Example sentences of "is [vb pp] [to-vb] [noun pl] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The label — showing a four-leaf daisy , the twelve stars symbolizing the EC , countries , and the letter " E " — is intended to harmonize standards across the Community and take the place of proliferating national labels and sometimes questionable environmental advertising . |
| 2 | The programme is intended to introduce users to the client-server model and offer a flexible networked solution to solve a business problem . |
| 3 | The programme is intended to introduce users to the client-server model and offer a flexible networked solution to solve a business problem . |
| 4 | Finally , the Disclosure Directive contains a transitional provision which is intended to inform companies of the up-to-date position when the Directive is implemented . |
| 5 | Weighing just 7g it has what is claimed to be a new yoke-less magnetic system with a special allow core for the coil assembly ; this is claimed to eliminate irregularities in the flux . |
| 6 | He is expected to cite aspects of the deal under which Spurs signed £2.1million striker Teddy Sheringham as an example of Venables ' unsuitability . |
| 7 | That is expected to entail payments on a sliding scale ranging from £7 to £86 . |
| 8 | Mr Beregovoy is expected to approve proposals for a Gallic form of personal equity plans in the next few weeks which would allow French investors up to £60,000 worth of shares each , free of dividend and capital gains tax . |
| 9 | The cost savings accruing to independent software houses because they will no longer have to support multiple versions of their products is expected to entice others into the fold and redirect investment into added features and more robust programs . |
| 10 | The indexer is expected to insert headings into the index or catalogue in these categories as and when they are required . |
| 11 | The study is expected to have implications for the design of information systems , for the targets that are set to evaluate investment decisions and for finding ways of correctly assessing risk . |
| 12 | Drivers on the French express railway , the RER , which is expected to bring visitors to the site from central Paris are also threatening to strike on Sunday , when the park opens , because of the demands on them to cope with extra passenger traffic . |
| 13 | A tutorial is included to familiarise users with the pictorial symbols and with using a ‘ mouse ’ . |
| 14 | Few dispute that the health of children is primarily the responsibility of the parents , and much intervention is designed to educate parents in the physical care of their children . |
| 15 | It is designed to lift students over the notorious ‘ intermediate plateau ’ where they so often have the feeling that they are learning more slowly , and that English has become a much more complex language ! |
| 16 | A political decision is real enough but it is designed to leave things in the end exactly as they were in the beginning . |
| 17 | This interdisciplinary course for linguists is designed to prepare students for a career in the business world of post-1992 Europe . |
| 18 | All students will follow a core course on Theory and Methods of Literary Study which extends over two terms and is designed to familiarise students with the major theoretical and practical approaches to the study of literature . |
| 19 | The course is designed to provide members of the professions allied to medicine with the scientific skills , knowledge and their appliction to relevant clinical practice in their field in order to be better able to evaluate their effectiveness of their contributions to health care services . |
| 20 | Firstly , there is the provision that ‘ DHAs will need to allow for referrals by GPs to hospitals with whom no contracts have been placed , keeping some funds in reserve for this purpose ’ ( DoH , 1989a , para.4.24 ) , which is designed to overcome objections to the loss of GP freedom resultant on the Type I system . |
| 21 | The unit is controlled from the front desk and it is programmed to accept cards with the correct codes . |
| 22 | By section 12 , the senior police officer is empowered to impose conditions on the proposed march if he reasonably believes that it may result in serious public disorder , serious damage to property or serious disruption to the life of the community , or alternatively that the purpose of persons organising the march is to intimidate others ‘ with a view to compelling them not to do an act they have a right to do , or to do an act they have a right not to do . ’ |
| 23 | Studies by Le Page and Tabouret-Keller have provided a further critique on the continuum hypothesis , again denying the scalability of phonological and grammatical variables which is said to lead speakers on a unidirectional , one-step-at-a-time path from the basilect to the acrolect . |
| 24 | All this alarms the non-Kurdish Iraqi opposition ( although the Kurdish package is said to include promises on a free multi-party system ) . |
| 25 | Very little attempt is made to suggest alternatives in the syllabus plan or teachers ' books , very little attempt made to design or recommend more flexible materials such as reading or number cards , and this , despite enormous variations in ages , abilities and background of children . |
| 26 | Indeed , as workers come to recognise that the corporatist game is rigged against them — wage restraint in return for the " benefits " of a social contract , whilst everything is done to foster profits for the capitalists — they will rebel against it . |
| 27 | In the ordinary course of a liquidation , for example , people can only be forced to attend the court where their evidence is needed to fill gaps in the company 's records . |
| 28 | It is comparatively easy to make a machine respond to a simple sound ; such as is needed to enter numbers on a spreadsheet . |
| 29 | Maybe this is all that is needed to re-ignite calls for a review of the welfare benefits which single parents receive — a review actually under way earlier this year , but thankfully kicked into touch by Tony Newton when he took over from the hapless John Moore as Social Security Secretary last Summer . |
| 30 | Eat plenty of freshly-crushed garlic , as this is thought to combat yeasts in the gut . |