Example sentences of "is [vb pp] [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 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | In the tear-down bay the engine is carefully dismantled and an initial ‘ eyeball ’ inspection is made to see if any snags become apparent . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | A national study is needed to see whether these trends are representative but little information about night visits is collected centrally . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | What is needed to ensure that some popular control can be exerted over political leadership , some governmental accountability can be enforced ? |
| 19 | or another remedy is needed to follow before complete resolution occurs . |
| 20 | If only a single character is suggested then word knowledge is used to detect and correct errors in the hypothesis . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | The entire package is assessed to see if all the modules it contains constitute the appropriate baseline . |
| 23 | He is understood to feel that compulsory sales would break up historic estates . |
| 24 | Such opposition is bound to spread as further prospecting continues in all provinces . |
| 25 | In the alternative form the system matrix , modal matrix and spectral matrix of ( 17 ) are , respectively , unc and the reader is invited to check that these matrices satisfy ( 17 ) . |
| 26 | Then in ( 18 ) we put unc with unc Then unc The reader is invited to check that this is correct . |
| 27 | The fact remains that the ‘ democratic deficit ’ in European Community affairs is already too great and is set to grow unless some very radical changes are made to the way the EC institutions operate . |
| 28 | Once a module has been copied to the hard copy volume , the Location file is updated to show that hard copy is ‘ in progress ’ . |
| 29 | " This Meeting recommend to the Collector to procure from the County town Models of the Imperial Weights and measures , and to put them in the hands of Samuel Lamont , who is appointed to ascertain that all weights and measures within the Island be corrected and marked by the standard . " |
| 30 | The drive towards formation of a miscible solid solution in these cases is believed to arise when large repulsive interactions exist between the monomer units ( A ) and ( B ) comprising the copolymer ; on mixing with a polymer ( C ) , the number of these unfavourable ( A B ) contacts are reduced by forming less repulsive ( A-C ) or ( B-C ) contacts and a miscible blend results . |