Example sentences of "[vb pp] [to-vb] the [adj] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is intended to restore the former baronial mansion to its original internal splendour as a clubhouse for the proposed 18-hole golf course . |
| 2 | Iraq , which had been barred from exporting oil since its invasion of Kuwait in August 1990 , was permitted to attend the sixth ministerial meeting . |
| 3 | The sculpture , created by Irena Adams and featuring giant bat shapes , was built to demonstrate bricks specially designed to accommodate the furry flying mammals in buildings . |
| 4 | The physical environment would have to be remodelled to enforce the new legal speed limits , so that speeds would be reduced by design as well as sign ( Figure 4.1 ) . |
| 5 | The papal itinerary is expected to include the former Portuguese colony of East Timor , annexed by Indonesia in 1976 , which has a predominantly Catholic population . |
| 6 | About 100,000 people are expected to attend the 11-day annual event in the King 's Hall , Balmoral . |
| 7 | In addition to the Warrant itself , member companies are expected to attend the exclusive Annual Warrant Holders dinner , inviting a limited number of their important customers as guests . |
| 8 | They were designed to carry the maximum possible tonnage of coal under the Thames bridges with the minimum of clearance both under keel and overhead . |
| 9 | Corporatism is designed to sustain the existing economic system by securing the co-operation of labour in policies for incomes , prices , profits and dividends which can only be against its long-term interests ( Panitch 1979 ; Jessop 1979 ) . |
| 10 | Straight chemical fertilizers are for the most part designed to provide the three major elements nitrogen , phosphate and potash , and seldom if ever contain any of the minor elements . |
| 11 | The architects say the building has been designed to meet the highest archival standards so that the records can be stored at the correct temperature and humidity . |
| 12 | Our range of sleeping beauties have all been especially designed to meet the two highest standards there are : you and your child 's . |
| 13 | At current production rates , production from the Wytch Farm field was expected to pass the 100 million barrel mark in early October . |
| 14 | It stands , alert in its inscrutable knowing that this is its proper season , primed to rebuke the dysfunctioning human subject , a riddling , aleatoric text of querulous combustion . |
| 15 | The first is to generate a large number of test items designed to indicate the supposed social or attitudinal attribute . |
| 16 | The marketing of the share sale over the coming weeks is designed to attract the highest possible number of private investors . |
| 17 | They are organised to serve the mainstream social , political and economic development of European society . |
| 18 | Given this reality , a Common Foreign and Security policy can only be expected to reflect the lowest common denominator , the position which least offends . |
| 19 | Until fairly recently , translations from Horace were not designed to serve the simple informative purpose of telling an inquisitive reader what Horace 's writing was like , what sort of thing might be found in his poems , and whether it might be worth learning a little Latin to find out more . |
| 20 | ‘ A competition designed to replace the old final trial and one which is supposed to produce the national squad , ’ he said . |
| 21 | Designed to replace the old blue plates with their yellow numbers , the State 's Department of Motor Vehicles was proud of the fact that the new plates ‘ offer an almost infinite number of combinations ’ , but was nervous about where some of those combinations might lead them . |
| 22 | The A-12 had been designed to replace the ageing A-6 bombers currently deployed on aircraft carriers . |
| 23 | Lotus 's next disaster came in 1974 with the Lotus 76 , the car designed to replace the magnificent 72 . |
| 24 | You may not have noticed but September is National Breweries month , designed to celebrate the traditional British pint . |
| 25 | The medical and surgical complex is housed within six , two-storey wings which are linked by a network of attractive ‘ streets ’ designed to reflect the neighbouring residential location . |
| 26 | All were merely delaying tactics designed to conceal the basic French distaste for West German rearmament and the weakness of French governments . |
| 27 | I 've come to win the British Open ! ’ |
| 28 | Modern Fourier transform interferometers , designed to operate mainly in the IR , can also be used up to 16 000 cm -1 or so , covering part of the visible region , and instruments designed to cover the entire visible region should be available soon . |
| 29 | The grant and loan system is designed to cover the entire academic year , not just part of it . |
| 30 | The agency calls for radar to be installed to cover the whole Scottish coast , and says tanker masters should be required to report significant failures to the Coastguard immediately they happen . |