Example sentences of "ensure [conj] it [be] not " in BNC.
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| 1 | This can be a patch of grass or bare earth , a stone , a car mat , etc. , but do ensure that it is not large enough to cause problems if the model should touch it . |
| 2 | Will he ensure that it is not unfairly excluded as a result of the foreign dumping of inferior chain ? |
| 3 | The purchaser should ensure that it is not restricted from issuing notices of assignment by any of the announcement or confidentiality restrictions in the sale and purchase agreement . |
| 4 | Although a DC is the sole permission required for updating software stored in LIFESPAN , LIFESPAN ensures that it is not granted without all the interested parties having agreed to it . |
| 5 | Though about 95% of orders are placed without human intervention , people can , of course , monitor and override any of the system 's decisions — eg , to ensure that it is not ordering $2m missiles because of a statistical fluke . |
| 6 | It is such an amateurish effort that it is little wonder the Government has tried to ensure that it is not widely available . |
| 7 | This is very important if a UK business is to ensure that it is not charged VAT at the standard rate on the supply of these goods where the customer 's VAT number subsequently proves to be false or otherwise incorrect . |
| 8 | According to the Wall Street Journal , IBM officials have not yet studied the resolution , and declined to comment on it , although they are expected to fight to ensure that it is not put before shareholders at the annual meeting . |
| 9 | This saves the sometimes awkward task of fitting an offset in the bath waste ( which may involve running the pipe below the floorboards ) to ensure that it is not connected within 200mm of the WC soil pipe . |
| 10 | ‘ It must also be thoroughly researched locally to ensure that it is not being called after an undesirable part of town . |
| 11 | And that 's why this is very interesting for you because you now know what your preference is and what you need to think about is that I may be a very high reflector , but I can see there 's , there 's Lou in particular was a very strong activist and when I put them together training , I need to ensure that it 's not the way I like to learn , it is a balanced approach others can also gain , I need to ensure that others gain from this . |
| 12 | As the Labour dissidents in the Cabinet recognized , they did not have the power — they were a minority in the Cabinet as well as in the Commons — to avoid such a cut ; all that they could do was to ensure that it was not a Labour government which imposed it . |
| 13 | Parliament had voted 19 to five on Oct. 21 in favour of ratification , but had resisted the demand of the pro-EEA monarch , Prince Hans-Adam II , that the necessary referendum be held before that in Switzerland to ensure that it was not influenced by the Swiss result . |
| 14 | The power of trade unions ensured that it was not the workers ' wages that suffered but the employers ' profits . |
| 15 | The outbreak of war with the Ottoman Empire in October 1768 led to the suspension of its work ; and the explosion of the great peasant and Cossack revolt led by Pugachev in June 1773 ensured that it was not reconvened . |