Example sentences of "[noun pl] [vb pp] [verb] [adj] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the minds of reformers , however , the service was only one of two policies designed to bring working-class youth under the purview of state agencies and their officials . |
| 2 | The success of policies designed to develop this sector of the economy depends in large part on the knowledge and awareness policy makers and the small businesses have of one another . |
| 3 | ‘ Peel 's response was to construct a service with a severe code of discipline and a structure of supervisory ranks designed to ensure strict control of policing and police officers . |
| 4 | While some norms designed to secure proper management of police investigations are clearly desirable , the inevitable tensions that some of them produce make it all the more important to have some systematic verification of the truth value of the police case . |
| 5 | In an area where unemployment struggles to reach 3 per cent , school leavers are spoiled for choice , so it is in a spirit of enlightened self-interest that the Swindon managers have embarked on programmes designed to tempt young people into engineering . |
| 6 | Well we er have programmes designed to encourage chief executives to er concentrate on cash generation . |
| 7 | President Bush on May 9 issued new travel rules designed to exercise greater control over the use of military aircraft by members of his administration , particularly the White House Chief of Staff , John Sununu . |
| 8 | Soon the " Hays Office " was issuing elaborate rules designed to maintain moral standards on the screen . |
| 9 | It has been succeeded by over ten Acts designed to protect other aspects of our natural and cultural heritage . |
| 10 | Jade accessories featured in rituals designed to ensure good relations between emperors and the celestial powers on whom they depended to ensure the continued mandate of heaven . |
| 11 | But the stations were in many respects designed to avoid these encounters across class and racial boundaries as much as possible . |
| 12 | 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' . |
| 13 | They have an important role to play in sessions designed to introduce young people to issues of health and safety , rights and equal opportunities at work . |
| 14 | They have a particular and unique role to play in sessions designed to introduce young people to issues of health and safety , rights and equal opportunities at work . |
| 15 | They settled on a series of four or five plays which are notable for anticipating subjects destined to become central issues in the sixties : student revolt , the hippie movement , violence and so on . |
| 16 | This study compares the methods used to diagnose pyloric stenosis at Camperdown children 's hospital during two periods , 1974–7 and 1988–91 , to determine whether imaging is being used more frequently and whether it has led to earlier diagnosis and better management of pyloric stenosis . |
| 17 | TODAY has launched an investigation to uncover some of the methods used to make under-the-counter payments to players and managers . |
| 18 | The methods used include close observation of the health economics culture ‘ from the inside ’ together with extensive interviewing of various groups of health practitioners — the potential users — as well as health economists themselves . |
| 19 | One important finding is that people differ in the number of repetitions needed to establish this kind of learning . |
| 20 | Inter-Service friction has been eased over the years by successive steps taken to concentrate greater power in the hands of the Central staffs as more tri-Service experienced officers have become available ; and to bring the Services closer together at every level of command , and in training and operations . |
| 21 | Evidence that the cost of a solicitor 's advice ( together with fear about cost ) and the relative inaccessibility of many offices combined to deter large sections of the community from using a solicitor led to speculation about the degree of ‘ unmet legal need ’ which exists . |
| 22 | The common culture which Parsons postulated has three types of symbolism : ( a ) evaluative symbols which express moral standards ; ( b ) cognitive symbols which give an account of what there is in the natural and social world ; and ( c ) cathectic symbols , which define appropriate feelings about objects . |
| 23 | About a third of the teenagers surveyed had part-time jobs with average weekly earnings of £13.10 , an increase of 3pc on last year . |
| 24 | Richard Hansard was then one of a group of northerners sent to restore royal authority in Hampshire . |
| 25 | Richard Hansard was then one of a group of northerners sent to restore royal authority in Hampshire . |
| 26 | He made his announcement as his commanders prepared to begin disciplinary proceedings against him for his denunciation of racism and brutality in the force . |
| 27 | Marjorie Stone , general counsel at Sotheby 's , warned that more regulation of auction houses threatened to slow any recovery of the art market in general . |
| 28 | But Mayo dwellers are still left dreading the thought of noise , dust and vibration ; of new roads built to bear heavy trucks across the hills ; of perimeter fencing and security lights where once there were only grazing sheep . |
| 29 | Challenging problems faced physicists , then , as the nineteenth century gave way to the twentieth , problems calling for new speculative hypotheses designed to overcome these problems in a progressive way . |
| 30 | Thus , even if it would be excessive to sweep large numbers of the deaths now recorded as ‘ accidents ’ into the law of homicide , there may be sufficient justification for creating or enforcing offences designed to ensure safe conditions of work , safe goods , safe buildings , and so on . |