Example sentences of "is that [det] [noun pl] [vb mod] [vb infin] " in BNC.

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1 The idea is that all computers must conform to Russian standards , and the Committee has already singled out Summit Systems ( a Chips & Technologies Inc joint venture ) , the French-Italian-Russian joint venture Interquadro ; and Intermicro , a Russian-Austrian joint venture .
2 The Minister ( Sir Edward Boyle ) announced that this would take place in 1970/1 and wrote a remarkable preface to the published text in which he stated that ‘ the essential point is that all children should have an equal opportunity of acquiring intelligence , and developing their talents and abilities to the full ’ .
3 The consensus is that such technologies will require international standardisation , long-term planning and organisational coordination .
4 ‘ We believe the longer-term trend is that such MBOs will become an even larger feature of the corporate scene , ’ said Mr Toomey .
5 As in 1949 at Lausanne , so the probability is that many refugees would oppose any surrender of their claim and would continue to struggle for a solution which goes a substantial way towards meeting both their physical needs and their sense of grievance .
6 The danger is that few firms will exploit the flexibility .
7 The result is that most students can choose between two or three honours specialisations in the final year .
8 One factor which will help stop Westland 's prison house shades from falling to dramatically onto users is that most authorities will move only cautiously towards a care management budgeting system , given the uncertainties which surround overall budgets for next year .
9 The point that I 've been making with the various percentages is that those negotiations will become unrealistic if on average , you 're talking about forty some percent of sites having to go for affordable housing on a negotiated basis .
10 The quicker you can get around the mast the better , some people even jump , but the main point is that both hands should hold the mast and not the uphaul rope .
11 The crux of the argument — the impetus of the Girls into Science and Technology ( GIST ) , Women into Science and Engineering ( WISE ) and INSIGHT schemes — is that more girls must take up science subjects ; girls must do as well as boys .
12 Another reason why you may not see them mating is that some adults can lay eggs without mating first .
13 What they 've been saying is that some authorities might have experiments in the cabinet arrangement we 're not advising to go down that road because and on which point we do n't agree with that type of of government .
14 Another testable restriction is that some variables will affect only the membership and wage equations directly .
15 7.7.1 to comply with all the requirements and recommendations of the insurers The problem with the requirements and recommendations of insurers is that some insurers can impose quite unreasonable requirements and recommendations .
16 ‘ The second reason for withdrawing clause 54(4) is that these services would tend to be much less used .
17 tourism in West Sussex I mean what would happen to that is just one example er on a broader level , the County Council is working with the European regions to promote West Sussex in Europe and what would happen to that , the only conclusion we could draw is that these policies would crumble and to er seriously affect West Sussex and finally I come back to the point that , that I will keep making , if I ever get the opportunity , namely the cost of this exercise .
18 Some groups of pieces may still form parts of the picture , but the more you shake the box , the more likely it is that these groups will get broken up and the pieces will be in a completely jumbled state in which they do n't form any sort of picture .
19 The other notable consequence is that these changes can lead to alterations in the distribution of population between places .
20 The aim is that these discussions will lead to action being taken by the newly formed Railway Clearing House which consists of members from both organisations .
21 The hope is that these peptides might compete with the virus proteins for binding to the receptor molecules .
22 What is worrying is that these countries may serve as reservoirs of infection should any of the richer countries ever get on top of their own VD problem .
23 A is the cost and B is that these suggestions could cause a time delay in of course the implementation of the scheme .
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