Example sentences of "[num ord] [noun] is [verb] that " in BNC.
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| 1 | The second tactic is to ensure that we stop adding more people to the numbers of tragic people on our streets as a result of years of social and self-neglect . |
| 2 | A second approach is to argue that the Christian faith is something intensely personal , concerned with individual spirituality and not something which has a social dimension concerned with the affairs of this world . |
| 3 | The second possibility is to say that things get fixed along that chain once the objects with which we have to deal have become " large " . |
| 4 | Once it has been established that D was committing a criminal offence , the second step is to establish that this caused the death . |
| 5 | It is only when the fifth bar is reached that problems arise . |
| 6 | In considering shopfronts , the first need is to ensure that existing ones of character are preserved and sympathetically treated . |
| 7 | First job is to check that Tony , a boy who is brought to school by mini-cab is in . |
| 8 | ‘ The first ground is taken that the payment was voluntary . |
| 9 | Recognizing the distinct nature of Quebec 's French-speaking culture , it asserted that " the first priority is to ensure that Quebec feels itself a full and willing partner in the constitutional family once again " . |
| 10 | The first answer is to argue that the computer-science phenomena described here could be established by non-linguistic means ( e.g. hardware readings of some sort ) . |
| 11 | An essential first step is to demonstrate that pre-training must be given with the same stimuli as are used in the test phase . |
| 12 | The first step is to ensure that the waste is disposed of as close to its source as possible . |
| 13 | This is not to press for a reversal of the present position , but to understand that if the work of research students is to be understood in educational terms , then the first step is to accept that the role is a hybrid of research and of higher education . |
| 14 | With breast-fed babies who are thought to have food sensitivity , the first step is to check that it is not something other than breast milk causing the problem . |
| 15 | A third response is to agree that as things are presently constituted females do end up with poorer spatial visualisation skills by adolescence ( which may or may not affect the learning of mathematics ) , but then claim that the reason for this outcome is differential male-female learning experiences . |
| 16 | The third need is to remember that while the 1988 Act changed many aspects of management from the point of view of the insider , it changed few things from the point of view of the parents , the employer or the public . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | ‘ And your third mistake is to assume that I would risk my whole operation by sleeping with any one of them — no matter how attractive they might be . ’ |
| 19 | A third interpretation is to say that the strategy has not been implemented and therefore the government is not fully responsible for the outcome . |
| 20 | The next thing is to assure that the statement being made is a description of the offensive behaviour and not the offender 's character . |
| 21 | Having obtained the appropriate transfer function , the next step is to appreciate that first-order response is provided by a filter incorporating just one reactive component . |
| 22 | If the present division is regarded as desirable , the next step is to ensure that the maximum penalty for the lesser offence is sufficient to deal with cases of serious threats which are not enough to negative consent in rape . |
| 23 | The next step is to ensure that , from March , no one should have to wait more than 18 months for a hip or knee replacement or a cataract operation . |
| 24 | The next step is to ensure that they are receiving all the State benefits to which they are entitled ( a subject we shall be examining in more detail later in Chapter 5 ) and that any capital they have is being invested wisely and safely . |