Example sentences of "[noun pl] is to " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Fourth Interamerican Film Festival of Indigenous Peoples is to be held in Lima and Cuzco 17–26 June . |
| 2 | A good account of test methods is to be found in Ferry ( 1980 ) and in Read & Dean ( 1978 ) . |
| 3 | The tax treatment of companies ' foreign exchange gains and losses is to be reformed , and the Government has now authorised the preparation of draft legislation . |
| 4 | Finally , the effort required of readers is to some extent always dependent on the amount of energy they are prepared to expend in any given situation . |
| 5 | As Fazzi Brothers is to Glasgow and the west of Scotland , the magisterial Italian food and wine merchant Valvona and Crolla is to Edinburgh and the east . |
| 6 | Direct selling in customers ' homes is to some extent accepted practice for a number of consumer product groups such as perfumes , cosmetics and toiletries but remains an area of unexplored potential for a number of others . |
| 7 | Third , if the crude mechanism of totting up the votes for different parties is to be employed for the purpose of supporting a specific contention , there is the inconvenient fact that 79 per cent of those who voted in Scotland backed parties that wish to maintain the Union . |
| 8 | In general , however , the intention of the parties is to be ascertained from the words of the lease itself and oral evidence will not be admitted to vary or contradict the written document . |
| 9 | Undoubtedly , as a general rule , the seller wants to get the highest price for his property , and the purchaser wishes to give the lowest , and in that sense it may be said that an expected difference between the parties is to be implied in every case , but unless a difference has actually arisen , it does not appear to me to be an " arbitration " . |
| 10 | No new applications for dolphin hunting will be accepted , and the number of licensed vessels is to be reduced from 600 to 540 . |
| 11 | If the achievement of specific goals is to be assessed , then they need to be observable ; if they are to be observable they need to be framed in terms of specific student behaviours . |
| 12 | Additional funding to help developing countries in particular meet these goals is to be co-ordinated by the Global Environment Facility ( GEF ) , jointly administered by the World Bank , and the UN 's Development and Environment Programmes ( UNDP and UNEP ) . |
| 13 | In major enumerative schemes , synthesis is often controlled by careful instructions regarding citation order and the way in which the notation for complex subjects is to be built up from its components . |
| 14 | The full list of entries is to be announced on Friday , but organiser Wally Lord has already promised a line-up ‘ equal to that at Barcelona last year ’ . |
| 15 | A notable example of outside training and assistance from the educational sectors is to be found in a project which was run from the Department of Architecture and Building Science at the University of Strathclyde entitled ‘ User Education in the construction industry ; the development and promotion of a comprehensive teaching framework for information management as an integral part of construction course curricula . |
| 16 | AN INQUIRY into the rates credit card companies charge shops is to be carried out by the Office of Fair Trading . |
| 17 | A new Moneysavers magazine containing discount coupons to use in shops is to be launched . |
| 18 | Creation of an " environmental catastrophe response unit " is being discussed and a database of scientists with expertise to help in environmental emergencies is to be set up . |
| 19 | Nor can it be said simply that " this " in language A means " that " in language B. If the meaning of words is to be determined accurately , the following basic principles of semantics ( " the science of meaning " ) must be understood and applied : 1 . |
| 20 | Apart from making random forecasting errors , the only way to affect real variables is to continually surprise people by deliberately fostering ‘ unstable ’ macro policies ; but this is counterproductive . |
| 21 | The constraint for social workers wanting to do family work with elderly clients is to be allowed the time to do it at all . |
| 22 | The piano works of Igor Stravinsky are not well represented on CD , so the re-issue of Michel Béroff 's recordings is to be welcomed with open arms . |
| 23 | Tax paid on new cars is to be abolished from midnight reducing average prices by around four hundred pounds . |
| 24 | … the Messiah is to suffer death and to rise from the dead on the third day , and … in his name repentance bringing the forgiveness of sins is to be proclaimed to all nations ( Luke 24:46 ) . |
| 25 | If this is true , it is the more important that active approaches and positive attitudes prevail , if enjoyment in books is to be kept alive in the face of more passive forms of entertainment . |
| 26 | The response to the dilemma by a growing number of schools is to completely abandon the sale of food at breaks and to look to other means to generate funds . |
| 27 | A SECOND ballot on the future of one of Merseyside 's largest Catholic schools is to be held , following an invalid vote by parents . |
| 28 | If the picture painted in the preceding paragraphs is to be believed , it seems to follow that there are serious grounds for alarm . |
| 29 | Among the final paragraphs is to be found the following : |
| 30 | The affidavit evidence of the defendants is to the effect that they did not understand that executing a further charge was prohibited by the order . |