Example sentences of "are [verb] [verb] that [noun pl] " in BNC.

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1 The hotel does not operate a service charge , but you are given to understand that guests in fact tip generously .
2 The way that the WO population projections are undertaken means that patterns of recent behaviour ( such as the very high levels of in-migration experienced in the mid/late 1980s ) are projected forward without question .
3 At this time certain information is usually recorded to ensure the patient is fit for surgery and also to avoid potential complications , e.g. a specimen of urine is tested to ensure that diabetes mellitus does not go undiagnosed ; allergies are checked to ensure that drugs , anaesthetic agents , lotions or dressings can be avoided if a patient has an allergy to them .
4 Another analysis of the function of imposing fiduciary duties on directors is that these duties are designed to ensure that directors act only within the ambit of their special expertise .
5 These Regulations are designed to ensure that employers introduce arrangements for effective management of health and safety in which employees and safety representatives will have to play their part . ’
6 They are designed to ensure that authors receive recompense for the free provision of their books to the public by libraries .
7 Monies are paid to a business in a variety of forms and all our services are designed to ensure that funds are received , processed , and credited to accounts as quickly and cost effectively as possible .
8 The fact that so many new titles are appearing suggests that publishers now reckon that video is getting established in language institutes .
9 Although nitrate pollution of the Broads is well known , recent studies are reported to show that streams in areas such as the Cotswolds are now equally polluted .
10 Instead , great efforts are made to ensure that boys do keep up , through , for example , remedial classes which continue into secondary schooling .
11 I should like the Minister to state clearly what checks are made to ensure that police computer information is not available to debt collectors , bailiffs , and other such persons .
12 Instead , they are likely to use the ‘ just-in-time ’ ( JIT ) system where complex market relations with component subcontractors are used to ensure that supplies arrive on the premises where they are needed at the appropriate time .
13 Now , thanks to the publicity of the past year or two , people are beginning to realize that fats are dieters ' enemy number one .
14 Strange and costly garments branded Gucci or Dior are worn to signal that humans have judgement , style and personality .
15 The programme is structured , and tutors are asked to ensure that students see patients with problems pertaining to the ‘ topic of the week . ’
16 Typically it means that steps are taken to ensure that women do not take away a proportion of the kin group 's resources when they marry — which can mean variously , that women 's sexuality is tightly controlled , that women are given little choice about whom they marry , that there is a preference for choosing marriage partners from within the kin groups ( Tillion , 1983 ; Goddard , 1987 ) .
17 I think that the most fruitful approach is to ask what are the computational and cognitive capacities which we are forced to suppose that animals possess .
18 We are determined to ensure that women in the work-force realise their full potential .
19 We are determined to ensure that women and men from ethnic minority groups are full and equal members of the community .
20 Some 400 students from all over the world are trying to prove that words can hurt just as much as sticks and stones .
21 The position will be otherwise when the Department of the Registers of Scotland moves to Meadowbank House later in the year and solicitors are advised to ensure that requests for extracts and other information are correctly addressed in order that we can provide the most efficient service .
22 We recommend that future project initiatives of this kind should give much more thought to the structures and procedures , both within project schools and at the level of overall planning and coordination which are required to ensure that initiatives are not confined to a particular time period or grant , and that the inservice implications of good practice resulting from the project are capitalised upon .
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