Example sentences of "is to ensure that " in BNC.

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1 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 .
2 The court 's job is to ensure that the administrator has acted within the rule of law , and has not infringed civil rights and freedoms .
3 The new head of Soviet state television and radio , Leonid Kravchenko , says he was appointed to do the president 's bidding and thinks his job is to ensure that state television does not criticise the state .
4 If the present division is regarded as desirable , the next step is to ensure that the maximum penalty for the lesser offence is sufficient to deal with cases of serious threats which are not enough to negative consent in rape .
5 The answer is to ensure that the primulas growing conditions are good , with a rich soil , so they can build up their strength early in the season .
6 The next step is to ensure that , from March , no one should have to wait more than 18 months for a hip or knee replacement or a cataract operation .
7 Our aim is to ensure that individuals of all backgrounds and means can live free of the fear of sickness , poverty and crime .
8 Our aim is to ensure that anyone who is unemployed for more than six months has a choice of job experience or training .
9 In considering shopfronts , the first need is to ensure that existing ones of character are preserved and sympathetically treated .
10 Because of the potential seriousness of gonorrhoea or syphilis , if left untreated , nearly all the clinics in the United Kingdom have on their staff contact-tracers whose prime aim is to ensure that all efforts are made to persuade possible contacts of patients with either disease to attend for investigation .
11 The requirements , which are mandatory , were published the previous December by the NHBC , and include measures to treat any timber which has to be cut during construction ; however , their main aim is to ensure that the timber frame is kept dry in the moist British climate .
12 Its main function , however , is to ensure that the system rids itself of unwanted air .
13 Here your role is to ensure that any plan has been developed in enough detail to satisfy you as manager that it is workable .
14 The overriding objective of the Abbey National Board is to ensure that the Society can continue to meet the present and future requirements of its Members .
15 One of the basic long-term objectives of the plan is to ensure that any exploitative use of a marine mammal population is conducted in a humane manner .
16 So many different factors may be relevant that no generalized conclusions can be reached , and the best that librarians can do is to ensure that as far as possible conditions for use in their own libraries are adapted to meet what research has revealed as ideal conditions .
17 The Conservatives believe that the government 's role is to ensure that we continue to have a good foundation of basic and strategic science on which industry can draw , to encourage a good supply of up-to-date and creative scientists , and to encourage the right climate for successful innovation .
18 Its primary objective is to ensure that bureaux and other independent advice agencies are able to give effective and easily accessible advice to their clients by providing a background of up-to-date , accurate and easily accessible information on all matters relating to rights , responsibilities , benefits and services .
19 The role of the physician with an interest in diabetes is to ensure that they have the necessary treatment policies and training and that he is readily available for advice on the more difficult cases .
20 The aim therefore , according to the government document ‘ Firecode : Policy & Principles ’ ( DHSS , 1987 ) is to ensure that outbreaks do not occur ; and if they do , that they are rapidly detected , effectively contained and quickly extinguished .
21 Whatever style of planning management is used , the overriding need for understanding the business is to ensure that no important issues are neglected .
22 The government 's overall aim is to ensure that planning control ensures the provision of much needed industrial materials at the least possible environmental cost .
23 The second is to ensure that as many products as possible can be re-used or easily repaired instead of being thrown away after just ‘ one trip ’ .
24 One of the main reasons for the government introducing the system is to ensure that more residents pay for local services .
25 The point for teachers now is to ensure that this debate is held within their schools , within their governing bodies .
26 The initial and overriding goal , in terms of RMI , is to ensure that the service providers ( doctors , nurses , other professional groups ) are fully integrated into the management process .
27 One way of doing this is to ensure that specialists implementing technical changes , eg the Resource Management Initiative , pay heed to the behavioural changes they expect to promote in managers and staff involved .
28 The ‘ Beveridgites ’ may be most comfortable in Health Authorities whose job is to ensure that services are available for their populations .
29 The major concern is to ensure that they have a realistic chance of completing a course : this is clearly of special importance both to them and to the University .
30 Traditional building materials such as mud will have a role to play only when the national objective is to ensure that everyone has better housing now .
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