verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
ensure fair play
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rules designed to ensure fair play
ensure privacy
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He had locked the door to ensure privacy.
ensure the survival of sth/sb
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Controlling land development would ensure the survival of many types of wildlife.
ensure/guarantee sb’s safety
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There were few laws or regulations to ensure the safety of workers.
ensure/secure/enforce compliance
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The staff involved should be monitored to ensure compliance with the policy.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
thus
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Myeloski had then insisted that they commandeer the seats on either side, thus ensuring them of privacy on the journey.
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Involving users directly in the needs assessment process, thus ensuring them a voice in assistance provided to them. 3.
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Bright 16-year-olds abandon all but two or three academic subjects, thus ensuring that scientists remain unread, and arts students maths-blind.
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The dynamics of capital accumulation thus ensure that property is distributed unequally, and that it remains so.
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The number of people seen is high - up to 100 patients a day - thus ensuring that unit costs are kept low.
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Consequently, it was decided that he should no longer be fed, thus ensuring that he would die.
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child
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Often these parents have made a big effort to ensure that their children took reading seriously.
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The doctors are doing everything they can to ensure the child will be born healthy.
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Advocate to ensure that a child is taking the courses necessary to succeed in work and college.
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Always ensure that your child is properly restrained in the car on every trip.
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The development of cognitive structures is ensured only if the child assimilates and accommodates stimuli in the environment.
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It should be the rule rather than the exception that we respect their authority and ensure our children follow the example.
effort
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Party leaders will be making efforts to ensure that Mr Lawson is not openly attacked at the conference.
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Often these parents have made a big effort to ensure that their children took reading seriously.
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During my term, I want to make every effort to ensure that they will be used.
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Teachers make great efforts to ensure that they do, even though the standards are demanding, particularly in maths.
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Such efforts need coordination to ensure that local effort and dedication is directed to best effect.
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It is important that every effort is made to ensure that the implementation of schemes is non-problematic and successful.
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Every effort is made to ensure prices are accurate and goods available, but best can not take responsibility for either.
government
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We need a government that will help ensure that across the world we can look forward to peace and progress with stability.
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It was quite another to establish government policies ensuring blacks a chance at a life-style equivalent to whites.
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The arrangements give local governments the opportunity to ensure that cable systems operate in the best interests of their communities.
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The role of Government should be to ensure that such pensions met sensible regulation so that the public interest was protected.
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But governments must ensure that the former belongs to the human race.
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The Government must speedily ensure that the necessary public and private resources are made available to guarantee the investment takes place.
information
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The flow of information , visits to the company and discussions with management are strictly controlled to ensure equal dissemination of information.
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These new steps will also ensure that Verio customer information is not disclosed to unauthorized parties.
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Primary health care managers have the task of ensuring that their health information systems produce relevant information.
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Systems should by now have been analysed to ensure that the correct information is provided, and within the time scales allowed.
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Likewise arrangements should be made to ensure that supplementary information will be available where required.
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The aim was to ensure that the information used in the creation of the initial data base was both accurate and complete.
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Regulations under the Consumer Credit Act will of course ensure that accurate cost information is available for all forms of credit.
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We will ensure that comparative information about the health standards achieved by health authorities is available to the public.
measure
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In such situations we take appropriate measures to ensure that strict confidentiality is maintained in all respects.
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By these measures it sought to ensure that direct entry and thesis-entry members were at least of an equivalent calibre to student graduates.
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Guidance on measures to ensure a safe environment, and issues related to health and safety at work.
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The paper suggests a variety of measures that will ensure that food is kept, distributed and sold in hygienic conditions.
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Such measures will ensure that the child is carried successfully and born in a healthy condition.
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The designation compels the state authorities to take measures to ensure the fish's survival.
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This 720-page document covered in some detail the measures needed to ensure sustainable development.
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One of the items available from the display was a simple measure to ensure that all spirits drunk at home are singles.
need
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The most often quoted obligations deal with the nature of the service and the need to ensure that content is impartial.
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Community-the need to ensure social sustainability.
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The overriding need is to ensure these park trees are not merely protected but replanted.
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He emphasised the consequent need for schools to ensure that adequate opportunities were provided for improving accomplishments in speaking and listening.
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All of this stresses the need to ensure that future development must enhance rather than damage the environment.
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Schools need to ensure that all pupils, irrespective of their backgrounds, have an equal opportunity to achieve the attainment targets.
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Training department need to ensure the competency of our company representatives before the Bond goes on sale.
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Ipswich's 3-2 win over Newcastle means John Lyall's side need six points to ensure promotion.
policy
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Blank space Please check your policy schedule at the back of your policy to ensure the details we hold are correct.
