Example sentences of "[to-vb] [conj] [noun sg] be [vb pp] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the standard paradigm the interlocutors are separated by a screen to ensure that communication is restricted to the verbal channel . |
| 2 | If one or more of these features is missing from your working life , you should make it known and strive to ensure that management is committed to improving matters . |
| 3 | At first LEAs made annual bids and had to ensure that money was passed to schools . |
| 4 | The success of the treatment depends very much on the skill and intelligence of the operatives and careful supervision to ensure that attention is given to the full extent of affected areas . |
| 5 | It is also important to ensure that attention is paid to other areas . |
| 6 | There was a purge of ministers sympathetic to reform and office was entrusted to staunch conservatives . |
| 7 | The defendant submitted , consistently with the conduct of the defence at the trial , that the trial judge ought not to have excluded his evidence , or any other admissible evidence which he could have elicited by cross-examination , tending to show that Paulette was addicted to drugs in the form of cocaine and ganja cigarettes , the defendant 's object being to show that Paulette 's conduct just before the shooting rendered more credible the now irrelevant defence of provocation and the defence of accident . |