Example sentences of "is to " in BNC.
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| 31 | The Church is to the spirit as the inn is to the flesh , and , if good and well designed , they baulk the devil himself . ’ |
| 32 | As such , they need constant updating — especially if the perceived trend towards reduced pub-going is to be reversed . |
| 33 | HOTELIERS have slammed as discriminating and illegal the confirmation that VAT is to be levied on packed lunches . |
| 34 | The whole issue is to be debated as a conference in Luxembourg in September 1992 . |
| 35 | The most common mistake with these cleaners is to be too heavy-handed , which can faintly score the surface , or to rub blades and spoon bowls in an irregular pattern and therefore cause unsightly marks . |
| 36 | Wholegrain mustard is to Dijon what wholemeal is to brown flour . |
| 37 | Wholegrain mustard is to Dijon what wholemeal is to brown flour . |
| 38 | That 's all there is to it . ’ |
| 39 | ‘ I became homeless in London so I got on a train and ended up here ; that 's all there is to it , really . ’ |
| 40 | London is different to me than it is to you . |
| 41 | Cotoneaster ‘ Hybridus Pendulus ’ is , in wildlife terms , what Ian Botham is to cricket — in the allrounder class for usefulness . |
| 42 | Few have gone through aerobatic training , and the modern tendency is to be happy with a few hours of stall avoidance training and little , if any , spinning . |
| 43 | As Okely ( 1987 : 67 ) observes , the urge to create publications is not always as crucial to others as it is to the academic . |
| 44 | And certainly that other main arm of executive control — the army — seems little better at this than the police , for the number of participant accounts of their deep structures remains negligible , supporting McCabe 's ( 1980 ) contention that we should be asking of all of these costly institutions , ‘ who is to be controlled by whom and for what reasons ? ’ |
| 45 | The emphasis of this ‘ directed ’ ( or controlled ? ) research , it was announced , ‘ is to be on pragmatic , problem-solving enquiries ’ ( i.e. policy-orientated research ) , which , it was explained , ‘ would be of cost-effective advantage to the force ’ . |
| 46 | And surely , it can be argued , the understanding of what is to be ordered and who is to be disciplined has long been defined and subject to the practical mastery of the controllers . |
| 47 | And surely , it can be argued , the understanding of what is to be ordered and who is to be disciplined has long been defined and subject to the practical mastery of the controllers . |
| 48 | But it is not just how the new consciousness is to be used which produces problems in handling this new-found wisdom ; it is the very acquisition of knowledge itself which makes the concept of self so dynamic . |
| 49 | To walk into a pub function room as I have often done during the ten years I was collecting fieldnotes and see two or three hundred detectives in their ‘ uniform ’ of modern suit and tie , neat haircut , and the fashionable moustache of the times , is to be visibly reminded that there is a narrow symbolic range of bodily correctness within which all policemen can properly operate . |
| 50 | In this search for a new spiritual awareness , they — like us — were finding new possibilities to achieve a revived sense of what it is to be truly human in the transformational experience . |
| 51 | Your eventual goal is to be able to work very hard for a full three minutes , followed after a one-minute active break by a second three-minute workout . |
| 52 | Perhaps the first step towards achieving this balance of ability is to be able to use both left and right sides with equal effectiveness . |
| 53 | The best method is to swathe the injury in crêpe bandage and secure it with tape , not a pin . |
| 54 | The physical mark of this is to be seen in the indentation between the upper lip and the nose . |
| 55 | Praised be the Lord who is to be praised for ever and ever . |
| 56 | Scobie appears to borrow the connection from an article by Sandra Djwa — ‘ Leonard Cohen : Black Romantic ’ which first appeared in 1967 , where it is more skilfully and roundly argued : ‘ Cohen 's dominant theme ( is ) , ’ she says , ‘ the relationship between experience and art , and more specifically the suggestion that the value of experience is to be found in the art of ‘ beauty ’ distilled from it … ’ |
| 57 | ( The reference to one escaping with ‘ Bach and the folk-singers ’ is to himself . ) |
| 58 | This is to the benefit of both parties . |
| 59 | The disturbing thought that motivates both theories is that , if the world is to be intelligible , it must be mind-like , in the sense that generality — the feature of thought , concepts and meanings — must in some way , run through the world itself . |
| 60 | But if a statement such as ‘ John is tall ’ is to be true , then the predicate ‘ is tall ’ must latch on to the world , just as ‘ John ’ does . |