Example sentences of "is [to-vb] that [art] [noun] is " in BNC.
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1 | The main aim of the group is to see that every dog is muzzled in public . |
2 | . The last one then , erm , C P is the completer. and their role is to see that the team is protected as far as possible from mistakes and they also maintain a sense of urgency within the team . |
3 | The job of the trustee is to see that the fund is managed within the terms of its ‘ trustee deed ’ . |
4 | Any repairs or replacements or renewals of furnishings are noted on the cards , and they are constantly referred to by the housekeeping and maintenance departments , whose responsibility it is to see that the room is maintained to the required standard . |
5 | This is not to press for a reversal of the present position , but to understand that if the work of research students is to be understood in educational terms , then the first step is to accept that the role is a hybrid of research and of higher education . |
6 | The rejoinder to this is to accept that the counter is pointing to a real feature of academic thought , which is that the consensus of the relevant disciplinary community does indeed offer some measure of reliability and raises knowledge claims above mere whim ; but that does not in itself amount to a demonstration of the ‘ progress ’ of knowledge . |
7 | A standard fault is to assume that the reader is familiar with the jargon which the designer habitually uses . |
8 | The importance of assessment , after it has been established that the technique achieves what it has set out to do ( phase I ) , is to determine that the technique is safe , effective , and worthy of further trial ( phase II ) . |
9 | The key is to recognize that a market is a natural focal point of any town or city and therefore a potential asset . |
10 | Here it suffices to say that the aim is to ensure that a company is required to do so when it is thought that the matter is one that the public needs to know . |
11 | The aim is to ensure that no patient is sent home to a situation where he might be at risk . |
12 | This is a matter for commercial judgment ; from the drafter 's point of view , the important thing is to ensure that the client is aware of the legal implications of its contract procedures and does not lose the battle of forms by inadvertence . |
13 | One essential requirement , before attempting to fly a model equipped with a gyro for the first time , is to ensure that the gyro is working in the correct sense . |
14 | The first step is to ensure that the waste is disposed of as close to its source as possible . |
15 | To describe companies as social enterprises is thus to make a claim about the grounds of their legitimacy , and its practical significance is to hold that the state is entitled to prescribe the terms on which corporate power may be possessed and exercised . |
16 | In other words , it is to argue that the problem is a technical problem which admits of a technical solution . |
17 | For example , it is necessary to hear only a brief phrase of some Grand Waltz by Tchaikovsky , Glinka or Strauss to know that steps of grande élévation are the object of the exercise ; to hear some slow pavane , minuet or saraband is to realise that an adage is being practised . |
18 | Or , as Samuel Burler has it , the proper statement of relations between successive generations is to say that a hen is merely an egg 's way of making another egg ’ |
19 | None of this is to say that the Queen is a bad or malicious person : evidently she is not . |
20 | Slot screw fixing at the back of course ; but if the front is n't glued into its groove , who is to say that the back is n't going to remain static , while the front shrinks out of its groove ? |
21 | Another way of expressing the central requirement of conspiracy to injure is to say that the law is concerned with the distinction between legitimate and illegitimate purposes , for the former will legalise the infliction of the most catastrophic and inevitable harm to the plaintiff 's business . |
22 | Kiesling argues that what constitutes the priest as the image of Christ is the character of orders , that is to say that the person is a priest . |
23 | The best I can manage is to say that the thriller is intended to thrill ; it is a succession of exciting events , whereas the suspense novel is designed to create suspense , a series of situations of which the outcome is in doubt . |
24 | The colloquialism , in fact , is to say that the auditor is appointed by the shareholders . |
25 | Our constituents look to us to obtain redress ; if the only satisfaction that we can give them is to say that the matter is out of our hands , it will not be long before they begin to wonder why they voted for us at all . |
26 | Another way of describing lack of spontaneity is to say that the participant is ‘ holding back ’ , not ‘ letting himself go ’ , not ‘ giving himself ’ to the situation . |