Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] [be] [vb pp] [adv] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Much of that public sector support has been designed also to attract investment from private enterprise . |
| 2 | A £500,000 budget has been set aside to create a press office to represent him in Brussels , in addition to Dublin 's existing one . |
| 3 | As a result of demand , the variety of door styles has been expanded greatly to include a wide range of wood effect panels , some very beautiful wood veneers , wallpapered panels and for those who wish to achieve total co-ordination in their chosen decor — the fabric covered panel . |
| 4 | The department has been forced recently to increase its prices but will continue to offer its services to the Governing Bodies of Sport at a heavily subsidised rate , well below that of competitive commercial rates . |
| 5 | In the light of the misunderstandings and bitterness which can affect all the parties involved in an industrial dispute , it is perhaps regrettable that no attempt has been made adequately to define the legal rights of workers involved in such disputes . |
| 6 | Having heard T W Ltd 's further representations seeking extended hours for their haulage operations , the DLA confirmed that the conditions attaching to the licence renewal had been imposed solely to prevent local residents having their sleep disturbed at unsocial hours . |
| 7 | Seekings had been left behind to supervise the equipping of the new vehicles , and by dint of bullying and gentle persuasion , had managed to get them ready for service . |
| 8 | In every case that I have examined , the police were involved at a very early stage , before any serious attempt had been made either to assess the reliability of the allegation or to give the accused teacher a chance of refuting it . |
| 9 | The son , apparently , claimed that the partnership had been formed expressly to prevent this happening . |
| 10 | Not every thane had been left behind to act as a watchdog . |
| 11 | Naturally , companies trading in the more risky markets , for which premiums have been increased somewhat to reflect the risks , are less than enthusiastic . |
| 12 | A number of solutions have been put forward to try and overcome this problem . |
| 13 | ‘ The plan has been put together to enable London Zoo to move forward in practical , achievable stages and represents the relaunch of this great London landmark . ’ |
| 14 | The T x column has been included merely to help explain the calculation of e x ; it represents the total ‘ robin-years ’ of life remaining for all of the original cohort that have reached age x . |
| 15 | An in vitro transcription assay has been used previously to probe a variety of drug-DNA interactions ( 10 ) and has been utilised for bidirectional transcription footprinting of drug sites on DNA ( 11,12 ) . |
| 16 | By the mid-1980s well over a hundred hypotheses had been put forward to explain the forest decline . |
| 17 | Leicestershire enter the table , and might have qualified last year if an adjustment had been made then to bring their figures into line with practices adopted by all the other counties . |
| 18 | Victoria was banned from the riverside and Gertie had been instructed never to take the baby anywhere near the water . |
| 19 | Recently , however , electron accelerators have been built specifically to inject FELs , and these are now becoming operational . |
| 20 | Multipage and multiple spreadsheets have been made easier to use in version 5.5 by the inclusion of icons that let you move forwards and backwards between pages and spreadsheets — these are the double arrows in the third section down in the Tool Bar . |
| 21 | Regency stripe , classical motifs and rich wood have been used here to achieve a formal style that is also very natural . |
| 22 | At least two attempts have been made to specify the terms of reference of the panel , and on at least two occasions the membership has been reviewed specifically to bring in more active participants and give more clear direction to its efforts . |
| 23 | Can he therefore confirm that either the Secretary of State has breached the security rules or that the excuse of national security has been used merely to cover the fact that the Government made the decisions on political rather than on military grounds ? |
| 24 | Now , one gets the feeling that some of Cronenberg 's gloopy vigour has been wiped away to provide acceptable international art-house fodder . |
| 25 | RCD candidates therefore stood and were returned for all nine constituencies in the Oct. 13 by-elections , despite the fact that these seats had been vacated specifically to induce the opposition to end the ruling party 's monopoly of all 141 National Assembly seats . |
| 26 | A steering group had been brought together to advise and support the development of the project , but all the members were non-disabled professionals from a number of organisations including social services departments , the health authority and voluntary organisations . |
| 27 | If the charge had been framed merely to intimidate , when it failed to do so , the octopus would presumably try something else . |
| 28 | Two years have been set aside to allow time to study a period of History in sufficient depth . |
| 29 | A number of explanations have been put forward to account for the thick crust and high mean elevation of the Tibetan Plateau which also help to explain the great crustal shortening indicated by the post-collision convergence of the Indian and Eurasian Plates . |
| 30 | Recent advances in knowledge of thrust belts based on seismic and drilling have been made easier to apply to frontier areas by published descriptions of typical geometries , improved understanding of the mechanisms involved , and the establishment of standard terminology ( see , for instance : Hossack 1979 ; Berger and Johnson 1982 ; Butler 1982 ; Boyer and Elliot 1982 ) . |