Example sentences of "is to [be] more " in BNC.
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| 1 | If it is to be more than a symbolic marker of the moment when North and South decided in principle to work together for mutual survival , a number of decisions on how to administer it will have to be made . |
| 2 | Barbara Conroy , in her book on library staff development discusses evaluation in terms of how far stated objectives have been achieved , and emphasizes that although evaluation requires careful identification of what is being evaluated and why , to decide the ‘ how , when and where ’ , of evaluation if it is to be more than ‘ just a way of channelling impressionistic information into a required report form ’ , that it is not a highly ‘ esoteric ’ activity , necessarily involving ‘ complex research methodology ’ . |
| 3 | Any future attempt to end our oppression or to re-draw the boundaries will , if it is to be more than tokenistic , have to touch on the question of how we learn our sexuality — or , as some of us see it , how we experience heterosexist socialization . |
| 4 | If the claim that they all legitimate the existing order is to be more than a dogma it must be refined , and Althusser 's work offers no suggestion as to how this is to be done . |
| 5 | But the relevant sense of constraint , and the aspects of society that are constrained in the two cases , are vastly different ; and if the longue durée is to be more than a ragbag of everything that endures these disparities would have to be elucidated . |
| 6 | Within his own country , he is not so much a Leviathan as a Gulliver figure hemmed in and tied down by a complex network of restraints that must be thrown off if he is to be more than a helpless giant in the White House . |
| 7 | Be this as it may , the constitutional authorities who support the introduction of a Bill of Rights to limit Parliament , government , and the state , nevertheless recognise that it calls for a fundamental constitutional change if it is to be more than just a pious declaration of good intent . |
| 8 | If there is to be more defence co-operation in Europe , why is it necessary for Britain to have its own capability , in addition to that of France ? |