Example sentences of "[to-vb] [adj] that we [verb] [adv] " in BNC.

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1 Yes , we have er debate on a major policy paper on natural resources and how to er conserve them , how to make sure that we get away from the madness of the consumer society that we have at the moment ; er laying down a strategy for the er the use of the earth 's resources er into the twentieth century .
2 Thus the expedition is neatly manipulated to include many of the requirements of the national curriculum : ‘ We are very keen to make sure that we do n't lose all the good things that have been going on in schools , ’ she says .
3 In our own lives , when we look back over things we 've done , we try to learn something from them — if we know we 've done something stupid , we try to make sure that we do n't keep on making the same mistakes over and over again .
4 And we need we need to make sure that we do n't embark upon this new plan based on a whole pile of suppositions which in fact er lie in a world of fantasy .
5 Just to make sure that erm just to make sure that we do n't think it 's just spinning wherever it feels like spinning , it 's spinning on its axis is n't it .
6 The final point is taking money out of the reserves to make sure that we do n't have to put back twenty two pounds on the council tax .
7 We have to make sure that we do n't miss a trick in exploiting 21a the potential of an infill — which brings ME TO …
8 The purpose of etiquette is to provide an easy set of rules which we can follow when we are in a hurry and want to make sure that we do not give offence to anybody .
9 We do not intend to repeat their experience and we have the policies to make sure that we do not .
10 We in central Government are taking strenuous steps to make sure that we work effectively ; similarly , it is vital that local and health authorities , together with general practitioners , make sure that they are ready for April 1993 .
11 We pinch ourselves and check our photographs to make sure that we have really seen , done and experienced all these wonderful things .
12 We therefore would need to do some quite careful accounting in order to make sure that we did n't contravene that erm , the , the requirement of the Trustee Investment Act in the future .
13 But erm it just er hopefully because yeah but really they 're just trying to investigate to make sure that we did n't act fraudulently in any way .
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