Example sentences of "[verb] is [verb] [that] the " in BNC.
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1 | 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 . |
2 | 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 . |
3 | 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 . |
4 | 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 . |
5 | 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 . |
6 | All they can do is to ensure that the decision-maker did have some reasonable grounds for his action . |
7 | 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 . |
8 | 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 . |
9 | 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 . |
10 | 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 . |
11 | 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 . |
12 | 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 . |
13 | 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 . |
14 | A simple support strategy which the tutor can employ is to suggest that the student : |
15 | What it is doing is hoping that the college , our union 's future will be secure . |
16 | The best I can manage is to say that the thriller is intended to thrill ; it is a succession of exciting events , whereas the suspense novel is designed to create suspense , a series of situations of which the outcome is in doubt . |
17 | A common fault into which candidates fall is to assume that the mention of a topic in the question is an indication that the examiner wants to know everything about that and related subjects . |
18 | As for rule 2.12. ( 1 ) , Mr. Beloff submits that this supports his submission , not that of Mr. Collins , since what it does is to provide that the Norwich Union must have rules which will ensure that appointed representatives such as Winchester comply with the Lautro Rules . |
19 | Another way of expressing the central requirement of conspiracy to injure is to say that the law is concerned with the distinction between legitimate and illegitimate purposes , for the former will legalise the infliction of the most catastrophic and inevitable harm to the plaintiff 's business . |
20 | The change he makes is to assume that the laws of motion obeyed by the particles constituting an isolated system are non-invertible : that is , that the same dynamical state at a given time can be reached from two or more different dynamical states at some earlier time . |
21 | The mistake that Jencks makes is to assume that the changes in the political settlement will be led from the top by George Bush , and will precede the war . |
22 | Women must consequently separate out these different roles , and a way to begin is to protest that the whole image is wrong . |