Example sentences of "[n mass] of ensuring " in BNC.
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| 1 | Marketing Boards have been an instrument favoured by most African governments as a means of ensuring that farmers have an outlet for their crops , and that urban consumers pay for basic foodstuffs at a controlled , often subsidized , price . |
| 2 | ‘ But I think it highly unlikely that Mr Clowes could have found any means of ensuring that investigation of the matters in question was averted , while at the same time satisfying the Department that his operations could properly be licensed . |
| 3 | The significance of this epic was not as a record of the past , but rather as a means of ensuring the theologico-political supremacy of Marduk in the present . |
| 4 | The national curriculum should do nothing but good if it is a means of ensuring that schools do not , for example , permit children to give up all science subjects at the age of thirteen , or fail to reach a reasonable competence in read g and calculating by the time they leave school . |
| 5 | But schools , which will have to pay for their training needs from delegated budgets , will have to prioritise those needs and devise means of ensuring that they are properly met . |
| 6 | It is not unusual to find the mobile forms of worm , such as polychaetes , swarming in large aggregations to breed , which is a good means of ensuring a high proportion of fertilized eggs . |
| 7 | Its power is formidable and it has a direct effect on the fertility of crops and mankind — witness statues of jaguars coupling with women as a means of ensuring the tribe 's continuity . |
| 8 | That in view of the many matters of vital interest to the Cooperative Movement , such as the excess profits duty , the threatened income tax on dividends , the state control of wheat , sugar , coal , etc. , which must come before Parliament in the immediate future , this Congress hereby instructs the Central Board to consider ways and means of ensuring the adequate representation of cooperative knowledge and opinion in Parliament . |
| 9 | Although credit law included for example criminal sanctions against dishonest moneylenders , there was no general means of ensuring that such sanctions were imposed when needed . |
| 10 | There , despite the identical name of ‘ collective agreements ’ , it is regarded not as an adversary process but rather as a means of ensuring the full cooperation of management and workers in carrying out the economic and social plans and improving the management of undertakings ( ILO , 1980 ) . |
| 11 | Comment : Although there is a commitment to a broad and balanced curriculum , there are no means of ensuring its implementation to prevent premature dropping of important curriculum elements . |
| 12 | As well as a means of ensuring that interoperability and compatibility between different vendors ' Tuxedo-based products , USL wants the club to clearly identify these products by stamping them with the Tuxedo brand . |
| 13 | Libft is a library of C language functions that can be used in the application programs to specify and to checkpoint critical data , recover the checkpointed data , log events , do exception handling , and do N-version programming — presumably a means of ensuring that something vital written into the first version of a program survives unadulterated in subsequent versions . |
| 14 | The Pluralist concern with management is , for the Structuralist , simply another means of ensuring the continued dominance of the rich . |
| 15 | These arrangements do not always fit within the formal treaty rules , but can provide a practical means of ensuring that the rigidities of the pacta tertiis rule do not impede its performance . |
| 16 | Enormous emphasis comes to be placed on developing major new technologies and products — as the means of ensuring a company 's future , of developing new markets , and of achieving high profit levels . |
| 17 | As we shall see in 6.3 , the interrupt facility can be expanded to switch instruction sequences on the occurrence of many different events ; further we will see the need for a means of ensuring that at critical times the computer is able to ignore all but a subset of these events . |
| 18 | Successful companies use integrated design management as a means of ensuring that all products , communications and services of the organization are serving the overall business . |
| 19 | This feature of child development has echoes also in social development , where there is an analogy with the role of objects in social reproduction before the acquisition of writing skills ; at this stage objects as authentic objectifications of the ancestors were , along with oral tradition , the major means of ensuring the continuity of social reproduction ( Weiner 1985 ) . |
| 20 | The prison served as a means of ensuring a supply of labour . |
| 21 | Community education can be seen as a means of ensuring the widening of such opportunities through a more effective delivery and coordination of education resources . |
| 22 | There is no means of ensuring that discrimination against spirits does not widen . |
| 23 | Buildings of similar construction exist elsewhere , for example some of the buildings of the Library of Congress , and investigations there have shown that the most effective means of ensuring the survival of the building and its collections would be the installation of a water sprinkler system throughout the building . |
| 24 | She knew all too well by what circumstances a woman could be forced into using her body as a means of ensuring survival for herself or her family . |
| 25 | But sterilisation is the ultimate means of ensuring effective population control . |
| 26 | We recommend that a survey of visitors to RBGE offices should be undertaken , in order to determine the reasons for visits , and the volume of such use — we have no current figures for this , no means of ensuring accuracy , and no methodology for making even crude estimates . |
| 27 | In its final resolution the congress endorsed the main tenets of this report , which stressed the continued importance of liberal principles in the wake of the evident failure of state intervention and centralized bureaucracies as means of ensuring prosperous societies . |
| 28 | Eventually , on Oct. 12 , the Security Council unanimously adopted Resolution 672 , which essentially followed the US draft , condemned the shootings and welcomed Pérez de Cuellar 's decision to send a mission to the area to " recommend ways and means of ensuring the safety and protection of the Palestinian civilians under Israeli occupation " . |
| 29 | Israel , on the other hand , " must really enjoy safe and recognized borders and the means of ensuring its security " . |
| 30 | ‘ We firmly and explicitly reject the idea that a Ph D student should be primarily a research assistant involved in an ongoing research project … the preparation of a Ph D thesis … provides a means of ensuring that research undertaken is preserved and can be made available to others . ’ |