Example sentences of "[verb] is [verb] that " in BNC.
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| 1 | Their answer to the question they pose is to say that education systems are to be justified on the grounds that they develop ‘ intellectual competence that would otherwise go largely undeveloped ’ ( 1978 , p. 4 ) . |
| 2 | What we should do is show that we 're the best union by effectively representing our members , and if others want to join us , then they can , but on our terms . |
| 3 | Well , I think all I can do is to reiterate that this road would not be considered for construction at all at this stage if it was n't for the probable re-siting of the erm transfer station and therefore we would not be looking at any aspect of it at this time if it were not for that . |
| 4 | Coronary risk factors are multiplicative , not additive , so if you already have one or two unavoidable risk factors , the last thing you should do is assume that the sword of Damocles is irrevocably poised above you and reach for another cigarette . |
| 5 | All we can do is hope that Mrs W. will cool off and in the meantime , Edward , I 'm sorry but honestly I think Mary or Janice had better take over Junior Biology . ’ |
| 6 | company personal obligations , Appointments , , Marketing oblique prospecting time , Self development time , and time for administration What we 're gon na do is transcribe that into real life if you like , so we 're gon na to have Monday , Tuesday , Wednesday , Thursday , Friday . |
| 7 | What he can do is to say that the legal owner can not in conscience , in equity , make use of his Common Law right for his own benefit ; he must use it for the benefit of the man for whom he holds it in trust . |
| 8 | When we think about those questions of individ individuation in our normal affairs , the best we can do is to say that what individuates us and also what makes us the same person through changes over time , is a great medley of factors , some of which are bodily , some of which involve our souls |
| 9 | In such circumstances what the doctors can not do is to conclude that if the patient still had had the necessary capacity in the changed situation he would have reversed his decision . |
| 10 | With the pound locked into the European Monetary System , the most and the least the government can do is ensure that nominal demand does not collapse . |
| 11 | So that I feel that one of the things that we must do is ensure that all people who are now training to be teachers , and those who already in the service , have got to be given more information about the condition so that they may be able to recognise it . |
| 12 | This is correct , but bearing in mind the observations made above , all one can reasonably do is to assume that everything published and available is legally permissible until the law says it is not . |
| 13 | This warranty is too wide ; all the Vendor can do is warrant that the intellectual property rights listed in the relevant schedule are used in connection with the Business . |
| 14 | Well , yes it should , it should be , and there 's some good figures in there that you may want to tell the students about , and then what I would do is recommend that they have a look at it because the current issue . |
| 15 | This immediately raises the question of what we mean by the separation of two particles A and B. It seems the best we can do is argue that the two particles A and B can be considered as separate only when the individual wave packets cease to overlap . |
| 16 | So many different factors may be relevant that no generalized conclusions can be reached , and the best that librarians can do is to ensure that as far as possible conditions for use in their own libraries are adapted to meet what research has revealed as ideal conditions . |
| 17 | However , until that stage is reached , all we can do is to ensure that the animals whose flesh we devour are given the best possible lifestyle and are then despatched as quickly and painlessly as possible . |
| 18 | All they can do is to ensure that the decision-maker did have some reasonable grounds for his action . |
| 19 | What the Act will do is to ensure that the child offender who is dealt with by a children 's hearing may not be asked , and if asked need not answer , questions about ‘ spent ’ offences in , for example , applications for employment . |
| 20 | But what they can do is to ensure that the additional factors of instability , caused by the economic hardship produced by the moves to a market economy , are kept to a minimum . |
| 21 | Only half convinced of the truth of my new thesis , and not wholly sure of where exactly I am , I can nevertheless recognize with some satisfaction that perhaps the most disconcerting thing a character in a novel can do is to announce that he is indeed a character in a novel . |
| 22 | What is being done is to argue that the failures were of the order to suggest that Bukharin had been correct in his prediction before the event , not after it . |
| 23 | And I think lots of need to be put in , but I think what needs to be done is to hear that the people who are actually living in the inner city , feel it is what they need . |
| 24 | What we have done is to show that the semi-mystical assertion that " minus times minus is plus " is deducible as a consequence of other ( " more obvious " ) axioms of arithmetic . |
| 25 | What we have done is to suggest that we actually need a lower budget than we had originally assessed . |
| 26 | What 3i has done is demonstrate that the clearing banks in the UK have collectively over forty years ensured that there is access to long-term development capital for British industry . |
| 27 | To brood on the unkempt surface of the earth as Baltz has done is to find that normal ideas of scale are suspended . |
| 28 | One way in which variation of this kind is discounted is to claim that the scribe was Anglo-Norman , or that the spellings are Anglo-Norman and therefore not valid evidence for the history of English . |
| 29 | He said ‘ The one thing that keeps me going is knowing that for every step I take and every pound donated we are one step nearer to finding a cure . ’ |
| 30 | What keeps me going is knowing that I 'm doing this for my children , not out of choice . |