Example sentences of "[noun pl] is [verb] that " in BNC.
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| 1 | Conversely , to deny the existence of dragons is to deny that " x is a dragon " can be converted into a knowable proposition ( unless , of course , " dragon " was used metaphorically , as in " Mrs Thatcher is a dragon " ) . |
| 2 | I hope that the hon. Member for Newry and Armagh , and other hon. Members who represent Northern Ireland , will agree that one of the absolute keys is to ensure that the money we spend gets to the people who most deserve and need it as quickly as possible . |
| 3 | One way of understanding structures larger than ribosomes is to remember that organisms are made of different kinds of cells — muscle cells , bone cells , nerve cells , and so on — arranged in space . |
| 4 | One of the purchaser 's main concerns is to ensure that , after the sale , the vendor does not immediately re-enter the market in competition with the business that has been sold . |
| 5 | For her , the dreadful underlying fear is that the space can never be filled : any such attempt would be futile , and so the best thing to do in the circumstances is to accept that the space exists , and to turn this fact to advantage . |
| 6 | To accept what I have been saying about epistemic appearances is to accept that our visual experience does somehow involve a judgement about what we are looking at , whether in our experience of works of art or in ordinary visual experience . |
| 7 | To invoke the idea of an interest , as I have done , to resolve the dispute between holists and individualists is to allow that the canons of explanation in the social sciences are both pragmatic and normative . |
| 8 | If winter sports is involved that the appropriate premium has been paid . |
| 9 | Does my right hon. Friend agree that the best and most subtle way to prevent such attacks is to ensure that the British people know that they have a Government who are taking the steps necessary to keep firm control of immigration and particularly to prevent people from abusing our immigration rules by entering this country under the bogus concept of being political refugees ? |
| 10 | Its approach to cost comparisons is to say that they are not fair , whereas the Conservative approach is to ask , ’ How can we do better ? |
| 11 | My response to such questions is to suggest that there is no one ideal diet suitable for everyone . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Bereaved people trying to make sense of what has happened to them often find that one of the most difficult things is to discover that they ‘ can not think straight ’ and when they do their thoughts are often so disturbing and frightening that they feel they 've ‘ gone mad ’ . |
| 14 | Within a single volume a range of topics is covered that will also be of interest to a wider readership . |
| 15 | The only way to clarify this state of affairs is to say that if you see a cat 's pupils suddenly expand , without any change in light intensity or proximity of objects , then it is experiencing a state of strong emotional arousal . |
| 16 | What they lose sight of is that the only possible justification of the expense of supporting these vast bureaucratic machines is to ensure that the necessary high standard of safety is established and maintained . |
| 17 | The job of our full-time fund raisers is to see that the RNLI 's use of such methods is as professional as can be . ’ |
| 18 | The society 's board of trustees is hoping that at least part of the funds it needs by June will come from government sources : in response to a stampede of scholars from around the world who invaded the library in what were to be its final days last month , local government provided an emergency $66,000 to keep the library open until 2 April . |
| 19 | The primary duty of trustees is to ensure that the trust fund remains intact , since the financial security of the beneficiaries may depend on it . |
| 20 | Can I just finally say that the whole import of the orders is to ensure that they look at the criteria of authorisation , they are concerned with the authorisation of firms which take public deposits and investments and when that is brought into question , when there is evidence to suggest that those criteria are not being adequately med it must be right to impose a non costly duty on the auditors to bring that about , that is what these orders do tonight , I think they 're an extremely welcome addition to the stable of measures of regulation and they will improve materially depositor protection . |
| 21 | In consideration of the purchaser incurring the costs of its professional advisers in commencing due diligence and negotiating the binding agreement the vendor hereby undertakes to the purchaser that during the period from today until midnight on [ ] 19[] it shall not negotiate the sale of the business with any person ( either directly or indirectly ) other than the purchaser The only essential content of the heads of terms is to specify that they are subject to contract except for one or two specific clauses . |
| 22 | The last resort of the habitual pessimists is to admit that Hungary 's opportunities are great , but that the government is bound to muff them . |
| 23 | One common reply to the first two sceptical arguments is to say that we have no reason to worry ourselves about them . |
| 24 | Our response to these opposing arguments is to suggest that arguments that new technology is creating very large scale unemployment in the near future are alarmist , based on too simple a set of assumptions . |
| 25 | One way of explaining the interactional organization of sentences is to suggest that a clause consists of two segments . |
| 26 | Derrida or one of his disciples is to feel that the mystification and intimidation of the reader is the ultimate aim of the enterprise . ’ |
| 27 | Part of our role as mathematics educators is to ensure that children know that the skills and background they bring to school are valued . |
| 28 | The aim of all these procedures is to ensure that no patient arrives home without the drugs or equipment needed or is left without adequate care and support . |
| 29 | The first trap for young reporters is to assume that responsibility for a libel can be avoided if it is made in an attributed quotation . |
| 30 | One way of viewing these results is to suggest that what determines use of the passive rather than the active is selection of the acted-upon as the first noun to be mentioned . |