Example sentences of "[noun] [to-vb] [that] [det] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But it is wishful thinking to believe that these complementary methods could instantly and completely replace the use of animals . |
| 2 | Always structure the interview to ensure that all essential points are covered . |
| 3 | It also calls for steps to ensure that any future aid projects in Malawi serve the cause of human rights . |
| 4 | The fruit is the enlargement of Magritte 's known oeuvre by as many as 200 works , never previously illustrated , which Sylvester and his team have recovered from private collections , and a serious attempt to unravel that most taxing issue of the existence of different versions of the same composition and of different images which carry the same title . |
| 5 | It would be an exaggeration to claim that all anecdotal observations about sex differences in language are sexist in the sense of insulting women . |
| 6 | It is no exaggeration to say that these three introductions were of enormous importance to the future of the Army . |
| 7 | It is a common fallacy to assume that all blown trees die ; on the contrary , those retaining at least 25 per cent root contact with the soil may well continue to grow , albeit with a shorter life expectancy . |
| 8 | It would be an unjust and simplistic generalisation to claim that most conservation policies and official reactions to soil erosion followed a single set of assumptions . |
| 9 | It is important for hospital-based therapists to realize that many self-poisoning patients fail to keep outpatient appointments . |
| 10 | I do not make this point to suggest that all these theories are wrong in every detail , but to underline the importance of looking behind the apparently innocent measures on which so much of the global-system literature is based . |
| 11 | Working class people , for example , were combining with public sector workers to ensure that such collective provision was in fact provided . |
| 12 | ( a ) Meetings and their conduct Whatever may have been agreed as to the taking of decisions by unanimous or majority vote , as much a matter of good management as of good faith is the need to ensure that all relevant information is given to all the partners before a vote is taken : the requisite majority of partners should not purport to take decisions and act on them behind the backs of the minority unless such has been expressly authorised or the need for immediate action precludes the convening of a partners ' meeting ; and even then there should be no delay before all partners are acquainted with the circumstances and invited to ratify any decision taken in their name . |
| 13 | There is no need to hold that all human beings should always and only be approached using the interpretive action scheme , any more than the reverse claim makes sense if adhered to in all circumstances . |
| 14 | It would take an heroic leap of imagination to suppose that those same forestry services with a proven inability to manage just one product , timber , could presently perform the economic and administrative gymnastics necessary to fully value and manage forests for multiple benefits . |
| 15 | The Hungarian Foreign Minister , Mr Gyula Horn , broke his country 's silence on the crisis to say that several hundred people had been killed or wounded at the weekend . |
| 16 | Information was designed to flow up and down the organisation to ensure that all decentralised objectives were compatible with , and a part of , the total corporate objective . |
| 17 | There are numerous anti-avoidance provisions to ensure that this new relief is tightly controlled . |
| 18 | Among its recommendations were ( i ) the creation of vents and energy absorption systems which would dissipate the force of an explosion ; ( ii ) the repositioning of cargo containers to ensure that any explosive energy was either directed outwards or absorbed by other baggage containers ; and ( iii ) improving flight recorders so that they continued working after a power failure . |
| 19 | THE Government 's efforts to ensure that all 10 water authorities are successfully floated on the Stock Exchange in December are becoming more than a little disingenuous . |
| 20 | There is considerable evidence to show that many chemical carcinogens act by forming stable covalent bonds with cellular macromolecules such as DNA . |
| 21 | Hib-E scholars have apparently always been quite happy to accept that the meat/mate merger is a true merger ( see citations in J. Milroy and Harris , 1980 : 200 ) , and Bliss ( 1979 : 208–10 ) cites evidence to show that these two classes had merged in Hib-E by around 1700 . |
| 22 | Every surveyor develops his own sequence of inspection to ensure that all relevant parts of the property are examined closely and that their inter-relationship is considered ; his system will probably be similar to that described in more detail in Chapter 7 . |
| 23 | The air quality management strategy , sometimes referred to as the air resource management strategy , involves designating the level of pollution deemed acceptable in terms of a set of ambient ( outdoor ) air quality standards and then controlling pollutant emissions to ensure that these legal limits are not exceeded ( Weber , 1982 ) . |
| 24 | Also Chris Protheroe was still in Lusaka carrying out the more routine , though no less important , procedures in the field to ensure that all necessary information was recorded before the team left . |
| 25 | There is a strong tendency in some quarters to assume that all transnational practices ( TNPs ) in the Third World are unwelcome and malign , just as there is a strong tendency in other quarters to assume that they are all welcome and benign . |
| 26 | Policy is implemented by earmarking specific sums for specific purposes and by monitoring orders to ensure that these financial guidelines are adhered to . |
| 27 | The Commissioners take considerable trouble to ensure that all relevant arguments are canvassed in the written case , and will invite observations on issues which appear to be relevant and which have not been raised in the written case . |
| 28 | Some years ago , interest in ‘ speed reading ’ caused many people to think that all auditory imagery should be suppressed , a view which Smith ( 1978 ) also supported . |
| 29 | If you 're so keen to see people who are as you , as you say articulate and and a go , in council houses it does seem an extraordinary argument to say that that those people are automatically not in need , it seems very bizarre argument . |
| 30 | It is an insult to all the people who made the submissions for the Secretary of State to suggest that all those professionals are accepting misleading statements and that the quality of their submissions is not as good as those of the handful of people in favour . |