Example sentences of "be [to-vb] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Chancellor claimed the overall effect of the Budget — which included help for business through far-reaching reforms of the company taxation system — would be to support economic recovery . |
| 2 | The Mason , who had been going to protest , saw that his own strong-arm ruffians were among them , and knew that to argue would be to risk public defeat . |
| 3 | The primary purpose of the proposed research will be to acquire detailed knowledge about how the new Act will operate . |
| 4 | A basic concern for Christian formation should be to enable young people to grow as free persons and to encourage personal responsibility and moral maturity . |
| 5 | What might be acceptable would be to sample known previous offenders . |
| 6 | What might be acceptable would be to sample known previous offenders . |
| 7 | The conference will be held as part of the European summit in Rome next December and the aim will be to agree far-reaching changes to the Community 's constitution to achieve Economic Monetary Union ( EMU ) as soon as possible after 1992 . |
| 8 | A development of this will be to agree appropriate drug treatment when patients are in hospital to ensure we do not recreate the difference in drug policies shown between United States acute care and veterans hospitals . |
| 9 | The minimum requirement will be to lodge relevant documents in the Regional Planning Department 's foyer to be available for public inspection during normal office hours . |
| 10 | The first proposition , that the role of competition policy should be to promote economic efficiency , is explored in section II . |
| 11 | The role of competition policy should be to promote economic efficiency . |
| 12 | In the three Baltic republics and in Georgia it had been decided that to participate would be to acknowledge Soviet constitutional legitimacy , thereby forfeiting the key argument in their independence campaigns , namely that they had been illegally occupied and annexed to the Soviet Union . |
| 13 | The purpose of the ‘ new ’ probation-order team would be to monitor standard operating procedures , research programme strategies , communications networks , command structures , and any other structural factors which might be linked to the corporation 's previous misbehaviour and then make recommendations which the company could not refuse to implement without the risk of revoking the probation licence and returning to court for resentencing . |
| 14 | One way of doing this would be to provide multipurpose teams dealing with all aspects of Council Tax for a particular geographic area . |
| 15 | The first priority of any life insurance policy must be to provide immediate financial help for your dependents in the event of bereavement — and the Reader 's Digest DOUBLE PAYOUT PLAN meets this requirement with flying colours . |
| 16 | In future , the best way to secure grant will be to provide popular , undemanding short courses , aimed at the ‘ soft end ’ of the market — the already educationally integrated middle class . |
| 17 | GL suggested that one of his duties might be to provide secreterial support to Computer Users Group . |
| 18 | One possible solution , he suggested , would be to modify engineered plants so that they are male-sterile and produce either no pollen or pollen that is inactive . |
| 19 | Each project requires specific conditions but the general thrust will be to secure guaranteed or priority access for target participants/bodies , at charges which are not disadvantageous compared to the normal level of charging for the facility or type of facility . |
| 20 | Over a period the aim should be to adjust nursing budgets and thus the number of nurses employed so that each unit/specialty is equally provided fur within the constraints of financial provision . |
| 21 | At the first meeting of the Central Authority , Shinwell had told Citrine and his colleagues that a reasonable aim would be to meet full demand by 1951 ‘ if that was at all possible ’ in the light of other national investment demands . |
| 22 | Some think a major step forward would be to establish Grendon-type wings at every prison . |
| 23 | But this would be to postulate inhuman perfections . |
| 24 | The focus of counselling with older people should be to encourage continued engagement in the processes of socialization . |
| 25 | Most commentators considered that the effect of the decisions would be to encourage other states to reinstate existing laws on parental notification and consent which had fallen into disuse because of previous court rulings . |
| 26 | The bill 's main purpose will be to encourage non-custodial punishment in the community for less serious offenders , but ministers believe that the opportunity presented by debate on the measure will be taken to promote the cause of hanging . |
| 27 | The worst thing to do would be to impose swingeing increases in personal taxation of the sort advocated by the Labour party , because that would undermine the incentive and enterprise on which jobs depend . |
| 28 | In the final analysis the only solution will be to find alternative access , or buy the whole of the adjoining property , if it comes onto the market . |
| 29 | Its purpose will be to inform interested parties about the company 's history , current activities and production facilities , profiles of key employees and financial performance including current position and anticipated future prospects . |
| 30 | We all know only too well how disheartening it can be to try hard but achieve nothing . |