Example sentences of "[vb pp] [verb] [pos pn] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The princess was taught to curb her natural impetuous temper and to own her mistakes to all she had wronged , regardless of rank . |
| 2 | However , when the upturn comes , the company , with its strong balance sheet and unique spread of service activities , is well placed to continue its long record of growth . ’ |
| 3 | Lionel Sackville , the Union Jack 's chairman , said the deal would transform it ‘ into a better balanced company , well placed to continue its active exploration programme in a tax-efficient manner ’ . |
| 4 | On the contrary , much of it — the taxation proposals in particular — is calculated to sacrifice our competitive edge . |
| 5 | My son Jonathan , who turns two on Christmas Day , was fascinated to see his own image when I captured him on home video . |
| 6 | Whitelegge 's knowledge of epidemiology , and his experience of public health administration in industrial districts , recommended him at this time to the Home Office , which was being pressed to reorganize its industrial health work . |
| 7 | It reckons it is well placed given its behind-the-scenes work in helping to develop some important interoperability features for Unix : it also developed the Transparent Computing Facility for IBM 's AIX and a remote procedure call test and validation suite for the Open Software Foundation 's Distributed Computing Environment . |
| 8 | His words , deliberately intended to curb her growing assurance , struck home . |
| 9 | Call the manufacturer or supplier on the telephone number given to find your nearest stockist . |
| 10 | Choose a product which has been formulated to meet your particular requirements . |
| 11 | At one time the Institute had intended to establish its own college for training , and this was still essential . |
| 12 | He said : ‘ As a result of the many representations received , the Council has now resolved to continue its traditional transport arrangements . |
| 13 | Students will be expected to monitor their own performance throughout the module and to analyse and evaluate the contribution of enterprise activity to their own personal and social development . |
| 14 | Dawkins 's approach to evolution was presented in characteristically entertaining form when he suggested that the organism is ‘ … a robot vehicle blindly programmed to preserve its selfish genes ’ . |
| 15 | Looking ahead , Mr Kindersley said that DK adult publishing was expected to continue its strong performance , and that DK Children 's would probably be flat until 1994–95 , when a number of major reference books were scheduled for publication . |
| 16 | The Lebanese parliament is expected to continue its informal sessions here until the weekend — when the MPs will face the real ( and potentially frightening ) task of returning to Lebanon to account for their words in front of the sometimes sinister figures who still control the land . |
| 17 | The market in the Pacific Basin is expected to continue its rapid growth and the challenge for LASMO is to find additional reserves of gas to supply this growing demand . |
| 18 | Everything presented to the court is designed to support their basic argument of either guilt or innocence . |
| 19 | For in the real world the Tories were never expected to lose their immense majority in one go . |
| 20 | The two systems have been carefully designed to enable their joint use both for local issues , such as individual branch manning , and for broader events such as participation in production of projections and sensitivity analysis during the banks ' annual corporate planning and budget cycles . |
| 21 | UniSoft says it knows of at least three firms that paid up to $1m each for MIPS ' doomed Advanced RISC Computing development kit , originally designed to kick-start its Advanced Computing Environment initiative into life last year . |
| 22 | Will he reassure representatives of women 's institutes and townswomen 's guilds and other voluntary workers that the implementation of the Act is not designed to target their fund-raising activities in the preparation of food in village halls and elsewhere ? |
| 23 | The Lithuanians are to make an even more serious challenge to Moscow at a special republican party congress later this month , which is expected to restore its pre-war independence from the Soviet Communist Party . |
| 24 | It was only from looking at film of the first episode that everyone remembered Frank had forgotten to wear his famous beret and raincoat . |
| 25 | A new international competitiveness unit has been set up and is expected to issue its first report shortly . |
| 26 | The mere thought of being confined made her breathless . |
| 27 | On a typical holding , however , you will use some buildings as they stand , modify others and eventually erect one or more designed to meet your specific needs . |
| 28 | Whether you 're looking for your first flat or have finally found the castle of your dreams , The Royal Bank of Scotland has a range of mortgage schemes specially designed to meet your particular needs . |
| 29 | Legal aid is not generally available for tribunals , they are intended to be cheap and both sides are clearly expected to bear their own costs . |
| 30 | It is , however , now committed to find its own end-user business , and is thought to be talking to Olivetti & Co SpA . |