Example sentences of "[noun] ensure [that] it [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Calfa stressed that his government remained committed to the development of nuclear power , but would in future ensure that it conformed to the highest Western standards . |
| 2 | It can be argued that a car dealer has an implied obligation to make pre-delivery checks on a new car to ensure that it meets the manufacturer 's specification . |
| 3 | This may be an entirely uncontentious outline of the process of delivering care to individuals , although it conceals the profound organisational and operational difficulties of devising appropriate mechanisms and relationships to ensure that it happens . |
| 4 | A firm must take reasonable steps to ensure that it does not make any personal recommendation to a private customer of an investment or investment agreement , or effect or arrange a discretionary transaction with or for an customer , unless the recommendation or transaction is suitable for him , having regard to the facts disclosed by that customer and other relevant facts about the customer of which the firm is or reasonably should be aware . |
| 5 | A firm must take all reasonable steps to ensure that it does not give investment advice to , nor effect , a discretionary transaction with or for , a private customer , unless that advice or transaction is suitable for him having regard to the facts disclosed by that customer or other relevant facts about the customer of which the firm is or ought reasonably to be aware . |
| 6 | But try and be positive about it , and say , ‘ Yes , this , I have to say this is a bad situation , , it 's not a situation which has occurred before , we are taking very positive steps to ensure that it does n't happen again , we have prosecuted Mr X , we have done whatever is appropriate . ’ |
| 7 | The sociologist who gathers a life-history takes steps to ensure that it covers everything we want to know , that no important fact or event is slighted , that what purports to be factual squares with other available evidence and that the subject 's interpretations are honestly given . ’ |
| 8 | Subsequently , at a speech to UNICE on 22 July , Gillian Shephard , the British employment secretary and current chair of the EC Council of Social Affairs Ministers , stated that the Government will be reviewing European Community legislation on social and employment matters to ensure that it conforms with the principle of ‘ subsidiarity ’ . |
| 9 | That summit will set the future course for NATO to ensure that it remains as it has been — a bedrock of stability in a still uncertain world . |
| 10 | Dr Peter Simpson , formerly regional medical officer in Mersey region , and Ainna Fawcett Henesy , director of nursing in South East Thames region , have joined the group to ensure that it has open channels of communication with the professions . |
| 11 | There was no doubting the eagerness of many colleges to respond to the challenge and the opportunity , and the Board — containing a number of lively young university people and interested employers — was torn between its anxiety to go ahead quickly and the need to ensure that it established what it called at its first meeting ‘ lasting standards ’ . |
| 12 | The contents were debated , amended and finalised in a meeting of the home owners and managers to ensure that it met the needs of both participants and employers . |
| 13 | The accounts department is responsible for ensuring that top management is aware of the financial state of the company and for advising it on appropriate actions to ensure that it remains sound . |
| 14 | The accounts department is responsible for ensuring that top management is aware of the financial state of the company and for advising it on appropriate actions to ensure that it remains sound . |
| 15 | Full-time training at agricultural colleges , universities , or other specialized establishments can provide a much deeper knowledge of the theory of farming , but you should look very carefully at the syllabus to ensure that it covers subjects germane to practical smallholding before enrolling on a course . |
| 16 | We will pursue it vigorously , and we will campaign to get changed the basic rules which ensure that a country which is rich in coal resources ensures that it makes the most of the use of these coal resources , and changes the rules automatically excluding coal from being used from sensible base burning for electricity laws . |
| 17 | A dark colour on the exposed surface ensures that it blends right away with urban roofscape environments , making it ideal for the maintenance and renovation market . |
| 18 | The strength and quality of Guinness ensured that it survived the rigours of long sea voyages , whereas other beers went under . |
| 19 | We have had considerable difficulty in the current year , in meeting the demand upon children 's services , and we have met those difficulties , in no small part , from the use of carry forwards within the year , and before you come to looking at reductions in services on the salmon papers , the children 's service is going to , and in fact is doing a redirection of its funding to ensure that it stays within its base budget in future years . |
| 20 | Because DVI is a programmable technique it will be possible to revise its algorithms with little difficulty to ensure that it conforms with MPEG requirements when they are known . |
| 21 | Publishers want safeguards at a practical level to ensure that it does not open the floodgates to returns of all kinds . ’ |
| 22 | As a medium , therefore , TV is subject to a variety of pressures — commercial , political and technological — that have the potential to generate considerable changes ; and because TV is such a powerful medium , these pressures ensure that it changes almost as much as other media that are less constrained by technological straitjackets . |
| 23 | Cramp the workpiece to the upper board and by means of a wood block ensure that it lines up with the edge of the top board . |
| 24 | With regard to what he said about Stratford school , if he had taken rather more interest in the school when it was in the control of Newham and insisted on the school keeping up to reasonable standards and if he now put pressure on Newham LEA to ensure that it raised standards in schools , he would be doing more for his constituents than he is by his performance today . |
| 25 | Whatever the structure , it will be increasingly important for the institution to take a strategic view of its information requirements and the supporting technological structure , as well as for the library to ensure that it plays a leading role in any new arrangement . |
| 26 | Likewise any project or assignment needs a system of control to ensure that it proceeds in the manner designed . |
| 27 | The meeting supports the Young Barristers Committee 's view that all chambers should resolve not to permit such exploitation , and put in place a mechanism to ensure that it does not take place , with the support and involvement of heads of chambers , senior members and Clerks . ’ |
| 28 | Why are you going to so much trouble to ensure that it succeeds ? ’ |
| 29 | Professor Dudek had envisaged the series coming out in paper covers ( the format that was just becoming the way to the mass market ) ; Leonard ensured that it went into hard ; Dudek had not meant the books to be prestigious in format but vehicles of introduction ; Leonard saw to it that his book could stand alongside the best that there were from both sides of the Atlantic . |
| 30 | Cotton lavender needs a dry sunny situation in light soil to ensure that it ripens fully and is thus better able to withstand cold . |