Example sentences of "that is to " in BNC.

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1 The ‘ challenge to society ’ seems to fit Raskolnikov 's Napoleonic idea — until we read on in Anna Dostoevsky 's manuscript where it is at once and directly linked to ‘ the governor 's bitten ear ’ , that is to one of those sudden sallies of Stavrogin 's elsewhere in The Possessed , sallies hovering between outrage and prank .
2 There is only some slight damage to its carrying case , but that is to be expected .
3 ( iv ) In proof-reading any work produced on a word processor , pupils may have access to a computer spelling checker. ( v ) Pupils should be encouraged to use whatever presentational devices are appropriate for a given piece of work — particularly work that is to be displayed or made public .
4 All that is to be hoped is that individual fellows of the society will use this report to press , alongside others less privileged , for an openness , a democracy that hardly distinguishes the Royal Society itself .
5 The objective of the RFX experiment , a collaborative project between Italy and Britain that is to be built in Italy at Padua , is to find out directly whether the RFP can confine high-temperature plasma well enough for the configuration to form the basis of a reactor .
6 It was at this time that man 's dawning awareness of it , stimulated his need to preserve his acceptance of the innate goodness of the evolutionary process , that is , his need to have a ‘ god ’ of some sort , that is to ‘ create ’ a God .
7 That is to the bad .
8 She may also have to face a serious reduction in income , which might necessitate the sale of her house and the loss of her settled way of life by a move to another neighbourhood and to a smaller home , or into yours if that is to be the arrangement you both decide upon .
9 A ground-based winch then winds the loop and camera unit to which it is attached , up to the pulley if that is to be used as a trip or , as in most instances , remote control of the shutter is used when adequate height is achieved .
10 He shall do carrying service on alternate Saturdays at Louyngton or elsewhere within the mannor , without counting it a work , and he shall carry to Midhurst , Arundel ( or ) Emmesworth , that is to the bridge at those places , without counting it a work .
11 It is the utopian dream of a Christian heresy and to see it as anything less than that is to totally misunderstand it .
12 However , it was argued that , if a foreign predator wishes to place a greater value on a British company than the stock market does , then that is to the benefit of shareholders .
13 When I say it like that I 'm struck by how near that is to Pope 's ‘ What e'er was thought / But ne'er so well expressed ’ definition of poetry .
14 Embarrassment , it seems clear , is a major concern of the British psyche , and the dreams the British dream , if opinion-polls are to be believed , tend to be about social embarrassment , with amorous fantasy playing only a disappointingly minor role ; and if that is to be taken in evidence , then it may be said to represent a more powerful obsession than sex .
15 Virgin Group Plc is planning to enter the mass-market UK personal computer business via a computer supplies company , Virgin Euromagnetics Ltd that it has owned for two years , the Financial Times reports : £12m-a-year Virgin Euromagnetics packages supplies such as floppy disks , which are sold in Virgin stores , and has designed an 80486 machine that is to be built under contract for Virgin in the UK , initially at a rate of around 3,000 a month ; the paper says that the machine may be bundled with a laser printer for about £1,200 , and the plan is to launch in September .
16 If that is to be China 's choice , then North Korea is where it should start .
17 Even though I use many examples and experiences from my years with that company , the views expressed are mine and if my recollections or impressions vary from others ' that is to my account , and not ICI 's .
18 For many fans the wearing of Dr Marten boots , and other ‘ hard ’ gear , is likely to have that role , that is to be symbolic rather than instrumental .
19 Perhaps that is to be expected in a market in which ‘ art ’ largely collapsed into ‘ investment ’ , and in which artists were happy to take a slice of the action .
20 This would need to retain within it the unique legal function of Convocation which would be restricted to those at present eligible to exercise it , that is to graduates and staff alone .
21 Not to know that is to be ignorant of the whole point of the affirmation .
22 How that is to be done necessitates an explanation that can not be other than labyrinthine .
23 One way round that is to actually measure the alkalinity of the water .
24 At length , at a meeting on 12 June 1949 at a sports ground in Accra , speaking to a crowd estimated at 60000 , Nkrumah announced the formation of the Convention people 's Party ( Cpp ) , to create ‘ the new Ghana that is to be ’ .
25 The evidence in support of that is to be found in the evidence of Helen Taylor .
26 However , having said that , there is some support for the submission made on behalf of the appellants in this regard , and that is to be found in the letter of 10 October 1989 which was written to them , following that hearing , by their solicitor .
27 In form it is an application at the suit of C.N.L. as a third party for the court to release the appellant from his implied undertaking pursuant to which discovery of the P.C.A. documents was given under the court 's order of 9 July 1991 — released that is to the extent of permitting him to disclose the documents to C.N.L. , they for their part undertaking to the court to hold them for the strictly limited purpose of defending the libel proceedings brought against them by Woodley and Clifford .
28 That is to be expected .
29 ‘ You say we have as yet only heard the half — and the worse half of all that is to be told ?
30 The first point to emphasise is that there is very little disagreement amongst any of the theorists outlined here about what it is that is to be analysed .
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