Example sentences of "a [noun] [is] [to-vb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The New Testament knows nothing of a separation of the individual from the Church ; to be a Christian is to belong to the body ; to be baptized into Christ is to be incorporated into his people . |
| 2 | Porfiry means that he does n't really believe in his theory ; to wonder if he is a Napoleon is to prove to himself that he is n't . |
| 3 | If a car is to remain on the road , basic checks and adjustments need to be made regularly . |
| 4 | If a marriage is to survive as a healthy and beneficial partnership for the second half of life , these remembered wrongs must be dealt with . |
| 5 | To become mother to a child is to step into a universal role , to be type-cast by the world at large and even by one 's own children . |
| 6 | A council is to appeal against Government plans to cut its spending by nearly ten million pounds . |
| 7 | If a transfer is to benefit from the £250,000 threshold , the instrument must be executed before 20 August . |
| 8 | The remedy of a chargee is to apply to the court for an order for sale or for the appointment of a receiver . |
| 9 | Another way of looking at a site is to concentrate on its plan , and to see how this changes with time . |
| 10 | The human element which is so much a part of the informal approach must be standardized if a team is to operate as a unit . |
| 11 | ‘ The office of a sample is to present to the eye the real meaning and intention of the parties with regard to the subject-matter of the contract which , owing to the imperfection of language , it may be difficult or impossible to express in words . |
| 12 | For this is to stipulate that Lenin 's three criteria must be satisfied if a whole is to count as a complex one . |
| 13 | The purpose of a showcase is to perform in ideal conditions to an audience mainly of music business professionals whom you have invited . |
| 14 | [ 5.1 5(a) ] , is proportional to the total phase resistance ( R ) , so if a motor is to operate at high speeds its drive circuit must include large forcing resistances . |
| 15 | If a society is to live by such primary rules alone , there are certain conditions which , granted a few of the most obvious truisms about human nature and the world we live in , must clearly be satisfied . |
| 16 | In connection with that incident a man is to appear in court . |
| 17 | by enacting that a licence is to come into effect on the day it is granted or renewed ( subss. ( 1 ) and ( 2 ) ) . |
| 18 | And I think it 's very important that people can come and talk to you and some representative 's of the board because there is unrest Tom and I 'm not prepared to stick my neck out and say in what quarter this lies but it can be got over it can be ironed out because running a theatre is to do with team spirit and that team spirit get 's conveyed to the public . |
| 19 | A bill is to go before the Commons to allow boys under fourteen years old to face rape charges . |
| 20 | Behind this question seems to be the idea that to talk of the ‘ meaning ’ of a word is to talk of some thing — either some thing in the world , which the word stands for , or some thing in the mind of the person who utters the word and in the mind of the person who hears it . |
| 21 | But the idea that to talk of the ‘ meaning ’ of a word is to talk of some thing does not seem to apply to the use we have been considering of the word ‘ here ’ . |
| 22 | For all but a few types the LOB corpus alone is too small a source from which to reliably derive information about how likely a word is to belong to a particular grammatical category ( many words in the LOB occur just once ) . |
| 23 | A YOUTH is to appear before Teesside Magistrates charged with starting a £50,000 hospital fire . |
| 24 | It is important that the planning process should define how a project is to move from the current position to the desired future position , i.e. the action needed to achieve objectives . |
| 25 | Thus , in summary , the first duty of a doctor is to listen to and respect the wishes of his patient . |
| 26 | THE doctor convicted of attempting to murder a patient is to return to his old job . |
| 27 | If such a structure is to work in practice then it is necessary to keep the teams comparatively small so that they can work together as a unit . |
| 28 | A factory which has supplied the army , navy and air force with uniforms for over half a century is to close with the loss of ( 95 ) ninety five jobs . |
| 29 | The probable reason for a wild cat entering a house is to look for food ; but this was the lambing season with plentiful big-cat food in all directions . |
| 30 | I did not have the time for this myself , but clearly , a solution is to lie in wait for this photograph on one of those days when the time of performance does not coincide with the time of sunset ! |