Example sentences of "[am/are] [vb pp] [verb] [adj] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , the severity of this rule is mitigated by section 3 of the Defamation Act 1952 which provides that in an action for malicious falsehood it shall not be necessary to allege or prove special damage if the words upon which the action is founded are calculated to cause pecuniary damage to the plaintiff and are published in writing or other permanent form . |
| 2 | Residual gas ( 2 x 10 -10 atms ) produces a repulsive force between A and B. There is also a mutual gravitational attraction between A and B. These effects are calculated to produce relative accelerations of order 3 × 10 -9 m s -2 , After correction for all such effects the observed acceleration difference found for aluminium/carbon is which is a null result at the level of precision achieved in the experiment . |
| 3 | Fossil fuel reserves are depleted at a frantic rate and materials are squandered to manufacture throw-away products for the short-term profit maximisation of a rapacious economic system . |
| 4 | In the abdomen apodemes are developed to provide firm origins for some of the more important muscles . |
| 5 | They do not associate valour with the handsome and arrogant hunter , and young men are taught to pity such evidence of ‘ lack of control ’ . |
| 6 | There are also chairs that you can buy , designed by a chiropractor , which are intended to put less strain on the body when sitting . |
| 7 | The funds , amounting to 12 billion ecus per year , are intended to support infrastructural developments in the Community 's poorer regions . |
| 8 | The boundaries shown are intended to represent broad zones with an uncertainty of up to 10 km or so , and the whole map invites testing by further data . |
| 9 | Rescheduling of such debts has become a necessity for the private banks , and a practice which has emerged is that new agreements have been made conditional on such countries accepting the stringent programmes of the IMF which are intended to promote effective adjustment of a country 's balance of payments and ensure that the use of Fund resources is temporary . |
| 10 | The new tiers of membership , which become available this month , are intended to add some teeth to the X/Open 's existing system vendor , independent software vendor and user councils , described by X/Open chief technical officer Mike Lambert as pure ‘ talking shops . ’ |
| 11 | The services are targeted at customers with 1,000 personal computers or more , multinational companies , or companies with a lot of branches , and are intended to provide such organisations with a better return on their investment by attacking the hidden costs of installation , support , and implementation of an ever-increasing number of upgrades . |
| 12 | A sculptor as well as a painter , Roscheck 's watercolours are intended to provide ideal landscapes for her sculptures . |
| 13 | The following example module headers are intended to provide some guidelines on how the various fields might be filled in . |
| 14 | The restructuring measures are intended to reduce annual spending by $10m to $12m ; Pyramid expects to report cash of about $26m as of September 30 , with almost no long-term debt . |
| 15 | Mr Knowles Mitchell , corporate affairs manager for BR 's Western Region , said yesterday : ‘ The introduction of the ATP system and other measures are intended to remove any likelihood of a recurrence of a Clapham-type disaster . ’ |
| 16 | Irvine , California-based Advanced Logic Research Inc has cut prices across its entire line of desktop products in response to Compaq Computer Corp 's price cuts last week : the reductions are intended to position key models with a higher feature set at prices 10% to 20% less than Compaq 's comparable models . |
| 17 | The valves of a reciprocating pump are designed to enable one side of the moving piston to suck fluid whilst the other expels fluid . |
| 18 | The approaches employed in this research are designed to tackle these problems in order to produce substantive conclusions regarding the patterns and processes of corporate finance between 1860 and 1914 . |
| 19 | Since different tests are designed to assess different aspects of linguistic ability , they will be considered under four categories : tests of articulation or phonological ability ; tests of vocabulary ; tests of grammatical ability , including morpho-syntactical rules ; and , finally , tests of more general aspects of psycholinguistic ability . |
| 20 | Another range of measures based upon circulation data are designed to predict future use from past use . |
| 21 | These tests are designed to detect early signs of neurological damage . |
| 22 | They were and still are designed to give that style of dance spaciousness , calm , balance and grace of form so that the lines drawn during the transition from one step an/or pose to another fills the available space in every dimension . |
| 23 | Our plans for the railways are designed to bring better services for all passengers as rapidly as possible . |
| 24 | Local bus or VL buses are designed to overcome this problem by running at the same speed as the processor . |
| 25 | As part of its work the EPRG is anxious to construct , and then make widely available to interested parties , an inventory of all case-control studies that are in progress across Europe and that are designed to investigate possible associations between particular conditions and prior exposure to medicinal products . |
| 26 | This strain in central-local government relationships has been further hardened by the imposition of charge-capping and other fiscal controls that are designed to keep local authorities within central government 's expenditure plans . |
| 27 | Under the ICAEW regulations , any regulated work carried out by us for ‘ corporate finance clients ’ in the course of ‘ corporate finance activities ’ is subject to those of the ICAEW 's investment business regulations which are designed to provide general protection for ‘ corporate finance clients ’ . |
| 28 | As he will know , our reforms for further education as a whole are designed to provide enhanced opportunities for both young people and adults and to provide a further stimulus to increased participation . |
| 29 | Mairi Campbell of BOC at Cumbernauld and Jean Buchan of Playtex at Port Glasgow took part in Exercise Executive Stretch , 48 hours of physical and mental challenges that are designed to have some feedback into management skills . |
| 30 | This model coexists with other idea systems within the organization that are designed to handle different types of ideas and/or clientele ( i.e. suggestion systems and quality circles ) . |