Example sentences of "is [to-vb] that [art] [noun sg] be " 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 The next thing is to assure that the statement being made is a description of the offensive behaviour and not the offender 's character .
6 One way in which variation of this kind is discounted is to claim that the scribe was Anglo-Norman , or that the spellings are Anglo-Norman and therefore not valid evidence for the history of English .
7 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 .
8 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 .
9 Where a preference is given to a person ‘ connected with the company , ’ the court is to presume that the company was so influenced unless the contrary is shown : subsection ( 6 ) .
10 A standard fault is to assume that the reader is familiar with the jargon which the designer habitually uses .
11 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 ) .
12 The key is to recognize that a market is a natural focal point of any town or city and therefore a potential asset .
13 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 .
14 The aim is to ensure that no patient is sent home to a situation where he might be at risk .
15 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 .
16 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 .
17 The first step is to ensure that the waste is disposed of as close to its source as possible .
18 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 .
19 In other words , it is to argue that the problem is a technical problem which admits of a technical solution .
20 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 .
21 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 ’
22 None of this is to say that the Queen is a bad or malicious person : evidently she is not .
23 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 ?
24 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 .
25 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 .
26 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 .
27 The colloquialism , in fact , is to say that the auditor is appointed by the shareholders .
28 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 .
29 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 .
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