Example sentences of "[noun] [vb pp] [to-vb] [noun sg] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The assets means the book value of the net assets ( excluding intangibles and after deducting loan capital and tax provisions ) taken from the most recent published consolidated accounts adjusted to take account of the subsequent transactions which have already been notified to shareholders . |
| 2 | The first of a generation of satellites designed to increase knowledge of the environment , oceans and climate has been launched from French Guiana in South America . |
| 3 | There are 43 cars scheduled to take part in the second World Solar Challenge , which runs from Darwin on Australia 's northern coast down to Adelaide in the south , using public roads . |
| 4 | The organisers are planning a ‘ model hot air balloon competition ’ and are asking entrants to get their entries sponsored to raise money for the development of water supplies in Third World villages . |
| 5 | ‘ It 's sad , ’ said Nick , who had his eyes removed to stop cancer of the retina spreading to the rest of his body . |
| 6 | Langbaurgh School in Sulby Avenue , Middlesbrough , was one of the schools chosen to take part in the exercise . |
| 7 | The council has dispatched nearly 105,000 bills amended to take account of the reduction imposed by the Secretary of State when he capped the council 's expenditure . |
| 8 | Early in 1959 the Watkinson Committee was replaced by an interdepartmental committee assigned to co-ordinate research on the employment of older men and women . |
| 9 | Proceeds from the issue will help fund the Group 's investment programme in UK Homes and Minerals , and will give the financial flexibility needed to take advantage of the opportunities likely to emerge as the economy recovers . |
| 10 | But to be able to do this the contractors needed to gain admission to the Russia Company and Gould played his part in the attack on the company . |
| 11 | HIGH TIDES and winds combined to bring chaos to the English east coast yesterday , causing extensive flooding in many areas . |
| 12 | It will take more than December sleet and gales to daunt the crews chosen to take part in the 11-boat round the world British Steel Challenge . |
| 13 | Inkombank , a commercial bank in Moscow , has signed a $2m contract with NCR GmbH to supply the computer and telecommunication equipment required to connect Inkombank to the Swift network : under the agreement , Inkombank will get two ST-400 workstations ; last April , NCR won a contract to supply Inkombank with a complete head office automation system . |
| 14 | We can illustrate this process in two conversational fragments and note two different strategies used to avoid conflict in the ‘ negotiations ’ . |
| 15 | The chartered jet was carrying 248 US servicemen home for Christmas to Fort Campbell , Kentucky , from their stations in the Sinai desert , where they formed part of the Multinational Force and Observers designed to monitor implementation of the Camp David accords between Egypt and Israel . |
| 16 | On this page you will find an outline of the two preliminary awards designed to facilitate entry to the general SVQ and SVQ frameworks . |
| 17 | In May 1990 Cape Verde joined the International Finance Corporation ( IFC ) in a move designed to encourage investment from the estimated 600,000 expatriate Cape Verdeans living for the most part in the USA and Europe . |
| 18 | Perhaps it is hindsight which has allowed us to understand fully the sheer technique that went into Bogart 's acting but many people at Warners could see Mayo 's point that he was just the type of actor needed to breathe life into the kind of story that the writers were making into a speciality . |
| 19 | Moves to form new whaling bodies Norway , Iceland , Greenland and the Faroe Islands announced plans to establish the North Atlantic Marine Mammal Commission , with a first meeting scheduled to take place in the Faroes in September . |
| 20 | We still await determinations of the ages of the rock itself or of any of its components , but the degree of cosmic-ray bombardment is being measured to see if it is consistent with the short interval required to project material from the Moon to the Earth . |
| 21 | Reroughing is a procedure designed to recover pattern from the discarded rough values . |
| 22 | In a trolley designed to hold food at the correct temperature . |
| 23 | He followed his re-election with a Cabinet reshuffle designed to strengthen support within the government for his market-oriented economic reforms . |
| 24 | A patent is a very desirable form of intellectual property because it gives the owner a monopoly in an invention , enabling him to exploit the invention for a number of years to the exclusion of other people ( subject to provisions designed to prevent abuse of the monopoly granted ) . |
| 25 | An area of 310 sq km of pristine French Guianan rainforest is to be flooded by a dam designed to supply hydroelectricity to the European Space Agency 's rocket construction and launch site at Kourou . |
| 26 | Allow finance to be equated to the resources needed to provide education at the required level ( ie achieve equilibrium ) |
| 27 | The companies will work closely with BP in reviewing all aspects of the operation of the vessel used to produce oil from the small Donan oilfield 150 miles north-east of Aberdeen . |
| 28 | The reduction in employment of farm labour , the use of machine power , the adoption of simplified farming systems and the replanning of farm layout to ease farm operations are actions taken to ensure solvency in the light of changes in the structure of costs . |
| 29 | At the conclusion of the programme , the Minister of Conservation will reassess the regulations required to provide protection for the downunder dolphin . |
| 30 | The laxative dose required to treat constipation in the young child is much higher than the suggested doses on the label . |