Example sentences of "is [verb] [to-vb] [conj] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the long run it is by making efficient investment decisions that capacity is adjusted to ensure that this price also reflects long-run marginal cost . |
| 2 | Before a module is accepted by LIFESPAN , its header is checked to ensure that all its constituent keywords are present and that they contain at least the minimum amount of information required . |
| 3 | It may misrepresent English and Irish experience to draw analogies between Spenser and current perspectives , but it equally is misplaced to deny that past and present discourses about Ireland possess noticeable similarities which have larger cultural consequences . |
| 4 | The new directive is intended to ensure that national authorities process toxic substances as close to source as possible , thereby minimising the risk of accidents while in transit . |
| 5 | This requirement , it says , is far more burdensome than the equivalent requirement in the directive , which is limited to credit and financial institutions . |
| 6 | This is claimed to ensure that all the elements dissolve fully and equally . |
| 7 | One must , of course , always stress the human factor and beware the danger of geographical determinism ; nevertheless , it is revealing to find that 86 per cent of estate villages in Kent had no Dissenting chapel , but that such places of worship were common in the scattered settlements of former forest or wood-pasture zones . |
| 8 | Underlying inflation , now around the 3.7% mark , is expected to slow but due to the devaluation of the pound UK exports should pick up dramatically because the price of British goods will be much cheaper abroad . |
| 9 | But Sony is expected to argue that this contract has moral and legal force , was freely negotiated and is of a type common in the industry . |
| 10 | It involves close cooperation between central and local authorities and is designed to ensure that large scale developments bring the greatest possible benefit to the areas in which they are sited through , for example , the use of local labour and materials . |
| 11 | An attempt is made to demonstrate that this reasoning is faulty and that the disintegration of the Byzantine state was accompanied by economic growth in the provinces which reinforced the power of the provincial aristocracy in relation to the state . |
| 12 | In the tear-down bay the engine is carefully dismantled and an initial ‘ eyeball ’ inspection is made to see if any snags become apparent . |
| 13 | Although every effort is made to ensure that all details are correct at time of going to press , times and dates of events can vary . |
| 14 | The firm is pushed to continue as long as it can without breaking the law — indeed Dista can claim CSM positively discouraged it from taking action , a situation which , some observers claim , shows that the British drugs watchdog has power without responsibility . |
| 15 | Therefore it is fitting to remember that such houses are no substitute for fair rent housing from local authorities or housing associations ( Clark 1981 ) . |
| 16 | This is done to ensure that each local authority will reach a minimum standard of efficiency and carry out the service in accordance with the wishes of the Central Government . |
| 17 | Fimbra , as the regulatory body of middlemen who sell investment and insurance products , is attempting to require that these intermediaries hold professional indemnity insurance cover through a centralised scheme provided by Fimbra . |
| 18 | A national study is needed to see whether these trends are representative but little information about night visits is collected centrally . |
| 19 | The broad concept of confidentiality agreements is unobjectionable but care is needed to ensure that such agreements do not impose limitations in the scope of our work such that it would be impossible to report in accordance with the terms of engagement . |
| 20 | The broad concept of confidentiality agreements is unobjectionable but care is needed to ensure that such agreements do not impose limitations in the scope of our work such that it would be impossible to report in accordance with the terms of engagement . |
| 21 | What is needed to ensure that some popular control can be exerted over political leadership , some governmental accountability can be enforced ? |
| 22 | or another remedy is needed to follow before complete resolution occurs . |
| 23 | These are n't my figures they 're County Council figures The point is this , what is going to happen if positive action is to reduce the flow of traffic , I have to emphasize with you the flow of traffic is not taken . |
| 24 | As with most supernatural occurrences one never knows just when something is going to happen and this is the case in the studio . |
| 25 | If it 's erm if it 's a school teacher as in primary schools where they 're going to teach a lot across a range of subjects , one of the new measures I think is going to help and that is the introduction of the sixth subject , erm Bachelor of Education Degree , because maths , English and science will be the core three subjects and the other three subjects will be of choice , so there 's an opportunity there for one of those subjects to be religious education and it will be taught in greater depth to those teachers . |
| 26 | You also write out of the realisation that the world you know is going to end and this sense relates directly to my response to my mother 's death . |
| 27 | If only a single character is suggested then word knowledge is used to detect and correct errors in the hypothesis . |
| 28 | De-realization is used to suggest that economic and other ‘ scientific ’ models are no more real ( nor even more accurate ) than the fictions and oracular pronouncements from which they seek to distinguish themselves . |
| 29 | Instead , the Commission indulged in some verbal gymnastics with : ‘ This work is beginning to suggest that some types of tree grow better in air that has most of the pollution removed from it . ’ |
| 30 | The entire package is assessed to see if all the modules it contains constitute the appropriate baseline . |