Example sentences of "is [verb] that [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Because the greatness of man is to see that things might be otherwise — to look at the world around him , and to see another world beneath its surface . ’ |
| 2 | To compare Raskolnikov 's haymarket with Kim 's bazaar is to see that Kipling has done all the work so that you do n't have to go there to know what it 's like at the level of vivid and varied description , whereas Dostoevsky leaves his reader with an impression which hovers between smell and vapour and dream . |
| 3 | The way to do this is to see that patients bear some responsibility for the cost of services . |
| 4 | It is recognized that G M B's resources need to reflect this . |
| 5 | However it is recognized that decisions by overseas students to accept or reject offers are influenced by a more complex set of factors than for home students , and there remains uncertainty over the appropriate offer ratios to be applied . |
| 6 | It is recognized that staff use information resources both in furtherance of their own interests , and to answer particular enquiries . |
| 7 | In a society which is becoming increasingly influenced by computer and other information technology it is recognized that schoolchildren need the facility of interacting with the new technology as soon as possible . |
| 8 | Suppose it is recognized that economies of scale may lead to monopoly or other forms of imperfect competition that tend to misallocate resources . |
| 9 | No-one is suggesting that animal experiments are the only method of medical research . |
| 10 | It is intended that managers will have greater freedom to make the service meet the needs of the environment . |
| 11 | ‘ It is intended that Castle 's reporting should be high quality and conform to prevailing best practice , ’ he says . |
| 12 | This is a fund to which it is intended that LECs will bid competitively with the intention of developing innovative ways to help unemployed people into work and create jobs . |
| 13 | It is intended that loans will replace parental contributions and that repayments will be similar to mortgage repayments . |
| 14 | This was clearly important when it is recalled that Matadial , when cross-examined about the discrepancy between the January statement and her evidence , gave the explanation that the earlier version was due to a mistake by the police . |
| 15 | To experience joy in suffering is to realize that Jesus stands with the poor , the underprivileged , and those , like Francis of Assisi , rejected by their own people . |
| 16 | The poignancy of this catastrophe is the greater when it is realised that Andrew Carnegie , the greatest benefactor the British public library system has ever known , was himself a cotton man who started life as a boy in a cotton mill . |
| 17 | It is hypothesised that words processed at deeper levels will be better recognised than those processed to only a shallow level and that reaction times will be longer at deeper levels of processing . |
| 18 | Secondly , a wage-change variable is included in addition to a price variable since it is hypothesised that workers may seek to unionise not only to defend existing standards of living but also to attempt to improve upon them . |
| 19 | This group is demanding that delegates to the party congress next July be directly elected by rank-and-file members . |
| 20 | An environmental campaigner is demanding that Severn Trent Water should refund seven million pounds in charges because he claims it 's not doing its job properly.Julian Jones says the authority is failing to control pollution … and the local community could spend the money more wisely.And now he 's going to court to claim the water charges back . |
| 21 | Now the council is demanding that preachers apply for prior permission to use council property and they can only spread the ‘ good news ’ at specified times and one at a time . |
| 22 | It is to emphasise that Papert is fighting major battles over the nature of the relationship between computers and education . |
| 23 | Following the site meeting with yourself and the representative from your Clerk of Works Dept. on 27 April , this letter is to confirm that Edinburgh Airport Ltd has no objection to the proposal by ‘ Spokes ’ to construct a path along the bank of the River Almond from Boathouse Bridge to the railway bridge of the East Coast Main Line , on land owned by Edinburgh Airport Ltd . |
| 24 | If it is claimed that reasons are needed for this verdict , which might be doubted , one has to do with the fact that we do not take all the causes of behaviour to be other behaviour . |
| 25 | It is claimed that AirX can be safely used on all types of surfaces — carpets , fabrics , tiles , ceramics , wood — by sponge or spray . |
| 26 | It is claimed that catering colleges have failed to get to grips with the developments of technology , acknowledge its importance and provide students with a level of understanding based on the industry 's needs . |
| 27 | Thus , using arguments which are , in effect , the same as the criticisms levelled against nationalised industries , it is claimed that privatisation leads to greater competition and efficiency , by exposing the privatised firms to market forces . |
| 28 | ( Perhaps this is why it is claimed that boys ' academic performance is higher in ‘ mixed ’ schools than in ‘ boys only ’ schools : they benefit from having a whole group to be better than ! |
| 29 | It is claimed that children of similar ages inevitably approach problems from similar perspectives and therefore appreciate the learning difficulties that each other have . |
| 30 | In a similar way in suprasegmental phonology it is claimed that utterances may be divided up into tone-units , and that one can identify on phonetic or phonological grounds the places where one tone-unit ends and another tone-unit begins . |