Example sentences of "is [to-vb] [that] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The agency 's responsibility is to see that those children are properly paid for . |
| 2 | The silliest and the most sinful of the many heresies of pseudo-democracy is to pretend that all studies and all learning are ‘ created equal ’ . |
| 3 | To brood on the unkempt surface of the earth as Baltz has done is to find that normal ideas of scale are suspended . |
| 4 | To have such ‘ scientific knowledge ’ of , say , the facts that man is the only animal with a sense of humour , that gold dissolves in aqua regia , or that triangles have angles equal to two right angles , is to know that these things must be so and can not be otherwise . |
| 5 | And Hulme stormed back , ‘ But using ‘ sexual harassment ’ to describe someone who says ‘ Phwooar ! ’ is to suggest that all men are animals . |
| 6 | We must also ensure that teaching is seen to be important , and a simple way to start is to insist that all doctors must document their experience when applying for jobs and that all appointments committees should ask about it . |
| 7 | Its effect is to deny that authoritative instructions can serve the mediating role assigned them above . |
| 8 | In considering shopfronts , the first need is to ensure that existing ones of character are preserved and sympathetically treated . |
| 9 | The aim is to ensure that environmental considerations are taken into account at every stage of a project . |
| 10 | The role of Quality Control is to ensure that appropriate standards of quality are set and that variances beyond the tolerances are rejected . |
| 11 | The objective of the [ draft ] FRS is to ensure that financial statements provide a clear , coherent and consistent treatment of capital instruments , in particular as regards the classification of instruments either as debt or as equity ; that costs associated with capital instruments are allocated to accounting periods on a fair basis over the period the instrument is in issue ; and that financial statements provide relevant information concerning the nature and amount of the entity 's sources of finance and the associated costs , commitments and potential commitments . |
| 12 | The reason for this is to ensure that all services central to a solicitors ' practice are regulated by the Law society . |
| 13 | Because of the potential seriousness of gonorrhoea or syphilis , if left untreated , nearly all the clinics in the United Kingdom have on their staff contact-tracers whose prime aim is to ensure that all efforts are made to persuade possible contacts of patients with either disease to attend for investigation . |
| 14 | One critical step in overcoming the culture gap is to ensure that all partners share at the outset a common understanding of the innovation process , their respective roles within it , and how it applies to the particular topic being addressed . |
| 15 | The objective is to ensure that all employees accept their individual responsibilities within the context of the law as it stands at the time . |
| 16 | The aim of this Guide is to ensure that criminal practitioners know about all the many active steps which they should take in the preparation of their client 's defence . |
| 17 | Another concern is to ensure that new sorts of responsive services are there to meet identified needs . |
| 18 | 13.3.2 by or to the Tenant may be given or made by or to the Tenant 's solicitors on behalf of the Tenant The only point to make is to ensure that any notices to be served on the tenant will be certain to be received , which they may not be if served at the premises . |
| 19 | Put simply , the duty of the LEAs is to ensure that sufficient schools and teachers are available to provide suitable primary and secondary education to meet the age , needs , aptitudes and abilities of all the children within the area they administer . |
| 20 | The primary thrust of the Convention is to ensure that human rights are respected in the domestic laws of states parties or , to the extent that they are not and that breaches occur , that such breaches should be remedied by the state in question . |
| 21 | One of the main reasons for the government introducing the system is to ensure that more residents pay for local services . |
| 22 | What we shall do , as we have done over the past three years , is to ensure that poorer pensioners — those who have not benefited from the result of our general policies towards pensioners which have increased pensioners ' real living standards by over 34 per cent . |
| 23 | ‘ A central part of the City Challenge initiative is to ensure that local firms receive the kind of help they need to survive and grow ; and identifying their needs and objectives is one of our main aims . ’ |
| 24 | Once again a similar argument exists in administrative law-namely that the function of judicial review is to ensure that public bodies only take decisions which are within the scope of their expertise . |
| 25 | Admirable as the desire is to ensure that these builders have the opportunity to construct the dwellings that the public will want to buy , the special position of Tyne and Wear , the real shortage of new land , makes it essential in planning terms that existing urban areas should be scoured for land upon which to build . |
| 26 | The role of internal audit is to ensure that these arrangements are implemented and that they remain satisfactory . |
| 27 | The purpose is to ensure that those bodies that are susceptible to judicial review have carried out their public duties in the way it was intended they should . |
| 28 | The aim is to demonstrate that environment-friendly modes can be just as quick and efficient , if not more so , than the private motor car . |
| 29 | In its narrowly defined sense the responsibility of stewardship is to demonstrate that those assets have not been misappropriated . |
| 30 | That is to say that some changes are believed to arise internally within the system and are motivated by system-internal factors , whereas others are said to arise from the influence of neighbouring languages or dialects . |