Example sentences of "[vb pp] [verb] [adj] a [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | The dispositions of the Irish constitution were clearly designed to accommodate such a position in full . |
2 | There had by this stage been seven rounds of preliminary talks designed to arrange such a meeting . |
3 | The normality judgment task was included to provide such a measure . |
4 | I should not have expected to obtain such a reaction if more than twelve years had elapsed since death . ’ |
5 | Did the industrial militants in the car industry and the docks , the union leaders disaffected by incomes policy and the council tenants by the local state apparatus , the left intellectuals in the universities , add up to a social bloc capable of achieving sweeping changes in Britain 's insertion within international economic relations and the relations of production in the domestic economy , even if the Labour leadership had wished to lead such a movement ? |
6 | The relevant circumstances were that : ( i ) the limitation terms had nut been negotiated by any representative body ; ( ii ) the buyers could not have discovered the error ( i. e. that the wrong seed had been delivered ) until after the crop was sown , whereas the sellers were in a position to have known ; ( iii ) the buyers could not reasonably have been expected to cover such a risk ( i.e. of crop failure ) by insurance whereas it was possible for seedsmen to cover their liability by insurance at a modest premium which would not have put up the cost of seeds by very much ; ( iv ) the error could not have occurred without some negligence on the part of the sellers . |
7 | WML has been designed to strengthen such a commitment . |
8 | Such phrases try to give us an image of what the organisation is about and individuals within the organisation are expected to adopt such a culture and to pursue the goals that it prescribes . |
9 | Whether their monetary policy from as early as 1970 was designed to force such a devaluation is another question . |
10 | Furthermore such systems have not yet been designed to flood such a warehouse at the speed with which the fire will develop vertically and so far have only been used in conjunction with a sprinkler system at ceiling level . |
11 | Regarding the social differentiation between the sexes , this conceptual schematization can result ( and I stress that this is just one possibility , and one which admirably serves the needs of patriarchy ) in women being perceived as closer to nature in consequence of the biological facts of childbirth and menstruation ( or rather , a particular cultural interpretation thereof ) , whilst men , who are deemed to lack such a cycle of visible creativity ( and who have other aspects of their own equally natural physiology denied ) , are placed within the realm of culture , manipulating their own social and political existence , and transcending the passive forces of nature . |
12 | On the other hand , the Diary was less than impressed to get such a list from one of Scotland 's newer agencies detailing containing one horrendous spelling error . |
13 | No proof is available that the incident was designed to produce such a backlash nor that it was masterminded by an element within the government 's undercover set-up . |
14 | For each match , a new active word edge is created carrying the phonemic symbol just matched , and a pointer to the node in the tree which follows that phoneme branch , indicating the set of phonemes which are expected to follow such a beginning . |
15 | Increases in CO 2 anticipated over the next 50 years are expected to produce such a change by cooling the lower stratosphere . |
16 | What have they done to deserve such a fate ? " |
17 | I could not imagine what she had done to deserve such a punishment , but she did not look ashamed or unhappy . |
18 | What had he done to deserve such a thing ? |
19 | It 's largely on the alerting of the County Council 's decided to incorporate such a policy in this alteration . |
20 | They were moved to attempt such a weighing feat by the observation that odorous molecules are generally more soluble in organic solvents , such as fats and oils , than in water ( Bulletin of the Chemical Society of Japan , vol 63 , p 3082 ) . |
21 | When asked : ‘ Why have you decided to take such a stand ? ’ he replied simply : ‘ I felt it necessary to put feet on the gospel . ’ |
22 | I wonder whether the Treasury Minister has applied to make such a statement , because this concerns the Treasury as well as the Department of Trade and Industry ? |
23 | And yet , although Lloyd George was the author of the Free City proposals , they were approved by the Americans and the French , and had the Poles not been so heavily engaged against the Soviets by this time , they might still have attempted to seize Danzig by force — there was certainly little the Germans could have done to prevent such a move . |
24 | The point of a demonstration may be nullified if the target of the protest is not within the sight or hearing of the demonstrators , and it may be expected that it would only be in exceptional circumstances that conditions would be imposed preventing such a gathering . |
25 | ( 3 ) In granting an occasional permission under this section , which shall be in writing , the licensing board may impose such conditions as it thinks fit including a condition as to the type of alcoholic liquor which may be sold under the permission , and if the person to whom the permission is granted contravenes such a condition he shall be guilty of an offence . |
26 | Several attempts were made to construct such a theory by such people as Watson , Thorndike , Hull , Tolman and Köhler and his colleagues . |
27 | Only a minority of the population would have the plasmids needed to combat such a stress but at least the species , if not a majority of individuals , would survive . |
28 | In practice , the minister has only once had to issue such a directive ( when the Conservatives after 1951 stopped any further action by the Iron and Steel Board ) as these reserve powers are quite sufficient to make the boards listen carefully to any suggestions made in a less formal manner by the minister . |
29 | The experience of history may have helped to consolidate such a sense of trust . |
30 | Now some of them used to find that a bit irksome . |