Example sentences of "was [vb pp] to ensure [conj] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This method of assignment was intended to ensure that the groups contained schools from each of the participating authorities and were not widely different in terms of the social background of pupils , school size , and environment . |
| 2 | It was intended to ensure that the supreme bodies of state worked more efficiently , and to guarantee that no conflicts arose among them . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Another Visby amendment was designed to ensure that the one-year time bar to claims for damages applies also to claims for misdelivery of the goods . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 ) . |
| 7 | For the preliminary investigation no attempt was made to ensure that the correct code was assigned . |
| 8 | Every attempt was made to ensure that the trial was double blind . |
| 9 | Primers derived from human β actin were used as internal PCR controls resulted in a 623 bp product ( data not shown ) and was used to ensure that the PCR worked consistently each time and the actin product acted as an additional size marker . |
| 10 | Last year , an order was needed to ensure that the recommendations of the Interim Advisory Committee on School Teachers ' |
| 11 | No trouble was spared to ensure that the carefully prepared seed-bed was ready to take the crop . |
| 12 | Certain security was provided to ensure that the payments would be made . |
| 13 | Care was taken to ensure that the River Garonne remained open to shipping all the way from Bordeaux to Toulouse ; swamps were drained and the forests lining the river banks were cleared . |
| 14 | The selection of the lead cases was aimed to ensure that the great majority of the very important points of law which are at issue in all cases are authoritatively decided , and it is hoped that , as a result , clear guidance will be given to the large number of remaining cases which are stayed , leading to settlements ( or at least the elimination of some issues common to the lead cases ) and the avoidance of a multiplicity of litigation . |