Example sentences of "which is [to-vb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | This new PSW initiates the interrupt handling routine , a first task of which is to save the accumulator array . |
| 2 | Mr Large proposed changes to make the system work better ( see page 15 ) ; but he stopped short of the obvious answer , which is to revise the act itself . |
| 3 | But they do n't care that the only honest answer to the West Lothian Question — which is to deny the right of Scots MPs to share in legislating for England and Wales on those subjects which in Scotland have been devolved to the Scottish parliament — would render any British government unstable , since it might possess a majority on some issues but not on others . |
| 4 | In chapter 2 I discussed one of the central aims of the English curriculum , which is to extend the range of language in which children are competent . |
| 5 | That this House urges Her Majesty 's Government to use the decision to postpone the passage of the European Communities ( Amendment ) Bill as an opportunity to make a fresh start with the future development of the EEC and in particular concentrate its efforts on the chosen agenda of the British presidency which is to extend the borders of the EEC and to create a fully competitive Common Market . |
| 6 | Meanwhile Svidrigailov has taken over the suicide role , which is to say the blanket boredom has become positively terminal . |
| 7 | None of which is to say the record labels are not trying hard to stretch country where they can . |
| 8 | They take place in and indeed are sometimes identified in part by a location , which is to say the location of a person or other organism . |
| 9 | I started not having much time for the French and the Walloons , which is to say the French-speaking Belgians , when I found myself among them in 1944 . |
| 10 | We linked up with the Daily Express to help run the campaign , part of which is to champion the cause of Marine Nature Reserves . |
| 11 | Miles too had been invited to join the Arts Council 's literature panel , an offer which was promptly rescinded after Goodman got to hear of it , and which prompted a poem for page two of It on 27 February 1967 , from Adrian Mitchell , suggesting that such an appointment would ‘ disrupt the council 's true intent which is to fill the entire interior of the Royal Opera House with tins of chunkydogmeat and the rest of England with custard of the kind which thickens and grows a skin on top ’ . |
| 12 | Mrs Mary McDonald , Diocesan President , in her address to the members , reminded us of the aims and objects of the U.C.M. , one of which is to uphold the Sacramental Dignity of Marriage and to maintain Christian values in family life . |
| 13 | As you know , SCOTVEC and colleges have been engaged in an extensive development plan , the aim of which is to transform the approach to the Advanced Courses provision . |
| 14 | He must tighten that clause and accept the argument that he claimed to be attempting to grasp , which is to target the offence on violent offenders . |
| 15 | Erm , and therefore you 're thrown back at er finding something else , this sort of vague compromise of director of this that or this that and the other , er , er , appeared , and er it seems to me A long winded , er but also , it indicates something against what you 've already tried to do , which is to merge the two together . |
| 16 | For example , if you wish to create a new Charge Code 1234 for your LSLIVE process , which is to use the directory $DISK7 : [ CONFIG_MAN.LIFESPAN.LSLIVE.S1234 ] , follow this procedure : |
| 17 | The policy of Her Majesty 's Government , which is to support the efforts of the Secretary-General of the United Nations is the wisest policy for both the British Government and other Governments in the Community . |
| 18 | According to Dr Declan Murphy , project director in Washington , Rome has not forgotten this help and despite a certain weariness engendered by the numerous calls for loans of 1492 material received last year , it cooperated enthusiastically with Washington over the exhibition ( which is to mark the reopening of the Great Hall of the Library of Congress after a three-year renovation ) . |
| 19 | The term ‘ flight recorder ’ is normally taken to include both the flight data recorder ( FDR ) which records the value of selected flight parameters like airspeed , altitude , magnetic heading , etc. and the cockpit voice recorder ( CVR ) , the primary purpose of which is to record the crew conversation . |
| 20 | The finished case is thrown upon the floor ; the long narrow strip which is to form the frame of the drawer is laid upon the bright strip of ready-pasted paper , then bent together and joined by an overlapping bit of paper ; the edges of paper below are bent flat , the ready-cut bottom is dropped in and pressed down and before the fingers are withdrawn they fold over the upper edges of the paper inside the top . |
| 21 | The former makes for a flexibility in design and allows for local idiosyncrasies , while the latter are slightly quicker and ensure that the craftsman spends less time working in the room which is to receive the decoration . |
| 22 | Right item three which is to receive the accounts for the year ending thirtieth September nineteen ninety two and report of the auditors . |
| 23 | A push button switches in the amp 's ‘ Enhance ’ circuitry , the effect of which is to condition the high order harmonics of the distorted sound , reputedly offering a less ‘ fizzy ’ tone than one might expect from a transistor amp . |
| 24 | Spadefoot toads have a number of anti-predator tactics , one of which is to inflate the lungs and hence the body , which may fool the snake into thinking the toad is larger than it really is and act as a deterrent . |
| 25 | Commercial Manager Richard Waterhouse and his father Rom , explained the long term aim , which is to purchase the remaining section of the former North Staffordshire Railway Churnet Valley line from Leekbrook Junction to Oakmoor Sand Sidings ( Hepworth Minerals Moneystone Quarry ) . |
| 26 | To obtain interest relief on loans to subscribe shares in a Newco which is to purchase the business of , rather than shares in , Target , it appears that management no longer has the difficulty of persuading the Revenue that Newco " exists wholly or mainly for the purpose of carrying on a trade … " , as required by s13A(2) ( a ) . |
| 27 | The fact of canonization puts any work beyond questions of establishing its merit and , instead , invites students to offer only increasingly more ingenious readings and interpretations , the purpose of which is to validate the greatness already imputed by the canonization . |
| 28 | The problems of valuation and banding will also be compounded by the Government 's proposed method of valuation , which is to give the job to people such as estate agents who have a vested interest in ensuring that the valuations are as high as possible . |
| 29 | He takes her to live in the Valley of Paradise , where all her desires are met except one , which is to see the face of her husband . |
| 30 | SCOTVEC and centres have been engaged in an extensive development plan , the aim of which is to explore the issues which arose from the Consultative Paper of February 1987 ( ‘ SCOTVEC Higher Education Provision ’ ) and which were detailed in the Policy Paper ( ‘ Advanced Courses Development Programme : A Policy Paper — March 1988 ’ ) . |