Example sentences of "[be] [verb] [verb] [conj] [noun pl] " in BNC.

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1 The committee recommends that building regulations be amended to ensure that offices and other similar buildings have adequate ventilation .
2 The Act requires childcare facilities to be registered to ensure that standards are maintained throughout the country .
3 Survey data collected over the last three decades will be re-analysed to see whether changes in the geography of economic and social well-being in Great Britain have led to either or both of changed political attitudes and changed partisan allegiances .
4 The following checklist raises issues that must be addressed to ensure that witnesses and their evidence are properly handled .
5 Consider life expectancy , a measure indicating the number of years a newborn infant could typically be expected to live if patterns of mortality prevailing for all people in the year of its birth were to stay the same throughout its life .
6 Referrals from fundholding practices to private clinics , on the other hand , might be expected to increase as fundholders would have an incentive to encourage privately insured patients to claim from their insurance companies to avoid incurring a charge against the practice budget .
7 For this reason , a mechanism must be built to ensure that assessors can be monitored and supported .
8 Elinor should n't be made to wade though pages of paragraphs with no commas in ‘ em . ’
9 This is because the structure is more complex , and additional searches would need to be made to check whether paths already exist .
10 The Constitutional Convention must be made to work but provisions in the Constitution of the Republic of Ireland were a formidable barrier to cooperation .
11 Will the hon. Gentleman give an assurance , which is urgently needed on Merseyside , that every effort will be made to ensure that contracts for Irish sea exploration are given to firms in the north-west of England in general and to Merseyside in particular ?
12 Under ‘ Avoidance of bias ’ they state : ‘ Every possible effort must be made to ensure that syllabuses and examinations are free of political , ethnic , gender and other forms of bias . ’
13 In the case of a totally sealed labour market , new employees would only be drawn from the families of existing staff , and efforts would be made to ensure that individuals did not seek places outside the firm .
14 In such a group , some individuals may be seen copulating whilst others are depositing egg capsules .
15 In the higher primates these possibilities can already be seen emerging as actualities when chimpanzees use twigs to get at the occupants of a termite-mound , or wave branches to scare off leopards .
16 A single market can not be said to exist unless companies incorporated in one member state are permitted to do business in another .
17 The Court of Appeal held : [ a ] man may be said to know that goods are stolen when he is told by someone with first hand knowledge … that such is the case …
18 The purchaser may be seeking to ensure that invoices are not raised pre-acquisition for deliveries to be made post-acquisition and also to ensure that full account is taken of any potential refunds etc which may be due to customers as a result of estimated prices being used .
19 They strongly denied that changes would be used to ensure that women 's organisations were union-dominated .
20 Thus , measurement of carbamylated haemoglobin can be used to ensure that patients with a potentially reversible element to their renal failure are referred without delay to a specialist centre for further investigation and treatment .
21 — it could be used to check whether students are already familiar with the language and can use it confidently , to help the teacher diagnose problems ;
22 Common rules would be needed to define whether goods qualified as originating in a member country .
23 In the case of joint submissions a letter will be needed confirming that methods of resourcing are available and have been agreed between the two parties .
24 ( iii ) In the context of their own writing and reading , pupils should be helped to recognise that words with related meanings may have related spellings and that this can sometimes be an aid in the spelling of words where the sound alone does not provide sufficient information .
25 I must say erm I , I do wonder whether the district council might be enabled to say unless goods are sold from a car boot this is not a car boot sale er , therefore , we would put a ban on all commercial vans and vehicle entering these sites er that 's not being articles described in the er in the er maybe that 's something you could look at .
26 Children aged 3 to 9 will take part in a series of games ; their responses to questions on these games will be analyzed to ascertain whether comparisons were made and affected their self-evaluations .
27 Cash floats should be rechecked to ensure that cashiers have enough change for the evening business .
28 One of the first indications that this belief would have to be abandoned came when calculations by the British scientists Lord Rayleigh and Sir James Jeans suggested that a hot object , or body , such as a star , must radiate energy at an infinite rate .
29 Ways must therefore be found to see whether things are actually improving : this will involve monitoring ( ie gathering a whole range of information and evidence as to what is actually going on in schools and evaluation ( ie the interpretation and critical judgement of that information ) .
30 In this case the supplier or a consultant may be asked to assist if facilities are not available ‘ in house ’ .
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