Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] ensure that [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 They must act on this opportunity to ensure that young doctors working in the NHS receive the training that they need and deserve .
2 The new act clearly falls far short of the demand for freedom of information legislation with a presumption that all official information is in the public domain except where there are clearly defined reasons for restricting disclosure and where there is adequate monitoring to ensure that civil servants and politicians are committed to implementing the principles behind the legislation .
3 I read to him sentences from the Report such as : ‘ Schools have the clear responsibility to ensure that all children have full access to Standard English , given its role as an international language used throughout the world and essential for many purposes . ’
4 Will my right hon. Friend ensure that that message is made known throughout the American business community ?
5 I urge my right hon. Friend to ensure that other EC countries emulate our far-reaching rules and regulations to ensure that there is a total ban on veal crates throughout the Community and that the transportation of live animals , particularly horses and ponies , inside the European continent is as stringently controlled as it is in this country under our domestic rules and regulations .
6 I urge my hon. Friend to ensure that those feelings are translated into a more positive western attitude .
7 Will the right hon. Gentleman ensure that this sort of thing does not happen again ?
8 The perverse laws of sexual attraction ensured that this lack of interest only added to the appeal of her generously-made , rosy beauty .
9 ‘ The sale of one book to a public library ensures that many readers will take advantage of that authorship .
10 The discs are laid out chronologically for convenience , but the consistently high quality ensures that endless options for personal programming can be planned with total confidence [ IJ ]
11 Korean skippers , for example , must pass an examination in plastics disposal before they are commissioned , and must keep a daily log to ensure that all plastic rubbish has been kept on board .
12 This ordering ensures that standard phenomena are covered first , exceptions and non-grammatical structures later on .
13 * A report published on Feb. 24 by the UK-based Environmental Investigation Agency argues that southern African countries would not be able to provide adequate policing to ensure that any ivory trade came only from legitimate sources ; it also alleges that the Zimbabwean and South African armed forces are involved in illegal smuggling .
14 Although the last thing we want is a return to rigid central control , the NHS does need some coordination to ensure that scarce resources are used to best advantage and not wasted by the unsupervised duplication of facilities .
15 One of the items available from the display was a simple measure to ensure that all spirits drunk at home are singles .
16 The time of year was chosen to be as close as possible to that of the 1979 census to ensure that seasonal mortality effects would not confound results .
17 There was an explicit determination to ensure that all course elements studied and assessed were at degree level , and there were criticisms of ‘ traditional ’ submissions .
18 The continuing partners will also regard themselves as under a moral obligation ( quite apart from any annuity arrangements that may come into operation ) to the spouse and dependent children of their deceased colleague to ensure that such cash as may be due to his estate is paid over without undue delay .
19 However , it is interesting to note that some wider forms of inter-group dependence can , paradoxically , act as a diversification mechanism to reduce organizational ambiguity , and may actually lessen the need for overall planning to ensure that specific interdependencies are always tightly managed .
20 a standard format ensures that each site responds to precisely the same questions ;
21 Until the first new pay and conditions order is made under the new Act , the 1987 Act needs to be kept in being for a very short time for a very specific and limited purpose to ensure that all teachers continue to be covered by the existing pay and conditions order made under that Act .
22 Peripheries in relatively advanced societies which have undergone the process of homogenisation described by Shils may be susceptible to investigation by pluralist methods , if only because the overwhelming predominance of a specific value-system ensures that peripheral conflict is usually limited to items which do not impinge on the central elite values .
23 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 ) .
24 A certain amount of cross-border examination to ensure that European Community rules are met already exists and , as my hon. Friend knows from what I said earlier , in future we shall have much tighter enforcement rules to ensure that those countries — all of them — that sign up to European directives will have to obey those directives or face fines for not doing so .
25 Finally , by postponing sexual maturity by the same token , neotenous trends in human evolution ensured that young males stayed as long as possible under the protection of the parental group before being ejected and having to begin to fend for themselves .
26 The special educational needs support service ( SENSS ) that I know well now has a structured hierarchy to ensure that available staffing resources are distributed through the borough according to needs .
27 We would argue that because the environmental and social costs are so high , it is in the national interest to ensure that opencast production is kept to a minimum .
28 In return , national elites channel public funding and economic development to ensure that local notables have the resources to maintain their political role effectively .
29 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 .
30 At Baker Street Estates our clientele are all treated as individuals and detailed advice from an experienced member of our integrated team ensures that any property requirement can be efficiently satisfied from an office that offers the friendliest atmosphere in W1 .
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