Example sentences of "[is] [to-vb] that the [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After all , the purpose of management is to see that the work of the organisation gets done , and the only managers who supervise ‘ actual work ’ directly are the ‘ front-line ’ or ‘ first-line ’ supervisors ( eg. ‘ foreman ’ in manufacturing industries ) . |
| 2 | But his principal concern is to affirm that the relationship of A to B is only in a minority of cases an exact repetition , or a saying of the same thing in different words . |
| 3 | My only contribution to the debate is to affirm that the colony of twenty or more specimens growing along the lane above my house breeds true . |
| 4 | For the sake of clarity , one possible solution is to provide that the SSAPs to be used are those that applied at a specified date even if changed subsequently between exchange and completion . |
| 5 | My principal concern here , however , is to observe that the phenomenon of the fired word-pair is a contra-indication of the parallelism of greater precision — at least as far as those words are concerned . |
| 6 | The general force of the argument is to urge that the needs of employment , and employers , should influence as little as possible overall patterns of national education . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | There is no military-industrial complex because to define the enhanced role of the military in this way is to assume that the reason for this development is the desire of the military and industry to work together . |
| 10 | Another popular misconception is to assume that the types of funding and service offered by different lenders are virtually identical — all you have to do is discover who is willing to lend you money and then compare interest rates . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | None of this is to suggest that the relationship between mercantile concerns and lawmaking is linear . |
| 13 | Although he avoids arguing that capitalism created a sexual morality to serve its own imperatives — it has no master plan — ‘ the best we can do at this stage is to suggest that the articulation between sexual mores and capitalism occurs through complex mediations — through moral agencies , political interventions , diverse social practices ’ . |
| 14 | Important as it is to recognise that the notion of abuse has wider connotations than the physical , not much purpose seems to be served by struggling to define more precisely such elusive matters as emotional interactions . |
| 15 | One of the simplest planning points is to ensure that the timing of dividend and ACT payments is arranged to give the maximum cash flow advantage . |
| 16 | The object of the legal aid scheme is to ensure that the relationship between solicitor and assisted client is on exactly the same basis as that between solicitor and private client . |
| 17 | If the Government are confident that quality will not be affected by the financial pressures that they are imposing on higher education to cut the inward resource year after year , the answer is to ensure that the inspectorate for higher education is wholly independent of the funding system and solely concerned with the issue of quality . |
| 18 | What is to ensure that the allocation of resources is not arbitrary , subject to the sway of ad hoc political pressure ? |
| 19 | The role of the Bank of England is to ensure that the supply of money is consistent with the attainment of the government 's policy objectives . |
| 20 | A major reason for depreciation charges in the accounts is to ensure that the costs of services provided by capital assets are included in the selling price of the company 's products . |
| 21 | A major reason for depreciation charges in the accounts is to ensure that the costs of services provided by capital assets are included in the selling price of the company 's products . |
| 22 | The point of this book is to demonstrate that the concept of the global system does have genuine scientific validity and , indeed , that it is increasingly necessary for the analysis of a growing number of rapidly changing phenomena . |
| 23 | The dearth of recent critical material in this area would suggest not , but the aim of this article is to demonstrate that the study of dramatic character may be effectively achieved by the application of theoretical principles derived from the linguistic analysis of conversation . |
| 24 | The second is to suppose that the guidance of God is always extraordinary , individualistic , and sudden . |
| 25 | To invoke the idea of an interest , as I have done , to resolve the dispute between holists and individualists is to allow that the canons of explanation in the social sciences are both pragmatic and normative . |
| 26 | The patterns could be interpreted in different ways ; one possibility is to argue that the correlation with extra-linguistic variables constitutes evidence that the forms are simply different ways of saying the same thing , that differences in modal meaning which do not affect truth-conditions are merely stylistic and so may be ignored . |
| 27 | After ensuring the quality of your pressed flowers and foliage , the next priority is to check that the standard of materials with which you will surround your picture is equally high . |
| 28 | The counter-move to such complaints is to say that the concept of lucidity is itself repressive , and that unravelling Derrida 's meanings is itself a deconstructive act , directed against hegemonic ideological positions . |
| 29 | The American expression for this position is to say that the resources of a local authority are not ‘ fungible ’ , meaning that we can not treat them as one mass . |
| 30 | And who is to say that the topography of the Somerset village of East Coker is unimportant to a reading of Eliot 's four Quartets ? |