Example sentences of "ensuring that [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Engineering We will continually strive to reduce our impact on the environment by ensuring that environmental issues are considered and the best practicable option is adopted during the design , construction , installation and maintenance of buildings , plant and machinery . |
| 2 | We will use market mechanisms , where feasible , to reduce pollution by ensuring that environmental costs and benefits are fed into the economy . |
| 3 | The Head of Department is responsible for nominating persons with whom module leaders should clear their examination papers and mark sheets and for ensuring that associated deadlines are met . |
| 4 | Ensuring that non-elected officials conform to the wishes of their elected superiors presents difficulties in all democratic systems of government . |
| 5 | Although credit law included for example criminal sanctions against dishonest moneylenders , there was no general means of ensuring that such sanctions were imposed when needed . |
| 6 | At the very least drafting of consumer contracts which avoid the types of clauses set out in the Annex will go most of the way towards ensuring that such contracts are fair within the terms of the Directive . |
| 7 | However , if staff are to remain in touch with each other , and the head is to remain in touch with all staff , close attention needs to be paid to communication , and to ensuring that managerial procedures like school philosophies and policy statements remain rooted in day-to-day needs and realities rather than take on a life of their own . |
| 8 | regulatory — ensuring that minimum standards of service provision are maintained and occasionally enforcing national policies on local authorities ( for example , the Home Office ) ; |
| 9 | Difficulties are smoothed out for pupils by , for example , ensuring that awkward cases do not occur or that the numbers cancel or that the answer is not a fraction . |
| 10 | We have led the way in organic farming , both by the introduction of the United Kingdom register of organic food standards and by ensuring that European standards follow British standards . |
| 11 | The closure error is usually treated by assuming that it is equally distributed over the polygon nodes whilst ensuring that neighbouring polygons are also corrected for any changes in point location . |
| 12 | The centre has implemented effective systems for ensuring that consistent standards are applied to the evaluation of the candidates ' work and that the standards comply with those specified in the unit/model . |
| 13 | We will consider proposals for a new system of rebates to come into effect from April 1996 with the aim of ensuring that personal pensions remain attractive across the age range . |
| 14 | Ensuring that private practitioners take on preventive activities and promote healthy behaviour by their patients requires a substantial move away from a strictly market led approach . |
| 15 | This decision takes into account the need to rebuild dividend cover whilst ensuring that higher earnings are reflected in increased income to share holders , just excuse me one minute Current trading . |
| 16 | ‘ A great deal of time and effort has gone into ensuring that all materials and finishes co-ordinate effectively and that the work was carried out to the highest possible standards , befitting a grand old Bank , ’ said Tony Caroli , Property Project Manager . |
| 17 | Successful companies use integrated design management as a means of ensuring that all products , communications and services of the organization are serving the overall business . |
| 18 | His first years in government were spent in the Whips ' Office , where he was schooled in the importance of ensuring that all interests were taken into account . |
| 19 | On June 6 the International Tropical Timber Organization ( ITTO ) , comprising 19 wood producing countries and 24 consumer countries , concluded its nine-day annual conference in the Ecuadorean capital , Quito , by reaffirming its goal of ensuring that all exports of tropical timber should come from sustainable sources by the year 2000 [ see p. 38257 ] . |
| 20 | If you are a tenant , your landlord should certainly be liable for ensuring that all windows , frames and doors are in good condition . |
| 21 | Throughout a painstaking series of consultations with the Committee , the Society has striven to offer a workable system ensuring that all solicitors seeking rights of audience in the higher courts will have all the requisite skills and experience . |
| 22 | The Committee arranges the daily timetables , ensuring that all women are in the building by 8 pm. and in their bedrooms with the lights out at 10 p.m . |
| 23 | Press panel 4 against the silicone on the base , and the siliconed edges of panels 1 and 3 , again ensuring that all panels are aligned squarely with each other and pressed evenly and firmly together . |
| 24 | Safety with electricity means never operating anything that has a worn or damaged flex ; never trying to run an appliance from a light socket ; never trying to run several appliances via an adaptor plugged into one socket ; and ensuring that all plugs are wired properly . |
| 25 | The beauty of the UCP is that since all relevant contracts involve a bank there is a ready mechanism for ensuring that all contracts are governed by the UCP . |
| 26 | As I have said , the inspectors are responsible for ensuring that all vehicles are safe and roadworthy . |
| 27 | However , in view of the importance of even 3d. in the weekly budget of the poor , the inconvenience to , and lack of enthusiasm for the scheme of , employers and the absence of any machinery for ensuring that all workers earning under £150 p.a. wee indeed covered , it is probable that many of the poorest workers ( many of them women ) were not in the end provided for . |
| 28 | Governors are clearly charged under the 1988 Education Reform Act with the duty of implementing and monitoring LMS in their schools and ensuring that all monies are efficiently managed . |
| 29 | Eight people work in the department , ensuring that all phases of the building programme run smoothly and cause as little disruption to the daily routine of the Museums as possible . |
| 30 | In each of these areas of learning schools were urged to cultivate appropriate knowledge , concepts , skills and attitudes , thus ensuring that all pupils received a broadly comparable educational experience . |