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The Profitboss initiates policies and practices that ensure all employees are consistently treated.
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It was quite another to establish government policies ensuring blacks a chance at a life-style equivalent to whites.
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Idleness: to be overcome by government policies that ensure meaningful work for all individuals.
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Furthermore, these policies must aim at ensuring that everyone has the opportunity to enjoy these aspects of health.
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We believe we have the policies in place to ensure we maintain that progress in the future.
responsibility
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His responsibility is to ensure that a particular package has achieved the quality standards set by the project which is using it.
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We would thus have primary responsibility to ensure that the advertisement is factually accurate.
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It is our responsibility to ensure defendants are fairly prosecuted, and that has also happened.
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CI5 took the responsibility for ensuring that no harm came to, or from, those ill-favoured dignitaries.
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States have the responsibility for ensuring teacher competence, and state statutes generally set out standards for teacher certification.
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The food industry generally has a clear responsibility to ensure that food supplied to its customers is safe.
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The clinical teacher also has a responsibility to ensure that a high standard of nursing care is given to the patient.
safety
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Only by ensuring that safety and reliability were maintained could public confidence be restored.
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Thus the state should be mainly a night watchman, a low-profile policeman who ensures the basic safety of every individual.
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A pulley block was used to ensure the safety of this manoeuvre.
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Instead, he stays with Baby-O to ensure his safety .
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Local authorities have a legal duty to ensure safety of pupils on trips.
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There were few laws or regulations to ensure worker safety .
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Every employee should note that it is his responsibility to ensure that Health and Safety regulations are complied with.
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It is surely incumbent on us to do everything possible to ensure that safety is paramount.
standard
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Labour's independent Food Standards Agency will ensure high food quality standards.
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We will back the work of the Broadcasting Standards Council and remain vigilant about ensuring high standards in satellite broadcasts from abroad.
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Proper training of food handlers has a vital role in improving their morale and motivation and ensuring that standards are met.
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All three flavourings have been produced to ensure they meet the standards for which Schwartz is famous.
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The clinical teacher also has a responsibility to ensure that a high standard of nursing care is given to the patient.
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The Inspection department's role is to ensure that quality standards are properly maintained, without incurring disproportionate costs.
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The Railway Inspectorate will be given full powers to ensure the highest standards of safety.
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And it has created a new job, that of quality assurance manager, to ensure that standards are maintained.
success
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For the first time, schools must ensure the educational success of all students.
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You also must give them resources and reinforcement just in time to ensure their success .
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A sunny position and well-drained soil ensure success .
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It helps ensure success for novice users.
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Having a positive attitude about your progress will ensure you have continued success .
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Where the team process excels is in ensuring the candidates' success through the entire work group entry process.
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The third speaker explained the role of NGOs and market intermediaries in ensuring project success .
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Environmental priorities must be built into all economic decision-making, ensuring that economic success goes hand in hand with environmental responsibility.
survival
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These responses ensure the maintenance and survival of an individual and its reproduction.
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Subsequently, a government panel decided Uncle Sam should endeavor to ensure survival of at least three thousand pairs.
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So breeding in captivity is vital to ensure the species survival .
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The power of these fantasies, and not their accuracy, is what ensures their survival .
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The publication has received financial support from the Czech Ministry of Culture but is still in need of funding to ensure its survival .
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Read in studio A village school is resorting to big business techniques to ensure its survival .
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In both cases, opting out was perceived as a means of ensuring the survival of grammar school status.
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Although relatively few eggs are produced, the male's care ensures a good survival rate.
system
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Right-On movements such as the feminists and the peace campaigners evolved complicated systems to ensure this happened.
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The system was designed to ensure a hermetic seal of security, but at the sacrifice of speed and understanding.
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What we want is a system that ensures the ability of citizens to participate in the selection of their representatives.
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This system ensured reasonably fair representation for each party, whilst preventing a large number of parties being elected to parliament.
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A system exists to ensure that at any time, day or night, the consultant's wishes are followed.
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Legal requirements need to be considered during the implementation of electronic documentation systems to ensure legal security. 10.2.
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The committee system generally ensures detailed coverage of council business.
way
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The safest way to ensure that you are getting the best practical business advice for your money is to buy from Croner.
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In that way he ensures a total identity with profit.
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Making a will is the only way to ensure your wishes are respected.
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The only way to ensure randomness is to make sample selections independent of human judgement.
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Near vision tasks need to be presented in a way that ensures that materials can be easily accessible to handle.
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In a way , you are ensuring your role in the future, no matter how far off that future may be.
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One way to ensure the right mix is quite straight forward.
■ VERB
design
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This is designed to ensure that the policing of the demonstration can be properly planned.
