Example sentences of "and to ensure that [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Firstly , there could be a tendency to go for the ‘ lowest skill ’ option in the selection of new technology , in order to reduce training costs and to ensure that existing employees can cope . |
| 2 | Each should respect the other 's strengths : that the teacher can intervene in a positive way to prevent the acquisition of bad learning and reading habits and to ensure that broad aims and objectives are , as far as it is possible to ensure , reached ; and that the librarian , working in a permissive non-authority setting , can by indirection and suggestion , using the child 's natural behaviour and personally chosen interests , foster the development of activities and skills from which learning and motivation arise . |
| 3 | The stated aim of the Commission is to create a homogeneous market in takeovers , with adequate and equal safeguards for individual investors , and to ensure that all players in a takeover act fairly and proceed on an equal basis . |
| 4 | Implementation of the Cadbury proposals to enhance the role of non-executive directors , and to ensure that all listed companies have an active audit committee will strengthen the auditor 's position vis-a-vis client management . |
| 5 | Shell has argued that suggestions to impose a statutory limit on the size and age of tankers , and to ensure that all new ones have double hulls may back-fire . |
| 6 | In London , and later in all major cities , new impervious trunk sewers were built on scientific principles to replace or intercept the old ducts and to ensure that all sewage was discharged downstream . |
| 7 | That is not to say that reasonable protection from development should not be given to particular areas , for it is important to retain the character of the land and to ensure that all tastes are catered for : For instance , some people like to climb dangerous rocks in pouring rain . |
| 8 | Although the latter cases are probably a diminishing minority , especially now that budgetary delegation under LMS has made it essential that heads in their turn delegate a greater proportion of their managerial functions to senior staff , our studies indicate a more general need for primary schools to continue to review the role of deputy headship , to define more exactly the range of tasks it is appropriate for someone at that level of seniority to undertake , and to ensure that all deputy heads have appropriate job specifications . |
| 9 | 4.5 It is the responsibility of each workplace manager to ensure a local system for summoning support is devised and to ensure that all staff are given information relating to any future arrangements as well as these Guidelines . |
| 10 | We have established a European joint committee to act as a focal point for EC issues affecting the profession and the areas in which we work and to ensure that all such issues are kept under review . |
| 11 | The lease will indeed quite often contain extensive insurance provisions with this in mind and to ensure that all costs in respect of insurance are paid for by the tenant and not the landlord . |
| 12 | Their role is to provide leadership and to ensure that other members of the staff receive the necessary support to carry out their roles in the Compact . |
| 13 | The major objectives of this system were to guarantee the individual a measure of economic security and to ensure that each family was not permanently debarred from participating in the economic life of the nation through temporary misfortune . |
| 14 | It was through these benefit or friendly societies that working people began collectively to provide insurance against the loss of income through unemployment , and to ensure that each should have a respectable funeral . |
| 15 | The school has a duty ( which rests with the governors ) to identify pupils with special educational needs and to ensure that appropriate provision is made . |
| 16 | The Problem Administrator should access all outstanding computer based problem reports regularly , i.e. those reports that have not been closed , to ensure that action is being taken to resolve the problem and to ensure that appropriate notes have been added to the descriptions of the problem reports to reflect the current status of the problem and the action being taken . |
| 17 | The quest for respectability was very much part of the drive to increase audiences generally and to ensure that motion-picture theatres were not confined to any down-town ghetto but it was also part of an even more fundamental question . |
| 18 | The churches , however , are doing all they can to encourage as much dialogue as possible and to ensure that effective communication plays a key role in the democratic process . |
| 19 | As work progresses , make regular check for horizontal , and to ensure that both walls are exactly the same height |
| 20 | However , the case for a greater role for the Community in the industrial policy area does have some merit , particularly in the fields of R&D programmes and to ensure that national policies do not hinder the development of pan-European business operations . |
| 21 | In the meantime , to keep you occupied — and to ensure that some part of the considerable sum of money invested in keeping you alive is repaid — we would like you to do some work for us . ’ |
| 22 | Traders like tavern-keepers in the Strand and wine merchants in St James 's Street , learnt to expect and tolerate late payment , and to ensure that any steps to obtain settlement were taken with the greatest diplomacy . |
| 23 | We have a very detailed management plan on the reserve with our main aim being to maintain the habitat as it is and to ensure that any disturbance to the bird community is minimal . |
| 24 | In most situations it is unusual and unnecessary to dwell on features of the research design , except perhaps in a boring and unread appendix , but in our instance we feel it is important to spend a chapter outlining the nature of the research design and location , and the associated problems , in order for the findings to be placed in their context , and to ensure that these considerations be taken seriously . |
| 25 | The team should include : — a Schools/Industry Co-ordinator to promote and arrange industry-based curriculum development , in-service training including teacher secondment to industry and other liaison activities ; — a Work Experience Co-ordinator to manage the Work Experience programme in the participating schools in conjunction with the DTI Adviser for Education and Enterprise as appropriate ; — a Caters Officer , to collate employers ' job offers , and to ensure that these are appropriate to the needs and aspirations of Compact " graduates " ; — an Adviser for Evaluation and Monitoring Procedures to ensure that students ' achievements are recognised through , for example , records of achievement , and to provide the Compact with instruments for evaluating its progress and development ; — managers of special programmes such as mock interviews , employers ' recruitment sessions , and communication procedures . |
| 26 | We want to provide accessible and flexible qualifications which prepare people for work in the Europe of 1992 , and to ensure that these qualifications are recognised and valued throughout Europe and beyond . |
| 27 | The Australian guidelines direct the court to consider , for example , the steps taken by a director to obtain information and to ensure that those from whom advice is sought are competent , to monitor decisions made by lower-tier management , and to monitor the company 's compliance with law . |
| 28 | ‘ We have to be careful that as we shed uniformed staff , it is on a gradual basis to avoid redundancies and to ensure that those who stay will still continue to have promotion prospects . ’ |
| 29 | This did not , however , stop the question of political marginality and the need to reform existing policies from being raised at all , as can be seen subsequently by the attempts after 1981 to introduce both locally and nationally measures which were meant to address some of the grievances of the rioters and to ensure that further disturbances did not occur . |
| 30 | Traditional Keynesian analysis required government to intervene in the economy to affect the total level of demand for goods and services , and to ensure that this level was high enough to be consistent with full employment and not so high that inflation was generated or a balance of payments crisis precipitated . |