Example sentences of "ensuring [that] [pron] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Others had to put up with less ideal locations , and this led to demand for the feng shui practitioner , whose skill was in improving the landscape by correct siting , ensuring that nothing took place to disturb the flows of energy . |
| 2 | Individuals are thus faced with a cost in terms of the time and effort spent on ensuring that they keep in money form only the amount required to cover their day-to-day transactions . |
| 3 | Subjects gave written informed consent after ensuring that they had no metal implants or foreign bodies ( metal implants , excluding dental fillings , will degrade the potential images obtained using MRI ) . |
| 4 | Otherwise the Snotlings will keep pace with their nearest neighbours , ensuring that they remain within 12″ . |
| 5 | The ‘ rehabilitation ’ or ‘ long-term support ’ team , as well as caring for a group of people with long-term problems , should also be responsible for maintaining a register of all people who should be receiving help in order to assist with monitoring their progress , ensuring that they receive the right care and treatment and that they do not get lost to the service . |
| 6 | ( also known as education social worker ) Education welfare officers liaise with Social Services Departments and are responsible for the general well-being of school children , not only ensuring that they attend school regularly but also dealing with grants , allowances and services which they may need to be able to attend ( e.g. clothing , transport , free school meals ) . |
| 7 | In Uzzell 's opinion , ‘ companies now want their investment in computers and telecommunications to relate to business volumes ’ as a way of ensuring that they get value for money . |
| 8 | He 's got a flair ( not a formula ) for knowing what his customers want and ensuring that they get it . |
| 9 | I think there is a moral obligation on the E C , not necessarily the Americans because it is a European problem , to intervene at least to the extent of ensuring protection for ordinary civilians and ensuring that they get food and medical s provision . |
| 10 | Although built on customs and habits , institutions were nevertheless the repositories of ideas of the common good ; the challenge was to avoid institutional sclerosis by ensuring that they continued to meet contemporary needs . |
| 11 | The purpose of this policy is twofold , first as a means of achieving a more effective link between education and employment so that school leavers are old enough to take up productive work when they leave school , secondly as a means of offering a basic education to a greater number of the nation 's children and ensuring that they stay at school to complete it . |
| 12 | Services should also affirm their policies on equal opportunities by ensuring that they monitor the use of their services by specific ethnic groups , test that the information they make available for the public is comprehensible and accessible , canvass users ' views of the current services , recruit staff of different ethnic backgrounds , at all levels in the organization ( although , in the case of Afro-Caribbeans in particular , this can be difficult due to the lower educational opportunities of this group and , in consequence , a paucity of suitable candidates for posts ) , and institute a programme of training for staff of all grades and backgrounds to understand their own conscious and unconscious prejudices about race and culture . |
| 13 | Ever the professional , he silently directed his men with hand signals , ensuring that they took up the correct positions . |
| 14 | Local incentive schemes are the most likely way of getting general practitioners to change prescribing habits by ensuring that they see the benefits retained in local health care . |
| 15 | Shareholders will have to give approval to any defence measures taken before the takeover bid , ensuring that they decide on any defence measures only with full knowledge of the conditions of the bid . |
| 16 | ( 5 ) In breach of their fiduciary duties they put themselves in a position where there was a conflict between their duty to the plaintiff to inform him and their personal interest in ensuring that they obtained commission on both Vertigo and Caliban. ( 6 ) As a consequence ( a ) the plaintiff was entitled to damages for breach of contract and fiduciary duties ; ( b ) the defendants , being in breach of their fiduciary duties as agents , were not entitled to their commission . |
| 17 | ( b ) The admissibility of illegally obtained evidence As we discussed in Chapter 2 , one way of controlling the activities of the police and of ensuring that they do not act unlawfully is to prevent the admissibility of evidence which is obtained by illegal means . |
| 18 | Persuading librarians to contribute , then , may not be a problem , but ensuring that they do so regularly can be . |
| 19 | The new product offers slimmers an easy way of ensuring that they do not exceed their daily calorie target . |
| 20 | That is a matter for future debate , certainly not for today when there is quite enough to be done in preparing colleges for self-governing status and ensuring that they have the support and expertise required to enable them to make a success of that . |
| 21 | During the entire voyage the large portions of the aircraft will be cover with Polymax film to protect them from damaging sunlight and moisture , ensuring that they arrive at their new home in pristine condition . |
| 22 | It is ICI 's policy to manage all of its activities so as to give benefit to society , ensuring that they meet relevant laws and regulations ; that they are acceptable to the community at large ; and that their environmental impact is reduced to a practicable minimum . |
| 23 | Allied to , but different from , acknowledging the need securing commitment is a matter of ensuring that everyone connected with the operation is personally committed to maintaining standards . |
| 24 | Furthermore , these policies must aim at ensuring that everyone has the opportunity to enjoy these aspects of health . |
| 25 | As the effect is due to lack of information rather than any hard evidence of the situation , it can be removed by ensuring that everyone knows where the resources have been allocated and why . |
| 26 | If the risk of this happening leaves the prosecutor up a gum tree , it is apparent that the Crown Prosecution Service may have an interest in ensuring that something has been done prior to trial to remove the need for a dock identification , whether the police can see a use for one or not . |
| 27 | As a student PPL I am made fully aware of noise restrictions , especially at take-off , ensuring that we keep left of certain farm buildings etc . |
| 28 | Testing is a crucial part of ensuring that we know what quality of education our young people are achieving , so that if a satisfactory level is not reached , appropriate action can be taken . |
| 29 | Also and who not only helped on the day but also promoted the sale outside the NCT ensuring that we had plenty to sell . |
| 30 | It clearly substantiates this Government 's commitment to ensuring that we maintain a national health service that is the envy of the world and that we continue to improve upon it . |