Example sentences of "is [to-vb] that [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The agency 's responsibility is to see that those children are properly paid for . |
| 2 | In the context of the conventional debate over academic freedom , a standard move in response to this point is to claim that academic freedom is a concept applicable to individual persons , and that academic autonomy is a concept applicable to institutions . |
| 3 | 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 ’ . |
| 4 | Whilst some theists like to bask in their own linguistic confusions , the more dangerous temptation is to pretend that some simple formula like ‘ love ’ or ‘ supreme being ’ — or even ‘ infinite potential ’ — can somehow solve all theological problems . |
| 5 | Protagoras ' reply to this is to contend that political wisdom is not a matter of specialized knowledge , but something in which everyone has a share , and in which it is necessary that everyone has a share , " Otherwise the state could not exist " . |
| 6 | The objective is to confirm that all response times are less than the agreed target , and that response times for identical processes are consistent . |
| 7 | Instead , the more legitimate approach is to demand that those who maintain the existing system in the face of scientific development must justify their position by pointing to these considerations of reason and policy . |
| 8 | ( The alternative is to guess that some training examples are erroneous , and leave them out of the training set . ) |
| 9 | The starting point is to accept that each individual develops and evolves throughout life , and that the final stages of life are as important as any other . |
| 10 | The first symptom of such a change is to accept that all past data collected on UFOs are , in scientific terms , largely useless . |
| 11 | Opening the book purely at random is to discover that most human activities appear to be the subject of superstition . |
| 12 | The safest course is to provide that any capital gains tax assessed on the settlor shall not be borne by the trust . |
| 13 | To brood on the unkempt surface of the earth as Baltz has done is to find that normal ideas of scale are suspended . |
| 14 | Once it has been established that D was committing a criminal offence , the second step is to establish that this caused the death . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | The important point here is to remember that this grid has a central point located at 30,80 . |
| 17 | One solution is to state that any financial benefits are only paid when the move has taken place . |
| 18 | The common talk is that the Official Custodian manages £125bn of charity money and as she winds up her role the error is to assume that this should fall into the fund managers ' laps . |
| 19 | The safest plan is to assume that any such specified time refers to Inbound Leg time . |
| 20 | And Hulme stormed back , ‘ But using ‘ sexual harassment ’ to describe someone who says ‘ Phwooar ! ’ is to suggest that all men are animals . |
| 21 | Of course , this is mostly exaggeration , just as it is to suggest that most French club members are merely posers or that the Italians are concerned at keeping talented youngsters off the course unless they have royal blood , or at least one Ferrari . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | The strategy employed here , to begin with , is to insist that all existential propositions of the natural language be replaced by properly quantified paraphrases ; next , propositions involving unqualified or unrestricted quantification are proscribed on the grounds that they are " obscure " and are replaced by propositions involving a qualified quantification into a specified domain ( corresponding to ordinary language propositions of the " Some S are P " type ) ; finally , a paraphrase is attempted of the qualified quantification in terms of the validity of inference . |
| 24 | Its effect is to deny that authoritative instructions can serve the mediating role assigned them above . |
| 25 | One is to conclude that all is well . |
| 26 | Adopting this pragmatic approach , I have thus sought to justify the main general conclusion to which my whole argument has been directed : that the way to heal the rift between holism and individualism is to recognise that concessive holism offers a superior approach to the business of social explanation . |
| 27 | This is not to say that a preference for one style or the other is inappropriate ; it is to recognise that both are still in their infancy and neither one markedly superior to the other in all respects . |
| 28 | The important point is to recognize that these methodological difficulties exist and allow awareness of them to influence our interpretation of experimental results . |
| 29 | Er , and I think what you need to do , what we all need to do is when we 've discussed all this stuff , talked about it , and I 'm sure you 'll talk about it again tonight , that what we need to do is to recognize that this has to start on Monday . |
| 30 | My instinct is to believe that those who defend the autonomy of their particular " level " are right to do so but I also think that our present state of knowledge is insufficient to permit us to understand satisfactorily how this level autonomy comes about . |