Example sentences of "[noun] is [verb] [verb] that [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | An Enhanced Routing/Load Balancing is designed to ensure that system resources are used effectively by intelligently allocating resources and an Automatic Throughput Optimization feature is designed to improve system utilisation , ensure consistent response time and cut overall application development costs in a dynamic workload environment by adding , or subtracting copies of the application to meet current demands . |
| 2 | The linguistic transformation known as object deletion is used to ensure that instances of police aggression are rendered more palatable . |
| 3 | The programme is intended to ensure that people can make profit out of public service rather than to achieve the goals that we see as important for ourselves . |
| 4 | Now the county 's trading standards department is planning to ensure that traders have no excuse for breaking the law . |
| 5 | Once new laws have been passed , workplace action is needed to ensure that employers comply with the new legislation . |
| 6 | As a compromise , the Administration is expected to insist that vapour traps are installed directly onto petrol pumps . |
| 7 | A trial run along both lines is recommended to ensure that planning is correct . |
| 8 | But even the pragmatic McGilligan is forced to admit that Derry 's emergence as a major footballing force is the stuff of which dreams are made . |
| 9 | Bevin and the Foreign Office were on occasion more sensitive to this issue — but in Bevin 's case this produced the bizarre proposal to hang on in the Middle East from a base in inhospitable ( but British ) territory 2,000 miles from the Suez Canal , Even Bullock is forced to concede that Bevin was ‘ obsessed ’ with the Middle East , an obsession he never seems to have lost . |
| 10 | A spokesman told us : ’ The new procedure is designed to ensure that people who are genuinely ill do not face dismissal . ’ |
| 11 | Evidence is accumulating to show that gut epithelial cells interact closely with adjacent mononuclear cells . |
| 12 | He declared by this determination , Ulster is going to see that Protestantism is neither dead nor buried but is on the march . |
| 13 | At this time certain information is usually recorded to ensure the patient is fit for surgery and also to avoid potential complications , e.g. a specimen of urine is tested to ensure that diabetes mellitus does not go undiagnosed ; allergies are checked to ensure that drugs , anaesthetic agents , lotions or dressings can be avoided if a patient has an allergy to them . |
| 14 | There may need to be a large number of meetings and discussions between the consultant and the client even after the candidate is appointed to ensure that things are running smoothly . |
| 15 | However the European Commission and most E C governments refute this and contend that legislation is needed to ensure that workers are not kept in the dark about decisions taken elsewhere in the community that could affect their livelihoods . |
| 16 | Examination of the quality of management decisions is included to ensure that lessons are learnt for the future and to provide data needed for the revision of systems if this proves to be necessary . |
| 17 | Their dance is very different from the work of petipa , whose suggestion of demi-caractère is seen when the Songbird and Bluebird dance in The Sleeping Beauty , where the fluttering of the hands is meant to indicate that birds fly and sing . |
| 18 | Foster parents are paid a weekly allowance that covers the basic costs of maintaining a child , but care is taken to see that fostering does not become a materially profitable exercise . |
| 19 | Special care is taken to ensure that teachers understand and can interpret correctly for their students , the plants and wildlife they are likely to encounter along the way . |
| 20 | And if the allocation of statements of attainment to levels , and levels to ages , is arbitrary in part , then the allocation of pupils to levels must also be arbitrary in part , even if scrupulous care is taken to ensure that assessments are based on the best available evidence . |
| 21 | ( d ) That care is taken to ensure that overpayments do not occur , particularly when using method ( c ) above . |
| 22 | Mr Bland said last night : ‘ Our scheme is designed to ensure that LWT is in a position to make and broadcast programmes at the weekend from 1993 onwards . ’ |
| 23 | The system is designed to see that student decision-making is well informed . |
| 24 | In recent weeks the whole issue of prison conditions has been pushed to the forefront of public debate , following reports that Home Secretary Michael Howard is said to believe that conditions in many prisons are ‘ too lax ’ . |