Example sentences of "[noun] [vb pp] [verb] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | An examination to assess whether programmes or projects undertaken to meet established policy goals or objectives have met these aims . |
| 2 | Reinforcers are rewards given to strengthen desirable behaviour . |
| 3 | ASK any hard-headed financier , and he will tell you that debt relief never works : public money given to help struggling debtor nations will end up in the hands of the lenders — the banks whose over-readiness to lend helped to land the debtors in trouble in the first place . |
| 4 | Detailed observation of the hand-made containers used in a South Asian village reveals a wide variety of forms designed to serve identical purposes , and a very loose relationship between form and fitness for function ( Miller 1985 : 51–74 ) . |
| 5 | Given choices , 17% voted to remove American troops ; 46% voted to leave the troops in place and enforce the embargo ; and only 29% supported military action . |
| 6 | But the surrounding drain designed to carry all the toxic effluent away in the foul sewer system had become blocked . |
| 7 | Recent legislation , on employment protection by making provision for disclosure of information and advance consultation on redundancy , and on health and safety by bringing the subject into the sphere of joint regulation , is advanced as the basis for this declaration : ‘ It can be argued indeed that the basis for a legislative framework designed to encourage industrial democracy at shop floor level already exists ’ . |
| 8 | Unfortunately for the interesting diversity of the old breeds , the Scandinavian nations have in recent years developed official breeding policies designed to create uniform national breeds by amalgamation , with the result that other breeds have largely been replaced and are now almost extinct , often making way for most untypical horned , pied breeds which have relied to a greater or lesser extent on imported Ayrshires and Friesians . |
| 9 | Sun Life and several friendly societies , including Odd Fellows and Tunbridge Wells Equitable , sell policies designed to do that . |
| 10 | It follows , therefore , that if we are interested in deriving policies designed to secure full employment , we should first analyse the determinants of these variables . |
| 11 | As my hon. Friend the Member for Rugby and Kennilworth correctly said , the parents charter is based on two policies designed to help all the other steps that we shall be taking to raise standards of education . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | The communique issued by the participants stated that ‘ surplus countries committed themselves to following policies designed to strengthen domestic demand and to reducing external surpluses ’ and ‘ deficit countries committed themselves to encourage steady , low-inflation growth while reducing their domestic imbalances and external deficits . ’ |
| 14 | However , both social needs and the range of social policies designed to meet these are constantly changing , whilst social policy itself is not divorced from the economic and political climate in which it is developed . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | We will continue to pursue policies designed to alleviate social needs , to promote equity of treatment and to widen the sense of common purpose which is growing in the Province . |
| 17 | The right of all to improved access to training , including policies designed to ensure equal opportunities . |
| 18 | In addition the government would be more able to pursue policies designed to rescue collapsing firms and to reduce regional disparities of income . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | What remedy had Parliament resolved to cure this defect ? |
| 21 | The cession of the south was not so much payment for help already given , but a concession designed to ensure future support and give Edward III a vested interest in the endurance of Balliol 's rule . |
| 22 | Articles in The Weekly Dispatch and The Derbyshire Times presented the case through a familiar blend of factual reportage and lurid sensationalism designed to titillate local audiences . |
| 23 | Products designed to mend split ends work on a temporary basis by ‘ gluing ’ the ends together . |
| 24 | ‘ 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 . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | God might have oversight over the destinies of nations , for example , in times of war ; but individuals would do better to rely on their own foresight , and on such pressure on the state as could be exerted by groups organised to sustain collective interests . |
| 27 | Among the many items the Group offers are corporate health programmes designed to suit any company 's requirements , advice on incorporating fitness equipment , training programmes and seminars and guidance on the best software to buy to inform on exercise and nutrition matters . |
| 28 | Unions should be particularly well placed to advise employers on information programmes designed to alert those used to weekly budgeting to the best ways of profiting from a change to monthly pay-and sometimes might well undertake such programmes themselves . |
| 29 | The Labour governments of 1964 and 1966 expanded the scope of regional policy , both as regards the areas covered , the number of programmes designed to promote regional policy and the administrative machinery needed to implement it . |
| 30 | There are video programmes designed to introduce new methods , such as the Silent Way method , which combine an explanation of the approach with examples of groups being taught . |