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

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1 In each case , if I am to claim that this revelation or experience is of ‘ God ’ , and is not simply an expression of some form of mental delusion which should be referred to a psychoanalyst , then I am forced to debate the interpretation that I am giving .
2 The educational background and training of chartered librarians in Britain has not been well understood by teachers , and in particular it has been noticeable how reluctant spokesmen of the School Library Association have been to acknowledge that some librarians have received a special training in work with children of school age , with materials for children of school age , and involving more than an acquaintance with the study of educational systems and methods and of child development .
3 A problem with this idea is of course that most dreams are not remembered , so that even if solutions to problems are achieved during dreams they can not be regarded as adaptive , unless we are to believe that these solutions are somehow incorporated unconsciously .
4 The strategy would be to find that different objects fall at different rates and , likely as not , determine that two variables were mainly responsible — size and the shape of each object .
5 It made him seem altogether too human , and the safest thing for her to do would be to remember that this man was very nearly the devil incarnate .
6 The initial reaction of an efficiency expert may be to suggest that each adviser has the information system in their interviewing room in order to save time and energy .
7 The role of Government should be to ensure that such pensions met sensible regulation so that the public interest was protected .
8 A key area of the service will be to ensure that all readers are kept up to date on developments in the completion of the internal market .
9 It was accepted that member states would operate their own national regional assistance instruments , whereas the Community 's preoccupation would be to ensure that national aid did not conflict with its competition policy , by providing protection for domestic industries under the guise of regional aid .
10 The ref 's job will be to ensure that these guys stay on-side .
11 This record should be regularly reviewed by the educational supervisor , whose responsibility would be to ensure that senior house officers had every opportunity to meet their specified objectives and that any gaps in relevant experience were readily identified and rectified .
12 A broad position would be to hold that any threat may negative consent , and this might include a threat to send a compromising photograph to someone , a threat to report a driver for exceeding the speed limit , and so on .
13 A simpler way of looking at laicisation might be to say that institutional Christianity has lost some of its functions : most education passes from church to state ; so too do medicine , welfare and human counselling .
14 Another way of putting this would be to say that scientific culture was remarkably wide .
15 They were to discover that these country lads were the equals — perhaps the superiors — of their Indian counterparts in political sagacity .
16 Compared with Barry 's Board of Trade , the Broad Sanctuary houses were hideous and it ‘ would excite one 's horror , if one were to imagine that any portion of London was to be covered with such edifices ’ .
17 In this connection , it is interesting that many of the restrictions on economic life in the Pentateuch were to ensure that each family always had access to part of the society 's capital — namely a plot of land and some animals .
18 The agency 's responsibility is to see that those children are properly paid for .
19 In the context of the conventional debate over academic freedom , a standard move in response to this point is to claim that academic freedom is a concept applicable to individual persons , and that academic autonomy is a concept applicable to institutions .
20 The silliest and the most sinful of the many heresies of pseudo-democracy is to pretend that all studies and all learning are ‘ created equal ’ .
21 Protagoras ' reply to this is to contend that political wisdom is not a matter of specialized knowledge , but something in which everyone has a share , and in which it is necessary that everyone has a share , " Otherwise the state could not exist " .
22 The objective is to confirm that all response times are less than the agreed target , and that response times for identical processes are consistent .
23 ( The alternative is to guess that some training examples are erroneous , and leave them out of the training set . )
24 The starting point is to accept that each individual develops and evolves throughout life , and that the final stages of life are as important as any other .
25 The safest course is to provide that any capital gains tax assessed on the settlor shall not be borne by the trust .
26 To brood on the unkempt surface of the earth as Baltz has done is to find that normal ideas of scale are suspended .
27 To have such ‘ scientific knowledge ’ of , say , the facts that man is the only animal with a sense of humour , that gold dissolves in aqua regia , or that triangles have angles equal to two right angles , is to know that these things must be so and can not be otherwise .
28 The important point here is to remember that this grid has a central point located at 30,80 .
29 And Hulme stormed back , ‘ But using ‘ sexual harassment ’ to describe someone who says ‘ Phwooar ! ’ is to suggest that all men are animals .
30 We must also ensure that teaching is seen to be important , and a simple way to start is to insist that all doctors must document their experience when applying for jobs and that all appointments committees should ask about it .
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