Example sentences of "[vb pp] [verb] [adj] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 THE Social Fund — which was intended to target social security on the poorest — has failed , according to a report published today .
2 Rescheduling of such debts has become a necessity for the private banks , and a practice which has emerged is that new agreements have been made conditional on such countries accepting the stringent programmes of the IMF which are intended to promote effective adjustment of a country 's balance of payments and ensure that the use of Fund resources is temporary .
3 These incentives , together with controls on the location of industry , have formed the main body of regional policy measures developed to promote industrial growth in the assisted areas .
4 The editors of Arlidge & Parry on Fraud ( 1985 ) , p. 97 , para. 3.39 , express doubt as to whether the term ‘ employment ’ is intended to include any form of paid work or is confined to contracts of employment in the strict sense .
5 This can either be calculated using total variance in breeding success or using only variance attributable to differences in the number of mates per individual ( see Wade & Arnold , 1980 ) .
6 Apart from the current pressures from Central Government not to build or replace residential homes but to rely more heavily on the private and voluntary sector and housing associations , they are also being pressed to see Residential Care as a positive choice ( Wagner Report 1987 ) , to see the residential home as a community resource by providing more flexible patterns , respite , short-term and long term care and extended day care .
7 The Act is intended to preserve this state of affairs in section 3(3) , which provides that :
8 This exercise was also intended to assure equal fluency with all five shapes and eliminate the potential hazard of having a ‘ favourite ’ shape .
9 On the particular facts of the case , service on a wholly owned , closely controlled subsidiary was reasonably calculated to secure timely notice to the parent company , and so to meet the United States version of due process .
10 In view of the number of working and pleasure horses in the kingdom , when the phrase ‘ horsepower ’ meant literally just that , and the concentration of dairy cows around and even within the metropolis , and also the growing number of pets in middle-class households , it is strange that the demands of so many animal owners , some wealthy or even extremely rich , had not led to the development of a proper profession competent to deal with animal diseases , just as the professions of physician , surgeon and apothecary had burgeoned to meet public demand at the end of the 17th and the beginning of the 18th centuries .
11 A new company , Trivector Technical Services , has been formed to provide technical support for Trivector System designed products including the Trilab , Trio and LA ranges of chromatography integrators .
12 Christians will see in this the biblical command to ‘ look after the widows and the orphans ’ and it seems that churches are uniquely placed to provide this sort of support .
13 I do not however think the Court of Appeal can have intended to exclude all information in Goulding J's second category from possible protection by a restrictive covenant .
14 The figures we have used are made up and are not intended to indicate any trend in Oxford .
15 With regard to an absence of market demand , the economic development strategy produced by the County Council refers to inward investment , it refers to this as being a small portion of the portion of er job growth , the county is not necessarily best placed to attract inward investment in terms of the the type of economy that we have based on small firms and the availability of labour .
16 The presence of such items in a church may have been intended to increase popular respect for the monarchy .
17 Thus , it was suggested , Babangida was well placed to forestall any attempt within the security forces to hinder the progress of transition to a civilian , two-party system of government by 1992 .
18 The scheme was intended to provide financial help to unemployed workers in depressed areas who were prepared to move to other areas .
19 m pond , believed to be the largest operating solar collector in the world , was intended to provide hot water for a nearby hotel .
20 This booklet is intended to provide further background for employees on these issues .
21 Therefore , any form of report which by virtue of the qualifications of the reporter was intended to provide some comfort to readers of accounts would be regarded as a quasi audit report .
22 As the programme of library education was in a state of active development , many of the methods used were intended to provide formative evaluation on which course modifications could be based .
23 The additional 1 billion cubic meters of water is intended to provide hydro-electric power via three dams and to help boost production of tobacco , cotton , sugar beet and pulses in the region .
24 Therefore , on any given project , a manageable chunk will be completed to secure enough cash for wages .
25 Not only would the courts leave the meaning of the term to the magistrates ; they would also accept the magistrates ' view as to whether the evidence justified applying that term to the case .
26 The term ‘ fuel pump ’ is intended to encompass any type of pump used to dispense fuel for use in vehicles .
27 Adjuvant chemolitholytic medication was given to obtain complete dissolution of the fragments .
28 Though he will be seeking Wissenschaft , he must be taught to relate that knowledge to other knowledge , across a wide spectrum .
29 Hair Repair from St. Ives is an intensive treatment designed to restore damaged hair in just 2 minutes and we are giving away 200 of the new 25ml sachets .
30 Previously , the 1969 and 1977 NOP surveys had broached this problem , with a question asking people whether they had considered using some form of credit but had not actually done so — and exploring their reasons .
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