Example sentences of "[is] [vb pp] [verb] [adv prt] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | King rightly points out that a scheme which is intended to weed out poor teachers is not necessarily the best to engender the trust and confidence required to develop the work of teachers . |
| 2 | Called the ’ Helikite ’ , it 's designed to frighten off peckish pigeons , rooks and crows that can wreak havoc to crops . |
| 3 | At the prizegiving , the winner is expected to pass on any tips to other members of staff . |
| 4 | THE DIFFERENCE between regular country acts and their rock 'n' roll equivalents is that your NME -friendly guitar-basher enjoys and is expected to try out new riffs , to be playful and weird . |
| 5 | Poisoned wheat is put inside the holder which is designed to let in grey squirrels and exclude other small mammals . |
| 6 | It is designed to act out potential accidents that could occur in a full-scale , commercial reactor , and it claims to come closer to recreating the real thing than any other testing facility . |
| 7 | Mr Saatchi has filled the twin role of chairman and chief executive for several years , but Mr Louis-Dreyfus 's appointment is designed to bring in financial skills at a senior level at a time when the company 's business has been under pressure . |
| 8 | In terms of the law , the Secretary of State is empowered to lay down all aspects of the curriculum , except for the time devoted to each subject and the style in which it shall be taught . |
| 9 | More than £40,000 is needed to carry out urgent repairs to the tower . |
| 10 | Above all , patience is needed to work out new situations and relationships , in a family which has no shared past . |
| 11 | Repeated insertion of a fork to its full length is all that is needed to break up shallow pans . |
| 12 | Banks ' daily holdings of cash fluctuate as a result of transactions between the government and the public ; bank cash held by the discount houses is used to smooth out these fluctuations . |
| 13 | The remainder is used to set up new bureaux or develop existing ones , with grant tapering down by year 3 or 4 . |
| 14 | With general reduction of the land through which it flows and a decrease in the calibre of the load , the stream is enabled to flow over decreasing gradients . |
| 15 | IT 'S SET MOTORING BACK 30 YEARS . |
| 16 | Shrimp farming currently takes up 5,500 hectares and is projected to take up 15,000 hectares by 1995 . |
| 17 | The jongleur is left to watch over some souls , but is approached by St Peter , with whom he plays two different games of dice , gambling for the souls . |
| 18 | The rules of the game are that each person is allowed to turn over two cards and , if they are the same , to withdraw them and place them by their side . |
| 19 | Clearly , what is needed is a control structure where the plausibility checker either is allowed to say what part of a logical form it objects to , or ( more preferably , given our remarks earlier about strong and weak preferences ) is given a set of bindings for each anaphor and is allowed to weed out implausible ones . |