Example sentences of "is [to-vb] [that] [noun] be " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is to emphasise that Papert is fighting major battles over the nature of the relationship between computers and education . |
| 2 | One way of understanding structures larger than ribosomes is to remember that organisms are made of different kinds of cells — muscle cells , bone cells , nerve cells , and so on — arranged in space . |
| 3 | The inference seems to work roughly like this : assume B 's utterance is relevant ; if it 's relevant then given that A asked a question , B should be providing an answer ; the only way one can reconcile the assumption that B is co-operatively answering A's question with the content of B's utterance is to assume that B is not in a position to provide the full information , but thinks that the milkman 's coming might provide A with the means of deriving a partial answer . |
| 4 | How solemn it is to believe that Jesus is the son of God , the saviour of the world , and yet to reject him . |
| 5 | The second is to understand that Jesus is arguing that the Messiah is not a descendant of David . |
| 6 | The intention is to ensure that decisions are taken at national level whenever that is the most appropriate way to deal with the decisions . |
| 7 | Its role is to ensure that forests are n't destroyed for the sake of progress . |
| 8 | Their responsibility is to ensure that articles are forwarded for consideration by the editorial committee for inclusion in the newsletter . |
| 9 | The only reason for defining abuse is to ensure that incidents are identified and reduced by good professional and managerial practice . |
| 10 | Competitive Regulation : here , the aim is to ensure that competition is not eliminated or seriously hampered by the formation of cartels . |
| 11 | The ‘ Beveridgites ’ may be most comfortable in Health Authorities whose job is to ensure that services are available for their populations . |
| 12 | Our aim is to ensure that food is wholesome , of high quality and produced as economically as possible and to ensure that , not only in the United Kingdom but in the export market , people have the benefits of an outstanding product . |
| 13 | One of the purposes of this publication is to demonstrate that conveyancing is not simply a job to be done as cheaply as possible . |
| 14 | SIR — To suggest , as J. G. Girling does ( letter , April 1 ) , that the British Parliament is no longer the supreme legislative body of our country is to argue that Parliament is incapable of repealing its own legislation . |
| 15 | The narrowest position is to say that rape is committed only where D threatens violence or knows that V is in fear of violence , and that any other threat must fall within the lesser offence of procuring sex by threats . |
| 16 | A description that covers both cases is to say that geodesics are stationary paths ; this means that any small deviation of path from a geodesic produces no change in the length to first order in the deviation . |
| 17 | Which is to say that directions are better than sentences . |
| 18 | Which is to say that defences are being erected to protect the integrity of Western culture , of the Western idea . |
| 19 | That is to say that savings are a function of the rate of profit and unproductive consumption . |
| 20 | They are nice people : they believe that everything ought to be fair , that is to say that virtue is rewarded and villainy punished . |
| 21 | Our inclination is to say that language is not the primary thing , that we are analysing a phenomenon , and that what matters is the question , ‘ What sort of a process goes on in your mind when you know , remember , hope something ? ’ |
| 22 | In reality , a well-conceived general course may be just as coherent as a narrower one ; after all , the study of classics traditionally involves two languages and three disciplines and who is to say that classics is not both general and coherent ? |
| 23 | One purpose of this article is to show that Britain is different , and different in ways that are important politically as well as in law . |
| 24 | What I try to do in this book is to show that faith is reasonable . |