Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] [to-vb] that it [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The EURODASS consortium led by Marconi Defence Systems Limited offered a solution , and this has been subject to rigorous scrutiny to confirm that it meets the necessary technical criteria . |
| 2 | Cotton lavender needs a dry sunny situation in light soil to ensure that it ripens fully and is thus better able to withstand cold . |
| 3 | Any record in the module which exceeds this width is flagged with |
| 4 | Second , the Trust is a body committed to conservation on such a wide scale — it is the second largest landowner in Britain — that it also has a clear duty to ensure that it follows good environmental practice in its own affairs . |
| 5 | The accounts department is responsible for ensuring that top management is aware of the financial state of the company and for advising it on appropriate actions to ensure that it remains sound . |
| 6 | The accounts department is responsible for ensuring that top management is aware of the financial state of the company and for advising it on appropriate actions to ensure that it remains sound . |
| 7 | His purpose was to demonstrate not that the earth did spin but that it was impossible for human reason to prove that it did not . |
| 8 | There is some historic evidence to suggest that it included about 800 titles , among which some so important that they have tantalised historians ever since : works by Cicero , Tacitus , the Greek historian Polybius , the playwright Aristophanes etc. , quite possibly in complete versions . |
| 9 | If so , the fact that a dependence thesis is true of theoretical authorities is strong evidence to suppose that it holds for practical authorities as well . |
| 10 | A firm must take reasonable steps to ensure that it does not make any personal recommendation to a private customer of an investment or investment agreement , or effect or arrange a discretionary transaction with or for an customer , unless the recommendation or transaction is suitable for him , having regard to the facts disclosed by that customer and other relevant facts about the customer of which the firm is or reasonably should be aware . |
| 11 | A firm must take all reasonable steps to ensure that it does not give investment advice to , nor effect , a discretionary transaction with or for , a private customer , unless that advice or transaction is suitable for him having regard to the facts disclosed by that customer or other relevant facts about the customer of which the firm is or ought reasonably to be aware . |
| 12 | he is aware of the danger or has reasonable grounds to believe that it exists : |
| 13 | Redwood Shores , California-based Oracle Corp has joined the Greek chorus to say that it plans to convert its complete family of products to run on Alpha architecture under both OpenVMS and DEC OSF/1 ; the conversion effort on the VMS products is under way and should be out by the time DEC starts ships . |
| 14 | The Bank repeated its intervention just as the New York markets opened during the European lunchtime to signal that it did not want the American markets , closed since Friday night , to push the pound down further . |
| 15 | Publishers want safeguards at a practical level to ensure that it does not open the floodgates to returns of all kinds . ’ |
| 16 | ‘ And now it 's a wonderful feeling to know that it has enabled me to look at the top guys knowing there are only a few ahead of me . |
| 17 | It is therefore not unusual for junior nurses to feel that it takes them some time to " settle in " on a surgical ward . |
| 18 | It can be argued that a car dealer has an implied obligation to make pre-delivery checks on a new car to ensure that it meets the manufacturer 's specification . |
| 19 | But try and be positive about it , and say , ‘ Yes , this , I have to say this is a bad situation , , it 's not a situation which has occurred before , we are taking very positive steps to ensure that it does n't happen again , we have prosecuted Mr X , we have done whatever is appropriate . ’ |
| 20 | There is at least a plausible argument to say that it does not . |
| 21 | Both management and unions tend to keep a tight grip on local activity to ensure that it keeps to national agreements and to avoid the embarrassment and disruption of uncontrolled local initiatives . |