Example sentences of "[noun] [vb pp] [verb] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The size and range of the relief activities undertaken shows the strength of public support for the Spanish Republican government . |
| 2 | Some of this support was on a substantial scale : a large cheque given to enable the parents to ‘ buy things for the baby ’ ; a capital sum to enable a young architect to buy into a new firm ; paying the wages of a home help to assist a family with several young children ( pp. 92–4 ) . |
| 3 | ‘ For God 's sake , get to sea instantly … , ’ the First Lord of the Admiralty signalled the captain in command of the squadron assigned to blockade the Texel . |
| 4 | Provided that the last protection listed contains an E , you do not need to change the protection . |
| 5 | But Mr Smith warned : ‘ This will be a budget designed to save the skin of the Chancellor , not a budget to rescue the British economy . ’ |
| 6 | WORRIES over what the election result will bring make contracts designed to take the risk out of risk investment increasingly popular . |
| 7 | In this and the previous chapter , policies designed to improve the co-ordination of urban agencies have been addressed . |
| 8 | ( in this issue ) note that the context of EC competition policy has always been the promotion of competition within a single European market , despite arguments that have sometimes been expressed in favour of industrial policies designed to improve the competitiveness of European firms in international markets . |
| 9 | It was in the wake of the London conference on Germany that the Americans , British and French initiated a number of policies designed to resolve the future of Western Europe without Soviet interference . |
| 10 | Between the wars the aim of housing legislation was simply to stimulate the construction of as many houses as possible in rural areas ; since 1945 the aim has been to control the number of houses in rural areas as part of overall planning policies designed to contain the growth of urban sprawl , prevent the loss of good agricultural land and protect the visual quality of the countryside . |
| 11 | Governments may adopt various industrial , regional and fiscal policies designed to increase the incentive to entrepreneurs to set up new businesses and possibly also to reduce the ‘ red tape ’ involved . |
| 12 | It is therefore becoming increasingly important that firms develop practices and policies designed to overcome the difficulties many women face . |
| 13 | He is bitterly humiliated when he is beaten in a fist-battle with Thomas Fox , arranged by the captain as the climax to a day of races and contests organised to keep the hands occupied while the ship is becalmed . |
| 14 | In the RAF 's first attack on the runway at Port Stanley , carried out by a Vulcan V-bomber which flew from Ascension Island , only one of the 21 bombs dropped hit the runway . |
| 15 | The practices of infanticide and geronticide are culturally defined behaviour patterns designed to ensure the survival of the group in times of extreme food shortages . |
| 16 | Yet because the philosopher 's adult has traditionally been male , his children boy children , and his educational programmes designed to facilitate the transition between them , the ideal of the fully human person has been masculinised to the point where otherwise thoughtful and sometimes good and wise men have unashamedly admitted that this defining ideal is not applicable to half the species . |
| 17 | Concern swung away from programmes designed to reschedule a reduction of service costs , back towards the earlier aspiration of redemption . |
| 18 | The work of COPPES is but a small indication of the determination and resolve of the women prisoners to demand respect for their human rights , Despite their exceptionally disheartening conditions , they have Protested using all the means at their disposal and have carried out educational and political activities designed to support the work of the FDR-FMLN : |
| 19 | These bodies regarded the cultural form as part of a commercialized industry and were unwilling to provide grants for activities designed to make a profit . |
| 20 | Preventive behaviour describes those activities designed to reduce the risk of developing an illness , while maintenance describes activities designed to maintain and , perhaps , improve health . |
| 21 | The TVEI was set up in 1983 as a series of pilot projects designed to test a variety of different methods and approaches , and was extended in 1987 , becoming a national scheme intended , eventually , to be available to all 14–18-year-olds , irrespective of ability . |
| 22 | ‘ They were improvements designed to make the building 100pc perfect , but which we could take out to cut the £4.5m estimate back and still maintain safety , ’ said Mr Buxton . |
| 23 | Hewlett-Packard pitched into the downsizing battle with a vengeance last week with the launch of new top-end multi-processors claimed to be more powerful than up to 85% of IBM 's installed base of mainframe systems — and in a supporting role gathered together an impressive list of mainframe specialist software houses committed to support the machines . |
| 24 | Ironically , in the same way that the denial of the risk of harm associated with a possible preventive measure undermines the basis for performing a randomised trial designed to investigate the efficacy of that measure , the exaggeration of the risk of harm tends to undermine public health measures designed to introduce the preventive measure if it is shown to be effective . |
| 25 | Even when that object was not consciously in view most proposals for Masai development tended in practice towards that end , their essential ingredient being some measure designed to move the Masai away from the semi-nomadism they had immemorially practised towards a way of living which would make it easier for administrators to keep a benevolent eye on them . |
| 26 | This is a technique designed to teach the patient how to follow a movement , adapt to a change of posture and cope with different situations without producing spasticity through making too much effort . |
| 27 | The special characteristics of the industry itself led to an emphasis on rules designed to regulate the forms of product and labour market competition . |
| 28 | The emphasis in agreements was therefore placed upon procedural , rather than substantive , rules designed to uphold the employers ' right to manage in the face of attempted unilateral imposition of working rules by craft unions . |
| 29 | A statutory power to make delegated legislation will not empower the delegate to make rules designed to oust the jurisdiction of the courts unless very clear words to this effect appear in the enabling statute . |
| 30 | They were exactly characteristic of the era of ‘ modernization ’ ( I am grateful to Tim Blackman , 1987 , for this usage ) in which the leadership of the local Labour and Trade Union movement actively collaborated with regional capital , regional representatives of trans-national capital and the central state in promoting a series of strategies designed to facilitate the operations of trans-national capital , while simultaneously providing jobs and improving the environment . |