Example sentences of "[noun sg] is [verb] that a " in BNC.
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| 1 | The key is to recognize that a market is a natural focal point of any town or city and therefore a potential asset . |
| 2 | In time so much rock is dissolved that a hole is formed , called a swallow hole , and beneath it there is an underground pipe , as at Gaping Gill in Yorkshire and Eldon Hole in Derbyshire . |
| 3 | Another fatal error is to assume that a product with general appeal should be marketed broadly ( with consequent high costs of promotion ) . |
| 4 | If a child is told that a particular outing is to take place tomorrow , this becomes a certain fact in his or her mind . |
| 5 | Here it suffices to say that the aim is to ensure that a company is required to do so when it is thought that the matter is one that the public needs to know . |
| 6 | If the hon. Gentleman is suggesting that a review of defence by an incoming Labour Government , should we happen to have such an Administration , would mean more money being spent on defence , I am a Dutchman . |
| 7 | Finally , evidence is accumulating that a person 's emotional environment influences his or her likelihood of suffering an acute psychotic episode if he or she already has a history of schizophrenic disorder . |
| 8 | The difficulty for the prosecution is proving that a child so young intended to commit a crime . |
| 9 | However , to prevent friction between country residents and visitors , the Commission is recommending that a new Country Code should be established , and the tourism industry should help to preserve the attractive elements of the country . |
| 10 | The objective of media planning is to ensure that a reasonably large proportion of the target audience ( this is called ‘ coverage ’ ) sees the advertising a sufficient number of times ( this is called ‘ frequency ’ ) . |
| 11 | Penguin 's motivation is to ensure that a core stock of its titles is always available in the stores . |
| 12 | One of the tasks for the Solidarity government is to ensure that a revival in the Polish spirit does not preclude an honest appreciation of the nation 's history . |
| 13 | CONCERN is growing that a number of stockbrokers will be unable to meet a January deadline for VAT changes which are expected to reduce the cost of share dealing . |
| 14 | Page 29 Broking concern : Concern is growing that a number of stockbrokers will be unable to meet a January deadline for VAT changes which are expected to reduce the cost of share dealing . |
| 15 | The mistake is to say that a ‘ directing mind ’ accused is to be treated as having validly consented on behalf of the company to his own dishonest taking of the company 's property . |
| 16 | The burden of Nordhaus 's model is to suggest that a democratic economy will exhibit an inflationary bias with the gains from exploiting a ‘ fooled ’ electorate being a higher rate of inflation at point 3 than at point 5 . |
| 17 | WorldView 's brief is to ensure that a user can read a document irrespective of the software that created it . |
| 18 | The story is told that a certain academic was recruited as an expert ( supposedly ) on cryptograms , when in actuality he was an authority on crypto gams . |
| 19 | His responsibility is to ensure that a particular package has achieved the quality standards set by the project which is using it . |
| 20 | His responsibility is to ensure that a particular package has achieved the quality standards set by the project which is using it . |
| 21 | The practice of the present Auditor is to accept that a Tender lodged one week before a Proof is good in relation to the expenses of the Proof itself . |
| 22 | The principle is fixed that a scholar aspiring to high office must first teach at a graded series of medreses , one after the other , and that only when he reaches a certain grade does he become eligible for the great offices of the learned hierarchy , the mevleviyets , which are in their turn graded . |
| 23 | Two years later , professor D. M. Armstrong , in his book Bodily Sensations , offered an alternative explanation : ‘ To have a sensation of heat is to feel that a portion of our body is hot . ’ |
| 24 | And I attacked his view ( that ‘ to have a sensation of heat is to feel that a portion of our body is hot ‘ ) by saying that to talk of feeling the heat of one 's hand without touching it would be like talking of feeling the roughness of the back of one 's hand without touching it . |
| 25 | A businessman is claiming that a blunder by British Telecom has cost his firm seventy thousand pounds in lost orders . |