Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb pp] [to-vb] [adv] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The restrictions were initially adopted as a temporary measure designed to slow down the flight of foreign currency reserves from the country . |
| 2 | Transracial adoption was also encouraged by developments in child care practice designed to reduce dramatically the number of children living in institutions , of whom a disproportionate number were and still are black ( Raynor 1975 ; Rowe and Lambert , 1970 ) . |
| 3 | Pegasus did n't win their first short corner of the game until the 28th minute , and that was down to Nadine Long , who at times was the only forward prepared to take on the Portadown defence . |
| 4 | the necessary heading allowance , that is the amount of fabric needed to make up the heading |
| 5 | Widnes will open their defence of the Regal Trophy determined to wipe out the Headingley memory and make it up to the fans who travelled over to Yorkshire to support them in that disappointing performance . |
| 6 | Following the announcement , the government began a news-management campaign designed to talk away the problem . |
| 7 | Indeed , in a move designed to speed up the process Lloyd has made a ‘ little publicised ’ offer to the Lawn Tennis Associations ITI set up , which would see him build centres — ITI centres — and run them as such , in addition to running them as private clubs . |
| 8 | Around five thousand converged on the Commons to lobby their MPs and the Labour leader sought to step up the pressure on wavering conservatives at a pensioners ' rally . |
| 9 | After all , when the waves of Thatcherism threatened to roll up the M one and drown Local Government in |
| 10 | Assuming for the moment that the efficiency of production depends solely upon the exertions of the workers , we saw that ‘ the price required to call forth the exertion necessary for producing any given amount of a commodity may be called the supply price for that amount , with reference of course to a given unit of time ’ . |
| 11 | Despite the level of organisation required to bring together the materials and expertise to produce complex items , it is still surprising how few have survived . |
| 12 | The linked trends in the quality Sundays towards physical bulk and internal diversity is most developed in a market leader like The Sunday Times which seeks to ‘ cover ’ everything ( and every angle ) through a ‘ completist ’ strategy designed to overwhelm both the competition and the reader . |
| 13 | Ridley had stated in an interview with the right-wing Spectator magazine which had appeared two days previously that European economic and monetary union was " a German racket designed to take over the whole of Europe " and must be " thwarted " . |
| 14 | accepting the text of the OED and Supplement in machine-readable form from International Computaprint Corporation ( ICC ) , the firm selected to carry out the keyboarding of the text |
| 15 | And then in nineteen eighty nine , the the government decided to split up the water authorities , privatize the utility part , that is treatment of of sewage and supply of water , and split up a regulatory body called the National Rivers Authority . |
| 16 | I returned to the changes in British society required to bring about the Empire on which the light of reason rarely shone . |
| 17 | Almost all of the remaining capital required to make up the £1551 millions invested came from borrowing . |
| 18 | Husband took off his blue-tinted glasses and polished them on a silk handkerchief chosen to pick up the colours of both his suit and his tie . |
| 19 | A HOUSING scheme designed to sweep away the desolation of New Brighton 's Victoria Road is expected to start in the New Year . |
| 20 | The Church no doubt helped to speed up the decline of slavery ; it did not cause it in the first place . |
| 21 | This is the money required to make up the difference between what the company can pay and what it owes at any one time or , in accounts department terms , net current assets minus current liabilities . |
| 22 | This is the money required to make up the difference between what the company can pay and what it owes at any one time or , in accounts department terms , net current assets minus current liabilities . |
| 23 | For the rest of that day , Charlotte felt she was at one remove from reality , viewing events through an invisible screen equipped to filter out the extremes of sensation . |
| 24 | The interval between the two sets was the time needed to set up the instrument for the lower illumination passing through the filter , about twenty minutes . |
| 25 | It is almost always a lack of storage space , or the fact that the file is dynamic and so can not be loaded in a single operation , that prevents self-indexing , and not the time taken to carry out the calculations . |
| 26 | Coggins and Brown warned that , without government support in the form of investment allowances or tax incentives , or grants for research into new uses of materials , industry would be neither be able to provide a big enough market for recycled goods , nor invest in the plant required to carry out the recycling . |