Example sentences of "[vb pp] [to-vb] [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 By April he had recovered sufficiently to travel to America once more , to see his sisters ; this visit is perhaps most remarkable for the fact that he addressed the largest assembly ever gathered to attend a literary lecture ( he also received what was then the largest fee for such an event , some two thousand dollars ) .
2 It is intended to monitor the economic relations between these Republics collectively or singly to provide a basis for future studies in greater depth .
3 A new role was then established , that of coordinator , which bypassed the head and was intended to carry the new vision of good practice directly from Merrion House ( the Education Department 's offices ) to the classroom .
4 Radio in the 1940S and television under the Fifth Republic enabled de Gaulle to ‘ commune ’ with the French people : circumstances frequently conspired to dramatize the stark alternatives associated with his name ; in 1940 the rejection of collaboration and defeat ; from 1946 to 1958 , when out of power and largely absent from the radio , he slowly became ‘ le recours ’ , the possible saviour from the ‘ regime des parties ’ , party factions and divisions ; when President ( 1958–69 ) , and master of the airwaves , the recurrent implicit or explicit message was ‘ but for me , France faces chaos ’ — ‘ moi ou le chaos ’ — the twentieth-century equivalent of Louis XIV 's celebrated ‘ l'état c'est moi ’ — ‘ I am the state ’ .
5 The Training Guide was developed to support the one-to-one training relationship between the recent graduate , the trainee , and the experienced general practitioner who had assumed the role of trainer .
6 Some focus on a particular joint-venture subsidiary company ; some involve the sharing of research and development ; some are an alliance of production capacity with marketing strength ; some involve putting a foreign product under a domestic label ; some alliances are intended to promote a new standard or form of compatibility ( and to defeat a rival standard ) .
7 As well as raising money for the National Trust for the Homeless , the event was intended to promote a National Sleepout next month .
8 Nkrumah was undecided ; was he really intended to promote the political interests of the intelligentsia ?
9 The most militant fan of Sixties architecture would be hard pressed to support a last-minute appeal for the Bull Ring , although crocodile tears will be shed over the probable demolition of the Rotunda , a monumental steel and glass phallus , that , in the absence of a sky-piercing cathedral , acts as the city 's one instantly recognisable focal point .
10 Family routines are adjusted to accommodate the worsening disease .
11 The rations given to Parnaka were surely intended to support a large household , of a feudal type ; in fact a household of what Herakleides called ‘ fellow-diners ’ .
12 These standards are intended to support the business-like approach of the ES .
13 It is also intended to support the occupational SVQs .
14 The original structure was partially demolished prior to the line 's closure with a Bailey bridge then placed to accommodate the limited traffic under B.R. ownership .
15 Various strategies , individual and collective , were developed to combat the organizational pressure .
16 THE IRA bomb that killed two people in the City of London on Friday night was intended to drive the general election result off the front pages and put the Northern Ireland issue firmly back on the national political agenda .
17 A new lobby group ‘ Freight on Rail ’ has been formed to promote the successful transition of the Railfreight industry into the private sector .
18 But I do n't think reference has been made to a document that is referred to in P P G one , namely the doc the white paper , This Common Inheritance , er D O E document , and in that there 's a clear indication that this question of a new settlement erm should be considered , paragraph six point four eight reads , however well urban land is used , there will continue to be a need for building on greenfield sites , it is important that new housing on such sites is carefully placed to preserve the open countryside , and respects the quality of the landscape .
19 ‘ One passage tries to transform multi-cultural education into a form of Orwellian thought control by telling teachers that children must be taught to acknowledge the positive aspects of homosexual and lesbian households , ’ she says .
20 Three tests have been developed to estimate the risk-adjusted performance of portfolios :
21 Gould 's plans to finish the work himself , in which Lear originally had intended to include every known member of the parrot genus , never materialised .
22 This year 's parliament is intended to include the final rites over the 1989 protests as the judiciary reports on its recent ‘ successes ’ in jailing the leaders of the demonstrations .
23 It had originally been intended to include the Independent Women 's Union , which had campaigned jointly with the Green Party , but the two parties split after the Independent Women 's Union unsuccessfully demanded a larger share of the eight seats the list had won .
24 However , it would be dangerous indeed to assume that all these entrants were intended to acquire a full competence in the trade.58 Work on Essex shows that the skill and training content of female apprenticeships was generally modest , and that they tended to have a different meaning .
25 It is intended to interview a representative sample of 3,000 married women under the age of 60 together with a sample of 500 of their husbands .
26 VR1 is adjusted to optimise the large signal handling capability of the circuit .
27 So I would emphasise then , again , that the resolution is intended to enable the present position to continue , and to enable your trustees to manage the funds effectively in setting the policy and benefiting from the advice which is available .
28 There are also commercial preparations of bacteria which are intended to restore the normal flora of the gut .
29 This large implication is said to be justified because Parliament must have intended to preserve the long-standing immunity against questioning after charge , and can not have intended to create a régime which would ‘ make a mockery of ’ ( A. v. H.M.
30 Both measures were intended to curb the 1991 budget deficit after initial projections had put it at Rbs250,000 million .
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