Example sentences of "[vb base] make sure [conj] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Of course its members gain because they work in the service , but they put forward their views because they want to make sure that the service does not collapse under the strain and we do not have a repetition of the destruction that we saw at Strangeways . |
| 2 | In other words , although social scientists certainly want to make sure that the information that they are gathering is accurate , this is only a necessary — not a sufficient — goal . |
| 3 | So in an attempt to upgrade the tournament and I suspect to make sure that the host nation of the top division is bound to be involved in that division , the number of teams in each division has been increased from sic to eight . |
| 4 | Try to continue the pattern as long as possible and if you have to return to stocking stitch do make sure that the work matches on both sides of the neck . |
| 5 | ‘ I would never set out in life to assassinate anybody , but some people have made sure that the mud will stick to me . ’ |
| 6 | And so the A N C has to make sure that while it works for the aspirations of its people it must also protect the country and I 'm afraid in this context it means it has through negotiations and other means also conceded made concessions in order to save the situation and the only organization that is now working for the national interest even losing its own supporters in the country is basically the A N C and it 's quite a remarkable thing to see that leaders are prepared to l lose political support because they have to make sure that the country does n't . |
| 7 | You have to make sure that the period of the regular payments is measured in the same unit of time as the interest and the term . |
| 8 | If the speaker is going to refer to headings on a blackboard , or diagrams on an Overhead Projector you have to make sure that the viewer too can refer to them . |