Example sentences of "is [to-vb] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He also demonstrates how hard it is to maintain this view , and how easy it is to lapse into logocentric assumptions . |
| 2 | Alison Halford has dropped her sex discrimination case against Merseyside Police and announced that she is to retire on medical grounds with a lump sum payment and pension . |
| 3 | R. Knowland , CChem , FRSC , is to retire as managing director of British Petroleum . |
| 4 | Ricardo Ellcock , the Middlesex fast bowler , plans to study in the United States for a career as an airline pilot after confirming yesterday that he is to retire from first-class cricket , as reported in Monday 's Daily Telegraph . |
| 5 | The fear is that 65 per cent of this sum is to go into nuclear power , on the grounds of its low levels of greenhouse gas emissions . |
| 6 | For older people he is implicitly saying that the usual pattern is to go into residential care ’ . |
| 7 | Your second option is to go for tailor-made and professionallyinstalled doors that combine the latest design and construction techniques with materials that promise minimal maintenance , and which include the bonus of having extra-wide sealed-unit double glazing and built-in weather-stripping . |
| 8 | The response is that in a rapidly growing market ( say 30 per cent growth per annum ) the only way to increase market share is to go for massive expansion of capacity ( say 50 per cent per annum ) . |
| 9 | In Bristol , often the pressure is to go for high status careers . |
| 10 | I am sure they had the pious hope that this foundation would actually serve to increase the nation 's general fitness by pumping money into sport , but if the money is to go on improving facilities at cricket clubs and down the country , then a large number of cricketers who rely on lousy playing conditions for their place in the side will be forced into retirement . |
| 11 | The Tale of the Nail is to go on national tour in October , accompanied by workshops and teaching materials . |
| 12 | The largest increase in funding is to go to coastal conservation , which received an increase of 25 per cent to 134 million francs , followed by money to rehabilitate degraded areas . |
| 13 | An alternative is to go onto front points for the turn . |
| 14 | The report just released by the Royal College of Physicians on Care of Elderly People shows just how far there is to go in improving services for mentally ill elderly people and their carers . |
| 15 | The aim is to invest in Chinese stocks and shares which stand to benefit from the upsurge in economic growth which China is experiencing . |
| 16 | Decide where insert is to fall within existing recording |
| 17 | The purpose of a showcase is to perform in ideal conditions to an audience mainly of music business professionals whom you have invited . |
| 18 | The Finnish government is to appeal to other Western countries to give aid to East European countries in the form of technical , industrial and scientific expertise rather than direct financial help . |
| 19 | The most important task now is to promote to potential employers the benefit of employing members of this Institute . |
| 20 | The oxygen consumption of an insect may rise a hundredfold when flight begins and if it is to continue for long periods a reserve of oxidizable respiratory material is needed . |
| 21 | Deer hunting is to continue on National Trust ( NT ) lands whilst a three year investigation is made into the effects of a possible ban . |
| 22 | The toddler is to remain with temporary foster parents in Wirral pending a court hearing next week . |
| 23 | So Mr Zhao , it seems , is to remain in political purgatory , from where he will continue to haunt Li Peng 's dreams of stability . |
| 24 | If the matrimonial home is already subject to a mortgage then the requirements of the mortgagees will have to be ascertained prior to a conveyance or transfer and if , although the house is to remain in joint names , liability for the mortgage payments is to be assumed by one party , an indemnity to the other party will have to be included in the declaration of trust ( see Precedent 54 ) . |
| 25 | The natural function of this communicative behaviour , whether wholly instinctual or not , is to impart to fellow creatures ‘ cognitive stand-ins for the states of affairs they represent ’ . |
| 26 | This is perfectly satisfactory for steady.state operation , but a more Sophisticated arrangement is needed if the system is to contend with rapid speed changes , such as occur during acceleration from rest with light inertial loading . |
| 27 | To define law in terms of one means of obtaining conformity , especially when that means is a manifestation of one of the very phenomena that we are seeking to eliminate ( the use of force ) is to foreclose on other perhaps more defensible methods . |
| 28 | A monograph on an artist who practises in several fields can be unusually interesting , since the writer 's brief is to write with equal competence on different topics . |
| 29 | The government has said to the European Community that , of the 7.7-percentage-points improvement it hopes to make in the total public-sector deficit between 1992 and 1996 — from 9.6% of GDP to 1.9% — more than half , 4.1 percentage points , is to come from extra taxes . |
| 30 | It is up to each individual union to deal with this problem , but the obvious right course for all of them is to compensate for broken time — and this included the RFU . |