Example sentences of "is [adv] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He wrote in an essay published in 1937 that an artist must lead a " commonplace life " if he is properly to do his work . |
| 2 | However , this is unusual and the role of the surviving L3 is rather to infect calves at a level which produces patent subclinical infection and ensures contamination of the pasture for the rest of the grazing season . |
| 3 | Its purpose , he argued , is not to supply immediate or direct knowledge of God ; it is rather to enable the overcoming , with God 's help , of the contradictions which run through human existence . |
| 4 | This is not to say that PGCE ( and in-service ) tutors do not attempt to develop ‘ professional ’ rather than ‘ craftsman ’ knowledge and attitudes , it is rather to say that the professional knowledge is built on shaky foundations . |
| 5 | The point is rather to stress the limits of state action . |
| 6 | The aim of the symposium is rather to situate Panofsky in history ; that is to say , we are not asking whether his methods are still applicable and relevant . |
| 7 | It is rather to point up the intense cultural sensitivity to the face as a motif in western representation . |
| 8 | This is not to deny that plan-making is a very valuable function of our local authorities ; it is rather to point out that the existing powers to implement their plans are restricted by the price that the market puts on some land , and by the fact that the planners ' resource is in the hands of private owners rather than at the disposal of the community . |
| 9 | Moreover , I shall not try to determine what kind of phenomenon consciousness is ; the task here is rather to see whether the machine analogy can give us a way of talking about it , whatever it is . |
| 10 | It is rather to see how Marx handles these problems , and what views he holds about them . |
| 11 | The object is rather to demonstrate that the success of Nizan 's writing technique is ultimately dependent on the interaction of two different but , in the final analysis , mutually dependent discourses . |
| 12 | Nietzsche 's achievement is rather to have prefigured so much of twentieth-century thought . |
| 13 | The problem in considering the future of fertilizers is rather to consider the changes which will occur in world agriculture , and it is already apparent that they will be many . |
| 14 | His method is rather to suggest ambivalences of meaning by subtle deviations from expectation . |
| 15 | It seems to me , if a literary critic may be allowed a comment on these linguistic matters , that the function of the first- and second-person pronouns is rather to relate two people , to set up a plane of relationship which includes them and excludes all others . |
| 16 | Our concern is rather to break away from the stale confrontation of reason and spontaneity which has persisted since the Romantic Movement , to invite the man of reason to admit that he never has had any ends which did not spring from his own spontaneity , and the intuitive and impulsive that no insight that flashes from theirs can be acknowledged as objective truth until it survives the ruthless justice of reason . |
| 17 | In some music this strained atmosphere may be just what we want , but for the moment our objective is rather to achieve a smooth , natural-sounding discourse . |
| 18 | Where it is not supported , the reason is often , as suggested by Rundquist ( 1980 , 1983 ) , because the spending patterns are already set by the geography of demands ( one would not expect large spending on subsidies for cotton farmers in New Hampshire , for example ) and the goal of the pork barrellers is rather to get plenty of money for the programme than to direct it to certain areas rather than others . |
| 19 | The purpose of the speed limit acts is presumably to minimise the danger to those travelling on or using the roads . |
| 20 | Some mains transformers seem to have twin 120 volt windings , and this is presumably to permit them to operate on continental 120 volt supplies or the 240 volt UK supply . |
| 21 | Now there are two ways that the new composite sentence token will be of a type that is eventually to acquire a constant significance . |
| 22 | As the aim of many of the BES assured tenancy companies is eventually to obtain value by selling or redeveloping the properties when they are vacant , it would be useful for shareholders to know what the market value is with vacant possession , even if the present value with tenants in possession is also shown as a note . |
| 23 | The idea is eventually to build four or five of the airships a year , costing £3.5 million each . |
| 24 | The answer put by proponents of the British approach is that the effect of publications or performances is rarely to incite directly whether to crime or anything else . |
| 25 | The efficient solution is rarely to have a zero quantity of the externality . |
| 26 | To deny that these clear and generally accepted principles apply to nuclear weapons is effectively to say that these weapons are outside international law , that nuclear weapons in themselves abolish international law . |
| 27 | And the the logic of what 's being said there is effectively to abandon the flexitime scheme out of , for working out of office hours , . |
| 28 | The impact of a state pension scheme in terms of current income is predominantly to transfer income to lower income people from the better-off working population . |
| 29 | If you go for second best ( because the pressure is on to fill the job tomorrow , or because you ca n't afford the best ) you will inevitably end up at the bottom of the heap with all the other monkeys . |
| 30 | We 're in a position where we 're going to borrow a bit from next year , that actually puts the pressure on as I see it 's about nine or ten thousand extra this year , the allowance is about a hundred and eighty thousand , the total , erm , we 're adding nine or ten thousand to that , we 're taking it off it for next year , so we 've already got ourselves something like an eighteen to twenty thousand reduction in members allowances next year so the pressure is on to resolve the problem , and er , perhaps Mr might feel that actually that extra pressure might make us resolve it . |