Example sentences of "[vb mod] [be] to [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some Ministers told him the switch should be to income tax ; others , including Kenneth Baker , the home secretary , suggested VAT . |
| 2 | Our principle function within the policy development department within N C V O must be to work with , and not simply for our member and the wider sector . |
| 3 | It is sometimes quite incredible the kind of information people expect the reception desk to supply , but generally it takes the form of questions about train , bus and taxi services , which means up-to-date timetables and the telephone numbers of the local taxi services must be to hand . |
| 4 | My responsibility must be to truth , not to society , which is corrupt . |
| 5 | and the response to such a command could be to hand up some dictionary definition of a bar as a drinking place . |
| 6 | The successes of molecular biology are sufficiently striking to show that whatever the true relation of biology may be to physics , it is certainly a subtle one that can not be encapsulated in a single word . |
| 7 | Their services may not be essential to the ability of school teachers to combine children with employment ; they may be to business women and barristers , and more so to divorced or single working women . |
| 8 | By that method we fix our minds on some central point : we suppose it for the time to be reduced to a stationary state ; and we then study in relation to it the forces that affect the things by which it is surrounded , and any tendency there may be to equilibrium of these forces . |
| 9 | He may be to Ally McCoist what Jimmy Millar was to Ralph Brand , he may possess the aerial threat of a Willie Thornton , a Derek Johnstone , but Hateley contributes skill where those previous Rangers centre-forwards lent mainly bravado . |
| 10 | Although there have been a number of successful experiments in providing advice to farmers at the ‘ grass roots ’ — most notably the Upland Management Scheme in the Lake District — farmers still remain suspicious of environmentalists however sympathetic they may be to environmentalism . |
| 11 | The most obvious way of obtaining these two facilities would be to keyboard the Supplement entries into the correct places as the OED text was being keyboarded . |
| 12 | Such a change would entail the creation of a clearing house , presumably in Brussels , whose job would be to reapportion VAT receipts to ensure that revenue is accrued as now in the country of consumption rather than production . |
| 13 | He had hoped that the new journey he had made would be to freedom , back to his beloved homesite and his parents . |
| 14 | well maybe that would be to English |
| 15 | My only hope , should I ever see the show again , would be to cling-film the whole face and fasten it below the chin with a Twist'n Seal . |
| 16 | One solution would be to silicone the hangar to the tank wall , but that would mean draining the tank . |
| 17 | In Kent , the natural progression for a care manager would be to group leader , supervising five to ten care managers , then to locality manager , and finally to one of five area commissioners . |
| 18 | All that could be agreed would be to loan trained men for a specific operation . |
| 19 | They had a revolutionary theory that the combined effect of all these ‘ struggles ’ would be to needle and irritate the capitalist system until it finally collapsed in an exhausted heap and died . |
| 20 | One fairly obvious procedure would be to weight each d by the number of cases it was based on . |
| 21 | In his article ‘ Du Sujet dans la Peinture Moderne ’ ( which became the second section of Les Peintres Cubistes ) Apollinaire had written : ‘ Thus we are progressing towards an intensely new kind of art , which will be to painting what one had hitherto imagined music was to pure literature . ’ |
| 22 | The most difficult job will be to rehouse and reshape soccer while remembering just who it really belongs to . |
| 23 | Some argue that the dominant effect of the new technology will be to de-skill the workforce , destroying craft occupations and fragmenting jobs into meaningless elements which can be performed by unskilled operators controlled by large-scale bureaucracies run in the interests of international capital . |
| 24 | Increasing contestability is likely to make some natural monopolies not sustainable ( e.g. the single-product rising cost cases ) , but in other cases the effect will be to discipline pricing behaviour more severely . |
| 25 | One of Lehman 's main tasks will be to value ITN . |
| 26 | ‘ So while getting a document or computer disk from , say , London to Indonesia can take up to three days by post or courier , with electronic mail a valid print-out will be to hand in next to no time . |
| 27 | I can also appreciate that not all the statistics requested necessarily will be to hand but hope you can provide as much information as possible . |
| 28 | On the political side , Taiwanese worry that the more money they invest in China , the more vulnerable they will be to manipulation by the Chinese government . |
| 29 | Aims to speed up the process of development control and make the planning system ‘ as positive and as helpful as it can be to investment in industry and commerce , and to the development industry ’ . |