Example sentences of "[noun pl] [is] [to-vb] [conj] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I hope that the hon. Member for Newry and Armagh , and other hon. Members who represent Northern Ireland , will agree that one of the absolute keys is to ensure that the money we spend gets to the people who most deserve and need it as quickly as possible . |
| 2 | For her , the dreadful underlying fear is that the space can never be filled : any such attempt would be futile , and so the best thing to do in the circumstances is to accept that the space exists , and to turn this fact to advantage . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Does my right hon. Friend agree that the best and most subtle way to prevent such attacks is to ensure that the British people know that they have a Government who are taking the steps necessary to keep firm control of immigration and particularly to prevent people from abusing our immigration rules by entering this country under the bogus concept of being political refugees ? |
| 5 | The chief executive of the health service in Scotland , Don Cruickshank , said yesterday that one of the unit 's aims is to ensure that the NHS attracts the best staff . |
| 6 | The key to almost all the page makeup software problems is to discover whether the program supports a page description language . |
| 7 | What they lose sight of is that the only possible justification of the expense of supporting these vast bureaucratic machines is to ensure that the necessary high standard of safety is established and maintained . |
| 8 | The job of our full-time fund raisers is to see that the RNLI 's use of such methods is as professional as can be . ’ |
| 9 | The primary duty of trustees is to ensure that the trust fund remains intact , since the financial security of the beneficiaries may depend on it . |
| 10 | Indeed , the fashion in many quarters is to ponder whether the West possesses the discipline and finesse to ‘ manage ’ the USSR 's decline — or perhaps accelerate it . |
| 11 | One way of explaining the interactional organization of sentences is to suggest that a clause consists of two segments . |
| 12 | Derrida or one of his disciples is to feel that the mystification and intimidation of the reader is the ultimate aim of the enterprise . ’ |
| 13 | The aim of all these procedures is to ensure that no patient arrives home without the drugs or equipment needed or is left without adequate care and support . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | The message for visiting climbers is to check whether a bolt is still in place if you are repeating a route where a placement is mentioned in the description . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | Or , as Samuel Burler has it , the proper statement of relations between successive generations is to say that a hen is merely an egg 's way of making another egg ’ |
| 19 | 3.1 In handling a violent situation one of the basic rules is to ensure that a means of withdrawal is available should the member of staff decide simply to vacate the room . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | The easiest way to deal with the situation and the one which causes least problems to the students is to assume that the wages paid in 1989 and the materials used in 1989 were charged in 1989 . |