Example sentences of "[adj] [be] [verb] that [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In Nasonia it has further been shown that condensation of chromosomes derived from the sperm is abnormal and that they are often fragmented in incompatible crosses . |
| 2 | For this is to stipulate that Lenin 's three criteria must be satisfied if a whole is to count as a complex one . |
| 3 | And this is assuming that Venus is travelling in exactly the same plane as the Earth 's orbit , which it probably would n't be . |
| 4 | The way to do this is to see that patients bear some responsibility for the cost of services . |
| 5 | Another way of putting this is to say that habituation training produces a loss of effectiveness by the to-be-CS ( a reduction in ‘ conditionability ’ or ‘ associability ’ ) and that this loss is determined by the same mechanism as that controlling the loss of overt URs . |
| 6 | 10 Downing Street London W 1 21st June 1988 To Whom It May Concern This is to certify that Miss Jane " Alligator " Jones has served the British Government in a number of dangerous situations in recent years . |
| 7 | This is to ensure that instructors can modify while retaining the general path . |
| 8 | One way of doing this is to ensure that specialists implementing technical changes , eg the Resource Management Initiative , pay heed to the behavioural changes they expect to promote in managers and staff involved . |
| 9 | And the way to do this is to ensure that libraries stock material of the widest possible range to reflect all opinions . |
| 10 | By this is meant that design , development and implementation will be for the organisation as a whole . |
| 11 | None of this is to assert that trade can not produce political benefit , or that policies can not be fashioned to this end . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | This is saying that power becomes dangerous when it is not used with mercy — in other words , when a ruler becomes merciless . |
| 14 | None of this is to suggest that Hungarians believe law will perform a miracle in economic terms . |
| 15 | Again , the point of this is to suggest that words have possibilities beyond what their ‘ standard ’ definitions and common uses suggest . |
| 16 | One way of making sense of this was to suppose that genes were made of proteins , and that the DNA merely provided the string on which the protein beads were strung . |
| 17 | The aim of this was to ensure that America would become a permanent arms economy in which the state would underwrite American corporations through their guarantee of demand for the high technology goods which these corporations had invested in during the war . |
| 18 | This was to ensure that proceedings were not brought where the interests of the public or the family dictated otherwise . |
| 19 | The second is to understand that Jesus is arguing that the Messiah is not a descendant of David . |
| 20 | Congressmen by the dozen are demanding that Japan , Germany , Saudi Arabia — indeed anyone but America — should be tapped for the costs of Desert Storm . |
| 21 | Newspaper announcement , June 1794 : ‘ The public are most respectfully informed that Mr Edmund Bond ( late a Pupil of the Veterinary College ) has undergone an Examination before the Medical Committee , and the following is a Copy of their Report : These are to certify that Mr Edmund Bond has attended the Veterinary College as a Resident Pupil for Eighteen Months , and having been examined by us , we consider him as qualified to practise the Veterinary Art . |
| 22 | With the walls collapsing around them , however , many are urging that Newport forget history and get into the market place — or accept perpetual mediocrity . |
| 23 | Of course my main concern in the late 1970s was to ensure that aircraft accidents were properly investigated and that sufficient importance was being attached to recommendations for the prevention of more accidents . |
| 24 | That being so , it must first be stated that legislation such as the legislation at issue pursues an end which is justified with regard to Community law . |
| 25 | The first is to suppose that God always guides by the majority vote , by the reasonable thing , by sanctified common sense . |
| 26 | More difficult is conveying that injections must be self-administered and must not be missed . |
| 27 | To further suggest that the supposed Kinnockite qualities of being ‘ principled , passionate , sentimental ’ are antiquated is to imply that lack of principle , coldness and hard-nosed calculation are ‘ for these times ’ . |
| 28 | White-collar workers increased their share of manufacturing employment from 27.6 to 31.7 per cent between the 1971 and 1981 Censuses ; that is to say that services provided in offices and laboratories within manufacturing concerns increased in relative importance and largely escaped the process of job reduction which took place on the shop floor . |
| 29 | With every such operation the greater the risk becomes that " leakages " will occur , that is to say that lower.preference votes will pass to candidates of other parties . |
| 30 | That is to say that savings are a function of the rate of profit and unproductive consumption . |