Example sentences of "is [to-vb] that [det] [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 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 . |
| 4 | And Hulme stormed back , ‘ But using ‘ sexual harassment ’ to describe someone who says ‘ Phwooar ! ’ is to suggest that all men are animals . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | The reason for this is to ensure that all services central to a solicitors ' practice are regulated by the Law society . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | The objective is to ensure that all employees accept their individual responsibilities within the context of the law as it stands at the time . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | One of the main reasons for the government introducing the system is to ensure that more residents pay for local services . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | The role of internal audit is to ensure that these arrangements are implemented and that they remain satisfactory . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | In its narrowly defined sense the responsibility of stewardship is to demonstrate that those assets have not been misappropriated . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | That is to say that most definitions of money include ‘ bank deposits ’ of some description and these are deposits with the monetary sector . |
| 18 | The most popular way to regard the cases is to say that both groups are equally valid and that differences turn on the legislative instrument . |
| 19 | The function of tragic myth is to show that all things , even such ugly discordance , are part of an " artistic game " played at the heart of things . |
| 20 | The specific objective of this paper is to show that these children have the worst mortality record of any social group . |