Example sentences of "[prep] ensuring [conj] the [noun sg] [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After ensuring that the fire was safe and that Guy was still deeply asleep , she crossed to the door and slipped quietly outside . |
| 2 | Whilst the self-appraisal might be viewed as the school 's attempt to defend its policies and practices , rather than to appraise itself , and to make a special case for extra resources and improved staffing , the inspection could be seen as a process of ensuring that the school was performing to an acceptable standard and that no serious problems existed in terms of teacher performance and in terms of resources needed to carry out the curriculum . |
| 3 | Although the promoters are faced with an environmental impact statement compulsion , at the moment there is no way of ensuring that the work is carried out objectively . |
| 4 | The technical problem is that of ensuring that the stimulation is of a duration and intensity to be physiologically realistic . |
| 5 | With the job goes the enormous responsibility of ensuring that the equipment is always on top form . |
| 6 | These guys therefore must have a facility of ensuring that the price is correct , from an internal control point of view I want them to be involved in certifying that the price is correct . |
| 7 | ‘ Some current proposals seem designed primarily as job-creation schemes for lawyers who would oust editors from their proper task of ensuring that the Code is observed . ’ |
| 8 | Since the size of the residual depends on the efficiency of the firm , the monitor has an interest in ensuring that the firm is run as efficiently as possible . |
| 9 | Yet one may also assume that royal interest was more constantly engaged in collecting fines for damage to the king 's highway than in ensuring that the damage was repaired . |
| 10 | Other candidates presented themselves : Brassard must know Miller 's End and he might have come to hate being bullied by Newley ; Yorick blamed Newley for his own failings , and was hysterical enough to kill on impulse ; Henry , having predicted Newley 's death , had a vested interest in ensuring that the prediction was fulfilled ; Zaza might have been seduced by Newley and then spurned |
| 11 | We are intent on ensuring that the customer is the focus of everything that we do . ’ |
| 12 | The Government 's new funding policy — which was supported by the Labour party during the passage of the Criminal Justice Act 1991 , so the hon. Gentleman can not complain about that — is aimed at ensuring that the workload is taken into account in allocating resources while encouraging the management of magistrates courts to improve the efficiency of local justice so that it is better carried out . |
| 13 | Clause 5 reminds the haulage firm that apart from Overdrive 's obligations contained in Clause 3 , the haulier must take full responsibility for ensuring that the driver is made aware of such vital matters as drivers ' hours and records , maintenance and safety of vehicles . |
| 14 | In the Judaeo-Christian view , while the state has the responsibility for ensuring that the family is an on-going economic concern , the family has the responsibility to look after itself and the welfare of its members . |
| 15 | This grew naturally from the edge and surface description modellers by the addition of procedures for ensuring that the object is fully defined by surfaces , and by giving these surfaces an " inner " and " outer " side . |
| 16 | A product manager is responsible for product profitability ; a project leader is responsible for ensuring that the task is completed ; |
| 17 | You all deserve congratulations for ensuring that the visit was such a success , and I am sure that it will be a great boost to all concerned with the project on its first birthday . |
| 18 | She had spoken to Cissie about ensuring that the door was locked in future when she was taking a bath . |
| 19 | This is that , by ensuring that the company is not required to prepare group accounts , you deny yourself the exemption from publishing a parent company p&l account in s230 ( see Accounting Solutions , ACCOUNTANCY , April , p 77 ) . |
| 20 | This pitfall can be avoided by ensuring that the subject is covered in an educational programme and by providing long-term follow-up with a system that seeks out those who do not attend the clinic . |
| 21 | Procedural rights are also seem as protecting human dignity by ensuring that the individual is told why he is being treated unfavourably , and by enabling him to take part in that decision . |
| 22 | In those independent schools where corporal punishment may still be inflicted , the teacher is able to avoid committing the torts of assault or battery when striking a pupil by ensuring that the punishment is moderate and not unreasonable . |