Example sentences of "[verb] sure that [pron] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 As a result they were often not employed and , even if they were , there was a widespread superstition that the Catholic church made sure that one in twenty ( or was it ten ? ) was faulty , as a sort of divine vengeance .
2 Warning : when working on the soil stack , make sure that no-one inside the house empties a basin or flushes the WC .
3 Wherever they are make sure that plenty of well-rotted manure is worked into the ground .
4 Make sure that everyone in your team knows what 's happening on the revenue front today , this week , this month .
5 So what what they 're actually saying is that here is a formal training that will make sure that everybody at the , who goes on this course , comes away with a measure of having achieved those skills because th the course itself is formed of two parts .
6 He closed the album carefully , making sure that none of the loosened pages could fall out and give him away .
7 He just makes sure that everyone in his team knows the job they have to do and the accountabilities they hold .
8 Our God is a communicator ; we see that in a supreme way in His gift of Jesus — but in this passage it is clear that God wanted to make sure that everyone in the land could understand the seriousness of the problem .
9 Merisel Inc has found that it 's easier to rush a catalogue out than to make sure that everything in it is correct , and in a series of schoolboy howlers in the current edition , the name of Conner Peripherals Inc is misspelled , many of its hard disks are described as floppies — and their access times of between 19ms to 1ms are rendered as 19Microsoft to 12Microsoft .
10 Team worker I really really want to make sure that the whole team as people work together well that everybody 's happy such is the comment , is everybody happy , he wants to make sure that everybody as individuals is getting on well there 's no stresses or pressures through individuals , individual relationships he tries to keep things smooth within the team .
11 And that is why we are now taking this direct route of saying , that policy and resources , as the policy making body of this council , should have some input to make sure that we in the planning committee are not the situation on a planning application when instead we deal with the moral issue of turning away people who need homes .
12 She paused and peered down the rocky road to make sure that none of the children who lived in the lower houses had followed her .
13 To make sure that none of the macho details went to waste , the full , inside story of Washington 's awesome display of military prowess was entrusted to Steven Emerson of US News & World Report , who had shown in the past that he knew how to treat a government ‘ scoop ’ with respect , and who could be relied upon to resist the kind of sceptical impulse that sometimes afflicts reporters with a wider readership .
14 The bald man looked around to make sure that none of the ‘ businessmen ’ were in earshot .
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