Example sentences of "[conj] ensure that " in BNC.
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| 1 | For a harmonious effect , aim to reflect the overall tonality of the room , or ensure that a single colour from the woodwork or furnishings is echoed in the rug . |
| 2 | In some courts a payment was needed to see the magistrate , or to ensure that one 's case was heard promptly . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | I believe that the Second World War was a war that had to be won not in order to save Western modernity , or to ensure that individualist man would conquer collectivist man , but simply because Hitler posed the greatest threat to the moral order of the world that history had ever seen . |
| 5 | Thatcher 's legacy has forced the poverty lobby onto the defensive as it fights to simply to maintain child benefit , to restore benefits to 16- and 17-year olds , or to ensure that 18- to 24-year-olds receive the same rate of income support as over 25-year-olds . |
| 6 | Since these extremists had been principally responsible for the detailed organisation of the march it is not surprising that there were no serious plans to control it , or to ensure that it went off peacefully . |
| 7 | With some plain fabrics , all drops will need to be cut in the same direction in order to match a pronounced woven design , or to ensure that fabrics with a high sheen catch the light evenly . |
| 8 | Additionally , he noted that ‘ many people feel that the system has not done enough to protect what is good in an environment or to ensure that new development is of a sufficiently high quality ’ . |
| 9 | As a result of quality assurance , we have procedures in place on subjects such as management of technical information or ensuring that we understand clients ’ brief first time . |
| 10 | ‘ I deal mainly with consumer credit law which can involve , for example solving a problem on an agreement , or ensuring that advertising material produced by Lombard and its subsidiaries complies with the appropriate regulations . ’ |
| 11 | In the first place they may want to do no more than ensure that the Constitution is not altered casually or carelessly or by subterfuge or implication ; they may want to secure that this important document is not lightly tampered with , but solemnly , with due notice and deliberation , consciously amended . |
| 12 | Most have a core of solid businesses that ensure that at least parts of the firm are making serious money . |
| 13 | The teams work to guidelines that ensure that their creations can work with those of their colleagues . |
| 14 | There are recognized ways of doing things that ensure that the job gets done at a time when we are probably incapable of thinking things through carefully . |
| 15 | In its full-page and horrendously expensive advertisements in the national press , and now ( the latest manifestation ) in a booklet with a cover that at only a few metres distance looks like gold-tooled morocco , it comes perilously close to transgressing those rules of the Advertising Standards Authority that ensure that all ads are honest , fair , accurate , unimpeachable and altogether above reproach . |
| 16 | Thus an opportunity had to be missed by the Library Association to assert its outright rejection of library censorship , using one of the few pieces of legislation that ensure that libraries exist and in a manner free from censorship . |
| 17 | Throughout the series , use is made of tables , diagrams , and charts which are used to sensitize students to the way in which written texts are structured and also to support the numerous information transfer activities that ensure that meaning is never lost . |
| 18 | The subtleties of shape that ensure that both halves of the tongs fit together and work , may only be apparent to the smith . |
| 19 | It is this interactional organization which motivates us to make choices that ensure that a clear progression of links is achieved and that a coherent point of view is maintained throughout a text . |
| 20 | c ) Information Technology There are now available in the UK computer programs ( for instance based on ACORN ) that ensure that , when sampling locations are chosen , the sample generated has the requisite variety in economic and social circumstances . |
| 21 | Because of the shortage of such funds , it is essential to arrive at methods for their use that ensure that as far as possible : |
| 22 | Large stacking exothermicities are associated with large negative entropy changes that ensure that ΔG is small , permitting readily reversible associations in solution . |
| 23 | The Welsh Development Agency says that to ensure that the Wrexham project got under way as quickly as possible ‘ it cooperated fully ’ . |
| 24 | If you want a career that ensures that you will not be bored , will be stretched to your full capacity every day and allows you to be yourself , as well as earn a good salary at a general manager level — £30,000 a year — you could do a lot worse than the hotel and catering industry . |
| 25 | This might appear contrary to the idea of keeping systems thinking and real-world aspects separate , but it can provide a compromise that ensures that progress can be made ; however , such compromises should be recognised as such and not made as a matter of course . |
| 26 | However , Dr Robert Runcie , the then Archbishop of Canterbury , claimed in the House of Lords ( 2 February , 1987 ) that ‘ there is no automatic trickling down process that ensures that increased wealth will benefit the poor . ’ |
| 27 | By being reared alone , it gets all the food its foster parents can bring and it has a useful adaptation that ensures that the food keeps on coming — a huge , startlingly red gape . |
| 28 | Near vision tasks need to be presented in a way that ensures that materials can be easily accessible to handle . |
| 29 | Yet it is the state that ensures that only solicitors may be paid for transferring interests in land or that only doctors may issue death certificates . |
| 30 | With the ardour of his age Dick agrees to carry a vital message across the frontier into Flavonia : delighting in unexpected action , he is afraid only of being late and failing in his mission and it is the free resourcefulness of a boy that ensures that in spite of accidents the message does get through . |