Example sentences of "is [verb] [that] [noun pl] " in BNC.

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1 Because the greatness of man is to see that things might be otherwise — to look at the world around him , and to see another world beneath its surface . ’
2 The way to do this is to see that patients bear some responsibility for the cost of services .
3 However it is recognized that decisions by overseas students to accept or reject offers are influenced by a more complex set of factors than for home students , and there remains uncertainty over the appropriate offer ratios to be applied .
4 In a society which is becoming increasingly influenced by computer and other information technology it is recognized that schoolchildren need the facility of interacting with the new technology as soon as possible .
5 Suppose it is recognized that economies of scale may lead to monopoly or other forms of imperfect competition that tend to misallocate resources .
6 It is intended that managers will have greater freedom to make the service meet the needs of the environment .
7 This is a fund to which it is intended that LECs will bid competitively with the intention of developing innovative ways to help unemployed people into work and create jobs .
8 It is intended that loans will replace parental contributions and that repayments will be similar to mortgage repayments .
9 It is hypothesised that words processed at deeper levels will be better recognised than those processed to only a shallow level and that reaction times will be longer at deeper levels of processing .
10 Secondly , a wage-change variable is included in addition to a price variable since it is hypothesised that workers may seek to unionise not only to defend existing standards of living but also to attempt to improve upon them .
11 This group is demanding that delegates to the party congress next July be directly elected by rank-and-file members .
12 Now the council is demanding that preachers apply for prior permission to use council property and they can only spread the ‘ good news ’ at specified times and one at a time .
13 If it is claimed that reasons are needed for this verdict , which might be doubted , one has to do with the fact that we do not take all the causes of behaviour to be other behaviour .
14 ( Perhaps this is why it is claimed that boys ' academic performance is higher in ‘ mixed ’ schools than in ‘ boys only ’ schools : they benefit from having a whole group to be better than !
15 It is claimed that children of similar ages inevitably approach problems from similar perspectives and therefore appreciate the learning difficulties that each other have .
16 In a similar way in suprasegmental phonology it is claimed that utterances may be divided up into tone-units , and that one can identify on phonetic or phonological grounds the places where one tone-unit ends and another tone-unit begins .
17 Collecting bias seems to be greater for molars than for incisors , not surprising when it is considered that incisors are easier to locate in the pellets than are molars , and so an excess of incisors may be combined with a deficit of molars where there is collecting bias .
18 The views of centres are therefore being sought on the year in which it is considered that candidates could be enrolled on new-style courses , for those courses which are not the subject of national development of units .
19 To open the door to this type of possibility is to accept that babies who are mentally handicapped , yet perfectly capable of leading a happy life with either their parents or guardians , are deprived of this opportunity by a small group of people who know little about what this life will be like .
20 It is supposed that thoughts can not just come and go , but need a person to think them .
21 It is supposed that pupils ' attitudes should also be affected by lesson activities and the classroom environment they experience during a course of computer education .
22 In one argument it is pronouncing that huntsmen are having fun , while five sentences later it is saying they are cruel and wicked .
23 Social security appeal tribunals are categorized as the least formal of the tribunals investigated , but it is reported that appellants nevertheless found attendance before them a nerve-wracking ordeal .
24 It is reported that police were satisfied that the wife acted under duress in the various crimes in which she got involved in .
25 Answer : nobody is denying that thoughts have qualitative content .
26 Furthermore , although Ritchie argues that ‘ cruelty to animals is rightly supposed to be an offence against humanitarian feeling ’ ( 1976 : 183 ) , I see no reason for concluding that by so saying he is denying that animals can be wronged , particularly given the wide measure of protection he accords them .
27 By the year 2000 , it is expected that women will represent almost 50% of the workforce , so , assuming women have the same potential management skills as men , and bearing in mind that women gained 45% of first degrees in 1989 , companies that fail to recruit or promote them are cutting their reservoir of managerial talent by half .
28 Where it is expected that circulars , advertisements and other public documents will be used as part of the takeover process it will be important that all statements contained in them can be substantiated with adequate fact .
29 It is expected that students will understand what is meant in this context by the terms rank , cohesion , and context of situation , and that they will know something of those recent developments with which the term ‘ Systemic ’ is particularly associated .
30 Under this heading it is expected that students will be concerned with the following topics : —
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