Example sentences of "be [to-vb] that no [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 But this is to forget that no lower preference can become effective unless all higher preferences have become ineffective .
2 Whatever style of planning management is used , the overriding need for understanding the business is to ensure that no important issues are neglected .
3 When the parties returned , it was to report that no more men had been found and that there was no way out .
4 The aim was to ensure that no one brewer controlled more than 40 per cent of the on-licences and 33 per cent of the off-licences in any area .
5 One of the aims of the Government 's 1988 benefit reforms was to ensure that no working families were faced with a marginal tax rate of over 100 per cent .
6 But Cnut was considerably more fortunate in the sources produced within 150 years of his death , for the explosion of literary activity which began shortly after the Norman Conquest , and which was to ensure that no future reign would be as badly documented as those of Cnut and his sons , also cast its light back to his period .
7 for Moore , to say that an act was right was to say that no alternative action would produce better consequences , while to say that it was ‘ a duty ’ or ‘ obligatory ’ was to say that it would produce the best consequences possible .
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