Example sentences of "to ensure [conj] [pron] child " in BNC.
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| 1 | The findings of a major study in Sheffield between 1976 and 1978 lent ‘ no support to the view that formal action encourages parents to ensure that their children attend more regularly in the future ’ . |
| 2 | Parents strive to ensure that their children are placed in the best possible schools , follow with avid interest their educational attainments , often placing the children under great pressure if they are relatively unsuccessful . |
| 3 | Even more important is the need for women of fertile age with phenylketonuria to be appropriately counselled and supported in order to ensure that their children are conceived under the best possible phenylalanine control . |
| 4 | It was too late to save the mother , but by flaunting my privileges under her nose , taunting her with the contrast between my power and her weakness , my wealth and her poverty , I was helping to ensure that her children 's chances in life would never be blighted by the well-wishing do-goodism which had crippled me . |
| 5 | In the past , respect and awe for their mother have been enough to ensure that her children toed the line , and for her part the Queen always held out hope that their difficulties would be resolved . |
| 6 | I have worked long and hard to ensure that my children want for nothing . " |
| 7 | In law , a parent is required by section 36 of the Education Act 1944 to ensure that his/her child of compulsory school age ( 5–16 years ) receives ‘ efficient full-time education , suitable to his age , ability and aptitude , either by regular attendance at school or otherwise ’ . |