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The system was designed to ensure a hermetic seal of security, but at the sacrifice of speed and understanding.
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They are designed to ensure that authors receive recompense for the free provision of their books to the public by libraries.
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Shaw v. Hunt: Oddly shaped congressional districts are unconstitutional if they were designed in order to ensure black voting majorities.
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There is a desperate need to provide these precious specimens with surroundings that are better designed to ensure their preservation.
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The suggestions are not designed to ensure that work-inhibited students quickly become proficient in doing schoolwork.
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We make no apology for introducing regulations designed to ensure a fair, healthy and secure society.
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The tests are designed to ensure that the waste does not cause significant damage to marine wildlife or human health.
help
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We will also use our presidency to help ensure that poorer countries are not disadvantaged as a result of the Single Market.
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But in the second trial, Weisberg denied the defense that argument and thus helped to ensure the guilty verdicts.
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The stock market's recent steady performance in the run up to the water issue has helped ensure the success of the flotation.
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So the coppicing at Westonbirt arboretum may help to ensure the survival of more than just the trees.
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This would help ensure the poorer countries did not repeat the environmental mistakes of the northern hemisphere as they pursued economic development.
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The information will help the campaign to ensure the survival of one of our most attractive wild animals.
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Regular feeding with a general fertiliser will help to ensure that the plants are always supplied with adequate food materials.
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Amongst other things, this ought to help to ensure that co-operative R ventures are favoured relative to co-operative D ventures.
require
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Discussion: What monitoring arrangements are required to ensure efficiency?
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So long as politics requires donations, donations ensure access.
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Neither is viable without the other and both require careful management to ensure that their viability is perpetuated.
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This requires ensuring that there is a basic valuation and considering its contents.
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There is a deceptive simplicity about such lists which requires extensive effort to ensure a comprehensive but coherent content.
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Careful timing will also he required to ensure that the item is actually happening at the time it fits into the programme.
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Particular care is required to ensure the letter is requested from and signed by the correct parties.
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Extensive preparation of the gastrointestinal tract is required to ensure the bowel is free from faecal matter.
seek
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If an exparte injunction is to be sought the purchaser should ensure that the exclusivity clause is clear and precise.
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With that in mind, bidders sought partners to ensure they could provide the range of services desired by the county.
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We take each complaint seriously and seek to ensure that every one is properly examined.
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By these measures it sought to ensure that direct entry and thesis-entry members were at least of an equivalent calibre to student graduates.
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Dunwoody will be seeking to ensure that the same principle applies whatever day of the week it falls on.
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Section 240 seeks to ensure that recipients of the latter will not confuse them with statutory accounts.
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However, we must seek ways to ensure that, in the process, they do not destabilise our domestic agriculture.
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A member of the mineral trade association is being sought to ensure that there is also adequate linkage with the commercial sector.
take
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Steps are being taken to ensure that this and other factors do not impair the future.
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Great care must be taken to ensure that solutions are clean and free of extraneous matter.
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Great care must be taken to ensure that the line of palms do not look like some modern Forestry Commission plantation.
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In such situations we take appropriate measures to ensure that strict confidentiality is maintained in all respects.
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None the less, great care is taken in organisations to ensure that the membership is identified and kept under review.
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Once the tenure of the Garden had been guaranteed, measures had to be taken to ensure its successful progress.
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The designation compels the state authorities to take measures to ensure the fish's survival.
try
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Now aid workers are trying to ensure the children's own health and welfare.
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And they have tried to ensure that the reading level continually advances.
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Mrs McNee tries to ensure that that coincides with the children's return from school.
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He was wrangling for the best deal he could get and trying to ensure it would not be his last.
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I always talk to the ferrets while the muzzles are put in place and try to ensure that they are never frightened.
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I still try to ensure that in general he makes it through a book within a week or ten days.
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We try to ensure that green fees listed are correct, but discrepancies may occur.
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The plaintiffs' attorneys say they will try to ensure that any funds coming in from Simpson are distributed fairly.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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All the necessary steps had been taken to ensure their safety.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Anyone close to Laura could not fail to notice her ability to ensure reality remained in the next room.
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But it had been enough to ensure him, at least pictorially, a vicarious immortality.
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Economic forces ensure that the same efficient allocation will happen in either case.
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Funds are urgently needed to ensure defence in the growing number of political trials and for needy families.
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However, tension arose between the need for decentralization in order to ensure more technical efficiency and political fears of too much independence.
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She lost Lisa her job, she slept with her fella, ensuring more misery to come.
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The mobility of officials ensured that a variety of view-points are available for all districts.
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The Problem Administrator will ensure that timely action is taken to resolve the problem.