Example sentences of "[noun sg] [be] [to-vb] [conj] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A standard fault is to assume that the reader is familiar with the jargon which the designer habitually uses . |
| 2 | The intention is to ensure that the Policyholder will not unnecessarily cause the safety of the property to be endangered . |
| 3 | The key is to recognize that a market is a natural focal point of any town or city and therefore a potential asset . |
| 4 | He says the alternative is to close as the room occupancy rate is just 26.5pc . |
| 5 | ‘ The Clackmannan review is to ensure that the council 's property investments are performing adequately and it will also provide a baseline to enable decisions to be taken regarding the portfolio and its future management , ’ said , senior partner with Bell-Ingram . |
| 6 | This impasse was to last until a number of dramatic events changed the face of the industry and markedly reduced the power of the trade unions . |
| 7 | The result was to show that the chance of advertising bans or very rigid controls affecting prevalence was about 95% , and the chance of it affecting consumption was about 90% . |
| 8 | Our aim in this study was to establish whether the rate of unnecessary operations and the rate of complicated appendicitis among patients undergoing surgery for suspected acute appendicitis were related to the time of presentation to hospital and the delay between presentation and surgery . |
| 9 | The aim of this study was to establish if a relationship exists between the pH profile in the oesophagus and stomach and the development of complications in patients with Barrett 's columnar lined lower oesophagus . |
| 10 | His intention was to show that the interpretation of Scripture was too complex to be left to whoever happened to be reading it . |
| 11 | Nevertheless , it was necessary to attempt do so : the alternative was to confess that the administration had failed where it most wanted to succeed . |
| 12 | Clearly if a wine bar were to find that the catering side of the business brought more trade and wished to convert part of the bar area into a restaurant , this would not be a material change and would not require planning permission . |
| 13 | Another fatal error is to assume that a product with general appeal should be marketed broadly ( with consequent high costs of promotion ) . |
| 14 | 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 ) . |
| 15 | Another way of describing lack of spontaneity is to say that the participant is ‘ holding back ’ , not ‘ letting himself go ’ , not ‘ giving himself ’ to the situation . |
| 16 | The different dimensions of bureaucracy need to be specified if the object of the exercise is to see whether a state with corporatist features has developed distinctive administrative qualities . |
| 17 | The purpose of this requirement was to ensure that the bill market was adequately funded . |
| 18 | Merely to ask the question was to imply that the justice of their cause was in doubt . |
| 19 | The court 's job is to ensure that the administrator has acted within the rule of law , and has not infringed civil rights and freedoms . |
| 20 | They are the director , who comes from the production company , is in charge of the whole operation , and is the real expert ; the lighting cameraman , whose job is highly skilled and is exactly what it sounds like , and whose expertise will totally influence the visual texture of the film ; and the agency 's producer ( or creative group head ) whose job is to ensure that the director fully covers the brief , and to make any awkward decisions that may be needed . |
| 21 | The main concern with cash is to ensure that the method and arrangements for payment are clearly stated in the sale agreement and that the purchaser has adequate notice of whether a banker 's draft or telegraphic transfer is required . |
| 22 | Here it suffices to say that the aim is to ensure that a company is required to do so when it is thought that the matter is one that the public needs to know . |
| 23 | The aim is to ensure that no patient is sent home to a situation where he might be at risk . |
| 24 | The overall aim is to ensure that the welfare state encourages rather than penalizes personal initiative . |
| 25 | An equally important aim is to ensure that the planning system continues to protect and enhance the environment . |
| 26 | The requirements , which are mandatory , were published the previous December by the NHBC , and include measures to treat any timber which has to be cut during construction ; however , their main aim is to ensure that the timber frame is kept dry in the moist British climate . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | The main aim of the group is to see that every dog is muzzled in public . |
| 29 | Then one way in which we can accommodate context-relativity is to say that the proposition expressed by a sentence in a context is a function from possible worlds and that context to truth values . |
| 30 | Er , Chairman the , the only advice that I can give Dr on that point is to say that the county council is not letting them down er the funding for major road schemes is provided by central government and we make a contribution towards it but if central government do not give us permission to go ahead with the race road scheme in terms of a grant , then in fact it will not go ahead and in that situation they may be let down , that is their judgement and that should be reflected in the way they vote at parliamentary elections . |