Example sentences of "to ensure [art] " in BNC.

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1 The plants beneath help to ensure the right conditions by covering the soil surface , reducing evaporation and hence keeping it moist and workable .
2 I varied the audacity of these to ensure the change of pace and tone so essential to a good negotiating table .
3 When fitting the headpieces it is important to ensure the shaft is fully connected by rotating the collet manually , prior to switching on .
4 AT LEAST Mrs Donaldson ( September ) does n't have to ensure the bearded drinker 's frequent first encounter on the glasses front , which is to find the barman reaching for a pint glass before a word 's been said .
5 Fit the new door to the unit and make the necessary adjustment to the hinge to ensure the door sits correctly
6 THE SOVIET government is introducing emergency measures to stave off a winter economic crisis , including a 15-month ban on strikes in key industries and drastic moves to ensure the normal operation of the country 's railways — above all to break Azerbaijan 's blockade of Armenia .
7 And if there is still no president when the current assembly session expires in December 1990 , the very mechanism that is intended to ensure the continuation of the Lebanese state will cease to exist .
8 The directive was ostensibly conceived to ensure the free flow of programming across EC frontiers after 1992 .
9 Jurgen Warnke , the deputy chairman of the right-wing Christian Social party warned that there could be violence and the whole East German security apparatus could be deployed to ensure the survival of the regime .
10 Mr Justice Roch said the court would start early at 10am and adjourn for 30 minutes at hourly intervals to allow the interpreters to rest and to ensure the defendant had understood the evidence .
11 As head of this embodiment of pluralism in a one-party state , his job was to ensure the communists got the required 99 per cent vote at elections and to maintain some semblance of a dialogue with people in the grey area between loyalty and opposition .
12 The EC ministers have been told that if they can not agree voluntarily on measures to ensure the harmonisation of the telecommunications industy some time early next year the European Commission will force them to do so .
13 Ranged against the French , the Australians and their Belgian and Italian supporters are the US , New Zealand , Japan and the UK , which believe that exploitation of Antarctica is inevitable and that to ensure the environment is properly protected , it is vital that commercial activities be legally regulated .
14 In giving such consent , the committee may also impose such conditions as it considers necessary or expedient to ensure the adequacy of such arrangements . ’
15 Malcolm Hardee will be there ‘ to ensure the smooth running of this Big Night Out ’ say the management , who may not be aware that the presence of Martin ‘ Two Fingers Soan ’ on the bill may lead to an impromptu , and far from smooth reunion of the two 's infamous Greatest Show on Legs .
16 To ensure the successful flotation of all 10 , the Government has attempted to gloss over differences and has reconstructed the authorities financially to make them seem equally attractive .
17 Later this year we will be publishing a more comprehensive paper on this topic outlining what we feel needs to be done to ensure the integrity of official statistics , but in general we believe that there are three principles : 1 .
18 While supporting the principle of legislative measures to reduce the risk of salmonella , the BEIC has been actively lobbying the Government to ensure the British producers are not faced with an impossible burden .
19 One solution would be to extend regulation to the press to ensure the same kind of impartiality as on television .
20 They have to ensure the concrete yet flexible transmission of written , central theories to illiterates by means of patient speech and demonstration .
21 our acts were in the building a lot of the time working on their songs , while we would help in the most appropriate ways to ensure the artist 's continued development . ’
22 The artist needs to ensure the record company is committed to releasing a certain amount of product each year .
23 Marx argued throughout Capital that although slaves might be more at the mercy of the whims and fancies of their owners than wage workers , it was at least in the interest of the owner to ensure the minimum welfare of his slaves , since they were his property .
24 Responsible to the General Officer Commanding the Military District , their task is to ensure the required catering services are provided daily for some 12,000 Regular and 11,000 Territorial Army soldiers throughout the north-east of England .
25 It fell to Warrant Officer Dunston to ensure the service was up to an impeccable standard , not an easy task in the boiling heat of the summer of 1989 .
26 Butter an ovenproof dish — a very shallow dish to ensure the apples cook evenly and to allow for a good ratio of topping to filling .
27 But if Rank controlled the source of the more creative ideas , his company did n't have the management necessary to ensure the continuance of his production policy .
28 They poured money into British films without doing anything to ensure the production boom they started would develop roots .
29 The changes will not come into force until 1991 and Lloyd 's stressed that it was attempting to introduce safeguards to ensure the market 's underwriting standards did not deteroriate .
30 The changes will not come into force until 1991 and Lloyd 's stressed that it was attempting to introduce safeguards to ensure the market 's underwriting standards did not deteroriate .
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