Example sentences of "to ensure [conj] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is essential that bulbs spend a period of time in cool , dark conditions before flowering ( this is known as plunging ) to ensure that a good root system is produced , otherwise stunted growth and deformed flowers can result . |
| 2 | There is still a great deal for CAMRA to do to ensure that a wide-ranging and diversified brewing industry survives into the 20th century . |
| 3 | One of the tasks for the Solidarity government is to ensure that a revival in the Polish spirit does not preclude an honest appreciation of the nation 's history . |
| 4 | So there is £1.43 per day to feed an adult , and to ensure that a sound nutritionally-based diet is available with its appropriate calories and vitamins , and £0.92 for associated heating , lighting and other administration charges . |
| 5 | Further financial guidelines are required to ensure that a throughout-the-year coverage of new publications is guaranteed , and that orders ( and therefore the receipt of books ) are evenly paced throughout the year . |
| 6 | Your overall objective should be to ensure that a deal that at first sight looks attractive is not , in the long run , undermined because you have to expend significant additional sums in order to maintain a reasonable life-style abroad and fulfil your duties adequately . |
| 7 | It can be argued that controls by Central Government are desirable to ensure that a uniform minimum standard of efficiency is obtained where the taxpayer at large is contributing through the national Exchequer to local services . |
| 8 | The LDDC negotiates with developers on a scheme-by-scheme basis to ensure that a proportion of dwellings is placed on the market at around £40,000 . |
| 9 | Frequent supervision whilst the student attains proficiency is therefore necessary to ensure that a good technique is developed . |
| 10 | The clinical teacher also has a responsibility to ensure that a high standard of nursing care is given to the patient . |
| 11 | The practical difficulty , of course , is to ensure that a partner agrees to a dormant status . |
| 12 | Umpires are even empowered to use their own initiative to ensure that a game reaches an equitable outcome . |
| 13 | The run section is faced with small-meshed wire netting or with Twillweld , and the facing side is 3 feet ( 1 metre ) tall to ensure that a big area of wire mesh is available . |
| 14 | The daring magnitude of this conception has since been obscured by its almost routine enactment in a series of African countries in the 1960s , but it should never be forgotten that India was the test case , and that at the time success in the execution of such a plan seemed far from assured : only a year before Mountbatten 's appointment the then viceroy , Lord Wavell , had been pressing on the Cabinet his ‘ Breakdown Plan ’ , which consisted simply of the phased evacuation of the British from India without any serious attempt to ensure that a viable , much less friendly , government was installed in their place . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | He offered Helen Martini , as Chairman of the Parents ' Action Committee , whatever help he could in the campaign to get the children home , and to ensure that a full judicial inquiry was held . |
| 17 | However , this relationship has not so far been sufficiently investigated to ensure that a given design will be stable in fast forward flight . |
| 18 | Family size is shrinking as mothers no longer need large numbers of children to work either down the mines or in the factories ( the machine would take anybody to work for it at first ) or to ensure that a few would survive ; high infant mortality rates are now becoming a thing of the past . |
| 19 | To ensure that a minimum UK standard is met , the National Boards should undertake the approval of programmes . |
| 20 | We do need to ensure that a broad range of views are truly represented even though we may not be able to force individual citizens ( consumers ? ) to acknowledge these . |
| 21 | In the anxiety to ensure that a legally enforceable ‘ balanced and broadly based curriculum ’ is delivered at the level of specificity indicated in the reports of the early working parties lies the danger that the mere acquisition of facts will prevent the growth of understanding . |
| 22 | WorldView 's brief is to ensure that a user can read a document irrespective of the software that created it . |
| 23 | This could lead to over-protectiveness and care had to be taken to ensure that a child was involved in all the group 's activities . |
| 24 | Like the governors on hospital boards before them , their chief concern was to ensure that a scandal was not about to hit the hospital . |
| 25 | You will also need a plumbline to ensure that a frame or end panel is vertical ; this is more accurate and easier to see than using a spirit level . |
| 26 | Some requesting States may only accept evidence taken in a particular way and the Convention tries to ensure that a request for a special procedure ( for example , for verbatim transcripts or , on the other hand , for a summary of the evidence in deposition form ; or for video-taped evidence ) will not be refused merely because it is inconvenient to the requested State . |
| 27 | The testing process is absolutely vital , not only to ensure that a significant problem exists which would be alleviated by a harmonizing measure but also to identify it accurately . |
| 28 | Organisations participating in Compact will be asked to ensure that a targeted number of jobs are held for " Compact " students . |
| 29 | The objective of media planning is to ensure that a reasonably large proportion of the target audience ( this is called ‘ coverage ’ ) sees the advertising a sufficient number of times ( this is called ‘ frequency ’ ) . |
| 30 | A disadvantage is that it is not always easy to ensure that a student gains ‘ core ’ knowledge of the subject . |