Example sentences of "['s] [noun] be [to-vb] that " in BNC.
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| 1 | John 's response is to say that they did not need false teachers , or any other teachers for that matter : ‘ you have been anointed ( lit . |
| 2 | Merleau-Ponty 's response was to argue that history itself had shown Marxist philosophy to have been flawed ; such philosophy must therefore give up its claim to truth . |
| 3 | Iranian premier Moussavi 's response was to say that Iran was only too ready to help make the referendum possible . |
| 4 | In any case , the logic of the government 's case is to say that if you are a person on low income , dependent on council housing , and you happen to live in area like Oxford , which has extremely high land values , then you should pay a very high rent , and they assume that they will pay that high rent and they reduce the grant to the housing fund erm on those lines , with the consequence that the Council had no choice but to put the rents up . |
| 5 | As liquidator , the official receiver 's function is to ensure that the company 's assets are got in , sold and distributed to the creditors and other persons properly entitled . |
| 6 | My Lords , the aim of the Government 's policies is to ensure that patients receive high quality accident and emergency services whenever they need them . |
| 7 | The agency 's responsibility is to see that those children are properly paid for . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | The Directive 's aim is to ensure that partnerships that are used as a vehicle by limited liability companies are not exempt from the accounting requirements of the Fourth and Seventh Directives . |
| 10 | The Board 's aim is to ensure that offshore financial activities are run properly so that the islands can avoid becoming potential breeding grounds for illegal activities . |
| 11 | Of course it takes time for the increased number of women on the list to work through into actual appointments , but one of the purposes behind the Prime Minister 's initiative was to see that they did work through into actual appointments . |
| 12 | One of Lyon 's responsibilities was to ensure that the cantor , who led the singing on behalf of the congregation , was fit for the job . |
| 13 | If that sounded a bit like the result of an army medical board it was appropriate enough : the chief purpose of this year 's conference is to signal that the Labour Party is ready once more for active service . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | To compare Raskolnikov 's haymarket with Kim 's bazaar is to see that Kipling has done all the work so that you do n't have to go there to know what it 's like at the level of vivid and varied description , whereas Dostoevsky leaves his reader with an impression which hovers between smell and vapour and dream . |
| 16 | The Conservatives believe that the government 's role is to ensure that we continue to have a good foundation of basic and strategic science on which industry can draw , to encourage a good supply of up-to-date and creative scientists , and to encourage the right climate for successful innovation . |
| 17 | The Inspection department 's role is to ensure that quality standards are properly maintained , without incurring disproportionate costs . |
| 18 | The commission 's role was to ensure that land allocated for development was in fact developed , by channelling it to those who would develop it . |
| 19 | The defendant submitted , consistently with the conduct of the defence at the trial , that the trial judge ought not to have excluded his evidence , or any other admissible evidence which he could have elicited by cross-examination , tending to show that Paulette was addicted to drugs in the form of cocaine and ganja cigarettes , the defendant 's object being to show that Paulette 's conduct just before the shooting rendered more credible the now irrelevant defence of provocation and the defence of accident . |
| 20 | Penguin 's motivation is to ensure that a core stock of its titles is always available in the stores . |
| 21 | The hedonist 's mistake is to assume that if X + Y has 100 degrees of goodness and X without Y has 10 degrees of goodness that Y possesses 90 degrees of goodness . |
| 22 | The vendor 's concern is to ensure that the monies retained do eventually become available provided the relevant liability has not crystallised . |
| 23 | A sensible theorist 's approach is to hope that the fat neutrino goes away . |
| 24 | WorldView 's brief is to ensure that a user can read a document irrespective of the software that created it . |
| 25 | The burden of Nordhaus 's model is to suggest that a democratic economy will exhibit an inflationary bias with the gains from exploiting a ‘ fooled ’ electorate being a higher rate of inflation at point 3 than at point 5 . |
| 26 | But one of Charles 's achievements was to ensure that all his children who reached adulthood , male or female , could at least sign their names ; his daughter Elizabeth had produced a most business-like signature at her marriage in 1802 and , here at All Hallows , Benjamin signed with a flourish , above the rather more demure attempt of his new wife . |
| 27 | Another way of analysing the doctor 's duty is to say that , when a patient is near death , a doctor is not obliged to embark upon or continue heroic treatment which has no prospect of benefiting the patient . |
| 28 | To say that crime is functional and necessary for society 's health is to say that we must always ensure that we retain a stock of people whom we humiliate , imprison or ( perhaps worst of all ) regard as suitable cases for treatment . |
| 29 | One of Einstein 's insights was to infer that because mass generalizes to mass/energy in SR it must be this mass/energy that causes the curvature of space–time . |
| 30 | Child 's solution was to suggest that ideology can be imputed when it is ‘ affiliational ’ , that is when members join a group which is organized around the content of an ideology ( Child 1944 ) . |