Example sentences of "[adj] [noun pl] [vb pp] [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It examines the possibility that there are general restrictions on the authority of political institutions designed to protect individual liberty . |
| 2 | On July 15 both countries issued specific proposals designed to increase cultural contacts . |
| 3 | It often manages specific projects designed to develop all aspects relating to the development of occupational standards , which would usually include : |
| 4 | Because of the claims made by test constructors in relation to the numerical scores which can be derived from tests and the very considerable technical demands required to meet these assessment objectives , it is necessary to evaluate language tests against a number of well-established criteria ( McCauley and Swisher 1984 ) . |
| 5 | Telephonists work from prepared scripts designed to give different selling approaches according to the circumstances of the prospect , these circumstances being established before the sales talk . |
| 6 | But one of the most brutal methods reported involves confining detainees in a tiny cubicle measuring 80 by 100 cm , referred to as the coffin' . |
| 7 | Early neolithic farmers favoured multistrand crescentic necklaces made up of tubular and disc-shaped beads kept apart by laterally perforated oblong spacer beads and pulled together by triangular toggles . |
| 8 | ATHLETICS was at war last night as top stars prepared to boycott next summer 's World Championships in Stuttgart unless there is prize money . |
| 9 | Some varieties might engineer waterfalls that wear down the rocks faster , and hence speed into solution the raw materials needed to make new clays further downstream . |
| 10 | Not for the War Museum , where the season of peace and goodwill has found plenty of Rambo-esque revellers prepared to toast each other across tank turrets and artillery guns . |
| 11 | This difficulty may be overcome , at least in part , by storing control samples of similar products known to have satisfactory stability under market conditions . |
| 12 | These drew heavily on psychosocial theories to explain adolescent health behaviour ( particularly social learning theory ) and were designed to help young people to develop the personal skills needed to resist social pressures to smoke . |
| 13 | It is therefore not surprising that he should here stress the psychological aspects of pain and its control rather than the nuts and bolts of nociceptors , unmyelinated afferents , spinothalamic tracts and those splendid phrases designed to send medical students back to sleep in the belief that they now understand pain mechanisms . |
| 14 | Trial tests for geometry comprised typical items selected to test spatial concepts as referred to in the Cockcroft foundation list . |
| 15 | This forms the bulk of the College budget , which can be supplemented by income generated by additional courses provided to meet specific demands , which in effect are outside the statutory requirements . |
| 16 | Nor , indeed is the requirement in Part I for separate disclosure of the amounts of charitable or political donations ; in view of the minimal amounts needed to trigger this requirement and the modest amounts normally donated , they would very rarely be material to a true and fair view of its financial affairs . |
| 17 | We are supporting projects designed to build efficient institutions and accountable government . |
| 18 | Soon the " Hays Office " was issuing elaborate rules designed to maintain moral standards on the screen . |
| 19 | The large looms needed to make carpet-size items are difficult to transport , and so the vast majority of their output consists of small and medium-size rugs and a range of bags and other tribal artifacts . |
| 20 | American investors were the big buyers , mainly sophisticated funds prepared to gamble that GPA would cling to life or prove to be worth a substantial sum broken up . |
| 21 | The five types included one built to British Standards , a second ‘ standard ’ seat with an aperture 0.07 m longer than currently recommended , and three other elongated seats contoured to give various degrees of thigh and buttock support . |
| 22 | The summit approved measures designed to accelerate economic integration among member states ; these included the setting up of a regional bank specializing in inter-community trade , measures to improve transport links , and the holding of a trade fair in Kinshasa ( Zaïre ) in July 1990 . |
| 23 | The royalty it must pay Microsoft is generally put at $15 to $20 per copy , and all the blank disks needed to make each copy of the thing , plus printing and packaging cost about $26 , which does not leave much for distribution from the $49 it charges Windows users , $99 for MS-DOS users and $139 for those having neither . |
| 24 | It is also seeking to explore ways and means whereby men and women can play a larger part in the reconstruction of local working-class communities through the establishment of new forms of social and economic structures designed to meet local needs in a collective fashion . |
| 25 | A series of key projects designed to encourage public participation , include a battery collection programme , the launch of a nationwide eco-labelling scheme , the closure of unregulated waste dumps , and a plastics , glass and metals recycling campaign ahead of an expected recycling law . |
| 26 | The strategy of key characteristics involved rating certain characteristics more strongly in either direction than others , for instance ‘ using the strongest words as a guide to an overall score and ignoring the weaker contradictory ones ’ or ‘ weighed up which characteristics I considered most important , i.e. whether trustworthiness was more important to me than politeness ’ . |
| 27 | The plant comprises a series of four interlocking six-sided buildings designed to provide each work group with its own entrance , changing room , coffee room , and assembly area in an attempt to create a series of small workshops for each of the work groups and ‘ to promote team spirit ’ ( Company brochure ) . |
| 28 | It is against this backdrop that the Coptic Orthodox Church is running a three-year programme of publications and audio visual resources designed to address specific problems and to encourage young people in their life and faith . |
| 29 | The new Home Affairs Minister on May 4 announced a series of procedural changes designed to improve public confidence in the police and to prevent further instances of brutality . |
| 30 | We are making two major changes designed to offer improved service to our clients and simultaneously to offer the chance for both the business , and the people in it , to reap substantial rewards . |