Example sentences of "[be] [verb] [to-vb] [conj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The hotel does not operate a service charge , but you are given to understand that guests in fact tip generously . |
| 2 | The difference in attitudes toward welfare between the USA and Europe has been highlighted to show that trends toward contraction of municipal housing and urban programmes , when coupled with the process of deinstitutionalization , make it more likely that hospital leavers will be marginalized in a competitive environment . |
| 3 | Constitutional arrangements have been developed to ensure that bureaucracies remain responsive to political direction . |
| 4 | At this time certain information is usually recorded to ensure the patient is fit for surgery and also to avoid potential complications , e.g. a specimen of urine is tested to ensure that diabetes mellitus does not go undiagnosed ; allergies are checked to ensure that drugs , anaesthetic agents , lotions or dressings can be avoided if a patient has an allergy to them . |
| 5 | Another analysis of the function of imposing fiduciary duties on directors is that these duties are designed to ensure that directors act only within the ambit of their special expertise . |
| 6 | These Regulations are designed to ensure that employers introduce arrangements for effective management of health and safety in which employees and safety representatives will have to play their part . ’ |
| 7 | They are designed to ensure that authors receive recompense for the free provision of their books to the public by libraries . |
| 8 | Monies are paid to a business in a variety of forms and all our services are designed to ensure that funds are received , processed , and credited to accounts as quickly and cost effectively as possible . |
| 9 | These computer workshops have been included to ensure that graduates will have ‘ hands on ’ experience of the accounting and business software that is of increasing importance to the accountancy profession . |
| 10 | As a result there is some prospect of schools once more becoming places where children are expected to learn and teachers to teach . |
| 11 | As at Ibrox , the match is for home fans only , but 1,000 Scots fans are expected to travel and police are mounting a huge security operation to stop touting outside the stadium . |
| 12 | And fireworks are expected to fly as ministers battle to protect their cash plans in the light of a strict 244.5bn pounds spending limit . |
| 13 | Although nitrate pollution of the Broads is well known , recent studies are reported to show that streams in areas such as the Cotswolds are now equally polluted . |
| 14 | All fresh cases are reported to CATCHEM and forces all over the country have to fill in a form with 230 questions devised by Dovaston . |
| 15 | Immunohistochemical and in situ hybridisation studies have yielded conflicting results , since at different times evidence has been presented to suggest that antigens or nucleic acids from measles virus , respiratory syncytial virus , or canine distemper virus might be present in pagetic tissue or cultured cells but no virus has been isolated from affected tissue . |
| 16 | In the sister institute in the French-speaking Cameroon set up somewhat earlier at Yaounde , workers embarked more conventionally straight into a programme of materials production and were able to announce confidently that by March 1973 , ‘ about 47 tons of textbooks and 33 tons of documents have been produced ’ , but you can not profitably assess the success of a curriculum by weight ; many megatons of unprofitable material have been produced ( and will still be produced ) all over Africa just because no preliminary study had been made to ascertain whether children and parents wanted them , could afford them , read them or understand them . |
| 17 | More recently , tests have been made to check that orbits calculated according to GR simultaneously fit the planetary orbital data from a wide range of measurements ( Section 8.4 ) . |
| 18 | Instead , great efforts are made to ensure that boys do keep up , through , for example , remedial classes which continue into secondary schooling . |
| 19 | I should like the Minister to state clearly what checks are made to ensure that police computer information is not available to debt collectors , bailiffs , and other such persons . |
| 20 | Now they 're waiting to see if humans will respond . |
| 21 | Instead , they are likely to use the ‘ just-in-time ’ ( JIT ) system where complex market relations with component subcontractors are used to ensure that supplies arrive on the premises where they are needed at the appropriate time . |
| 22 | Although concerned initially with resource allocation effects , the concepts of trade creation and trade diversion have been used to analyse whether shifts in trading patterns lead to benefits or costs in terms of gains and losses of consumer and producer surpluses . |
| 23 | Eye movement studies have also been used to show that humans employ syntactic information when reading . |
| 24 | Now , thanks to the publicity of the past year or two , people are beginning to realize that fats are dieters ' enemy number one . |
| 25 | Strange and costly garments branded Gucci or Dior are worn to signal that humans have judgement , style and personality . |
| 26 | MORE and more areas of BNFL 's THORP plant are coming to shape as contractors and commissioning teams strive towards the February 1993 deadline for all areas to be under the control of the Commissioning Group . |
| 27 | The committee recommends that building regulations be amended to ensure that offices and other similar buildings have adequate ventilation . |
| 28 | The Act requires childcare facilities to be registered to ensure that standards are maintained throughout the country . |
| 29 | Survey data collected over the last three decades will be re-analysed to see whether changes in the geography of economic and social well-being in Great Britain have led to either or both of changed political attitudes and changed partisan allegiances . |
| 30 | The following checklist raises issues that must be addressed to ensure that witnesses and their evidence are properly handled . |