Example sentences of "is [to-vb] that [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 " . |
| 3 | To brood on the unkempt surface of the earth as Baltz has done is to find that normal ideas of scale are suspended . |
| 4 | Its effect is to deny that authoritative instructions can serve the mediating role assigned them above . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | In considering shopfronts , the first need is to ensure that existing ones of character are preserved and sympathetically treated . |
| 7 | The aim is to ensure that environmental considerations are taken into account at every stage of a project . |
| 8 | The role of Quality Control is to ensure that appropriate standards of quality are set and that variances beyond the tolerances are rejected . |
| 9 | by requiring that centres in which modules are to be offered meet a set of rigorous approval criteria , the aim of which is to ensure that appropriate staff , materials and resources are in place ; |
| 10 | An important priority is to ensure that extra income is spent on extra activity . |
| 11 | The objective of the [ draft ] FRS is to ensure that financial statements provide a clear , coherent and consistent treatment of capital instruments , in particular as regards the classification of instruments either as debt or as equity ; that costs associated with capital instruments are allocated to accounting periods on a fair basis over the period the instrument is in issue ; and that financial statements provide relevant information concerning the nature and amount of the entity 's sources of finance and the associated costs , commitments and potential commitments . |
| 12 | The aim of this Guide is to ensure that criminal practitioners know about all the many active steps which they should take in the preparation of their client 's defence . |
| 13 | However , the Lord Chancellor wishes the Legal Aid Board to keep the arrangements governing eligibility and contributions for legal aid under review so as to fulfil the Board 's overall aim , which is to ensure that legal advice , assistance and representation is made available to those who need it . |
| 14 | Another concern is to ensure that new sorts of responsive services are there to meet identified needs . |
| 15 | I thought it particularly strange that the Labour party should label its new policy , ’ Made in Britain ’ , when its strategy is to ensure that British policy is made on the continent . |
| 16 | Put simply , the duty of the LEAs is to ensure that sufficient schools and teachers are available to provide suitable primary and secondary education to meet the age , needs , aptitudes and abilities of all the children within the area they administer . |
| 17 | The primary thrust of the Convention is to ensure that human rights are respected in the domestic laws of states parties or , to the extent that they are not and that breaches occur , that such breaches should be remedied by the state in question . |
| 18 | Mrs Darwin , an economic development chief , added : ‘ The new developments and facilities will encourage new business and one of our tasks is to ensure that local people get the new jobs . |
| 19 | ‘ A central part of the City Challenge initiative is to ensure that local firms receive the kind of help they need to survive and grow ; and identifying their needs and objectives is one of our main aims . ’ |
| 20 | Once again a similar argument exists in administrative law-namely that the function of judicial review is to ensure that public bodies only take decisions which are within the scope of their expertise . |
| 21 | The Board 's aim is to ensure that offshore financial activities are run properly so that the islands can avoid becoming potential breeding grounds for illegal activities . |
| 22 | The aim is to demonstrate that environment-friendly modes can be just as quick and efficient , if not more so , than the private motor car . |
| 23 | Having obtained the appropriate transfer function , the next step is to appreciate that first-order response is provided by a filter incorporating just one reactive component . |
| 24 | The aim is to check that sufficient information has been gathered for each variable to make statistics upon them valid . |
| 25 | One is to say that substantial expansion is simply not possible , given planned expenditure levels . |
| 26 | That is to say that increased expenditure on elderly people occurred due to growing numbers of aged in the population but there was no overall shift in the way in which resources were allocated . |
| 27 | It is to say that mental disengagement from the region and its ‘ troubles ’ is hardly the way to achieve an historic compromise there . |
| 28 | A slightly technical way of putting this is to say that integrated letter writing is a fundamental pre-requisite of a successful recruitment system . |
| 29 | Another way of stating this thesis is to say that psychological life is essentially metaphorical in character . |
| 30 | Another way of putting this is to say that human linguistic thought is such that all particular thoughts ( whether expressed overtly or not ) can be constructed only in terms of ideas classified as either entities or properties , and put together by means of some combination of the four fundamental relations already alluded to . |