Example sentences of "[det] [is] [verb] [that] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 For this is to stipulate that Lenin 's three criteria must be satisfied if a whole is to count as a complex one .
2 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 .
3 The way to do this is to see that patients bear some responsibility for the cost of services .
4 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 .
5 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 .
6 This is to ensure that instructors can modify while retaining the general path .
7 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 .
8 And the way to do this is to ensure that libraries stock material of the widest possible range to reflect all opinions .
9 By this is meant that design , development and implementation will be for the organisation as a whole .
10 None of this is to assert that trade can not produce political benefit , or that policies can not be fashioned to this end .
11 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 .
12 This is saying that power becomes dangerous when it is not used with mercy — in other words , when a ruler becomes merciless .
13 None of this is to suggest that Hungarians believe law will perform a miracle in economic terms .
14 Again , the point of this is to suggest that words have possibilities beyond what their ‘ standard ’ definitions and common uses suggest .
15 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 .
16 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 .
17 That is to say that savings are a function of the rate of profit and unproductive consumption .
18 They are nice people : they believe that everything ought to be fair , that is to say that virtue is rewarded and villainy punished .
19 But that is to deny that women can also want and enjoy sex purely for the fun of it .
20 That 's to say that men embody themselves in partial versions of themselves , and then , in order to realize themselves more fully , they have to overcome by many kinds of struggle this previous realization .
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