Example sentences of "[noun sg] [is] [to-vb] that [prep] " in BNC.

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1 A possible reconciliation is to argue that in Collins the accused 's intent was to rape , if necessary , whereas in Jones & Smith there was no " if necessary " about the intent to steal .
2 The other aim is to suggest that in order to understand ‘ how teachers teach the unteachable ’ one must recognize the manner in which they are engaged in managing a delicate balance of perceptions — that they be like and unlike schools .
3 The alternative method is to provide that upon any adjustment of the base figure , the rent payable immediately before the adjustment becomes a fixed amount payable under the terms of the lease ( or is substituted for a fixed amount previously reserved ) .
4 The point of this brier account of mistake is to show that at least one leading textbook of criminal law has distorted its presentation of the data because of a prior commitment to subjectivism .
5 It 's probably the , the simplest illustration is to say that over the last three or four years , we 've moved from being well below S S A to nine point four percent above S S A , now nothing 's changed other than that we 've got a slight decrease in the number of calls over this last two years .
6 A different way of questioning the justification of corporate power in terms of wealth maximisation is to argue that at least beyond a certain level of prosperity , increases in wealth do not compensate for , can not be traded-off against , the accumulation of power .
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