Example sentences of "[noun] [be] [verb] [verb] that [adj] " in BNC.

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1 Other banks and lending institutions are beginning to realise that Third World countries have very little hope of ever paying back the huge loans they have taken out .
2 However it is important that local planning authorities are encouraged to ensure that such conditions are practically enforceable .
3 Erm authorities are expected to show that environmental concerns have been comprehensively and consistently taken into adv erm account in their plans .
4 It is therefore important that steps are taken to ensure that mature entrants to these discipline areas are adequately prepared for their studies .
5 Ian Kennedy , Reader in Law at King 's College , London , who gave the 1980 Reith lecture on medical ethics , felt that firmer legal guidelines were required to ensure that handicapped babies were not left to die , and that the decision could not be left to parents and doctors .
6 A couple of paragraphs of lay anthropology were added to suggest that black people in Africa had accomplished ‘ virtually nothing ’ before ‘ the White Man came ’ .
7 The stress on Levi 's insensitivity to religion is allowed to suggest that all Jews are religious , and there are readers for whom this might signal the corollary that all Jews are Zionists , and are likely to be supporters of Israeli government policy .
8 Such an approach to the status of international law is not theoretically neutral ; rather it is a manifestation of that most popular of all jurisprudential theories , the sanction or imperative theory of law in which some version of Austinianism is deployed to say that international law is not a command backed by the effective threat of the use of force against non-compliance and is therefore not law ( Austin , 1861 ) .
9 An attempt is made to demonstrate that this reasoning is faulty and that the disintegration of the Byzantine state was accompanied by economic growth in the provinces which reinforced the power of the provincial aristocracy in relation to the state .
10 As his eyes , blue and flinty , held hers , Shiona was tempted to protest that that was n't fair .
11 Earlier this week government research was published showing that 32 out of 102 ovens failed to heat food uniformly to at least 70C , the temperature necessary to kill listeria , salmonella and other food poisoning bacteria .
12 The train lover was fascinated to find that most journeys are undertaken on the railway because Chinese roads are not up to Western standards .
13 Ann was helped to see that this problem originally resulted from displaced resentments about Charles 's infidelity .
14 Will my hon. Friend assure my constituents and the House that the Conservative party and Ministers in Scotland are fighting to ensure that that workshop , which has a record of excellence and can carry out plating work which saves the Government millions of pounds on buying replacement parts , will continue because of its record and not for sentimental reasons ?
15 At their recent meeting the Parish Council were disturbed to find that both these bills have increased substantially .
16 Engineers were reported to suspect that one of the telescope 's two mirrors had been manufactured to slightly incorrect specifications , resulting in a distortion of images in the visible spectrum .
17 However , if the condition in question were designed to ensure that all operators of fishing vessels were based in the United Kingdom , it would inhibit the export of fish by British flag vessels to other member states and so constitute a breach of article 34 of the E.E.C .
18 In the long run it is by making efficient investment decisions that capacity is adjusted to ensure that this price also reflects long-run marginal cost .
19 Instead , the Commission indulged in some verbal gymnastics with : ‘ This work is beginning to suggest that some types of tree grow better in air that has most of the pollution removed from it . ’
20 LEDU is trying to ensure that small businesses have the marketing experience , the exporting know-how and the managerial capacity that they need in order to get going .
21 Topaz was trying to pretend that this man was n't making her weak at the knees .
22 Once a module has been copied to the hard copy volume , the Location file is updated to show that hard copy is ‘ in progress ’ .
23 The new directive is intended to ensure that national authorities process toxic substances as close to source as possible , thereby minimising the risk of accidents while in transit .
24 Hazel was beginning to feel that all would be well and that Bigwig had more sense than he had given him credit for , when Fiver sat up on his hind legs , cleaned his face with his paws and then , for the first time , looked directly at him .
25 Many students of social behaviour are coming to agree that both methods must be employed together .
26 The strength of the Institute itself is through its district society network and all district society officers are dedicated to ensure that that continues .
27 The basic grounding that all new management recruits underwent on joining Cadbury 's helped to ensure that each of them obtained this innate understanding .
28 I think basically what people are trying to say that two huge houses is negatively very overbearing erm it would be a lot easier to accept one larger dwelling and the smaller property , you know one
29 But the plant 's best known activity as a manufacturer of water-cooled mainframes will stay firmly in the IBM fold and notionally expanded as the construction of air-cooled ES/9000s moves from Valencia in Spain , although the rate at which mainframe sales are falling suggests that this will be only a short-term boost .
30 The surgeon was forced to admit that this operation would leave Dawn paralysed and wheelchair-bound for the rest of her life .
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