Example sentences of "[subord] ensure " in BNC.
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| 1 | The new system would do more than ensure fair parliamentary representation of the electorate 's political choices : it would change the character of our governments . |
| 2 | In the first place they may want to do no more than ensure that the Constitution is not altered casually or carelessly or by subterfuge or implication ; they may want to secure that this important document is not lightly tampered with , but solemnly , with due notice and deliberation , consciously amended . |
| 3 | Until special colour charts or reference sample scales become available , CL operators can do little more than ensure internal consistency , or attempt to construct a system for quantification of CL intensity and wavelength . |
| 4 | Theresa led the way , between grass almost knee-high bordered by a riot of unpruned roses , to the porch , then reached for a key hung high on a nail , less , Dalgliesh supposed , for security reasons than to ensure that it was n't lost . |
| 5 | And what more practical way of repaying them than to ensure that their own little seedling of bonheur had time to sprout and shoot , to root and burgeon ? |
| 6 | It was as if the Commission was seeking to impose a common market with common prices , rather than to ensure that competition prevailed . |
| 7 | are more concerned to maintain good human relationships at work than to ensure that tasks are carried out efficiently |
| 8 | Therefore , in campaigns a party attempts less to attract these voters than to ensure that they are not repelled by what the party advocates . |
| 9 | Meanwhile Lloyd George 's radical plans , although ensuring a partial revival of the Liberal corpse in the 1929 election , were effectively sidelined , and the accident of illness was to ensure that he played no part in the formation of the coalition government of 1931 either . |
| 10 | The key to our success is the recognition by users and their families that we avoid notions of coercion and forcible treatment , that psychiatric practice involves more than ensuring compliance with medication . |
| 11 | Yes , it boils down to a lot more than ensuring that the innocents are clothed and fed . |
| 12 | It moves slowly , wearily and as if to ensure that you understand that it is tired ; it goes only a few degrees above the horizon , making a long , low arc . |
| 13 | as if to ensure , however , that we can not interpret this work as a declaration of Gironella , s ideas about race and colour in Mexico , there exists another version , almost identical but for the fact that this is a white queen . |
| 14 | The upper floors of the storage shed were also at inconvenient levels and the discovery of wholesale decay in this joisted construction supported a policy of removing these elements and replacing them with a new upper-floor set at a level which could be extended into the roundels to give adequate headroom in the new ground-storey rooms , while ensuring that the four upper-storey bedrooms located in these projections had a sufficiently deep vertical wall surface to accommodate conventional windows . |
| 15 | The capitalist economy , while ensuring the continuance of the peasant sector , does not allow it to develop sufficiently to extricate itself from its subordinate role , for this would destroy its value for capitalism . |
| 16 | At the same time , while ensuring the blue of sky in front of the camera , I had to wait for the sun to fall on the scene from behind me , otherwise the sparkle of beach and palms would have been lost . |
| 17 | They have been devised to place minimum strain on the lifter and her back , while ensuring that the patient is not at risk of falling or being dropped . |
| 18 | As there will be students of varying experience and ability , it is essential that the information is clearly presented to everyone while ensuring that the least able understand the demonstration . |
| 19 | It was necessary , he said , to inject some order into what was becoming an increasingly complicated problem — how to give industry quick access to the growing number of biotechnology techniques being developed by universities while ensuring that the university contribution was acknowledged and rewarded . |
| 20 | So do n't miss our feature on dieting which will help you to lose weight steadily while ensuring that you eat well throughout the year . |
| 21 | His aim was thus to keep the Herbert hegemony intact , while ensuring that it continued to be used in the royal interest . |
| 22 | While ensuring adequate ventilation through their permeability both fleece and related polypropylene fibre black mulch materials allow any rainfall , watering or liquid feed to pass directly to the plant and root system avoiding the water shedding problems experienced with most plastic covers , mulches and conventional cloche systems . |
| 23 | Historically , the vast majority of housing departments screened their tenants , putting the ‘ better class of person ’ , as many housing officers described them , onto the best estates , while ensuring that the poorest tenants were housed in sink areas . |
| 24 | It is , I believe , in the public interest that your Lordships should remedy that injustice if this can be achieved while ensuring that the defendant shall not be subject to an order , compliance with which might tend to incriminate him . |
| 25 | The annex to the circular also highlights four important issues related to the local arrangements for care programming : inter-professional working , involving patients and carers , keeping in touch with patients while ensuring that services are provided , and the role of key workers . |
| 26 | Operate in an environmentally conscious manner while ensuring safe and secure working conditions for our employees worldwide . |
| 27 | This is true , but of no great significance since it is easy to modify the model developed above and make it immune from this particular criticism , while ensuring that all its important features are retained . |
| 28 | This should provide a basis for suggesting how best to manage the transfer of knowledge and personnel from research to commercial exploitation while ensuring the health of scientific research is maintained and promoted . |
| 29 | Training in such systems , and an in-depth induction programme on the work of RBGE staff , should be provided for reception staff , This would reduce the number of routine enquiries handled by senior staff , while ensuring that specialist enquiries are routed to the most appropriate staff . |
| 30 | It would supervise the demobilization of an agreed 70 per cent of each faction 's armed forces , while ensuring that the remaining 30 per cent remained in special cantonments . |