Example sentences of "[verb] to [be] [vb pp] is that " in BNC.

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1 One preliminary point that may still need to be made is that the switches between the two media are not arbitrary , but motivated according to a series of conventions practised by other Elizabethan dramatists .
2 I mean the question that has to be faced is that when you talk about cutting the costs in local government you also have to talk about the services which councils deliver , and you ca n't get something for nothing .
3 All that has to be established is that ‘ on the balance of probabilities ’ the alleged offence took place .
4 The second and very obvious point that needs to be stated is that if the justices , having fulfilled their duty to make independent investigation of the terms proposed by consent , reach the initial conclusion that those terms are in some respect deficient then before imposing other terms on the parties they must indicate the nature of their departure and give all the parties a fair opportunity to make submissions on their tentative conclusion .
5 Perhaps the first point that needs to be made is that the relationship between use and learning differs in respect to first and second language situations .
6 One common division in social research that needs to be addressed is that between allegedly different kinds of inferential structure encapsulated in the dichotomy between qualitative and quantitative social research .
7 What needs to be shown is that the given proposition and its " neuro-physiological " paraphrase do indeed have the same logical subject and express the same fact .
8 What needs to be remembered is that even when the ‘ wrong ’ word or phrase is used , in error , it can be rectified .
9 We remember the dazzling tries of Gareth Edwards , Gerald Davies and the rest but what tends to be forgotten is that they needed the Welsh forwards to pulverise their opponents into submission first .
10 One problem that remains to be resolved is that the high reflectivity of the glass over many of the paintings , especially in rooms that have lighting from side windows , makes it difficult to view the works .
11 The point 's that I think is trying to be made is that there are a lot of people here tonight who do wish to express an opinion and that opinion is not necessarily formulated in question form .
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