Example sentences of "[verb] to ensure that [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In BCCI v Aboody [ 1990 ] 1 QB 923 ( following in the path of some earlier but recent decisions ) it had been suggested that any surety would have to look after his ( or her ) own interests ; the creditor should not need to ensure that the surety properly understood the transaction . |
| 2 | He said it was obscene that PowerGen could cause anguish and anxiety in the families of 6,000 staff working for Trainload Freight and added : ‘ There will be a public outrage if the Government does not act to ensure that the traffic stays with the railways . ’ |
| 3 | Signalling by diffusion can work well for small organisms , but it is limited ; diffusion of chemical signals over long distances is slow and inefficient , as it can not be specifically targeted to ensure that the signal arrives only at the cell it was intended for . |
| 4 | We want to ensure that the drive to save money , to reduce bureaucracy and raise quality is powerfully led from the centre of government . |
| 5 | I want to ensure that the system works properly and effectively , but I assure Opposition Members that , if they persuade and encourage welfare rights organisations to make speculative claims , they are not helping those who are in real need . |
| 6 | That work will be completed as soon as possible , not least because , as it is a private-sector , commercially orientated project , its proponents want to ensure that the momentum is sustained — and we will assist them in that . |
| 7 | Let's face it , we 're quite selfish in the fact that we want to ensure that the area that we live in is safe for us and not too concerned that three or four estates down the road unless it starts to affect us . |
| 8 | A scavenging agent , ethylene di-bromide or EDB , is also added to ensure that the lead compounds in the exhaust gases remain in vapour form , otherwise metallic lead would be deposited inside the engine . |
| 9 | This is designed to ensure that the policing of the demonstration can be properly planned . |
| 10 | They related to the constitutional arrangements which existed between 1974 and the end of 1986 whereby the General Council of the Bar had become part of the new Senate of the Inns of Court of the Bar and had ceased to exist as a separate entity , although the constitution of the Senate contained provisions designed to ensure that the Bar Council would remain an autonomous body for the purpose of its separate powers and functions . |
| 11 | ‘ Community law as it now stands … does not preclude a member state , in authorising one of its vessels to fish against national quotas , from laying down conditions designed to ensure that the vessel has a real economic link with that state if that link concerns only the relations between that vessel 's fishing operations and the populations dependent on fisheries and related industries ; … |
| 12 | In the judgment in Ex parte Jaderow Ltd. the court ruled , inter alia , that a member state might lay down conditions designed to ensure that the vessel had a real economic link with that state if that link concerned only the relations between that vessel 's fishing operations and the populations dependent on fisheries and related industries . |
| 13 | The Act also includes a Scheme of Operations designed to ensure that the construction of the tunnel produces a minimum adverse environmental impact in Kent . |
| 14 | In a special case , however , it may be appropriate to deal expressly with improvements made by subtenants. ( g ) Other obligations Since the landlord 's income will usually depend on rents generated by actual lettings of the property , the landlord will require the tenant to enter into a series of obligations designed to ensure that the scheme is kept fully let at rack rents . |
| 15 | Our research was designed to ensure that the field-worker was also around a great deal and was stubborn in exploiting the naturally occurring situations of privacy , where natural conversation is inevitable because it is interactionally difficult to abstain from it , such as in the back of vehicles , in the sanger while on guard duty , relaxing in many of the recreational rooms , or off duty . |
| 16 | The Port of Belfast now handles more than 55% of Northern Ireland 's seaborne trade and the Harbour Commissioners feel that this success is due in no small part to the investment programme which saw £25 million invested over the last five years in a modernisation programme designed to ensure that the Port of Belfast can offer its customers the most up to date , cost effective cargo handling facilities . |
| 17 | Because travelling at walking pace is so rare an experience for car drivers , the Woonerf must be well designed to ensure that the need for low speeds is made very clear . |
| 18 | The scope of our work was designed to ensure that the information on deliveries was obtained in accordance with the stated methodology and sampling programme set out on page … and that the results were correctly calculated and presented . |
| 19 | It was difficult to believe that these birds had been harvested for food on Mykines for generations , or to argue against the Faroese claim that the strict regulations which apply to the fowling are designed to ensure that the population numbers are not adversely affected . |
| 20 | The press is uniquely designed to ensure that the pressure exerted is swift — to reduce the skin-contact time — and yet gentle enough to avoid the escape of unfavourable tannins and oils residing naturally in the pips and stalks . |
| 21 | All these obligations are designed to ensure that the tenant keeps up the real value of the scheme and that the landlord 's income remains as high as possible . |
| 22 | Pollitt argues that the model of medical audit promulgated by the leaders of the profession was designed to ensure that the process was " a nonthreatening activity carried out only by doctors and rigorously protected from the public gaze " ( Pollitt 1992 : 4 ) . |
| 23 | The schedules are designed to ensure that the task of assessment and subsequent planning is shared between all those involved in the care of a child , and that omissions are rectified as they become evident . |
| 24 | ‘ Pilot Courses ’ comprise units developed for phase 1 and 2 pilot courses and reviewed to ensure that the format of the new operational system is fully adopted . |
| 25 | Last Friday 's shambles , when Joyce Gould effectively re-wrote the leadership contest nomination rules to try to ensure that a leadership contest actually took place , was merely the nadir of a process that has seen the people 's party acting according to the slogan of ‘ all power to the apparatchiks ’ , and losing its soul , its sense of purpose , much of its membership — and the general election — along the way . |
| 26 | In the last chapter I described some of the iterative processes we carry out to try to ensure that the objective is clear , understood , and has been achieved with a large amount of involvement throughout the whole organization . |
| 27 | Time is short , but we must mobilise the full strength of our membership to try to ensure that the Bill is brought forward quickly . |
| 28 | Ultimately the law has responded to this problem by intervening to try to ensure that the market resembles as closely as possible the paradigm of perfect competition , outlawing monopoly and trade practices that deviate from that paradigm . |
| 29 | Would it not be right for the Secretary of State to come to the House to say what steps are being taken to try to ensure that the sort of dishonesty and crookery that went on at MGN is not being repeated elsewhere ? |
| 30 | One of the things that we shall be seeking to do in the negotiations on the political union treaty is to try to ensure that the Commission — at present under no effective control — increasingly comes under the control of the most appropriate Parliament , in this case the European Parliament . |