Example sentences of "are [verb] [verb] that " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sometimes we are given hints that the goddesses blended with one another , adopting each other 's attributes . |
| 2 | The hotel does not operate a service charge , but you are given to understand that guests in fact tip generously . |
| 3 | After treatment , measurements are undertaken to ensure that the self-healing processes have been initiated . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | And we are fascinated to know that this approach has been shown to be so effective in a remote part of the Far East where our cassettes are transported on the back of a motorcycle ! |
| 6 | Special forms of segregated sheltered housing , and ultimately the old person 's residential home , ensure that older people are taught to feel that their lives are somehow different and separate from other age-groups . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | The practice of editors varies substantially , and these points are intended to suggest that some simple changes could improve the ways in which they communicate about the process and their decisions . |
| 9 | Apart from the deliberate references to Theodoric and Charlemagne , which are intended to show that Frederick Barbarossa was of the same mould as these great heroes , the description of the Kaiserslauten palace is especially interesting . |
| 10 | Thus , the examples , which examine the historical development of attitudes , are intended to show that present explicit attitudes must contain their implicit potentialities for future circumstances . |
| 11 | For example , one method is that subordinated debt may be repaid only when certain conditions are met , which are intended to ensure that the interests of other creditors are not impaired by the repayment . |
| 12 | They are intended to ensure that increased levels of interaction amongst Network members do not result in friction or embarrassment amongst Network members or the extensive use of other Network members ' resources on an unprofitable basis . |
| 13 | These are intended to ensure that the main points in the chapter have been absorbed and provide a basic check for the lecturer and the student to ensure that the basic tools are there to enable the student to tackle the problems for discussion with a reasonable grounding in the subject . |
| 14 | Whether the boxing and wrestling matches shown on the carved rhyton from Agia Triadha , a miniature fresco from Tylissos and certain sealings were part of the same or a different festival is not known : the way they are depicted suggests that they too had the quality of ritual struggle . |
| 15 | Geneticists and sociobiologists are only interested in kinship of the biological sort so when they dip into monographs written by social anthropologists they are predisposed to imagine that the anthropologists ' references to " kinship " are to biological kinship . |
| 16 | However , the terms implied by sections 12–15 are designed to see that the buyer receives certain basic benefits from the transaction . |
| 17 | The schedules are designed to ensure that the task of assessment and subsequent planning is shared between all those involved in the care of a child , and that omissions are rectified as they become evident . |
| 18 | These involve the relationship between X and Y and other variables which might be operating ; they are designed to ensure that when we compare groups which differ on X , we are comparing like with like . |
| 19 | It was difficult to believe that these birds had been harvested for food on Mykines for generations , or to argue against the Faroese claim that the strict regulations which apply to the fowling are designed to ensure that the population numbers are not adversely affected . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | New advertising regulations from the Department of Trade and Industry , at present moving through their consultative stage , are designed to ensure that mortgage lenders make borrowers aware that they have a choice between an endowment or repayment mortgage . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | Given the complexities of some of the procedures which police officers are required to operate under this legislation , it is not surprising to find that the Metropolitan Police , and no doubt many other forces as well , have issued a set of elaborate and detailed instructions which indicate to an officer precisely how he is to proceed in any one of the many contingencies that may arise and which are designed to ensure that he acts in accordance with the statute as interpreted by the courts . |
| 24 | They are designed to ensure that authors receive recompense for the free provision of their books to the public by libraries . |
| 25 | Detailed regulations are in place which are designed to ensure that all employees give the highest priority to the health and safety of themselves , and those around them . |
| 26 | These notes are designed to ensure that project appraisal does not concentrate solely on costs but gives priority to the objectives of the service . |
| 27 | 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 . ’ |
| 28 | All these obligations are designed to ensure that the tenant keeps up the real value of the scheme and that the landlord 's income remains as high as possible . |
| 29 | There will be serious dangers , however , if the information that is set out in performance tables is clouded by footnotes and qualifications , which sometimes are advocated because they are designed to prove that whatever the differences between examination performances there is no such thing as a good school or a bad school . |
| 30 | The pluralist arguments , on the other hand , are designed to show that the possibility of such criteria is ensured by the existence of logically irreducible relations ; or by the existence of irreducibly relational , and hence essentially " pluralistically committed " , properties . |