Example sentences of "ensured that [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Moreover , national nodes are also being set up ; the recent IBM gift to GRID ( see above ) has ensured that powerful microcomputers have been installed in many African countries , together with national and continental data sets . |
| 2 | The Church 's Eastern European resurgence , centred upon its long recognized strength in Poland — a country led from mid-1989 by a devout Catholic prime minister — but now including almost every country from Czechoslovakia to Lithuania , as well as what previously seemed the almost unimaginable resurrection of Uniate Catholicism in the Ukraine , has ensured that Catholic history and geography in the 1990s are likely to look very different from that of the 1980s . |
| 3 | If … one prescient soul at your level , say , early in 1982 , … really had thought ministers should be forced to meet on this issue and they kept postponing discussions on the Falklands , could you as Permanent Secretary of Defence have ensured that relevant Cabinet ministers did get together and look at the problem rationally and seriously , in so far as it 's possible , in time ? |
| 4 | Britain , Sweden and West Germany are each giving around £100 million ; Canada , Japan , Kuwait and the EEC have ensured that total aid is more than £400 million . |
| 5 | A properly organised Department would have ensured that that man could be transferred immediately to his home prison for release . |
| 6 | It would have ensured that all member States were in an identical legal position and avoided the problem that some member States , but not all , might be separate parties to the particular treaty . |
| 7 | The intention is that consumers ( who generally are unfamiliar with the law in other member states ) should be able to buy goods and services as consumers throughout the EEC while feeling confident that whatever laws govern those contracts , the relevant member state will have ensured that such contracts do not contain unfair terms . |
| 8 | However , it should be ensured that such considerations do not preclude the drafting of the document in as commercial a manner as possible , taking into account at all times the purpose of its production . |
| 9 | Equally , it must be ensured that other pupils do not see such a change as a precedent which they can then seek to exploit . |
| 10 | Only someone who was after the maximum deterrent effect would have ensured that each shot hit a rock and caused that terrible screech of ricochet . |
| 11 | All this minimised waste and thus ensured that each party contributed its fair share to the society . |
| 12 | Its scarcity contributed to its status as the most universally accepted precious substance , but this only ensured that unceasing efforts were made to reduce scarcity by increasing supplies . |
| 13 | The neurological dominance of the large human cerebral cortex has ensured that basic instinct has come increasingly under its control and has thereby lost its specific and rigidly determined character . |
| 14 | In Pakistan an old system dating from the British occupation has ensured that large parts of the North-West Frontier Province remain out of bounds to government officials . |
| 15 | The trip to the Medway was sailed in 25–30 knots of wind with a 30-mile beat all the way down the Barrow to Garrison Point which pretty well ensured that this race would be a big boat benefit . |
| 16 | In the main , the college has produced little radical comment or research of note during the four decades of its existence , for the various chief officers have jealously ensured that any consolidation of ideological excellence at this location has been neutered , and under Home Office direction its senior courses have primarily been used to provide a stream of suitably acquiescent candidates for the ACPO ranks , who readily take on the symbols and metaphors of dominance which feed the appetite for power Stead warns against . |
| 17 | We have all done things which are wrong in God 's eyes but through Jesus God has ensured that any punishment we deserve has already been served . |
| 18 | However , it is not the world 's statesmen that we have to thank for even this limited achievement in arms control , but the women and men whose political activity has ensured that some action must be taken . |
| 19 | ( Recent demands by the Council for the Accreditation of Teacher Education ( CATE ) will have ensured that these courses have been substantially revised since 1984–5 ) . |
| 20 | Principle , as well as expediency , therefore ensured that public service broadcasting was to be impartial . |
| 21 | They have always had a certain macho image and reasonable new prices have ensured that residual values are sensible . |
| 22 | Along with the rise of local voluntary and community groups , often funded by the local council , this has ensured that local authority politics have increased markedly in both their visibility and their differentiation . |
| 23 | The ‘ racialization , of British politics throughout the last 20 years has ensured that most areas of public debate — law and order , the welfare state , unemployment , youth , education , the inner cities , the family — now have a racial dimension and often one in which black communities , but especially black youth , appear as threats in a wider demonology of scroungers , shirkers , muggers , drug pushers , school failures and inadequate parents ( Hall et al . , |