Example sentences of "[is] [to-vb] [conj] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | By November it has usually been decided where the money is to go and a presentation evening is arranged . |
| 2 | The different dimensions of bureaucracy need to be specified if the object of the exercise is to see whether a state with corporatist features has developed distinctive administrative qualities . |
| 3 | The first move , therefore , is to see whether the level of the available lighting can be improved without making any radical changes . |
| 4 | One of BRAC 's concerns at present is to see whether the lobon-gur solution has become part of the Bangladeshi culture , in so far as the mothers taught by BRAC 's Oral Therapy Replacement Workers might pass their knowledge down to their children . |
| 5 | The jury 's task is to see whether the duty arose on the facts . |
| 6 | The main aim of the group is to see that every dog is muzzled in public . |
| 7 | One objective of Mr Grosz is to see that the HSWP holds its party congress , as in ‘ normal ’ times , early next year . |
| 8 | The duty of the auditor is to see that the accounts have been prepared in accordance with the legal requirements and to see that proper accounting practices have been observed in the compilation of the accounts . |
| 9 | The teaching task is to see that the techniques that are used are effective in promoting learning objectives , so they have to be designed to account for specific contexts of instruction . |
| 10 | Any repairs or replacements or renewals of furnishings are noted on the cards , and they are constantly referred to by the housekeeping and maintenance departments , whose responsibility it is to see that the room is maintained to the required standard . |
| 11 | The job of our full-time fund raisers is to see that the RNLI 's use of such methods is as professional as can be . ’ |
| 12 | After all , the purpose of management is to see that the work of the organisation gets done , and the only managers who supervise ‘ actual work ’ directly are the ‘ front-line ’ or ‘ first-line ’ supervisors ( eg. ‘ foreman ’ in manufacturing industries ) . |
| 13 | The job of the trustee is to see that the fund is managed within the terms of its ‘ trustee deed ’ . |
| 14 | I rather think that they are concentrating on the main task which is to see that the children are properly provided for . |
| 15 | . The last one then , erm , C P is the completer. and their role is to see that the team is protected as far as possible from mistakes and they also maintain a sense of urgency within the team . |
| 16 | Those of us who have fought those of us who have fought still have one job we can do and that is to see that the military capability of the United States is such that no potential aggressor will ever dare attack us . |
| 17 | ‘ The last thing a Secretary of State would normally have time to do is to see if the Historic Royal Palaces are being run in a way to maximise profit . ’ |
| 18 | The idea is to see if the terms on which bargainers settle can be influenced by such cues . |
| 19 | The important point is to diagnose whether the short-fall is due to internal causes or external pressures . |
| 20 | Another treatment is to wait until the initial set has taken place , and then , using water and a brush , clean off all the fine material , to expose the larger aggregate . |
| 21 | The next thing is to assure that the statement being made is a description of the offensive behaviour and not the offender 's character . |
| 22 | A fourth bad approach is to claim that the law can not stop research or whatever is under discussion , so why try ? |
| 23 | The other alternative is to claim that the very constitution of individuals as intentional subjects serves to legitimate capitalist modes of production , for only if individuals perceive themselves as free agents will these alienating arrangements seem tolerable . |
| 24 | Yet the most common justification , or implicit justification , is to claim that the institution brings in money because foreigners love to watch its parades . |
| 25 | One way in which variation of this kind is discounted is to claim that the scribe was Anglo-Norman , or that the spellings are Anglo-Norman and therefore not valid evidence for the history of English . |
| 26 | The internecine war that is to continue until the present day begins with a battle between right-wing Christian Falangists and left-wing Muslim Palestinians . |
| 27 | One way is to realize that the uncertainty principle allows particles to travel faster than light for a short distance . |
| 28 | If that sounded a bit like the result of an army medical board it was appropriate enough : the chief purpose of this year 's conference is to signal that the Labour Party is ready once more for active service . |
| 29 | All the pilot can do is to signal if the launch is too fast or abandon the launch if it is to slow . |
| 30 | The reason for this somewhat laboured refutation of the concession theory is to emphasise that the social enterprise concept does not in any way depend upon it . |