Example sentences of "[noun sg] [to-vb] that [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Will he take this opportunity to confirm that sufficient resources will be made available to ensure that full establishment is maintained at each of those locations for men and resources , for training and administration ? |
| 2 | However , it is the housewife 's ultimate responsibility to see that all tasks get done properly . |
| 3 | It is the Chief Constable 's responsibility to see that these complaints are properly investigated and result in disciplinary action where appropriate . |
| 4 | One may remark that it is common experience to find that conscientious people who have a job to do that is too much for them ( like writing a book ) turn in their uncertainty to doing a succession of easier jobs instead ( like answering their mail , drawing up syllabuses , or rationalising office organisation ) . |
| 5 | For standing on the , on the seats you see , which I mean my father was right he 'd got the experience to know that several men had been drowned like that . |
| 6 | There are self-evidently interests other than those of social concern in the spatial revitalisation of urban economic activity and there is no need to descend into a dogmatic public v. private sector debate on the efficiency of urban renewal to suggest that these interests stand to benefit when state intervention , so discredited in the early Thatcher years as creeping socialism , can be represented as a free market solution to urban crisis . |
| 7 | Not one piece of evidence has ever come to light to suggest that red kites attack live sheep or lambs . |
| 8 | The plan suggests that it would be a delusion to assume that these immigrants would shed their values for Shetland ones . |
| 9 | First , the attempt to suggest that this scope of review is logically demanded is not convincing . |
| 10 | Additionally , it is clearly wishful thinking to insist that tooth-forming cells are the only ones in the body sensitive to fluoride . |
| 11 | Elected police authorities will use the extra resources available for the war against crime to ensure that more police officers are visible on the beat , backed up by the modern technology which is essential to crime prevention and detection . |
| 12 | Speaking in Darlington last week he said : ‘ Elected police authorities will use the extra resources available for the war against crime to ensure that more police officers are visible on the beat , backed up by the modern technology which is essential to crime prevention and detection . ’ |
| 13 | But for all these criticisms there was still a serious and effective attempt to involve the best minds in the country in laying a foundation for curriculum decision making and to provide an instrument to ensure that detailed curriculum plans reflected this . |
| 14 | Similarly , the existence of technology-trading networks indicates that R&D and production do not necessarily need to be integrated under one roof to ensure that new products are efficiently produced ( although this is often a sensible course to follow ) . |
| 15 | Since the death of Stalin there seems to have been a conscious attempt to ensure that legal principles are adhered to and even the KGB appeared to make efforts to observe legality ( Hough and Fainsod , 1979 , pp. 278–84 ) . |
| 16 | The Authority was less successful in its attempt to ensure that disciplinary proceedings were brought against a detective superintendent , whose early retirement from the Metropolitan Police in 1989 meant that he avoided questions about his links with drug smuggling and criminal gangs , queries that had arisen after a World in Action television programme which had made serious allegations about corruption in the London police . |
| 17 | Quite clearly it was for me to initiate action to ensure that all aircraft of that type were checked for similar fractures at the earliest possible moment , but the responsibility for ordering such an inspection lies with the airworthiness authorities of the States in which the aircraft were registered and not with the accident investigation authorities . |
| 18 | The need for Government action to ensure that sufficient ships remain on the British register to meet defence needs is under consideration . |
| 19 | Griffiths , for example , wanted decisive central government action to ensure that clear objectives and priorities were set , but no such central direction was contained in Caring for People and no mechanisms were devised by which the government could ensure that local planning and implementation were consistent with national priorities ; indeed , no such priorities were set . |
| 20 | To counteract this problem , subjects are given sufficient practice tests before the experiment to ensure that this effect has worn off . |
| 21 | However , the business reality , which must be recognised here , is that the exchanges in the battle may be purely reflex actions : the seller will send an acknowledgment including its standard terms as a matter of course , generally without reading the terms on the buyer 's order ; indeed , in order to win the battle of forms it will generally be good practice to ensure that all orders are acknowledged in this way . |
| 22 | Unless needs are clearly identified , it is difficult to proceed to the next stage in the ‘ training cycle ’ : planning a programme to ensure that effective use is made of available resources . |
| 23 | Cllr Murphy , who works for MDC as a caretaker for a block of flats in Coatbridge , says he can prove that there have been cases of patronage to ensure that certain jobs went to Labour Party members . |
| 24 | The move , pending a full disciplinary hearing , follows Mr Murphy 's claims to The Scotsman earlier this month that he has evidence to support claims that there have been cases of patronage to ensure that certain jobs in the local authority went to Labour Party members . |
| 25 | The move , pending a full disciplinary hearing , follows Mr Murphy 's claims to The Scotsman earlier this month that he has evidence to support claims that there have been cases of patronage to ensure that certain jobs in the local authority went to Labour Party members . |
| 26 | Mr. Barron described it as ‘ an inevitable financial black hole ’ , but reiterated his party 's plans to raise investment to ensure that all services were free . |
| 27 | The first is based squarely on the suggestion that it is simply an illusion to suppose that any truth , or any significant role in social explanation need be assigned to counterfactuals of the form , ‘ If individual X had not had the psychological characteristic a , they could not have performed action b and event p would not have occurred . ’ |
| 28 | Kaye , Preston , Szabo , Druiff , and Mackintosh ( 1987 ) report an experiment which makes use of a contextual manipulation in an attempt to demonstrate that latent inhibition is not to be interpreted as a form of associative interference . |
| 29 | The second is an attempt to demonstrate that relational properties presuppose the existence of non-relational properties of one kind or another , but that the converse is not necessarily true ( a possible exception being some reflexive relations ) . |
| 30 | One gets used to this , but it would be just as well when engaging astern gear to check that both blades have thrown before calling on any real power . |