Example sentences of "[is] [to-vb] that [det] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.

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1 Opening the book purely at random is to discover that most human activities appear to be the subject of superstition .
2 One solution is to state that any financial benefits are only paid when the move has taken place .
3 The strategy employed here , to begin with , is to insist that all existential propositions of the natural language be replaced by properly quantified paraphrases ; next , propositions involving unqualified or unrestricted quantification are proscribed on the grounds that they are " obscure " and are replaced by propositions involving a qualified quantification into a specified domain ( corresponding to ordinary language propositions of the " Some S are P " type ) ; finally , a paraphrase is attempted of the qualified quantification in terms of the validity of inference .
4 The important point is to recognize that these methodological difficulties exist and allow awareness of them to influence our interpretation of experimental results .
5 WAIT_FLAG — is an input parameter specifying whether the procedure is to check that all online modules are read out to the specified directory before returning .
6 WAIT_FLAG/ — is an input parameter specifying whether the procedure is to check that all online modules are read out to the specified directory before returning .
7 WAIT_FLAG/ — is an input parameter specifying whether the procedure is to check that all online modules are read out to the specified directory before returning .
8 Accurate reports of certain public occasions are " privileged " — which is to say that any defamatory statements arising from them can not be made the subject of a successful libel action .
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