Example sentences of "[noun] is [verb] that [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Put simply , the duty of the LEAs is to ensure that sufficient schools and teachers are available to provide suitable primary and secondary education to meet the age , needs , aptitudes and abilities of all the children within the area they administer . |
| 2 | We wake and sleep according to the sun 's cycle , and research is showing that celestial rhythms still control many other areas of our life . |
| 3 | Its effect is to deny that authoritative instructions can serve the mediating role assigned them above . |
| 4 | Once again a similar argument exists in administrative law-namely that the function of judicial review is to ensure that public bodies only take decisions which are within the scope of their expertise . |
| 5 | The council is hoping that local firms will help to fund tourism promotion in the future . |
| 6 | A simpler interpretation is that the experimenters have rediscovered what Lashley ( 1950 ) showed many years ago , that partial removal of the cortical area to which the dorsal lateral geniculate body projects , has remarkably little effect on simple form discrimination tasks and that it is only when the entire cortical projection zone is removed that severe deficits , detectable in the simple behavioural paradigms we use , emerge . |
| 7 | The aim is to demonstrate that environment-friendly modes can be just as quick and efficient , if not more so , than the private motor car . |
| 8 | The aim is to check that sufficient information has been gathered for each variable to make statistics upon them valid . |
| 9 | The aim is to ensure that environmental considerations are taken into account at every stage of a project . |
| 10 | In considering shopfronts , the first need is to ensure that existing ones of character are preserved and sympathetically treated . |
| 11 | ‘ A central part of the City Challenge initiative is to ensure that local firms receive the kind of help they need to survive and grow ; and identifying their needs and objectives is one of our main aims . ’ |
| 12 | In the context of the conventional debate over academic freedom , a standard move in response to this point is to claim that academic freedom is a concept applicable to individual persons , and that academic autonomy is a concept applicable to institutions . |
| 13 | Here , the argument is presented that conceptual levels of understanding are necessary precursors to the emergence of spoken language , since language is , in effect , the linguistic realisation of those conceptual distinctions already established at a non-verbal level . |
| 14 | An important priority is to ensure that extra income is spent on extra activity . |
| 15 | I thought it particularly strange that the Labour party should label its new policy , ’ Made in Britain ’ , when its strategy is to ensure that British policy is made on the continent . |
| 16 | The role of Quality Control is to ensure that appropriate standards of quality are set and that variances beyond the tolerances are rejected . |
| 17 | The aim of this Guide is to ensure that criminal practitioners know about all the many active steps which they should take in the preparation of their client 's defence . |
| 18 | Adopting this pragmatic approach , I have thus sought to justify the main general conclusion to which my whole argument has been directed : that the way to heal the rift between holism and individualism is to recognise that concessive holism offers a superior approach to the business of social explanation . |
| 19 | Concern is expressed that agricultural methods and the widespread introductions of honey bees are reducing the populations of bumble bees . |
| 20 | Another concern is to ensure that new sorts of responsive services are there to meet identified needs . |
| 21 | A CHURCH is praying that local planners will have a change of heart . |
| 22 | The assumption is made that dissatisfied workers are more likely to leave the one job for another , take time off , or go on strike , but there has been considerable debate about all three measures , and there are cogent reasons for doubting that any of them serve as adequate indicators of job satisfaction . |
| 23 | The issue of the legitimacy of corporate enterprise can , however , be saved from being swallowed up in this wider debate if the assumption is made that alternative patterns of distribution can be secured through state action should the prevailing one be considered morally unappealing . |
| 24 | The aim of the project is to prove that high-powered laser technology can be harnessed by the oil and gas industry to save millions of pounds in manpower and equipment costs and lead to safety improvements . |
| 25 | In limiting the concept of social representations to these sons of phenomena , Moscovici is denying that social representations can be found in all societies , and suggesting that they only emerge under certain social conditions . |
| 26 | In both the Brundtland and Pearce reports the principle is established that present development must not jeopardize the future . |
| 27 | The primary thrust of the Convention is to ensure that human rights are respected in the domestic laws of states parties or , to the extent that they are not and that breaches occur , that such breaches should be remedied by the state in question . |
| 28 | Whatever the truth of this , the proposition is repeated that homosexual unions should be recognized as marriages with all the rights and duties this may imply . |
| 29 | Mrs Darwin , an economic development chief , added : ‘ The new developments and facilities will encourage new business and one of our tasks is to ensure that local people get the new jobs . |
| 30 | Another way of stating this thesis is to say that psychological life is essentially metaphorical in character . |