Example sentences of "be [vb pp] [adv] [to-vb] [that] " in BNC.
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1 | As the hon. Gentleman knows , whenever we make comparisons the figures that we quote are adjusted backwards to ensure that we quote them on a truly comparable basis in all instances . |
2 | Checks are carried out to ensure that the name of the root package and any sub-packages to be created are unique ; sub-package module names and filenames are derived from the root package module name and filename by appending a letter ( A-Z ) or digit combination ( 0–9 ) . |
3 | The other two cases are included primarily to emphasize that a wide variety of phenomena is contained within the Lorenz equations , although , since yet further variety can be obtained by varying r/r c and b , they can do so only by example . |
4 | Starting with Aristotle , elaborate classification systems have been built up to show that things may belong to the same class ( and therefore have common features ) even if their appearance is different . |
5 | Since then the sea defences have been built up to ensure that such a disaster will not strike again . |
6 | This procedure is repeated at each stage and ensures that the results are fed back to ensure that they comply with the intention of the previous stage . |
7 | Newbolt 's attitude is still very common — not only among the British ( especially those who have come under the influence of F. R. Leavis ) , but also among American free versifiers who think they are an avantgarde and who are muddled enough to think that they have Pound 's authority to back them . |
8 | Er it 's something that we 're trained in to ensure that there is nobody hiding behind the door . |
9 | Mr Larsen has been roped in to see that all the music lovers of Gullshaven are informed — I know that the doctor and the pastor and one or two of the schoolteachers are devoted to music . |
10 | A new Accreditation Sub Committee has been set up to ensure that proposed SVQs meet the stringent criteria which have been laid down . |
11 | Elaborate procedures are set out to ensure that both the exporter and the importer know what the wastes are , and where they have come from . |
12 | Analysis has been brought forward to show that what was taken as proof of a lack of logical processes amongst ‘ primitive ’ peoples was often simply misunderstanding by ill-informed European commentators of the meaning of what was being said and done . |
13 | We 've been brought up to think that it 's not nice and not polite to do so . |
14 | ‘ I 've been brought up to think that schoolwork comes first , you know , if you want to get anywhere . ’ |
15 | ‘ But one likes doing things for people , ’ said Ianthe firmly , for of course she had been brought up to think that one should , though perhaps this situation was a little different . |
16 | ‘ Women suffer from it more than men — especially women who have been brought up to think that it is enough just to look beautiful . ’ |
17 | Since the days of Frederick the Great the Germans had been brought up to believe that the Poles were drunken , brutish and in every way inferior . |
18 | We may have been brought up to believe that it was selfish to put our own needs before others . |
19 | Stella had been brought up to believe that Catholicism was a plague rather than a religion . |
20 | There are often , among the competitors , girls from Eastern Bloc or otherwise under-privileged countries who have been brought up to believe that a monumental talent requires total dedication , who have been told that great minds do not fuss about small externals , who have been led to suppose that for a great genius to be a plain Jane is only appropriate . |
21 | He had been brought up to believe that marriage was for ever . |
22 | He had been brought up to believe that policemen were havens of security , to whom you turned in times of trouble . |
23 | We 've been brought up to know that it ca n't last and we 're deeply suspicious of what we disdainfully see as decadent ‘ beach bimbos ’ . |
24 | People are brought up to believe that to be successful in science you have first to have your right cerebral hemisphere obliterated ; and the people ( like a lot of teachers ) who perpetrate this nonsense should be fried slowly in rancid yak fat . |
25 | Moreover strict conditions are laid down to ensure that the company is included in consolidated accounts drawn up and audited in accordance with the Seventh Directive and made available to the British public . |
26 | They should be checked regularly to endure that all nuts and bolts are secure , and also inspected for cracks and flaws which can develop at places which are subject to a lot of stress , such as the bottom of attachment posts , the hinge area and where the metal is thinner round nut holes . |
27 | The case against the defendant was indeed a strong one and for that reason their Lordships would not be prepared simply to recommend that an acquittal be ordered , but they do not feel able to say that the jury would inevitably have convicted , if the defence had been furnished in advance with the three statements in question and if the jury had received the accepted direction on evidence as to character and guidance from the trial judge on the problem , whatever it was , indicated when they first returned to court . |
28 | Perhaps in one sense it does not matter that he ignored the sometimes vandalistic assaults on the gospel texts by Form-critics and Redaction-critics ; just as it could be seen not to matter that the school of philosophy in which he was reared had been rendered more or less obsolete by the man who — in the year that Lewis was writing The Problem of Pain — had become a professor of philosophy at Cambridge : Ludwig Wittgenstein . |
29 | A plan must also be drawn up to ensure that parts are made in the right order for assembly . |
30 | On the one hand it can be used simply to say that whilst theory is essential and desirable it nevertheless depends for its validity on observation ( of an empirical kind ) . |