Example sentences of "[noun] [noun pl] [be] [vb pp] [adv] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Once the four old aircraft hangars were erected side-by-side to make the Central Works , construction of the first completely new car began . |
| 2 | Research excavations are conducted primarily to test hypotheses and to answer questions that have arisen out of archaeological research . |
| 3 | A large proportion of export earnings was required simply to service this borrowing and was not therefore being reinvested in the domestic manufacturing sector as the reformers ' plans envisaged . |
| 4 | Concentration changes are used constructively to provide the customer with a proportion of active material which is stable , readily soluble and convenient to use . |
| 5 | Damages in libel cases are intended generally to compensate the plaintiff for loss of face , and specifically for any loss of work or earnings which can be proved to have been suffered as a result of the libel . |
| 6 | A panel made up of a small group of SCOTVEC 's senior committee members was brought together to sift through the many college 's nominees . |
| 7 | We contend that audit adjustments were made properly to reflect the situation at 31 March and that they do not come under TR720 , which the Inspector is contending . |
| 8 | The Council fathers were asked simply to decide whether the text before them was an appropriate basis for a definitive document . |
| 9 | Meals are taken irregularly , sleep-cycles are disturbed and leisure activities are pushed aside to allow time for more interaction with the machine . |
| 10 | Health , quality , and safety regulations are designed both to provide information and to express society 's value judgements about intangibles such as life itself . |
| 11 | These steeply-inclined belts or zones of earthquake sites are known now to exist all round the Pacific ; they are called Benioff zones , after their discoverer , the seismologist Hugo Benioff . |
| 12 | If sexual assault convictions are rendered easier to acquire , because , for example , of restrictions on sexual history evidence , guilty pleas become more likely . |
| 13 | My chair with its high back and strong iron wheels is positioned correctly to catch the sun . |
| 14 | The Government 's beer orders were intended also to create extra competition for drinkers , a better standard of service in pubs , more choice and lower prices . |
| 15 | For the same reason the population estimates given in the species accounts are meant only to indicate the order of size . |
| 16 | Not seen as a serious military problem , these naval and air assets were seized mainly to cut off possible escape routes for Gen Noriega and his supporters . |
| 17 | Objective Teams or Solo flyers will endeavour to cause other Rokkaku kites being flown simultaneously to make contact with the ground . |
| 18 | to demonstrate the value of different social science disciplines being brought together to address issues of intellectual interest and national concern . |
| 19 | Could the City institutions be made positively to assist people who , through no fault of theirs , have lost a considerable amount of money ? |
| 20 | OIL COMPANIES were urged yesterday to join forces with environmental groups and governments to find scientific solutions to global warming problems . |
| 21 | If our oil revenues are used merely to pay the unemployed , who now cost an estimated £18,000 million each year , the burden to those in work will suddenly increase by this amount when the oil revenues cease . |
| 22 | Too often , project loans are approved only to fail , or fail to be followed through . |
| 23 | It suits your arguments to assert that : ‘ Too often , project loans are approved only to fail , or fail to be followed through . ’ |
| 24 | The banding system and property valuations are devised deliberately to protect the rich at the expense of the rest . |
| 25 | After capturing the town of Kupres on Sunday , Croat forces were reported yesterday to have begun moving along a strategic road towards the town of Bugojno , which has a sizeable population of Serbs . |
| 26 | By the end of the month Israeli leaders were reported effectively to have withdrawn their controversial request for some US$10,000 million in loan guarantees to finance immigrant absorbtion programmes , in the face of persistent US demands linking the loans with a cessation of settlement construction in the occupied territories . |
| 27 | All family health services authorities are funded equally to purchase professional advice on prescribing , but evaluation of the success of medical advisers has been impeded by a variety of changes that have affected prescribing . |
| 28 | Some outcomes , such as reducing unnecessary prescribing , will result in savings which could be maximised if family health services authorities were empowered either to make fundholding the norm or to offer incentives to all general practitioners . |
| 29 | The phosphate concentrations were changed accordingly to incorporate the molar calcium to phosphate ratio of about 0.5 , which is typical for human diets . |
| 30 | EC member countries were encouraged also to develop bilateral trade and economic co-operation with Macao . |