Example sentences of "ensure [adv] [adv] [conj] " in BNC.

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1 I do not wish in any way to take away anything from David Scott-Cowper 's incredible achievement but I do feel that one should ensure as far as possible that reports are written correctly .
2 ‘ British Gas will ensure as far as reasonably practicable that the goods and services which it procures are not inherently damaging to the environment during their use or disposal .
3 In this case too , by maximizing their caring role , males ensure as far as possible that their young are ‘ got off ’ successfully .
4 On this basis you ensure as far as is possible that Decision Height is reached at a point where the field is ahead of you and visual contact established .
5 They are required to ensure so far as is reasonably practicable that any plant ( machinery , equipment or appliance ) is so designed and constructed as to be safe and without risk to health .
6 In general terms , however , the present state of the law is that an individual who has reached the age of 18 is free to do with his life what he wishes , but it is the duty of the court to ensure so far as it can that children survive to attain that age .
7 ‘ One intervenes to protect competition , to ensure so far as one can that competition continues to exist in the marketplace .
8 This section 7(3) required the LTE so to perform their functions as to ensure so far as practicable that at the end of each accounting period the aggregate of the net balance of the consolidated revenue account of the LTE and of their general reserve was such as might be approved by the GLC ; and that if , at the end of any accounting period , the aggregate showed a deficit , the amount properly available to meet changes to revenue account in the next following accounting period should exceed those charges by at least the amount of that deficit .
9 He had been a scholarship boy himself , and he wished to ensure as far as possible that families without financial resources should be enabled to send their boys to the School .
10 Secondly , in the Fearon case it was not the right to exercise an economic activity which was conditional on the shareholders ' satisfying the residence requirement , but merely immunity from compulsory acquisition measures adopted under legislation governing the ownership of rural land designed to ensure as far as possible that the land belonged to those who worked it .
11 ‘ But in exercising discretion under article 13 ( a ) of the Convention , I have to balance my findings as to the interests of the children and the detriment which I am satisfied would befall them were I to order their return , against the fundamental purpose of the Convention which is to ensure as far as possible that children wrongfully removed from the place of their habitual residence are returned there as soon as possible …
12 ‘ in exercising discretion under article 13 ( a ) of the Convention , I have to balance my findings as to the interests of the children and the detriment which I am satisfied would befall them were I to order their return , against the fundamental purpose of the Convention which is to ensure as far as possible that children wrongfully removed from the place of their habitual residence are returned there as soon as possible , and the fact that the Australian court has already been seized with their welfare in the context of the divorce proceedings .
13 Having regard to the objectives and the general scheme of the Convention , that it is important that , in order to ensure as far as possible the equality and uniformity of the rights and obligations arising out of the Convention for the contracting states and the persons concerned , that concept should not be interpreted simply as referring to the national law of one or other of the states concerned .
14 Having regard to the objective and the general scheme of the Convention , it is important that , in order to ensure as far as possible the equality and uniformity of the rights and obligations arising out of the Convention for the contracting states and the persons concerned , that concept should not be interpreted simply as referring to the national law of one or other of the states concerned .
15 As the court held with respect to the expression ‘ matters relating to a contract ’ used in article 5(1) ( see the judgments of 22 March 1983 in Peters [ 1983 ] E.C.R. 987 , and of 8 March 1988 in Arcado [ 1988 ] E.C.R. 1539 ) , having regard to the objectives and general scheme of the Convention , it is important that , in order to ensure as far as possible the equality and uniformity of the rights and obligations arising out of the Convention of the contracting states and the persons concerned , that concept should not be interpreted simply as referring to the national law of one or other of the states concerned .
16 The aim has been to ensure as far as possible employment opportunities are not lost or unduly constrained simply because there is a shortage of suitable sites .
17 In each case , the solution involves balancing the competing claims of each subprocess , thereby ensuring as far as possible that each subprocess is allowed to contribute to the overall interpretation task as fully as it is able to , while not being forced to make decisions for which it , on its own , has insufficient evidence .
18 Although the proprietors and staff of EVERYDAY ELECTRONICS take reasonable precautions to protect the interests of readers by ensuring as far as practicable that advertisements are bona fide , the magazine and its Publishers can not give any undertakings in respect of statements or claims made by advertisers , whether these advertisements are printed as part of the magazine , or are in the form of inserts .
19 Although the proprietors and staff of EVERYDAY ELECTRONICS take reasonable precautions to protect the interests of readers by ensuring as far as practicable that advertisements are bona fide , the magazine and its Publishers can not give any undertakings in respect of statements or claims made by advertisers , whether these advertisements are printed as part of the magazine , or are in the form of inserts .
20 to secure the relevance , reliability and integrity of information , so ensuring as far as possible the completeness and accuracy of records ;
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