Example sentences of "[noun] [vb pp] [verb] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 ) . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | The right of all to improved access to training , including policies designed to ensure equal opportunities . |
| 5 | In addition the government would be more able to pursue policies designed to rescue collapsing firms and to reduce regional disparities of income . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Products designed to mend split ends work on a temporary basis by ‘ gluing ’ the ends together . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Well we er have programmes designed to encourage chief executives to er concentrate on cash generation . |
| 11 | Six key UK aid projects designed to protect tropical forests have failed in virtually all their objectives , according to an unpublished draft report commissioned by the government 's aid arm , the Overseas Development Administration ( ODA ) . |
| 12 | We are supporting projects designed to build efficient institutions and accountable government . |
| 13 | It often manages specific projects designed to develop all aspects relating to the development of occupational standards , which would usually include : |
| 14 | An influential voice in the debate was that of Georg Kerschensteiner , Director of Education in Munich , ‘ the Mecca of all school reformers ’ , who was famous for his opposition to ‘ general ’ continued courses , preferring instead the ‘ vocational ’ but in an integrated curriculum designed to train young workers as citizens . |
| 15 | Soon the " Hays Office " was issuing elaborate rules designed to maintain moral standards on the screen . |
| 16 | It has been succeeded by over ten Acts designed to protect other aspects of our natural and cultural heritage . |
| 17 | We will produce guidance on the preparation of local Indicative Forestry Strategies designed to encourage new woodlands , while steering planting away from sensitive areas . |
| 18 | Among the most fundamental of the proposals designed to meet these objectives are changes in the method of allocating resources to health authorities and the separation of the provision of health services from their funding , using what many have termed an ‘ internal market ’ . |
| 19 | On July 15 both countries issued specific proposals designed to increase cultural contacts . |
| 20 | The pack also includes general guidance for employers and employees on the prevention of work-related musculo-skeletal disorders , and an assessment checklist designed to help most employers who have to carry out an assessment of their manual handling operations to do so quickly and at minimum cost . |
| 21 | Jade accessories featured in rituals designed to ensure good relations between emperors and the celestial powers on whom they depended to ensure the continued mandate of heaven . |
| 22 | THE Academy of Wine Service has introduced a course designed to update senior managers , sommeliers and waiters on recent developments , innovations and service skills in wine . |
| 23 | It was uncertain whether the methods developed to survey fossiliferous sediments could be applied to the deformed crystalline rocks which underlie so much of Scotland . |
| 24 | A draft code of guidance designed to make public inquiries quicker , more efficient and cheaper has been issued by the Secretary of State for Scotland . |
| 25 | But the stations were in many respects designed to avoid these encounters across class and racial boundaries as much as possible . |
| 26 | But one of the most brutal methods reported involves confining detainees in a tiny cubicle measuring 80 by 100 cm , referred to as the coffin' . |
| 27 | Banking debts and death duties owed not so much on the estates ( which under German law enjoy tax concessions designed to hold historic estates together ) , but on business investments , have led the Dowager Fürstin , Gloria , to decide to sell . |
| 28 | But where the two groups live together , there appears to be no clear difference in language use , an example being the Protestants and Catholics of working-class East Belfast whose language was analysed during a pilot study designed to investigate possible effects of ethnicity ( see 6.2.2 ) . |
| 29 | Another factor considered in the Course Design was the introduction of units designed to meet local requirements and enhance the student 's career opportunities , eg Management Orientation , and Quality Control and Reliability . |
| 30 | Robles announced an economic stabilization programme designed to increase international reserves , to strengthen the quetzal against the US dollar and to restrict the money supply . |