Example sentences of "[prep] ensuring that [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 During the last ten years there has been considerable progress towards ensuring that thematic work is incremental , that undue repetition is avoided and that the skills , attitudes , concepts and knowledge of the integrated subjects are taught sequentially .
2 At the very least drafting of consumer contracts which avoid the types of clauses set out in the Annex will go most of the way towards ensuring that such contracts are fair within the terms of the Directive .
3 Indeed , this represents part of the larger problem of ensuring that administrative authorities accord due facilities for representation before the promulgation of rules .
4 One way of ensuring that such misinterpretation does not occur is to adopt an approach to " experience " which is not so tied to " inwardness " .
5 Although credit law included for example criminal sanctions against dishonest moneylenders , there was no general means of ensuring that such sanctions were imposed when needed .
6 Successful companies use integrated design management as a means of ensuring that all products , communications and services of the organization are serving the overall business .
7 On June 6 the International Tropical Timber Organization ( ITTO ) , comprising 19 wood producing countries and 24 consumer countries , concluded its nine-day annual conference in the Ecuadorean capital , Quito , by reaffirming its goal of ensuring that all exports of tropical timber should come from sustainable sources by the year 2000 [ see p. 38257 ] .
8 His first years in government were spent in the Whips ' Office , where he was schooled in the importance of ensuring that all interests were taken into account .
9 In deliberating on this important issue the Committee recognised the importance of ensuring that all staff in the Exchequer Division should be clearly informed of the present position .
10 We will consider proposals for a new system of rebates to come into effect from April 1996 with the aim of ensuring that personal pensions remain attractive across the age range .
11 An orthodox Muslim is expected to pray 5 times a day on a " clean spot " facing the holy city of Mecca , and a special rug is an extremely convenient way of ensuring that this directive is obeyed .
12 Classroom development is the only way we know of ensuring that this condition has been met .
13 One of the policies proposed to reduce the large number of people looking for work and thus to reduce the level of unemployment , consists of ensuring that fewer women from the secondary population enter the labour market .
14 ROBERT FRANKLIN of Los Gatos , California , has come up with a neat way of ensuring that electric gadgets such as irons and hair curlers turn themselves off when left unattended .
15 Wirral , at the time of writing , is in the enviable position of having the opportunity to respond to any switch from smoking to injecting heroin , and of ensuring that those drug users who do inject have clean equipment and are aware of the risks ( cf.
16 As one way of ensuring that local people share the benefits of any resurgence in local economic fortunes , MDC places considerable emphasis on the role of skills training .
17 The very primitive signalling systems available and the extreme difficulty of ensuring that any order was understood and obeyed were equally important obstacles in the way of an original or aggressive admiral .
18 A library , like any other organisation , has a limited amount of manpower and money to carry out the activities required and expected of it ; training is just one way of ensuring that these resources are used in the most effective possible manner .
19 ‘ A great deal of time and effort has gone into ensuring that all materials and finishes co-ordinate effectively and that the work was carried out to the highest possible standards , befitting a grand old Bank , ’ said Tony Caroli , Property Project Manager .
20 It was not simply a question of equating total stock of houses with that of households , but with ensuring that individual aspirations could be satisfied .
21 Their votes played no small part in ensuring that Southern Rhodesia remained a British colony .
22 But there are also attractions for them in ensuring that neither company links with Jaguar .
23 They were punctilious in ensuring that new staff read the hygiene regulations , but the running of the kitchen itself was entirely left to those working there .
24 In determining whether such a seizure was reasonable the court had to balance , on the one hand , the freedom of the individual and his rights which protected against undue invasion of his property , and on the other hand , the interests of society in ensuring that valuable evidence was not destroyed and that wrongdoers were brought to justice .
25 Second , the role of the Careers Officer will be important in ensuring that Compact vacancies are properly communicated to young people , and in monitoring Compact jobs to ensure that they offer employed status , quality training and career progression .
26 I can not go beyond what I have said , except to make it clear once again that if and when it is clear that a further legislative change will materially assist in ensuring that this sort of thing does not happen again , we will be ready to make it .
27 Since Ford would dominate the UK car market , it was hoped that the company would have a major interest in ensuring that this market was successful and that this might involve the expansion of research and development in the UK .
28 The Local Government International Bureau will have a major role to play in ensuring that local government is indeed ready .
29 The Bureau is taking a lead in ensuring that local government is ready for 1992 .
30 But it also reflected the problems of headquarters managers and union leaders in monitoring and controlling activities at lower levels of the organization , and in ensuring that national agreements and regulations were respected .
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