Example sentences of "[to-vb] [conj] [noun] is [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | World Communications Year ( WCY ) began in January , The United Nations , whose brainchild the year is , has largely failed to communicate that WCY is happening at all , let alone why it is needed . |
| 2 | ‘ But it must be a great comfort to know that Nora is looking after her end of things . |
| 3 | We are forced immediately to see that Blanche is addicted to alcohol . |
| 4 | Perhaps the most important law change to emphasise that rugby is played by players standing on their feet ; this season after a tackle any other player must be on his feet when he plays the ball immaterial of what distance he is away from the tackle . |
| 5 | We will establish when and how often the baby checks to see if mother is attending to the pointing gesture . |
| 6 | As 1989 ends , it is tempting to imagine that Europe is emerging into a wholly new identity , governed by peace not war , common aspirations rather than sectional concerns . |
| 7 | Even before he became one of the pioneering geneticists , William Bateson ( 1861–1926 ) had abandoned Darwinism and had begun to insist that evolution is driven by discontinuous variations or saltations . |
| 8 | to ensure that communication is acknowledged as a human right ; |
| 9 | In the standard paradigm the interlocutors are separated by a screen to ensure that communication is restricted to the verbal channel . |
| 10 | If one or more of these features is missing from your working life , you should make it known and strive to ensure that management is committed to improving matters . |
| 11 | Our standards of service are rigorously monitored to ensure that performance is maintained at a consistently high level , and we also aim to take good care of your parcels . |
| 12 | However , it is difficult to see how such criteria can be formulated to ensure that treatment is received by those individuals that the home authority would have chosen . |
| 13 | The purpose of community intervention is not simply to observe but to ensure that treatment is sustained for those whose illness , in terms of either severity or nature , warrants this . |
| 14 | A major effort is taking place to ensure that documentation is deposited in machine- readable form and , given that generally it is available on word-processed disks , this is proving successful . |
| 15 | Lothian Region Transport plc has done much to ensure that smoking is banned from public transport in the Lothian area . |
| 16 | We also want to ensure that provision is made for the representation of enrolled nurses on the UKCC . |
| 17 | By and large , however , we should try to ensure that waste is dealt with as close as possible to its source . |
| 18 | LEADERS of the five TUC-affiliated ambulance unions will meet regional representatives today to ensure that action is sustained in the nearly 13-week dispute , but to stifle any calls for escalation . |
| 19 | The Trust 's management is aware of the dangers , and seeks constantly to ensure that growth is matched by clear , flexible procedures which promote vitality and experimentation , by a healthy eagerness on the part of the managers to manage , and above all , by the delegation of responsibility right through the organisation . |
| 20 | Analgesia is usually given regularly to ensure that pain is kept under control at all times . |
| 21 | The success of the treatment depends very much on the skill and intelligence of the operatives and careful supervision to ensure that attention is given to the full extent of affected areas . |
| 22 | It is also important to ensure that attention is paid to other areas . |
| 23 | ‘ It is absolutely crazy to have 9,000 tonnes of limestone a week going by road when the Government is offering grants to try to ensure that freight is carried by rail . |
| 24 | It is designed to protect children and to ensure that care is taken in making appointments to any post which involves contact with children . |
| 25 | This was partly because they were unsure about the outcome , partly because they were not able to segment the market with precision , and partly because the account executives in their advertising agencies , in common with many media directors , still appear to believe that prosperity is equated with youth . |
| 26 | There is , however , no reason to believe that fundectomy is associated with increased duodenogastric reflux . |
| 27 | Christians are not required to believe that humanness is created in an instant , Dr Habgood tells House of Lords debate Opposition to embryo research mistaken , says archbishop Embryology Bill . |
| 28 | Dr John Habgood , speaking in the Lords during the second reading debate on the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Bill , said : ‘ Christians are no more required to believe that humanness is created in an instant than we are required to believe in the historical existence of Adam and Eve . ’ |
| 29 | Unreasonable refusal of access to a child in the course of inquiries is in itself a ground for making an emergency protection order where the applicant has reasonable cause to believe that access is required as a matter of urgency ( s44(1) ( b ) and see p149 ) . |
| 30 | Prime ministerial power , and therefore prime ministerial government is challenged ; Cabinet government and collective responsibility are challenged because of the claim that the first allegiance of a Labour minister is not to the Cabinet but to the mandate given by the party conference ; parliamentary government and the autonomy of MPs to deliberate as representatives is challenged through the notion of mandate reducing them to delegates ; and liberal-democracy itself is challenged because of a refusal to accept limits to participation and to the role of the state in the struggle to attain socialism through democracy . |