Example sentences of "[noun] [vb pp] [prep] [verb] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | No other parties succeeded in reaching the 5 per cent threshold required to win representation . |
| 2 | Without adding much to the defensive capabilities of the palace , these outworks succeeded in masking the original work of Shah Jehan ‘ like a veil over a beautiful bride , ’ as Dr Jaffery put it . |
| 3 | Age Concern England and Edward Arnold have jointly produced a book which brings together various authors experienced in addressing the particular needs of elders from ethnic minorities . |
| 4 | Some schools had benefited from government funds allocated to implementing the national curriculum , with one reporting a grant of £20,000 over three years . |
| 5 | This does , however , reduce the thickness of the finished runner by the thickness of the saw cut ( or cuts ) , a possible disadvantage overcome by using the gap-filling potential or epoxy resin mixed with a filler . |
| 6 | There is also a four-vector force F defined by using the relativistic equivalent of Newton 's second law of motion where we note that the differentiation is with respect to the proper τ time which is a Lorentz scalar . |
| 7 | Eldorado was never tested with a pilot programme , remarkably , considering the scale of investment involved in developing the 25-acre set . |
| 8 | Although there appear to be few operational savings planned from combining the two groups , three major benefits are expected to result from the merger : |
| 9 | This was ‘ the ‘ Child Art ’ movement , now an established practice aimed at encouraging the creative side of young children — a reaction against the imitative nature of previous [ art ] teaching' ( Gordon and Lawton , 1978 , p. 218 ) . |
| 10 | Some employers may not run courses for groups of returners but instead offer to help you plan a personal programme of study aimed at satisfying the same requirements . |
| 11 | It is part of a research programme aimed at understanding the basic processes causing damage to trees and crops due to atmospheric pollution . |
| 12 | Applications are invited for the post of Scientific Officer/Higher Scientific Officer to work with Dr Noel Buckley in a research programme aimed at examining the transcriptional control of neurotransmitter receptor gene expression . |
| 13 | An MBA and a Diploma programme aimed at maximising the real benefits to be gained from investment in Information Technology . |
| 14 | Native peoples from the US state of Alaska have formed a coalition aimed at persuading the scientific establishment to draw on their traditional methods of observing and understanding nature . |
| 15 | But as one might have predicted , such opposition backfired by confirming the very claims which the Free Presbyterians made about the great apostasy and the undemocratic nature of Terence O'Neill 's rule . |
| 16 | However , we fear it is becoming so intense that many members of the Vale of Glamorgan Borough Council 's Planning Committee are in danger of losing sight of their duty to have regard to vital Government planning guidance aimed at protecting the open countryside from unnecessary development . |
| 17 | ‘ The cops suspected of killing the two old guys have been suspended but not arrested , even though I 'm told there 's a suspicion that murder is involved . |
| 18 | Each week the hamsters were weighed under ketamine anaesthesia , and the tumour areas calculated by measuring the bipendicular diameters with Vernier callipers . |
| 19 | The whole of his work depended on asking the right questions . |
| 20 | This would cover reporting on , inter alia , financial and other risk management controls , fraud and other illegal or irregular acts , basic ethical standards of corporate behaviour , information included in annual reports and public documents , and a summary of the principal assumptions and judgments the directors made in preparing the financial statements . |
| 21 | The SEA is basically a limited set of changes to the Treaty of Rome which allows for majority voting in the Council of Ministers in areas connected to establishing the Internal Market , and also has some rather vague references to EMU , Political Union and other policy areas such as the environment . |
| 22 | An England grown fat on imperial tribute , its manufacturing industry relocated in the East , and its proletariat reduced to servicing the conspicuous consumption of idle rentiers , would provide little basis for democratic resistance to the power of the financial oligarchy . |
| 23 | Thus , individuals socialised into the working classes will suffer from status frustration , and will adopt an outlook set on turning the middle-class value system on its head . |
| 24 | The Video Electronics Standards Association in San Jose is not too pleased with one of its members , Dell Computer Corp , which has suddenly jumped up to claim that some VL-Bus products to its standard infringe one of Dell 's patents : ‘ We are both surprised and saddened that one of the companies involved in ratifying the VL-Bus standard would take such an action , ’ said Association chairman Scott Vouri ; the patent appears to claim rights to a computer system receptive to a board that plugs into both a system input-output bus and a high speed expansion memory bus ; Dell has been a member for over a year , having joined the club in February 1992 , and voted to approve the standard ; the group also says that like all the other members , Dell signed a statement indicating no knowledge of any conflicts with its patents . |
| 25 | On Sept. 28 the committee concluded by reminding the two leaders of their " heavy national responsibilities to avert the shedding of Moslem blood " . |
| 26 | With a x 40 microscope , surface lines become visible — the lines caused by buffing the silvered copper surface to its state of high polish , in readiness for exposure — but the image does not break down into its constituent silver-mercury particles . |
| 27 | About this time work commenced on sinking the proposed perpendicular rock shaft . |
| 28 | Running as an independent , Kitamura defeated the LDP incumbent after fighting a campaign centred upon increasing the local education budget . |
| 29 | Hezb-i-Islami had previously had the backing of Pakistan and had bases inside that country , but on Aug. 13 , in an unprecedented statement , Pakistan 's Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif had obliquely attacked Hekmatyar , stating that " Pakistan would not allow its territory to be used by unscrupulous elements engaged in undermining the territorial integrity of Afghanistan " . |
| 30 | One way of reassuring the thousands of well-behaved fans , who might well be turned away for ever , is to back up disciplinary action with a publicity campaign aimed at showing the better side of club football . |