KPC 's policy is to look for further outlets . |
| 23 | The Government 's objective is to work towards freer trade in gas throughout Europe . |
| 24 | Today 's objective is to focus on its core chemical operations groups such as adhesives and paints and to be among the leaders in each business in which it operates . |
| 25 | Quite obviously the playwright has largely pre-empted negotiation of this kind ; also , a theatrical performance can hardly be said to be a social interaction in a normal sense as the actor 's concern is to describe to someone outside the interaction on stage — to the spectator . |
| 26 | In the first year Armstrong 's concern is to go for a minimum safe agenda — ‘ make sure clients are safe and then build on that . ’ |
| 27 | The emperor 's approach is to adhere to that principle and hold the trust to be valid in so far as it does not conflict with it : that is , as far as the daughter benefited under her father 's will . |
| 28 | A GRIEVING family 's plea to be allowed to have a teddy bear carved on their daughter 's gravestone is to go to the Bishop of Chelmsford . |
| 29 | A monograph on an artist who practises in several fields can be unusually interesting , since the writer 's brief is to write with equal competence on different topics . |
| 30 | From Isafjördur the best way to explore Iceland 's north-west is to jump on one of Ernir Air 's mail planes . |