Example sentences of "[vb pp] [to-vb] [prep] [art] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 31 | About 78% of the solar radiation incident upon Venus is scattered to space by the clouds . |
| 32 | The Soviet authorities had no reason to take any interest in the fate of a handful of foreign invaders when over twenty million of their own people had been killed , while as for the Italians , it had suddenly become clear that they had in fact been anti-Fascists to a man all along and could hardly be expected to sympathize with the relatives of those few fanatics who had been rash enough to fight for the despised Duce . |
| 33 | The Council … believes strongly that a first degree course in Educational Studies lasting three years may be designed to lead to an Honours award … the concept of a three-year degree course in Educational Studies , leading to an Honours or an unclassified degree , will be acceptable provided it combines an adequate period of practical experience in the classroom with a requisite minimum of academic studies . |
| 34 | The cactus finch , for example , has a long beak designed to feed on the flowers of the prickly-pear cactus ; while its remarkable mangrove cousin uses its beak to manipulate twigs to extract insects from deep within the bark of trees . |
| 35 | Postgraduate : students are expected to participate in the seminars and are encouraged to attend scientific meetings to present the results of the research projects and meet experts in their fields of study . |
| 36 | Unlike the United States Supreme Court , which can delve deep into the deliberations of the Founding Fathers to try to elucidate what was meant by a particular provision of the Constitution , British courts are not permitted to look at the proceedings of Parliament in order to determine what Parliament really meant . |
| 37 | It was a fragment of his own mind , designed to journey to the edgewoods , to find his rescuer . |
| 38 | As with the Faculty scholarships , overseas students will be expected to apply for an ORS award . |
| 39 | It has been known for staff to accept offers of jobs on the assumption that crêche places and hours will be organised to fit around the duties of employees . |
| 40 | Elected leaders , such as politicians and many trade union officials , have such authority , which they will be expected to exercise in the interests of the electors/union members . |
| 41 | Firstly the process of moving down towards our S S A needs to be facilitated because my own instinct is that the government , faced with all sorts of financial tribulations , is going to take a harder and harder nosed attitude towards local government expenditure , as it will unfortunately with an awful lot of the rest of what we have come to expect over the decades to be the responsibility of central government , clearly the current expenditure review is going to have some nasty shocks in it for consumers of account services , consumers of other assets of the welfare state but particularly I would suspect , the local government . |
| 42 | It seems the French got the better part of the deal when the Eurodisney share price was announced in the City yesterday with all the overkill we have come to expect from the Americans . |
| 43 | She had come to look at the frescos of Sandweg , the frescos that interpreted the story of the Massacre of the Innocents — the slaughter of the male children of Bethlehem at the behest of Herod . |
| 44 | The Lynx is being designed to fit on a 6″ by 9″ circuit board for embedded and mobile real-time distributed applications , and the Center plans to deliver a small number of the four-processor Lynxes to the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency in the fourth quarter of 1993 under a US Defense Department development programme . |
| 45 | The principles contained within the 1984 Act are designed to comply with the principles as stated in the Council of Europe Convention on Data Protection . |
| 46 | All new ‘ workstations ’ , ( defined as any furniture and equipment used by or in the presence of a user , together with the immediate environment in which the work is undertaken ) , have to comply with the regulations from January 1993 onwards , and all existing ‘ workstations ’ will have to be modified to comply with the Regulations by 31 December 1996 at the latest for less heavily-used stations . |
| 47 | Todorov , who has 20 caps , is expected to play for the reserves tomorrow against Derby and will train at the ground today . |
| 48 | The programme was designed to look at the skills and knowledge needed by hospitality industry managers , at all levels in every sector of the profession , to operate successfully within Britain and Continental Europe . |
| 49 | The result was a system in which the government never changed hands , but instead was carried out by those who could be trusted to look after the affairs of state . |
| 50 | Yet the law imposed prescriptions apparently designed to mark off the Jews from other nations . |
| 51 | I can see that perhaps if they want to have a er they may feel they need to stray into other boundaries but I did feel that when I read what Huntingdon district council proposed which was if you like , to completely re-drawing the electoral map for the entire county I was n't actually looking at something that was designed to deal with the interests of the citizens of Huntingdon district council , I was looking at the straightforward political proposal which would be far better to come from a political party than from a district council . |
| 52 | The history of the North Wing of Bedford General Hospital is deeply rooted in legislation ; in laws which were designed to deal with the problems arising from unemployment , sickness , destitution and vagrancy . |
| 53 | These are designed to deal with the situations where , under the TALISMAN system , a certificate is not issued to a particular type of transferee , or the company is entitled to and does refuse to register a transfer . |
| 54 | Other tactics being considered to deal with the goats include shooting only females , to cause unnatural social stresses in the population , and the use of dogs to hunt them — though these would have to be neutered to avoid the danger of establishing a new feral colony . |
| 55 | First of all , they have tried to shake off their somewhat starchy traditional image , by mounting exhibitions that are explicitly designed to draw in the crowds . |
| 56 | Shadows were settling thicker , as if great birds had come to perch in the branches overhead . |
| 57 | The committee was established to recommend a model of how the English language ( whether spoken or written ) works , which would form a basis for teacher training and professional discussion of English teaching ; to recommend how and how far this model should be made explicit to pupils ; and to recommend what pupils should be taught and be expected to understand by the ages of 7 , 11 and 16 . |
| 58 | ‘ Preston , ’ said Polly , when she came down from putting the twins to bed and in a tone he had come to recognise over the years . |
| 59 | The absence of Lydd , surely one of the most popular cross-Channel departure points , is inexplicable but , as with other Met Office aviation offerings , you are expected to read between the lines of the nearby fields . |
| 60 | A profound historical amnesia has come to settle around the Teds whereby rock-and-roll outrages of the past , together with the magnified excitements that accompanied them , have been smuggled out of sight . |