Example sentences of "to ensure [conj] [noun] would " in BNC.

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1 The only possible answers are that they wanted to ensure that Lothar would not evade the battle , and that the battle would be decisive .
2 The Presidents of Argentina , Brazil , Paraguay and Uruguay , the members of the intended South American common market or Mercosur , met on June 26-27 in Las Lenas , Argentina , to fix a timetable to ensure that Mercosur would begin operations on Dec. 31 , 1994 .
3 Firstly , it was difficult to ensure that teachers would act as anticipated by those who had set the project objectives — changes were not internalized by teachers and made routine in their classrooms ( Richards , 1983 ; Slater , 1985 ) .
4 Telford gave it hollow spandrels to lighten the load on the foundations , which also gives a deceptive appearance of lightness to the structure ; and the roadway does not rise to the crown of the arch , which was usually done to ensure that rainwater would not lie on the road surface .
5 The aim of this was to ensure that America would become a permanent arms economy in which the state would underwrite American corporations through their guarantee of demand for the high technology goods which these corporations had invested in during the war .
6 To ensure that information would sift through from all corners of the Company , a local spokesperson was elected from each department .
7 It had been only a few hours , but that was enough to ensure that birthdays would always fall on public holidays and the correct number of hours could therefore be spent languishing .
8 In the nineteenth century limits were imposed on local borrowing to ensure that councils would not default over their debt liabilities , for any such default would have undermined financial confidence in public authorities and had a serious effect on rates of interest .
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