Example sentences of "[noun sg] 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 | 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 . |
| 3 | The only reason for defining abuse is to ensure that incidents are identified and reduced by good professional and managerial practice . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | The ‘ Beveridgites ’ may be most comfortable in Health Authorities whose job is to ensure that services are available for their populations . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | The most common treatment of the bequest motive is to assume that bequests enter the lifetime utility function ( e.g. , Yaari , 1964 , 1965 ) . |
| 8 | However , my aim is to show that notions of ‘ masculinity ’ and ‘ femininity ’ are important in shaping students ' experiences of schooling . |
| 9 | Our aim is to ensure that products using sucralose will be premium products . ’ |
| 10 | Our aim is to ensure that individuals of all backgrounds and means can live free of the fear of sickness , poverty and crime . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Lord Taylor 's main point is to suggest that judges should pass sentence with an eye to the public 's expectations . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Its role is to ensure that forests are n't destroyed for the sake of progress . |
| 15 | 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 . ’ |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | Their responsibility is to ensure that articles are forwarded for consideration by the editorial committee for inclusion in the newsletter . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 " . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | 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 ) . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | One aim of securities market regulation is to ensure that operations in the markets are conducted under transparent rules relating to information on fees , commissions and prices . |
| 27 | The next , and perhaps more difficult , stage is to recognize that marks of a particular kind form a pattern over a larger region . |
| 28 | The key to this task is to recognise that buyers purchase benefits and are only interested in product features in as much as they provide the benefits that the customer is looking for . |