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

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1 Evidence is accumulating to show that gut epithelial cells interact closely with adjacent mononuclear cells .
2 The programme is intended to ensure that people can make profit out of public service rather than to achieve the goals that we see as important for ourselves .
3 As a compromise , the Administration is expected to insist that vapour traps are installed directly onto petrol pumps .
4 A Home Office Advisory Working Group , chaired by Judge Pigot , on the question of children 's evidence will report imminently and is expected to recommend that children as young as four or five should be allowed to give evidence if a judge rules that they are competent .
5 Examination of the quality of management decisions is included to ensure that lessons are learnt for the future and to provide data needed for the revision of systems if this proves to be necessary .
6 A trial run along both lines is recommended to ensure that planning is correct .
7 The system is designed to see that student decision-making is well informed .
8 An Enhanced Routing/Load Balancing is designed to ensure that system resources are used effectively by intelligently allocating resources and an Automatic Throughput Optimization feature is designed to improve system utilisation , ensure consistent response time and cut overall application development costs in a dynamic workload environment by adding , or subtracting copies of the application to meet current demands .
9 It is designed to ensure that students gain full benefit from the video , and provides a variety of reading material from newspapers and other authentic sources , paralleling the items on the video .
10 The General Product Safety Directive ( 92/59/EEC ) is designed to ensure that products placed on the market in member states are safe for consumers to use .
11 Mr Bland said last night : ‘ Our scheme is designed to ensure that LWT is in a position to make and broadcast programmes at the weekend from 1993 onwards . ’
12 A spokesman told us : ’ The new procedure is designed to ensure that people who are genuinely ill do not face dismissal . ’
13 In recent weeks the whole issue of prison conditions has been pushed to the forefront of public debate , following reports that Home Secretary Michael Howard is said to believe that conditions in many prisons are ‘ too lax ’ .
14 It attacks Christianity for its doctrine of the Incarnation , which is seen to suggest that God could be a human being .
15 Once new laws have been passed , workplace action is needed to ensure that employers comply with the new legislation .
16 However the European Commission and most E C governments refute this and contend that legislation is needed to ensure that workers are not kept in the dark about decisions taken elsewhere in the community that could affect their livelihoods .
17 It is reassuring to remember that fact when we lie awake worrying about how we are going to feel next day .
18 So it is reassuring to recognise that London is not alone .
19 It is reassuring to know that experiments performed in these three rather different time-free environments have all given results like those shown in Fig. 2.2 .
20 It is reassuring to know that Gallacher was one of the players chosen to represent Scotland when the national team played its first overseas international against France in May 1930 .
21 He declared by this determination , Ulster is going to see that Protestantism is neither dead nor buried but is on the march .
22 the limitation on circulation of the report : normally the client 's instructions , the scope of work and the time constraints in which it is performed mean that circulation should be restricted to those to whom the report is addressed and to other named parties to whom the report is relevant .
23 The linguistic transformation known as object deletion is used to ensure that instances of police aggression are rendered more palatable .
24 No-one is born knowing that Michelangelo is wonderful ; you have to be exposed to it , and this is the job that has to be done .
25 There may need to be a large number of meetings and discussions between the consultant and the client even after the candidate is appointed to ensure that things are running smoothly .
26 As antimalarial drugs were desperately needed during the war , it is startling to realize that chloroquine was first synthesized several years before the war and recognized at that time as having antimalarial activity .
27 Bevin and the Foreign Office were on occasion more sensitive to this issue — but in Bevin 's case this produced the bizarre proposal to hang on in the Middle East from a base in inhospitable ( but British ) territory 2,000 miles from the Suez Canal , Even Bullock is forced to concede that Bevin was ‘ obsessed ’ with the Middle East , an obsession he never seems to have lost .
28 But even the pragmatic McGilligan is forced to admit that Derry 's emergence as a major footballing force is the stuff of which dreams are made .
29 Their dance is very different from the work of petipa , whose suggestion of demi-caractère is seen when the Songbird and Bluebird dance in The Sleeping Beauty , where the fluttering of the hands is meant to indicate that birds fly and sing .
30 Foster parents are paid a weekly allowance that covers the basic costs of maintaining a child , but care is taken to see that fostering does not become a materially profitable exercise .
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