Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb pp] [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ASK any hard-headed financier , and he will tell you that debt relief never works : public money given to help struggling debtor nations will end up in the hands of the lenders — the banks whose over-readiness to lend helped to land the debtors in trouble in the first place . |
| 2 | Recent legislation , on employment protection by making provision for disclosure of information and advance consultation on redundancy , and on health and safety by bringing the subject into the sphere of joint regulation , is advanced as the basis for this declaration : ‘ It can be argued indeed that the basis for a legislative framework designed to encourage industrial democracy at shop floor level already exists ’ . |
| 3 | What remedy had Parliament resolved to cure this defect ? |
| 4 | The cession of the south was not so much payment for help already given , but a concession designed to ensure future support and give Edward III a vested interest in the endurance of Balliol 's rule . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | As part of our mailing activity we have produced a security card designed to help elderly people check on callers . |
| 11 | While Poulantzas allows that the sort of research designed to sustain this view has some limited use 's he first of all objects that it does not bear out the factual claim that government officials and leading capitalists belong to an identifiable group . |
| 12 | Aergo : The name given to Karrimor 's moulded backsystem designed to give good ventilation to the back area and distribute the load between the hips and shoulders , as in an adjustable system . |
| 13 | Last year saw the launch of a packaging review designed to minimise necessary packaging . |
| 14 | We will contribute to the Countryside Commission 's new Parish Path Partnership designed to stimulate local maintenance and improvement schemes . |
| 15 | A small group of 60 women will then be selected to take part in a further qualitative interview and observation study designed to yield ethnographic data about what counts as leisure for a group of women of different social backgrounds and stages in the family life cycle . |
| 16 | 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 ) . |
| 17 | A computer programme designed to ensure perfect transportation conditions for works of art has been devised by an art restorer at the Laboratory of Analytical Restoration at the Smithsonian Institute , Washington . |
| 18 | They also received an equally intensive programme designed to change life-long shopping , cooking and eating patterns , and hence bring their cholesterol down as well . |
| 19 | This is concerned with group image and is based on a long-term , carefully planned programme designed to achieve maximum recognition and understanding of the organisation 's objectives and performance which is in keeping with realistic expectations . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | Now it is starting to rev its engines with a new Spectrum programme designed to increase Interactive channel sales , preparing the way for Solaris-on-Intel . |
| 22 | Approaching the fabliaux with a mind prepared to find moral instruction in the texts , however unpromising they might superficially seem to be for such interpretation , is something that we can reconstruct as an authentic medieval mode of reading — " " All that is written is written for our doctrine " " as St Paul has it — although there is little direct evidence for the application of such literary theory to vernacular literature as well as the classics before the fourteenth century , and even then the extent of such application is difficult to assess . |
| 23 | Here is found the cities ' oldest remaining housing stock built to accommodate low-paid workers in adjacent factories and menial city-centre jobs and generally receiving very little maintenance as the owners await the transition of the land to a higher-value use like shops or offices or the threat of compulsory purchase for the construction of new relief roads or other types of public-sector development . |
| 24 | While Sadat was praised in the West as a saintly figure prepared to make great sacrifices in order to end the strife between Muslin and Jew , in the Middle East he was widely denounced as a traitor and a knave . |
| 25 | Left : The new 3000 series of dishwashers from Bauknecht features a Clean Controller System which monitors each load and chooses the type of washing programme needed to give perfect results and economical use of water and detergent . |
| 26 | The pilot study helped identify specific areas that restricted my practice and therefore limited my effectiveness |
| 27 | Cava is the Spanish term used to describe sparkling wine made by the champagne method . |
| 28 | " Mechanic " was not the only term used to describe skilled workmen . |
| 29 | Morbidity is a broad term used to describe non-mortal patterns of ill health within the population . |
| 30 | The fundamental thermodynamic equation used to describe these systems relates the Gibbs free energy function G to the enthalpy H and entropy S , i.e. . |