Example sentences of "[noun] is [to-vb] that [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The intention is to ensure that decisions are taken at national level whenever that is the most appropriate way to deal with the decisions . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | The aim of the exercise is to show that schools can have free ( bar the cost of the adaptor ) and easy access to a range of educational software . |
| 4 | The only reason for defining abuse is to ensure that incidents are identified and reduced by good professional and managerial practice . |
| 5 | A patent is also meant to be granted in the public interest and the exclusion clause concerning public order and morality is to ensure that patents fulfil this obligation . |
| 6 | The ‘ Beveridgites ’ may be most comfortable in Health Authorities whose job is to ensure that services are available for their populations . |
| 7 | It is words rather than meanings that are problematic ; in fact , the point of reform is to ensure that words express what speakers ‘ really mean ’ rather than unfortunately conveying something speakers do not intend . |
| 8 | The most common treatment of the bequest motive is to assume that bequests enter the lifetime utility function ( e.g. , Yaari , 1964 , 1965 ) . |
| 9 | However , my aim is to show that notions of ‘ masculinity ’ and ‘ femininity ’ are important in shaping students ' experiences of schooling . |
| 10 | Our aim is to ensure that products using sucralose will be premium products . ’ |
| 11 | Our aim is to ensure that individuals of all backgrounds and means can live free of the fear of sickness , poverty and crime . |
| 12 | The Directive 's aim is to ensure that partnerships that are used as a vehicle by limited liability companies are not exempt from the accounting requirements of the Fourth and Seventh Directives . |
| 13 | Lord Taylor 's main point is to suggest that judges should pass sentence with an eye to the public 's expectations . |
| 14 | The main object of the code is to ensure that guests shall be informed in writing , before taking up accommodation , what price they will be obliged to pay , particularly the total obligatory charge . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Its role is to ensure that forests are n't destroyed for the sake of progress . |
| 17 | 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 . ’ |
| 18 | Our objective is to ensure that members can operate these new hours in a satisfactory way and not be expected to do so under enormous pressure . |
| 19 | Its primary objective is to ensure that bureaux and other independent advice agencies are able to give effective and easily accessible advice to their clients by providing a background of up-to-date , accurate and easily accessible information on all matters relating to rights , responsibilities , benefits and services . |
| 20 | Part of our role as mathematics educators is to ensure that children know that the skills and background they bring to school are valued . |
| 21 | Indeed , in many organisations , the tasks of project appraisal have been taken over by corporate planners , whose primary concern is to ensure that projects , however viable , possess ‘ strategic fit ’ , ie they conform with the long-term aims of the organisation . |
| 22 | My Lords , the aim of the Government 's policies is to ensure that patients receive high quality accident and emergency services whenever they need them . |
| 23 | Their responsibility is to ensure that articles are forwarded for consideration by the editorial committee for inclusion in the newsletter . |
| 24 | A description that covers both cases is to say that geodesics are stationary paths ; this means that any small deviation of path from a geodesic produces no change in the length to first order in the deviation . |
| 25 | INTERNAL VERIFICATION is the process by which an organisation , approved to offer a particular qualification , identifies people whose function is to ensure that groups of assessors are carrying out their duties in an appropriate way . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | The second possibility is to say that things get fixed along that chain once the objects with which we have to deal have become " large " . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | The idea is to ensure that users , via Xtra , and the work groups , focus their efforts on real , achievable goals , rather than flights of fancy ( remember the calls for graphical user interface standards in 1990 ) . |
| 30 | 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 . |