Example sentences of "[adj] is [verb] that the [noun] " in BNC.

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1 None of this is to deny that the February 1960 agreement was partly a result of Khrushchev 's ‘ allowing Mikoian to make trouble for the Americans in Cuba ’ ( Bonsal : 1971 , p. 156 ) , but it is important to recognise that , whatever political considerations were involved , they were firmly backed up by a favourable set of economic circumstances .
2 None of this is to say that the Queen is a bad or malicious person : evidently she is not .
3 This is to say that the man who solves the riddle of nature must also violate the most sacred natural law , and even that wisdom as such is a crime against nature .
4 Yet , none of this is to say that the men who created the new unionism were wrong in their time .
5 This is to acknowledge that the court 's role is merely to act as a long-stop .
6 This is to ensure that the gully does not get blocked by leaves and other debris and also so that the action of the water gushing into the gully is to clean it .
7 One possible move to counteract this is to ensure that the system proposer is a business analyst and not a technical analyst
8 By this is meant that the invaders penetrate the cultural context of another group , whose wisdom , understanding and potential get ignored , as they impose their own view of the world upon the invaded and inhibit the expression of their creativity .
9 By this is meant that the student must have the prerequisite knowledge and skills to begin learning the task .
10 The first clue to this is to find that the bag itself is folded over and much longer than its contents .
11 The rejoinder to this is to accept that the counter is pointing to a real feature of academic thought , which is that the consensus of the relevant disciplinary community does indeed offer some measure of reliability and raises knowledge claims above mere whim ; but that does not in itself amount to a demonstration of the ‘ progress ’ of knowledge .
12 Briefly , this is to consider that the connections and orders of various sets of events are not exhausted either by the categories of causality or of randomness ( or by both together ) .
13 None of this is to suggest that the relationship between mercantile concerns and lawmaking is linear .
14 The second is to suppose that the guidance of God is always extraordinary , individualistic , and sudden .
15 The first is to argue that the elicitation procedures used in language assessment provide examples of language behaviour , which is determined by the child 's previous learning experiences within similar situations .
16 The object of section 23 is to ensure that the person who really is to blame can be convicted .
17 Meanwhile , the MP whose constituency covers Castlemorton Common is demanding that the Government take strong action against the travellers .
18 Kiesling argues that what constitutes the priest as the image of Christ is the character of orders , that is to say that the person is a priest .
19 And what 's best is knowing that the supervision is first class .
20 The third is to recognise that the labour force is changing all the time and therefore different patterns of working can be gradually introduced .
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