Example sentences of "is [to-vb] that the [noun] be " in BNC.
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| 1 | . 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 . |
| 2 | The job of the trustee is to see that the fund is managed within the terms of its ‘ trustee deed ’ . |
| 3 | I rather think that they are concentrating on the main task which is to see that the children are properly provided for . |
| 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 only realistic interpretation is to recognize that the differences are theological . |
| 13 | There is another point : the additionality test is to ensure that the moneys are spent only because of the grant . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | The first step is to ensure that the waste is disposed of as close to its source as possible . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | What is being done is to argue that the failures were of the order to suggest that Bukharin had been correct in his prediction before the event , not after it . |
| 19 | In other words , it is to argue that the problem is a technical problem which admits of a technical solution . |
| 20 | None of this is to say that the Queen is a bad or malicious person : evidently she is not . |
| 21 | 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 ? |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | The colloquialism , in fact , is to say that the auditor is appointed by the shareholders . |
| 26 | The obvious way out of this dilemma is to say that the currents are there — inside the magnetic material . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | This is less important than in a share sale where the difficulty of the purchaser , without an express damage statement , is to show that the shares are worth less than the purchaser paid for them , as a reduction in the assets or increase in the liabilities does not necessarily reduce the price of the shares . |