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Example sentences of "[noun sg] be [adv] [to-vb] [conj] " in BNC.

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1	The proposals suggested yesterday by the Leader of the Opposition were clearly to ensure that British farmers reduced their already low incomes and that the money be used for development — rural and urban — in the southern parts of the European Community .
2	A new Notes Developers ' Programme is underway to recruit and provide technical services to commercial software developers providing products based on Notes technology .
3	A new Notes Developers ' Programme is underway to recruit and provide technical services to commercial software developers providing products based on Notes technology .
4	The aim of the study reported in this chapter is thus to see whether the results of the previous study are still obtained when subjects are not actually aware that the experiment is concerned with subjective risk .
5	The parent 's intention is often to protect so they hide tears and sorrowing putting on a ghastly pretence of cheerfulness .
6	Our ambition is also to ensure that the big questions and the difficult questions are asked across a range of issues .
7	The net effect is thus to balance and harmonize the energy flow .
8	The cough is there to signal that something is going awry and needs attention after which it will be all right .
9	This practice was largely to indicate that documents and records had been produced to the auditors and would also indicate an audit trail .
10	This review was reportedly to determine whether a US general should continue to exercise overall control of NATO forces in Europe .
11	Section 17(3) of the Act permits secondary action if ( a ) the purpose or principal purpose of the secondary action was directly to prevent or disrupt the supply during the dispute of goods or services between an employer who is a party to the dispute ( here the ship owners ) and the employer under the contract of employment to which the secondary action relates ( here the port authorities ) ; and ( b ) the secondary action was likely to achieve that purpose .
12	‘ ( a ) the purpose or principal purpose of the secondary action was directly to prevent or disrupt the supply during the dispute of goods or services between an employer who is a party to the dispute and the employer under the contract of employment to which the secondary action relates ; and ( b ) the secondary action ( together with any corresponding action relating to other contracts of employment with the same employer ) was likely to achieve that purpose . ’
13	Further work is underway to confirm whether dietary vitamin C supplementation enhances this effect , and to discover if such an approach can reverse precancerous conditions in the gastric mucosa .
14	However , whatever balance between sectors one would like to see as the basis for community care policy , the private sector is here to stay and likely to expand .
15	The Court of Appeal dismissed the appeal , Lord Donaldson MR taking the high ground that the function of the independent judiciary under the rule of law was simply to decide whether there had been compliance with the statute requiring the holding of a ballot , however unpopular the strike might be with the travelling public .
16	AMPES ' work was basically to try and get more women to join the trade unions and political organizations .
17	Topaz was soon to learn that the colourful and derogatory remarks which passed between Angela and Oswin meant nothing , but at first she had been startled .
18	Boom products rose and fell ; areas which provided the main body of such exports in our period were later to stagnate or abandon them .
19	He adds , however , that to recognize the point is only to recognize that testing is what matters .
20	The concept of equisignificance can now be easily explained , for to say of two symbols that they have the same meaning is merely to say that they both express the same species of thought .
21	Therefore i if we , if he done that then that paragraph would seem to be slightly and the second point was really to ask if there was any further update on the progress in terms of negotiations in Surrey and East Sussex er in terms of this erm particular by-pass and I know that Mr in particular has been concerned with negotiations and Mrs also erm Mrs is not here therefore as Mr could advise me for us o of where we 're at really , so that we fully understand because obviously the the line of the by-pass is very important so far as any further development is is concerned .
22	Her desire was never to see or speak to Ellen again but of course she could not allow herself such a luxurious vengeance .
23	Tory backbenchers and the nation at large will give Mr Major about a year before deciding whether the helmsman or his crew are mostly to blame if the nation 's ills refuse to blow away .
24	The stress and tension of the occasion were partly to blame but the incident was also an early symptom of bulimia nervosa , the illness which took pernicious hold later that year .
25	It is clear that the micro is here to stay and it is the responsibility of personnel managers to come to terms with the new technology and use it to their advantage .
26	The pilot who takes a chance is always to blame if he creates an unnecessary hazard .
27	Kahnweiler throughout his life was to maintain that the painting was unfinished , and on occasion was even to assert that Picasso himself saw it in this way .
28	Later forensic evidence was also to prove that one of the stocks of Henry Tidburn 's shotguns fitted exactly the pattern of marks found on PC Shorter 's helmet .
29	The object is rather to demonstrate that the success of Nizan 's writing technique is ultimately dependent on the interaction of two different but , in the final analysis , mutually dependent discourses .
30	According to them , to accept the legitimacy of an authority is simply to accept that whatever other reasons there may be for a certain action , its being required by the authority is an additional reason for its performance .