Example sentences of "[vb pp] [to-vb] [noun sg] in the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Competition The proposals included a number of reforms which were intended to stimulate competition in the financial system and also to remove some of the discriminatory aspects of the previous methods of regulation : |
| 2 | Interior Minister Carlos Saavedra Bruno announced on July 17 a 120-day amnesty period for drug traffickers to surrender voluntarily in return for a guarantee that they would not be extradited to stand trial in the United States . |
| 3 | She would have to pass through the parlour to reach the kitchen , an arrangement which had shocked the pampered girl she had been , but it was obviously designed to conserve space in the small house . |
| 4 | On the basis of this knowledge the replacement of adenine by 3-deazaadenine would be expected to disrupt hydration in the minor groove and therefore destabilise a B-type DNA helix . |
| 5 | Business with industrial and commercial companies and financial institutions is expected to remain flat in the next quarter but business with individuals is likely to fall further . |
| 6 | This drill is one of a series of exercises designed to increase flexibility in the shoulders . |
| 7 | This assumption is hardly ever challenged ; yet it is clearly the case that many scientists are as incompetent in the humanities as many humanities graduates tend to be in the sciences ; it is perhaps a mark of the enormous divide we have made between the two areas that ability in one is often considered to preclude ability in the other . |
| 8 | The wind power is expected to come onstream in the late 1990s . |
| 9 | The lexical analyser ( which includes morphological processing ) has been designed to accept input in the form of a character lattice ( see Appendix C ) , so this can work with any recogniser that produces output in this format . |
| 10 | A small amount of Italian may be included to give bulk in the first year . |
| 11 | Designed to give practice in the main functional patterns used in writing the most common forms of business letters . |
| 12 | Jan Little 's Wath Fantasy is expected to start favourite in the 255 metres event , though Shawfield 's Rhincres Legend , which won at Sunderland last week , makes a quick return and connections are excited about Conway 's new dog , the wide-running Irish import Outcast Charlie . |
| 13 | More than 200 scientists from thirteen countries participated in the shuttle mission , which was designed to allow research in the materials and life sciences to take place under microgravity conditions . |
| 14 | The postholder is expected to develop expertise in the area of his/her current specialism while retaining a good working knowledge of all other areas of the Department 's statutory requirements . |
| 15 | In the 1960s , under the Sandys plan , a regular army of only 165,000 was expected to maintain stability in the colonial Empire as well as keeping BAOR at 55,000 men — not an inviting prospect . |
| 16 | This requires action taken by a trade union to be supported by a majority in a secret ballot of all those reasonably expected to take part in the action , and in view of the practicalities of organising a ballot and the fact that advance approval of action is valid for only four weeks puts a serious constraint upon the taking of effective action even where that has overwhelming support . |
| 17 | Five of the banks which had been expected to take part in the scheme , however , had on Dec. 20 , 1989 , announced that they would not be participating for commercial reasons , although the following day , John MacGregor , Secretary of State for Education and Science , had stated that the objectives , principles and framework of the scheme remained unchanged . |
| 18 | More than 17,000 troops from France , Germany , Italy , the Netherlands , the UK and the USA were expected to take part in the operation . |
| 19 | The move affected several thousand former members of parliament and public officials , many of whom could be expected to take part in the presidential and legislative elections in 1992 . |
| 20 | The four are still expected to take part in the World Amateur Bodybuilding Championship . |
| 21 | A 20-strong group is expected to take part in the event at Tunstall Court on June 26 . |
| 22 | Around 40 members of the congregation are expected to take part in the trip on May 29 . |
| 23 | To do this , two police force areas with differing practices have been approached to take part in the research and the impact of the introduction of the Crown Prosecutor recorded . |
| 24 | When we are dealing with the literature on voting behaviour , we are dealing with a literature that has come to display turbulence in the face of electoral behaviour that has become increasingly volatile and unpredictable . |
| 25 | In Chapter 1 we saw how institutional investors have come to dominate shareholding in the International Stock Exchange . |
| 26 | The technology is designed to limit variation in the conduct of tasks . |
| 27 | Alfred , as the elder , was expected to follow father in the business but he jibbed ; he wanted to be a doctor . |
| 28 | It is advisable to set target dates for each stage in the international relocation process , working backwards from the date on which the expatriate is expected to begin work in the new location . |
| 29 | This explains the welcome given to any cultural syntheses which might be expected to renew belief in the uniform spiritual essence both of English literature and of the discipline itself . |
| 30 | To ask the Secretary of State for Health if he will introduce proposals whereby national health service patients could be referred to receive treatment in the EC . |