Example sentences of "[be] [verb] ensure that " in BNC.

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1 After treatment , measurements are undertaken to ensure that the self-healing processes have been initiated .
2 By now your heater will have brought the water to temperature and should have been adjusted to ensure that it 's spot on .
3 Constitutional arrangements have been developed to ensure that bureaucracies remain responsive to political direction .
4 The context of speech-making and the techniques and conventions that have been developed ensure that many sides of a case are put at the same time as maintaining the proprieties due to different statuses .
5 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 .
6 For example , one method is that subordinated debt may be repaid only when certain conditions are met , which are intended to ensure that the interests of other creditors are not impaired by the repayment .
7 They are intended to ensure that increased levels of interaction amongst Network members do not result in friction or embarrassment amongst Network members or the extensive use of other Network members ' resources on an unprofitable basis .
8 These are intended to ensure that the main points in the chapter have been absorbed and provide a basic check for the lecturer and the student to ensure that the basic tools are there to enable the student to tackle the problems for discussion with a reasonable grounding in the subject .
9 In its most recent statements the government 's main concern has been to try to ensure that council house rents reflect more closely the values of the houses .
10 The schedules are designed to ensure that the task of assessment and subsequent planning is shared between all those involved in the care of a child , and that omissions are rectified as they become evident .
11 These involve the relationship between X and Y and other variables which might be operating ; they are designed to ensure that when we compare groups which differ on X , we are comparing like with like .
12 It was difficult to believe that these birds had been harvested for food on Mykines for generations , or to argue against the Faroese claim that the strict regulations which apply to the fowling are designed to ensure that the population numbers are not adversely affected .
13 Another analysis of the function of imposing fiduciary duties on directors is that these duties are designed to ensure that directors act only within the ambit of their special expertise .
14 New advertising regulations from the Department of Trade and Industry , at present moving through their consultative stage , are designed to ensure that mortgage lenders make borrowers aware that they have a choice between an endowment or repayment mortgage .
15 Monies are paid to a business in a variety of forms and all our services are designed to ensure that funds are received , processed , and credited to accounts as quickly and cost effectively as possible .
16 Given the complexities of some of the procedures which police officers are required to operate under this legislation , it is not surprising to find that the Metropolitan Police , and no doubt many other forces as well , have issued a set of elaborate and detailed instructions which indicate to an officer precisely how he is to proceed in any one of the many contingencies that may arise and which are designed to ensure that he acts in accordance with the statute as interpreted by the courts .
17 They are designed to ensure that authors receive recompense for the free provision of their books to the public by libraries .
18 Detailed regulations are in place which are designed to ensure that all employees give the highest priority to the health and safety of themselves , and those around them .
19 These notes are designed to ensure that project appraisal does not concentrate solely on costs but gives priority to the objectives of the service .
20 These Regulations are designed to ensure that employers introduce arrangements for effective management of health and safety in which employees and safety representatives will have to play their part . ’
21 All these obligations are designed to ensure that the tenant keeps up the real value of the scheme and that the landlord 's income remains as high as possible .
22 These computer workshops have been included to ensure that graduates will have ‘ hands on ’ experience of the accounting and business software that is of increasing importance to the accountancy profession .
23 The proviso set out below may be a fair compromise : PROVIDED THAT in so doing the Landlord shall cause as little inconvenience or disturbance to the Tenant as is reasonably practicable in the circumstances and shall not prohibit or unreasonably interfere with or prevent the use of the Premises for the Permitted User In addition it may be as well for the tenant to stipulate in such a provision that any development of neighbouring or adjoining premises should not include the building of which the premises form part unless of course adequate safeguards are included to ensure that the premises do not suffer as a result .
24 Subsequent treaty commitments are no defence to non-performance of the obligations of an earlier treaty ; States are expected to ensure that they do not enter into conflicting treaty arrangements .
25 He thought , not for the first time , that a system which required ministers to run their departments , fulfil their parliamentary responsibilities , and spend the weekend listening to the grievances of their constituents , might have been designed to ensure that major decisions were made by men and women tired to the point of exhaustion .
26 The student 's Activity Book has been designed to ensure that language presented by the video will be practised and assimilated .
27 General Exception 2 i.e. Fire and Theft etc. , has also been deleted to ensure that the Insured 's Legal Liabilities are fully covered .
28 Let me know what controls are operated to ensure that a group is in fact one of these organisations — do they have to inform your department , for example , and do you make any checks on short-term caravan rallies .
29 We are seeking to ensure that the er first area to be built up gives protection to the village of Hambleton and can be restored very quickly .
30 There are no objections raised provided the necessary conditons are imposed to ensure that the caravan is removed once work on the barn is complete .
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