Example sentences of "[verb] is [verb] that [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Coronary risk factors are multiplicative , not additive , so if you already have one or two unavoidable risk factors , the last thing you should do is assume that the sword of Damocles is irrevocably poised above you and reach for another cigarette . |
| 2 | All they can do is to ensure that the decision-maker did have some reasonable grounds for his action . |
| 3 | What the Act will do is to ensure that the child offender who is dealt with by a children 's hearing may not be asked , and if asked need not answer , questions about ‘ spent ’ offences in , for example , applications for employment . |
| 4 | However , until that stage is reached , all we can do is to ensure that the animals whose flesh we devour are given the best possible lifestyle and are then despatched as quickly and painlessly as possible . |
| 5 | What is being done is to argue that the failures were of the order to suggest that Bukharin had been correct in his prediction before the event , not after it . |
| 6 | And I think lots of need to be put in , but I think what needs to be done is to hear that the people who are actually living in the inner city , feel it is what they need . |
| 7 | One way in which variation of this kind is discounted is to claim that the scribe was Anglo-Norman , or that the spellings are Anglo-Norman and therefore not valid evidence for the history of English . |
| 8 | A simple support strategy which the tutor can employ is to suggest that the student : |
| 9 | What it is doing is hoping that the college , our union 's future will be secure . |
| 10 | The best I can manage is to say that the thriller is intended to thrill ; it is a succession of exciting events , whereas the suspense novel is designed to create suspense , a series of situations of which the outcome is in doubt . |
| 11 | The first common mistake people make is to imagine that a dog thinks in the same way as a human being . |
| 12 | A common fault into which candidates fall is to assume that the mention of a topic in the question is an indication that the examiner wants to know everything about that and related subjects . |
| 13 | As for rule 2.12. ( 1 ) , Mr. Beloff submits that this supports his submission , not that of Mr. Collins , since what it does is to provide that the Norwich Union must have rules which will ensure that appointed representatives such as Winchester comply with the Lautro Rules . |
| 14 | Another way of expressing the central requirement of conspiracy to injure is to say that the law is concerned with the distinction between legitimate and illegitimate purposes , for the former will legalise the infliction of the most catastrophic and inevitable harm to the plaintiff 's business . |
| 15 | The change he makes is to assume that the laws of motion obeyed by the particles constituting an isolated system are non-invertible : that is , that the same dynamical state at a given time can be reached from two or more different dynamical states at some earlier time . |
| 16 | The mistake that Jencks makes is to assume that the changes in the political settlement will be led from the top by George Bush , and will precede the war . |