Example sentences of "[adj] [noun pl] [modal v] [be] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yes Mr Chairman erm I understand the motive behind this proposal resolution but I think the mover perhaps is unaware of what 's actually going on and have to decide and so I would like to speak against this resolution and I think the constructive thing to do so we do n't send the wrong messages would be to er I , I will move an amendment er and I will explain what I 'm doing as I speak . |
| 2 | Cheapest flights will be to New York , Newark , Washington and Boston . |
| 3 | Whatever our personal reactions might be to a production , that is the only real test . |
| 4 | However con descending contemporary apologists may be to archaic conceptions of divine intervention , it is almost impossible to exaggerate the extent to which belief in such intervention once permeated European societies , creating popular images of the disruption of nature that could hardly have been congenial to a critical science of nature . |
| 5 | Mosbacher justified his decision on the grounds that to substitute population estimates in place of actual figures would be to " abandon a 200-year tradition of how we actually count people " . |
| 6 | Such changes would be to the long-term good of the United Kingdom 's economy . |
| 7 | It was not clear whether such moves would be to their benefit . |
| 8 | The ‘ peak ’ organizations of business and labour are granted a special consultative status in return for their co-operation ( Schmitter 1979 ) Some corporatists maintain that within a capitalist economy such negotiations must be to the advantage of monopoly capital , since labour forgoes its local , workplace autonomy in favour of its corporate leadership . |
| 9 | Psychological explanations may be to the point here , or speculations about the evolutionary history of the faculties in question . |
| 10 | Applications for larger penalties would be to the High Court . |
| 11 | He is blind to the independent studies that have been carried out on that programme , such as that by Professor Snower of Birkbeck college , which demonstrates clearly and beyond doubt how damaging those proposals would be to the creation of jobs in this country . |
| 12 | The timing of such an arrangement would be crucial if adverse American reaction was to be avoided ; it was believed that the first approaches should be to the Dominions , followed by the USA , USSR , and China , culminating in a full international conference . |
| 13 | He likes the blend of the two jobs , the one selfish because successful sportsmen must be to a greater or lesser degree , the other caring . |
| 14 | But I remembered how cruel children can be to small animals , and I did not want the boy to take his revenge on me . |
| 15 | These magistrates are present as full members in their own right and are not co-opted as non-council members may be to the education or certain other committees . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | The main aims will be to : ( a ) identify particular commercial/legal problems of such magnitude as to cause the investor to withdraw or adjust its terms , including the price , either directly or indirectly through indemnities ; ( b ) flush out any unknown or understated liabilities and ensure the vendor will deliver good title ( free from encumbrances ) to the assets ; ( c ) ascertain more precisely the worth of the target business to the buyer and to provide an effective means of valuing the shares or the assets ; and ( d ) provide a clear understanding of how the business functions , including the operation of its financial and management systems . |
| 18 | One of Lehman 's main tasks will be to value ITN . |