Example sentences of "task it [is] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Those whose task it is to lay down the law on matters of ethics and morality need to ensure that their views are based on a wide knowledge of human institutions and their history . |
| 2 | The most important elements specifically missing from both of these formulations are the professional purveyors of the culture-ideology of consumerism , the mass media and promotional personnel whose task it is to sell the consumerist goals of the global capitalist system to the masses . |
| 3 | Each team is composed of a group of people from a particular ‘ faulty ’ area , whose task it is to resolve any problems once and for all . |
| 4 | Bearing in mind the difficulty that you may have had even in locating a book on the shelves in your room , imagine what a formidable task it is to arrange hundreds of thousands of books in a college library in such a way that each reader can quickly find a particular book or publication on a particular topic . |
| 5 | Management as a process appears to be understood as being about taking decisions which will be more likely to be unpopular than those taken by lower ranks , i.e. , middle managers , whose task it is to mediate higher decisions by making them palatable in some way . |
| 6 | Upon completing their goodbyes , the convoy is led out of the Soviet Checkpoint , past numerous East German barriers , gates and armed border guards , whose task it is to keep their own people from entering West Berlin . |
| 7 | The critic is not some simple custodian of these museum texts whose task it is to keep the displays polished so their readers can see them in clear unreflected light . |
| 8 | This can be best understood as the two hemispheres being engaged in a co-operative exercise , to which each contributes according to the task it is specialised to perform . |
| 9 | There should be one full-time member , the VA co-ordinator , whose task it is to maintain continuity , collect and analyse information , schedule meetings and produce agenda and records . |
| 10 | There should be one full-time member , the VA co-ordinator , whose task it is to maintain continuity , collect and analyse information , schedule meetings and produce agenda and records . |
| 11 | Every diocese that is actively pursuing the problem has appointed a Redundant Churches Uses Committee whose task it is to seek out suitable alternative uses . |
| 12 | The heaviest burden falls upon the housewives , whose task it is to raise their families in these circumstances . |
| 13 | So long as these considerations are borne in mind by those whose task it is to apply the section , and the public order requirements of the offence are rigidly insisted upon by the courts , only such speech as is likely to give rise to immediate unlawful violence is in jeopardy , and that should be outside the protection afforded freedom of speech in a democracy . |
| 14 | In addition , museum assistants or other personnel whose task it is to prepare the objects for visitors and to supervise their access to the collections may have more time for other tasks . |
| 15 | ( c ) Registration Section 8 of the 1983 Act thrusts upon various local authorities the duty to appoint a ‘ registration officer ’ whose task it is to prepare and publish each year a register of electors in his area ( ibid , s.9 ) . |
| 16 | Each group is aided by a tutor or consultant , whose task it is to help the group with the feedback aspects . |
| 17 | While they argue , those whose task it is to make sure the troops will be there on the day have to get on with more practical jobs . |