Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb pp] [prep] [verb] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Eldorado was never tested with a pilot programme , remarkably , considering the scale of investment involved in developing the 25-acre set . |
| 3 | 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 ) . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | It is part of a research programme aimed at understanding the basic processes causing damage to trees and crops due to atmospheric pollution . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | An MBA and a Diploma programme aimed at maximising the real benefits to be gained from investment in Information Technology . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | The whole of his work depended on asking the right questions . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | On Sept. 28 the committee concluded by reminding the two leaders of their " heavy national responsibilities to avert the shedding of Moslem blood " . |
| 15 | About this time work commenced on sinking the proposed perpendicular rock shaft . |
| 16 | Running as an independent , Kitamura defeated the LDP incumbent after fighting a campaign centred upon increasing the local education budget . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | The shadow social security secretary , Donald Dewar , and Labour 's Scottish affairs spokesman , Henry McLeish , described their anger at the worsening situation when unveiling a rolling campaign aimed at highlighting the rising level of poverty across Scotland . |
| 19 | The directive was part of a plan aimed at reducing the estimated unemployment rate of between 8 and 10 per cent by doubling the percentage of Bahrainis working in the private sector to 50 per cent by mid-1994 . |
| 20 | When the late Shah 's father ( Reza Shah Pahlavi ) came to power in 1924 he began a programme of sponsorship aimed at elevating the Persian rug industry to levels of excellence that had not been seen since the Golden Age of the 16th and 17th centuries . |
| 21 | Consequently , to test this viewpoint three educationalists and two consultants helped prepare a questionnaire asking 28 questions under four headings : professional details of the consultants ; their present arrangements for training preregistration house officers ; their assessment of the effectiveness of this training ; and their view of the help required for implementing the new recommendations . |
| 22 | The new leader succeeded in reducing the huge gap between the two parties , and announced a hastily concocted " growth agreement " with the Council of Trade Unions which was designed to lay the ghost of " Rogernomics " . |
| 23 | The Spaak Committee was turned into a conference charged with drafting the appropriate treaties . |
| 24 | The heads of state of Cameroon , Congo , Gabon and Zaïre met in Kinshasa , the capital of Zaïre , on Feb. 7 , noting that the Angolan situation had become " alarming " ; all four governments were members of the eight-country group charged with overseeing the Gbadolite peace process [ see pp. 36726 ; 36885 ] . |
| 25 | In this respect the court has , in holding a clause unreasonable , pointed to the facts that a seed merchant , seeking to rely on the clause , could have insured against the risk of crop failure caused by supplying the wrong variety of seed , and that such insurance would not materially have increased the price of the seed ( see ( George Mitchell ( Chesterhall ) Ltd v Finney Lock Seeds Ltd ( 1983 ) ) . |
| 26 | However , people have since realised they have been lured into a debt trap aimed at bringing the working class to heel , with unemployment the main weapon . |
| 27 | Uncertainty over Mr Mulroney 's future has existed since the defeat in a referendum last October of his government 's proposals for constitutional reform aimed at solving the separatist dispute in French-speaking Quebec . |
| 28 | But appeals from the platform succeeded in dissuading the civil rights supporters from making any further attempt to breach the police cordon , and the trouble was contained . |
| 29 | The organisers of the Basingstoke Open Day succeeded in assembling the largest collection of motive power types ever seen on BR . |
| 30 | In December Colombians elected a constituent assembly charged with rewriting the 1986 constitution . |