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

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1 The objective of the national facilities programme is to ensure that each sport — if appropriate — has access to at least one venue suitable for the staging of international events and for national squad training .
2 One critical step in overcoming the culture gap is to ensure that all partners share at the outset a common understanding of the innovation process , their respective roles within it , and how it applies to the particular topic being addressed .
3 Once again a similar argument exists in administrative law-namely that the function of judicial review is to ensure that public bodies only take decisions which are within the scope of their expertise .
4 Our intention was to ensure that genuine cases could be dealt with properly , such as those where the claimant had contributed or had produced fresh evidence that was relevant to a particular decision .
5 The role of internal audit is to ensure that these arrangements are implemented and that they remain satisfactory .
6 The aim is to ensure that environmental considerations are taken into account at every stage of a project .
7 Because of the potential seriousness of gonorrhoea or syphilis , if left untreated , nearly all the clinics in the United Kingdom have on their staff contact-tracers whose prime aim is to ensure that all efforts are made to persuade possible contacts of patients with either disease to attend for investigation .
8 Our aim is to ensure that all BP employees have equal opportunities for career advancement .
9 In considering shopfronts , the first need is to ensure that existing ones of character are preserved and sympathetically treated .
10 ‘ A central part of the City Challenge initiative is to ensure that local firms receive the kind of help they need to survive and grow ; and identifying their needs and objectives is one of our main aims . ’
11 Admirable as the desire is to ensure that these builders have the opportunity to construct the dwellings that the public will want to buy , the special position of Tyne and Wear , the real shortage of new land , makes it essential in planning terms that existing urban areas should be scoured for land upon which to build .
12 Clonal selection now concerns all three of Champagne 's major varieties and the current emphasis is to ensure that each village has the clones best suited to its own terroir .
13 An important priority is to ensure that extra income is spent on extra activity .
14 Here your role is to ensure that any plan has been developed in enough detail to satisfy you as manager that it is workable .
15 I thought it particularly strange that the Labour party should label its new policy , ’ Made in Britain ’ , when its strategy is to ensure that British policy is made on the continent .
16 The role of Quality Control is to ensure that appropriate standards of quality are set and that variances beyond the tolerances are rejected .
17 The aim of this Guide is to ensure that criminal practitioners know about all the many active steps which they should take in the preparation of their client 's defence .
18 The objective is to ensure that all employees accept their individual responsibilities within the context of the law as it stands at the time .
19 At a time when the largest nuclear power in the world is in the process of disintegration into separate republics , when that massive nuclear arsenal is under some central control of the remaining central authorities , and when our keen concern is to ensure that that security is real , it seems absolutely unthinkable that we should not have our own protection and the ultimate assurance of an independent deterrent .
20 Another concern is to ensure that new sorts of responsive services are there to meet identified needs .
21 Basically , my objective was to ensure that British Aerospace stayed in business somehow .
22 His concern was to ensure that Indirect Rule was sufficiently modernized to function as an instrument of government in an era of rapid social and economic change .
23 In this connection , it is interesting that many of the restrictions on economic life in the Pentateuch were to ensure that each family always had access to part of the society 's capital — namely a plot of land and some animals .
24 The object of the project is to ensure that this plan is founded on a thorough knowledge and understanding of local business development , and of the specific opportunities and constraints operating in Stirling .
25 The simple solution in this case is to ensure that all food remains out of their reach .
26 the prime factor at present is to ensure that all land need for the schemes should protect against other developments and that flexibility is divided in
27 The primary thrust of the Convention is to ensure that human rights are respected in the domestic laws of states parties or , to the extent that they are not and that breaches occur , that such breaches should be remedied by the state in question .
28 The purpose is to ensure that those bodies that are susceptible to judicial review have carried out their public duties in the way it was intended they should .
29 One of the main reasons for the government introducing the system is to ensure that more residents pay for local services .
30 The Eleven-plus , like all crises , threatened the pattern of family relationships , and all the family could do in order to maintain equilibrium was to ensure that each member remain entrenched in or return to his or her habitual role .
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