Example sentences of "[vb pp] [verb] [adj] [n mass] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sheepdogs are also particularly alert to stray sheep and can easily be taught to drive stray sheep back to the shepherd . |
| 2 | A team will be formed to monitor daily media content , and monthly lectures on the role of the media in society will be held to raise social awareness of the media . |
| 3 | Subsequently , when the remedy is given to treat sick people , other symptoms that had not been brought out in the Proving are noted to be cured by the remedy and if this happens repeatedly then those symptoms are added to the picture of that remedy . |
| 4 | But the cynical depravity of this outrage — placing a bomb that would inevitably cause massive damage to a national health service hospital and was intended to kill medical staff when it exploded and which , only by great good fortune , did not cause many more deaths and injuries — must surely mark one of the lowest points in the IRA 's inglorious history . |
| 5 | The 9000-year-old agriculture there is now based largely on cultigens , including taro and bananas of south-east Asia , arriving before 4500 BP , but earlier phases could have been sustained using native species , including indigenous bananas , yams , pandans and sugar cane . |
| 6 | As an owner will have been interested in keeping the value low so as not to pay a high export premium , the State will be ideally placed to acquire valuable works of art on the cheap . |
| 7 | The underside of rocks can be carefully examined to find small fish , ( Rocklings , Blennies , Gobies , Butterfish ) crabs , anemones , starfish , urchins , or nudibranchs ( sea-slugs ) . |
| 8 | As a result , it is claimed to support high-performance graphics that currently require more expensive technical workstations . |
| 9 | The MAC system was designed to carry encrypted data and teleconference links either instead of normal programmes , or piggyback on top of them . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | The thought of asking one of the Royal family for money to breed owls seemed a bit out of order ; however , Suzy explained that the scheme was designed to help young people just like myself set up projects or businesses which are of benefit to the local community , as well as themselves . |
| 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 | As part of our mailing activity we have produced a security card designed to help elderly people check on callers . |
| 14 | Meanwhile , Christian National Education was designed to fit white people to remain rulers and to enhance their belief in their moral and racial superiority . |
| 15 | Bills of lading and warehouse receipts , therefore , will need to be designed to allow instantaneous sales and pledges across the globe . |
| 16 | A Northern Electric spokesman urged people not to approach downed lines : ‘ Although they are designed to fail safe people must not get to close . |
| 17 | For all of its product lines , including the DPS mainframes , Bull announced EDIWorks , software designed to facilitate Electronic Data Interchange . |
| 18 | You may like to experiment with colour schemes designed to display particular fish species to best advantage . |
| 19 | If successful the group will have a fleet of four vehicles specially designed to take disabled people around town , people who might otherwise be confined to their homes . |
| 20 | There was nothing in the original Bill about academic freedom and universities were to be permitted to dismiss senior staff in order to replace them with younger and cheaper people . |
| 21 | A small group of 60 women will then be selected to take part in a further qualitative interview and observation study designed to yield ethnographic data about what counts as leisure for a group of women of different social backgrounds and stages in the family life cycle . |
| 22 | It is precisely through the evolution of conceptualising capacities ( and , in particular , of language enabling complex social interactions ) that human beings have come to dominate other species . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | The resulting combination is expected to produce total sales for UniComp of some $15m with projected profits of $2m for the fiscal year ending February 1994 . |
| 26 | The mill has been completely redesigned ; new offices have been built to accommodate regional staff , and almost every corner of the site has been affected in some way or another . |
| 27 | A more ordinary version of potted salmon can be made using cooked salmon and clarified butter in similar proportions and the same manner as for potted tongue ( page 221 ) . |
| 28 | Some of the children 's expectations were so heartbreakingly wrong that it was clear that much more needed to be done to inform young people about what work is really like . |
| 29 | We now turn our attention to looking at what needs to be done to help grieving people . |
| 30 | The delay has been made to avoid potential sales conflict with the soundtrack album for the Trespass movie , which features new tracks by the film 's stars Ice-T and Ice Cube . |