Example sentences of "[be] [to-vb] that [noun pl] " in BNC.

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1 THE Football Association are to request that players of all clubs competing in the third round of the FA Cup this weekend should wear black armbands in memory of former secretary Ted Croker , who died at the age of 68 on Christmas Day .
2 The first battle has been to ensure that chapels are listed , the second to secure grants for repairs .
3 One possible alternative may be to suggest that jaws correspond to the velum in a larval lamprey , a special pumping device located at the entrance to the pharynx .
4 Its aim , with the likely support of West Germany and the Commission President , Mr Jacques Delors , will be to ensure that institutions of democratic accountability are developed in parallel with the supra-national instruments of economic and monetary policy-making like the proposed central bank .
5 The Minister 's brief would be to ensure that rapists are given a fair trial , to remove the by then punitive tax on shaving brushes , and generally to encourage his sex to emerge from their hiding-places and contribute to the running of the nation .
6 Specialist treatment bases might continue to exist where intensive work could be done on particular problems , but their aim would be to ensure that children could take advantage of mainstream services .
7 The aim should be to recognize that parents are consumers as well as clients and their schools and local authorities are the agents for implementing a closely knit policy of collaboration .
8 The other approach has been to argue that rats have difficulty with passive avoidance because they can not remember recent events .
9 The basic concern has been to demonstrate that regimes , such as that in Iraq , can no longer threaten this new dispensation of global power .
10 Such flexibility would be further enhanced if they were to accept that questions of law could have more than one possible answer .
11 If we were to accept that societies need to include a diversity of behaviour and belief in order to adapt to new conditions , this could surely be achieved by simply allowing such diversity .
12 Nobody was quite sure what that really meant but if it were to mean that audiences were now ready for films which dealt sensationally with sex , crime , and shady city affairs then that was what they were to be given .
13 Since later events were to show that women compositors were by no means incapable of taking action , we may be sceptical about " apathy " as the sole explanation for the collapse of the early attempt to form a union .
14 The wider issues were to show that politicians had blown it , for dragging America into Vietnam , germ warfare , ABM and all those other starting points of peace protesters .
15 Because the greatness of man is to see that things might be otherwise — to look at the world around him , and to see another world beneath its surface . ’
16 The way to do this is to see that patients bear some responsibility for the cost of services .
17 To open the door to this type of possibility is to accept that babies who are mentally handicapped , yet perfectly capable of leading a happy life with either their parents or guardians , are deprived of this opportunity by a small group of people who know little about what this life will be like .
18 The point of the trust clause here is to provide that substitutes should be liable for exactly the same as the instituted heirs , with the one exception of the problematic condition on the manumission .
19 The main purpose of the discussion is to establish that parents understand behaviour good and bad is learned , that children can be ‘ untaught ’ the bad and taught the good , and that it is the parents who do the teaching using the simple methods and techniques you have demonstrated .
20 One way of understanding structures larger than ribosomes is to remember that organisms are made of different kinds of cells — muscle cells , bone cells , nerve cells , and so on — arranged in space .
21 One way of regarding the problem of disseminating innovative teaching practices is to assume that teachers have some kind of mental picture of the paths taken by their pupils ' developing minds as they move through a topic ( topic x ) towards a state which may be thought of as ‘ understanding X ’ .
22 The most common treatment of the bequest motive is to assume that bequests enter the lifetime utility function ( e.g. , Yaari , 1964 , 1965 ) .
23 The easiest way to introduce technical progress is to assume that factors become more effective over time , e.g. , that one worker can do the work that two did a decade ago .
24 But this is to assume that humans have a natural capacity to recognise and reflect on their interests , and that they will only stand so much injustice .
25 Lord Taylor 's main point is to suggest that judges should pass sentence with an eye to the public 's expectations .
26 None of this is to suggest that Hungarians believe law will perform a miracle in economic terms .
27 Our response to these opposing arguments is to suggest that arguments that new technology is creating very large scale unemployment in the near future are alarmist , based on too simple a set of assumptions .
28 Again , the point of this is to suggest that words have possibilities beyond what their ‘ standard ’ definitions and common uses suggest .
29 But that is to deny that women can also want and enjoy sex purely for the fun of it .
30 The key to this task is to recognise that buyers purchase benefits and are only interested in product features in as much as they provide the benefits that the customer is looking for .
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