Example sentences of "be [adv] [to-vb] [that] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We 're here to ensure that punishment is carried out . ’ |
| 2 | Right now I 'm here to say that ‘ MOR ’ is cheeky and angry and much too big for its platform boots ; in other words the single the Manics always should have made . |
| 3 | Conference , I accept this award on behalf of all women activists within my union because , sisters , we know it 's not always easy for women , however , I 'm here to prove that we can achieve , but we need the encouragement and support of our male colleagues . |
| 4 | ‘ I am here to ensure that the laws of the land are obeyed . ’ |
| 5 | Words like " some " in examination questions are there to show that examiners do n't think exhaustive answers are possible ; any response will be partial . |
| 6 | We were soon to discover that Masha might be in no condition to set us on any track . |
| 7 | We were soon to discover that he specialises , not only in deft , on-the-spot sketches , but also in brief pungent descriptions with much use of cunning metaphor . |
| 8 | But two men in the Chelsea directors ' box were soon to show that they enjoy the away game just as much . |
| 9 | But this could not be so if calling these things ‘ good ’ were just to reiterate that they promote the survival of the species . |
| 10 | The proposals suggested yesterday by the Leader of the Opposition were clearly to ensure that British farmers reduced their already low incomes and that the money be used for development — rural and urban — in the southern parts of the European Community . |
| 11 | The Adventurers were also to ensure that all levels were driven with only a slight gradient … " just sufficient to drain out the water " . |
| 12 | The Maronites were later to claim that there had been provocation for the killings but the attack appeared to have been carefully planned . |
| 13 | It was where the bedrooms had been ; they were later to discover that it was where the Romanovs had lived for a century and a half and had been the favourite apartments of Nicholas I. |
| 14 | University members of boards in particular were regularly to agree that the process was more rigorous than those in their own universities . |
| 15 | He added : ‘ The chancellor must come to explain why the secret arrangements were such that the public were never to know that this payment had been made . ’ |
| 16 | It has developed the British Code of Advertising Practice whose intentions are primarily to ensure that : |
| 17 | This is not to say that PGCE ( and in-service ) tutors do not attempt to develop ‘ professional ’ rather than ‘ craftsman ’ knowledge and attitudes , it is rather to say that the professional knowledge is built on shaky foundations . |
| 18 | The object is rather to demonstrate that the success of Nizan 's writing technique is ultimately dependent on the interaction of two different but , in the final analysis , mutually dependent discourses . |
| 19 | To deny that these clear and generally accepted principles apply to nuclear weapons is effectively to say that these weapons are outside international law , that nuclear weapons in themselves abolish international law . |
| 20 | This is basically to ensure that the , the branches are complying er to legislations . |
| 21 | Perhaps this is merely to say that the pluralist has a theory of language , whereas the monist does not . |
| 22 | The concept of equisignificance can now be easily explained , for to say of two symbols that they have the same meaning is merely to say that they both express the same species of thought . |
| 23 | It is merely to affirm that in the end if education is to grow deep roots in the working-class , they will be nourished more by what people learn than how they learn ’ . |
| 24 | My purpose here is merely to suggest that the English choral tradition , with its reliance upon young voices ' and its tinge of Protestant Englishness , turns the memories and dreams of a social class into sound . |
| 25 | To claim that explanation in geography can go no further is only to say that it is inadequate to its task , and ignores the fact that many geographers are going further : |
| 26 | They exist ‘ merely as a means ’ which is only to say that , lacking language and self-consciousness , they are unable to plan and debate projects of their own as do moral agents . |
| 27 | He adds , however , that to recognize the point is only to recognize that testing is what matters . |
| 28 | When families like those in the novels of Ivy Compton-Burnett hold on to their houses at all costs , it is only to discover that their houses hold on to them . |
| 29 | What you 're working towards here , is obviously to say that they were stopped and that this was the end of the flood , so it 's got to be something , something very major , and something like swirling currents Current , currents or raging waves does do that , I suppose . |
| 30 | True prevention is thus to ensure that women are immunised against diseases which can cause mental handicap in the foetus long before they plan to conceive . |