Example sentences of "[vb pp] [to-vb] [adv] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Bentham 's proposals were intended to promote both discipline and economic production . |
| 2 | Thus throughout the history of local government , units of local administration were formed to carry out administration in localities . |
| 3 | Far more subtle , long-term ethnographic research has to be undertaken to establish how subjects negotiate such teaching and how subjectivities are recomposed in different contexts . |
| 4 | Judith , tell me a little bit more about this event , I 'm fascinated to know how people can actually be skiing in central Oxford . |
| 5 | And McMenemy will be fascinated to discover how Gazza survives against the hatchet men of Italian football . |
| 6 | An estimated 12,000 Taiwanese enterprises have committed to invest nearly $1 billion in the mainland . |
| 7 | Registered foreign lawyers are not permitted to carry out activities reserved to solicitors , but MNPs may employ assistant solicitors to perform the full range of solicitors ' services for clients of the practice . |
| 8 | 21CenNet Inc , Richardson , Texas-based developer of key enabling technologies for enhancing portable computer communications , has raised $5m in venture funding from InterWest Partners , Sevin Rosen Funds and Compaq Computer Corp. 21CenNet wants the cash to fund development of its MobileWare technologies , which are being designed to support both wireless and wired end-to-end communications to enable portable computing devices to access company information systems by providing a reliable extension of corporate local area networks over public telephone and wireless networks . |
| 9 | This is the central concern for what we may call the ‘ top-down ’ approach to the study of implementation : why do n't those who are expected to carry out policies do what is required of them ? |
| 10 | They will be expected to carry out tasks during the residential with limited support from the tutor and to monitor their own progress in terms of personal and social development . |
| 11 | Work with second-year pupils on " Housing " and " Alternative ideologies " will see the combination of both databases ( using EDFAX ) and datafiles , in those parts of the curriculum where pupils are expected to carry out inquiry work . |
| 12 | This was offset by the fact that all the farmers had been on courses but in a family farm situation , where over half the wives were expected to carry out farm work in the case of their husbands ' sickness , some training should be beneficial . |
| 13 | That perhaps was the biggest shock most of the journalists had expected to see only children near the line . |
| 14 | Note : For the purposes of this survey Altrincham is deemed to include both Altrincham itself and the neighbouring districts of Bowdon and Hale for whom Altrincham is the natural shopping centre . |
| 15 | I was sickened to see how Papa behaved . |
| 16 | The leaves of plants are beautifully designed to carry out photosynthesis . |
| 17 | A Land Rover spokesman said : ‘ Our vehicles are not designed to tumble down mountains but they are built for a tough life . ’ |
| 18 | The most influential of the elite studies was Floyd Hunter 's 1953 book on Atlanta Georgia , which asked those , such as journalists , group activists and businessmen , who might be expected to know how decisions really are made in the city , to name the most influential individuals within the community . |
| 19 | Such a miracle would have dwarfed all miracles recorded in the Bible , and Frederick Temple , who in 1896 became Archbishop of Canterbury , pointed out in his Bampton Lecture of 1884 that neither Darwin nor Huxley had claimed to know how life had come to animate inert matter . |
| 20 | The entire sale is expected to total around £500,000 ( $860,000 ) . |
| 21 | He said that the party would be committed to democracy , socialism and universal social welfare , but it was expected to attract mostly Moslems after the convention of Moslems organized by Shahabuddin on July 8-9 had asked him to organize a national party for minority groups . |
| 22 | At present , trade in African ivory worth millions of dollars is allowed by CITES , under a system of quotas , with tusk markings and shipment papers designed to catch out sales of poached tusks . |
| 23 | These custom-built vessels have been designed to catch only tuna — in huge quantities . |
| 24 | The needle rod is constrained to provide only motion in the vertical direction . |
| 25 | questions designed to find out reasons for views held |
| 26 | Working in sales and marketing , I am sure you comments in the August issue following the letter from Martin Smith on the buffer zone are deliberately designed to drum up readers ' letters . |
| 27 | These are designed to encourage even development throughout the Community : for example , by helping to retrain the long-term unemployed , or by channelling aid to poorer member-states and to regions hit by the decline of old industries . |
| 28 | Steve , named Child of Achievement last year , was expected to reach just 3ft 6ins before the surgeons began their work . |
| 29 | It is expected to reach around £20,000 but there is no reserve price . |
| 30 | Many of the mergers were designed to set up monopolies to raise prices in industries such as steel , electric power and railways . |