Example sentences of "be [to-vb] [art] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | To my mind , the major contribution of econometrics to our understanding of advertising so far has been to establish the relatively marginal effect of advertising expenditure level changes in comparison with price changes : typically , price movements relative to competition seem to account for as much as 70–80 per cent of the changes in brand shares in a market . |
| 2 | At this point we first go beyond novelty into apparent paradox , for the most outstanding achievement of nineteenth-century physics had been to establish the indubitably wave-like character of light . |
| 3 | From the time this imaginative project was conceived , the aim has been to create the most exciting and original selection of luxury homes available in Central London . |
| 4 | One prominent tendency in recent Marxist thought , therefore , has been to replace the relatively simple and precise evolutionary scheme of Marx 's 1859 Preface by a more complex and indefinite picture of the history of society in which , beyond the primitive communal stage , two broad types of society are distinguished — pre-capitalist and capitalist each of which may develop very diverse forms of economy , politics and culture . |
| 5 | A reduction in interest rates , albeit difficult given our currency 's position within the Exchange Rate Mechanism , may well be necessary if we are to avoid an even deeper recession . |
| 6 | As an experiment , U2 are to play the unfortunately titled but surprisingly attractive dance-club with ( shudder ) A Showband — Tony Stevens and his awesomely wunnerful band . |
| 7 | The best approach would have been to do the more straightforward bits first and to spend only the allocated time — 36 minutes — and no longer . |
| 8 | That alone will provide the resources that are essential if we are to build a steadily more prosperous society . |
| 9 | Education for Sustainability must lead to changes in the value systems to which we are currently wedded if we are to build a more sustainable society . |
| 10 | My task was to record it as objectively as possible and leave the reader to judge , yet not to provide some indication of the effect it had on me would be to paint a very incomplete picture . |
| 11 | The only satisfactory long-term solution must be to secure a hugely increased membership of the Association . |
| 12 | Probably the major contribution has been and will continue to be to encourage a more realistic and informed approach to social problems and matters of social policy . |
| 13 | The effect of these changes should be to create a more relevant and effective policy , not only by creating greater harmonisation with EC restrictive practices policy , but also by strengthening domestic policy through the adoption of an approach designed to combat any practice which has the effect of restricting competition , as opposed to one that places emphasis upon the form of an agreement , sometimes to the neglect of those effects . |
| 14 | Others suggest that it will be the automated machinery and systems which will take over all the routine tasks , and thus the impact of the new technology will be to require a more highly educated and trained workforce to perform complex tasks which need a high level of human decision-making skill . |
| 15 | One possible solution would be to use a weakly rational two-step estimator with the expectation being replaced by the fitted values from a prior regression of the outturn on a vector of predetermined variables . |
| 16 | My purpose here will be to give a very brief sketch of what each of the theories attempts and to direct the interested reader to a few of the many other books that do give detailed accounts and critiques of them . |
| 17 | To look to look back further to the sailing boats , no doubt would be to recall an even busier village . |
| 18 | The possible effect of this increased workload combined with the pressure on schools to find ‘ economies ’ to help them live within their budgets , might be to reduce the already meagre levels of clerical/ administrative support available to classroom teachers . |
| 19 | A full understanding of poetry requires that both principles are seen to be at work , for to analyze the laws of poetry without taking account of those of ordinary language would be to overlook the specifically verbal nature of poetry and to transform it from the domain of language to that of music . |
| 20 | Luxury would be to have a freshly laundered set every night . |
| 21 | However , the more I thought about it , the more I imagined how nice it would be to have a really fabulous holiday in Andalucía . |
| 22 | The aim at all times should be to have the most accurate estimate of the final cost . |
| 23 | However , President Ros Marsh said after the Ealing game that the club 's main aim for next season should be to get the As back into the East Super League , where Chelmsford deserved representation . |
| 24 | Not to pay at maturity , would be to say the least , extremely damaging to the bank 's credit rating and would completely destroy confidence in it . |
| 25 | Speaking in the grounds of the force 's new Divulje base outside the Croatian port of Split , he said : ‘ The aim must be to employ the more traditional British approach to international security . |
| 26 | Clearly the ornithologist must expect the evolution of agriculture to continue , and its most likely result will be to produce a much more uniform habitat with consequently a much less varied bird population than at present , composed of a comparatively few widespread and adaptable species . |
| 27 | You may still want to lose more weight and inches , and your top priority may be to achieve a much slimmer body than you have so far . |
| 28 | If we are to have a fairly well-paid reserve of unemployed people , why not have a minimum wage ? |
| 29 | We have some armchair gardening to do , a thoroughly enjoyable pastime and most important if you are to get the best from your roses . |
| 30 | If you are to get the best from our book , you must keep buying other people 's books also , and hoard them as a precious collection . |