Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb pp] [verb] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 ) . |
| 2 | ‘ 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 . |
| 3 | Provided that the last protection listed contains an E , you do not need to change the protection . |
| 4 | 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 . ’ |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | In August 1988 both sides had agreed in principle to a UN peace plan calling for a ceasefire and exchange of prisoners and to a referendum designed to give the inhabitants of the territory ( administered as a Spanish colony until 1976 ) a choice between independence or integration into Morocco . |
| 9 | What needs to be stressed at this juncture is the fact that this historical moment , the focus of attention in this book , centred as it is on the literary production of an interwar French communist writer , marks only the first phase of development of French socialist realism , a phase characterised in the international sphere by an objective alliance after 1934 between Western liberalism and Soviet communism designed to counter the threat of fascism , and characterised in the French national context by practical collaboration between the PCF and bourgeois liberal parties . |
| 10 | So matters such as the teaching process ( Is the student given sufficient autonomy ? ) — the fundamental aims of the course ( Is the course designed to promote the student 's general education ? |
| 11 | A course designed to meet the needs of people in industry who have to communicate in English during their working lives . |
| 12 | In April 1947 a policy paper placed before the FEC had envisaged an industrial level designed to give the people of Japan a standard of living approximately equal to that experienced in 1930–34 . |
| 13 | Merely by having a contract designed to protect the interests of the business already prepared , your employer may seize the initiative in any negotiations . |
| 14 | This is because much of the central district in Somoza 's time collapsed in the massive 1972 earthquake : Somoza and his clique embezzled most of the international aid given to rebuild the city and so its central area remained in ruins . |
| 15 | With a load torque of 0–75 Nm the motor must move approximately 8 degrees from the step position , until the torque developed balances the load . |
| 16 | The albeit late advent of man can be appreciated by outlining the antecedents , the research undertaken to ascertain the magnitude of man , the emphasis upon hazards and upon man-made environments as a basis for a more environmental physical geography . |
| 17 | The Pension Trustees Forum is a new association designed to give a specialist service to trustees in areas such as training , information and discussion . |
| 18 | In the summer , we issued further guidance designed to improve the targeting of the funds . |
| 19 | The paper describes early stages of a programme of research designed to investigate the effects of different ways of organizing social work teams . |
| 20 | Earlier attempts to defuse the Polish problem , including a more generous form of Emancipation designed to detach the peasantry from the nationalist nobility , gave way to reliance on force majeure and an aggressive policy of Russification . |
| 21 | The Trust 's recommendations for a code of practice designed to reconcile the interests of conservation and tourism were widely welcomed . |
| 22 | Another is the concept of uneven development , a term designed to capture the fact of inequality between geographical areas . |
| 23 | Had the Opposition wished to debate the issues , they should have delayed their prayers until after today 's debate and that debate could have been arranged through the usual channels . |
| 24 | However , the appointment of a receiver must not be equated with that of a liquidator : ( i ) where a receiver is appointed the company need not go into liquidation and if it does the same person who acted as receiver will normally not be appointed liquidator ; ( ii ) liquidation is a class action designed to protect the interests of the unsecured creditors whereas , as we shall see , receivership is designed to protect the interests of the security holders who appointed the receiver and it is for this reason that a receiver can be appointed even where the company is in liquidation ; ( iii ) liquidation terminates the trading power of the company whereas this is not the case with receivership ; ( iv ) a liquidator has power to disclaim onerous property , something not possible in the case of receivership ; ( v ) a liquidator in a compulsory winding up is an officer of the court whereas this is not the case with a receiver unless appointed by the court ; ( vi ) lastly , it is easier to obtain recognition of liquidation as opposed to receivership in proceedings in foreign courts . |
| 25 | We report the first results from a study designed to evaluate the effects of the NHS reforms in general practices and hospitals in the Oxford region . |
| 26 | A confidential study designed to assess the extent of professional abuse , follows investigations in America that showed one in 10 counsellors developed sexual relationships with those they should have been helping . |
| 27 | We describe a study designed to determine the sites of ET-1 expression in patients with CFA , and to correlate these findings with histological changes in the disease . |
| 28 | A punisher designed to strengthen a behaviour . |
| 29 | On April 22 , 1991 , Ryzkhov 's successor as Prime Minister , Pavlov , presented to the USSR Supreme Soviet an emergency anti-crisis programme designed to stabilize the economy by the end of the year and to speed up the transition to a market economy . |
| 30 | A programme designed to improve the skid-resistance of Britain 's roads is cutting wet-road accidents by up to 50 per cent in some places , says the Transport and Road Research Laboratory . |