Example sentences of "[vb pp] [to-vb] [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 | 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 . |
| 6 | The underside of rocks can be carefully examined to find small fish , ( Rocklings , Blennies , Gobies , Butterfish ) crabs , anemones , starfish , urchins , or nudibranchs ( sea-slugs ) . |
| 7 | As a result , it is claimed to support high-performance graphics that currently require more expensive technical workstations . |
| 8 | The Matisse client software incorporates a micromodel for ease-of-use that is claimed to support any data model and includes an object-oriented template for integration with other applications . |
| 9 | All told , BT had expected to invest some $100m in the three ventures . |
| 10 | The MAC system was designed to carry encrypted data and teleconference links either instead of normal programmes , or piggyback on top of them . |
| 11 | The plan is designed to provide more caribou for hunters ; hunting of the Delta herd has been banned since 1991 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Coal consumption in Europe is forecast to increase some 38% by the end of the century and the increased demand will be met by imports rather than indigenous production . |
| 14 | Thus , retirement may be seen as an age discriminatory social process designed to exclude older people en masse from the workforce . |
| 15 | One problem for BAF is that many athletes are still sympathetic to Hamilton-Jones 's cause , believing him to be an unwitting victim of an anti-drugs policy designed to catch bigger fish . |
| 16 | In a speech that echoed Norman Tebbit 's infamous call to people to get on their bikes , Roads Minister Robert Key announced a series of measures designed to encourage more people to cycle . |
| 17 | Schools in all but a few pockets of the county are expected to find enough people willing to stand for election in September when 1,600 governors are due to be appointed . |
| 18 | To give some idea of the scale of this operation , on the ‘ Core Site ’ alone , CCG are operating two 800 person canteens designed to serve 1,600 people in a space of 10 minutes . |
| 19 | Pools with the detritus would be expected to harbour more fish , but then predation from the belted kingfisher , Ceryle alcyon , increases . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | As part of our mailing activity we have produced a security card designed to help elderly people check on callers . |
| 23 | This factsheet is designed to help those people who have to organise someone 's funeral and/or those people who want to plan ahead for their own funeral . |
| 24 | Meanwhile , Christian National Education was designed to fit white people to remain rulers and to enhance their belief in their moral and racial superiority . |
| 25 | Mr Gonzalez 's party is expected to win 41 percent of the vote , with the conservative Popular Party a distant second at 23 per cent . |
| 26 | Promix is now the main product offering from Ross and is expected to generate some £15m sales in the UK this year , as opposed to £8m last year . |
| 27 | The recent changes in Community Care are designed to give more people the chance to live independent lives . |
| 28 | The adverts were designed to generate some sales leads as well as the main aim of raising awareness and these will be handled by . |
| 29 | Bills of lading and warehouse receipts , therefore , will need to be designed to allow instantaneous sales and pledges across the globe . |
| 30 | The Department of Health had been expected to approve another £250,000 when the story that it would refuse was leaked , apparently from Downing Street . |