Example sentences of "is [to-vb] [conj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One way to give ourselves new heart is to go where books and readers meet , and this is what I have been doing for the past year , working in secondary schools on research funded by the British Library . |
| 2 | Its aim is to see whether safeguards such as standards for prison conditions , independent inspectorates , and independent tribunals in internal disciplinary hearings , make any difference to the ‘ quality of life ’ of inmates or to the good running of the prisons , and whether a failure in the effectiveness of any one safeguard has any consequences for the effectiveness of others . |
| 3 | 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 . ’ |
| 4 | The way to do this is to see that patients bear some responsibility for the cost of services . |
| 5 | THE North-Eastern Co-op is to appeal after councillors threw out its plans for a superstore development on the outskirts of Middlesbrough . |
| 6 | To open the door to this type of possibility is to accept that babies who are mentally handicapped , yet perfectly capable of leading a happy life with either their parents or guardians , are deprived of this opportunity by a small group of people who know little about what this life will be like . |
| 7 | The point of the trust clause here is to provide that substitutes should be liable for exactly the same as the instituted heirs , with the one exception of the problematic condition on the manumission . |
| 8 | The main purpose of the discussion is to establish that parents understand behaviour good and bad is learned , that children can be ‘ untaught ’ the bad and taught the good , and that it is the parents who do the teaching using the simple methods and techniques you have demonstrated . |
| 9 | One way of understanding structures larger than ribosomes is to remember that organisms are made of different kinds of cells — muscle cells , bone cells , nerve cells , and so on — arranged in space . |
| 10 | One way of regarding the problem of disseminating innovative teaching practices is to assume that teachers have some kind of mental picture of the paths taken by their pupils ' developing minds as they move through a topic ( topic x ) towards a state which may be thought of as ‘ understanding X ’ . |
| 11 | The most common treatment of the bequest motive is to assume that bequests enter the lifetime utility function ( e.g. , Yaari , 1964 , 1965 ) . |
| 12 | The easiest way to introduce technical progress is to assume that factors become more effective over time , e.g. , that one worker can do the work that two did a decade ago . |
| 13 | But this is to assume that humans have a natural capacity to recognise and reflect on their interests , and that they will only stand so much injustice . |
| 14 | Lord Taylor 's main point is to suggest that judges should pass sentence with an eye to the public 's expectations . |
| 15 | None of this is to suggest that Hungarians believe law will perform a miracle in economic terms . |
| 16 | Our response to these opposing arguments is to suggest that arguments that new technology is creating very large scale unemployment in the near future are alarmist , based on too simple a set of assumptions . |
| 17 | Again , the point of this is to suggest that words have possibilities beyond what their ‘ standard ’ definitions and common uses suggest . |
| 18 | The second step in my attempt to show that an affirmative answer to the question , ‘ Are there logical conditions of something 's looking blue to someone ? ’ is warranted , is to identify perceived-as appearances with would-be beliefs . |
| 19 | But that is to deny that women can also want and enjoy sex purely for the fun of it . |
| 20 | The key to this task is to recognise that buyers purchase benefits and are only interested in product features in as much as they provide the benefits that the customer is looking for . |
| 21 | The intention is to determine whether pupils are being offered appropriate experiences and the school is adequately fulfilling its task . |
| 22 | The importance of this taxonomy of goods as private , or having a collective element ( this embraces common , public and toll goods ) is to determine whether markets will provide an allocatively efficient quantity of each type of good . |
| 23 | The next , and perhaps more difficult , stage is to recognize that marks of a particular kind form a pattern over a larger region . |
| 24 | The idea is to ensure that users , via Xtra , and the work groups , focus their efforts on real , achievable goals , rather than flights of fancy ( remember the calls for graphical user interface standards in 1990 ) . |
| 25 | ( 2 ) The loans must be to defray expenditure incurred in acquiring ordinary share capital of a close company complying with s13A(2) as described above , or in lending to such a close company where the money loaned is used wholly and exclusively for the purpose of its business or the business of any of its associated companies provided the latter are also close companies satisfying the conditions of s13A(2). ( 3 ) When interest is paid on the manager 's loan , Newco must continue to comply with s13A(2) — this means it must continue to satisfy the relevant purpose test rather than that it should continue to remain a close company ; in the case of a purchase of shares in Target , the reason why Newco should be close after the institutions commit to invest is to ensure that institutions and management can invest at the same time and that , at that time , Newco is both close and satisfies the relevant purpose test , ie already controls Target ; management can not commit Newco to acquiring Target until the institutions have committed to funding Newco , and once they have so committed the institutions are likely to control Newco under s416 , so a structure is needed whereby management also controls Newco at this point . |
| 26 | In general , the aim of these facilities is to ensure that managers can explore options and their consequences before taking decisions which are crucial to the profitable operation of the business . |
| 27 | INTERNAL VERIFICATION is the process by which an organisation , approved to offer a particular qualification , identifies people whose function is to ensure that groups of assessors are carrying out their duties in an appropriate way . |
| 28 | The intention is to ensure that decisions are taken at national level whenever that is the most appropriate way to deal with the decisions . |
| 29 | Its role is to ensure that forests are n't destroyed for the sake of progress . |
| 30 | Its primary objective is to ensure that bureaux and other independent advice agencies are able to give effective and easily accessible advice to their clients by providing a background of up-to-date , accurate and easily accessible information on all matters relating to rights , responsibilities , benefits and services . |