Example sentences of "[conj] ensure " in BNC.
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| 1 | And yet even the combination of the ‘ grand alliance ’ and the FCC may not be able to enforce a single American HDTV broadcast standard , or ensure HDTV 's success . |
| 2 | For a harmonious effect , aim to reflect the overall tonality of the room , or ensure that a single colour from the woodwork or furnishings is echoed in the rug . |
| 3 | I saw that you must not only address the real needs of people but need to be genuinely open to new approaches and styles of work if you are ever going to make the rhetoric of involving communities in the planning and assessment of programmes a reality , or ensure active participation in health sector organizations . |
| 4 | Such a mechanism may directly control the actual transcription process , ( initiation of transcription in the drosophila , as suggested by Berthier et al ( 18 ) , may occurred by a mechanism different from that described in mammals ( 25 ) ) , or ensure post-transcriptional regulation of the concentration of the various transcripts ( turnover ) ( 26 ) . |
| 5 | BIRTH CONTROL — Deliberate effort to prevent births either by abstinence , contraception , abortion or sterilization in order to accomplish the timing of the first birth ( postponement ) or ensure a desirable interval between successive births ( see spacing ) or to terminate childbearing altogether . |
| 6 | ‘ The police said they could not guarantee the safety of our officers or ensure public order was maintained , ’ said a spokesman from the firm . |
| 7 | In some courts a payment was needed to see the magistrate , or to ensure that one 's case was heard promptly . |
| 8 | Family size is shrinking as mothers no longer need large numbers of children to work either down the mines or in the factories ( the machine would take anybody to work for it at first ) or to ensure that a few would survive ; high infant mortality rates are now becoming a thing of the past . |
| 9 | I believe that the Second World War was a war that had to be won not in order to save Western modernity , or to ensure that individualist man would conquer collectivist man , but simply because Hitler posed the greatest threat to the moral order of the world that history had ever seen . |
| 10 | Thatcher 's legacy has forced the poverty lobby onto the defensive as it fights to simply to maintain child benefit , to restore benefits to 16- and 17-year olds , or to ensure that 18- to 24-year-olds receive the same rate of income support as over 25-year-olds . |
| 11 | Since these extremists had been principally responsible for the detailed organisation of the march it is not surprising that there were no serious plans to control it , or to ensure that it went off peacefully . |
| 12 | With some plain fabrics , all drops will need to be cut in the same direction in order to match a pronounced woven design , or to ensure that fabrics with a high sheen catch the light evenly . |
| 13 | Additionally , he noted that ‘ many people feel that the system has not done enough to protect what is good in an environment or to ensure that new development is of a sufficiently high quality ’ . |
| 14 | They 've had additional training in in erm filling in correctly the the the form and will pick up erm for example on the erm the principal accountabilities — every accountability should have three parts , it should be an action verb to help , or to do , or to ensure , or whatever and it should be what it is you 're doing and thirdly it ought to have some sort of erm target in in in doing it . |
| 15 | In order for an exchange to become a recognised investment exchange , it must demonstrate to the SIB that , inter alia : ( a ) it has financial resources sufficient for the proper performance of its functions ; ( b ) that it has rules and practices which ensure that business conducted by means of its facilities is conducted in an orderly manner , affording proper protection to investors ; ( c ) it limits dealings on the exchange to investments in which there is a proper market ; ( d ) where relevant , issuers of investments dealt in on the exchange are required to comply with such obligations as will , so far as possible , afford to persons dealing in the investments proper information for determining their current value ; ( e ) it has its own arrangements for ensuring performance of transactions effected on the exchange or ensures their performance by means of services provided under clearing arrangements made by it with a recognised clearing house ; ( f ) it has ( or secures the provision on its behalf of ) satisfactory arrangements for recording the transaction effected on the exchange ; ( g ) it has adequate arrangements and resources for the effective monitoring and enforcement of compliance with its rules and any clearing arrangements made by it ; ( h ) it has effective arrangements for the investigation of complaints in respect of business transacted by means of its facilities ; and ( i ) it is able and willing to promote and maintain high standards of integrity and fair dealing in the carrying on of investment business and to co-operate by the sharing of information and otherwise with regulators . |
| 16 | He ignores the fact that the major argument for including the supervisor 's name in papers to which he or she has not made such a contribution is that it is the supervisor 's reputation which has attracted the research grant or ensured publication . |
| 17 | He ignores the fact that the major argument for including the supervisor 's name in papers to which he or she has not made such a contribution is that it is the supervisor 's reputation which has attracted the research grant or ensured publication . |
| 18 | But he said it could mean duties of managers/owners — such as keeping a hotel plan or ensuring staff are trained to use the fire fighting equipment — implicit in UK laws — would have to be spelt out . |
| 19 | But Rome , separated from Ireland by a continent in upheaval , had little means of implementing her decrees or ensuring their enforcement . |
| 20 | As a result of quality assurance , we have procedures in place on subjects such as management of technical information or ensuring that we understand clients ’ brief first time . |
| 21 | ‘ I deal mainly with consumer credit law which can involve , for example solving a problem on an agreement , or ensuring that advertising material produced by Lombard and its subsidiaries complies with the appropriate regulations . ’ |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | Modern farmers now endeavour to dominate nature by using chemicals that ensure growth . |
| 26 | Most have a core of solid businesses that ensure that at least parts of the firm are making serious money . |
| 27 | The teams work to guidelines that ensure that their creations can work with those of their colleagues . |
| 28 | There are recognized ways of doing things that ensure that the job gets done at a time when we are probably incapable of thinking things through carefully . |
| 29 | Transposons found in prokaryotes usually code for one or more proteins that ensure their own replication . |
| 30 | In its full-page and horrendously expensive advertisements in the national press , and now ( the latest manifestation ) in a booklet with a cover that at only a few metres distance looks like gold-tooled morocco , it comes perilously close to transgressing those rules of the Advertising Standards Authority that ensure that all ads are honest , fair , accurate , unimpeachable and altogether above reproach . |