Example sentences of "[vb pp] [to-vb] the [adj] [coord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Bush stated that prosperity depended on " trade not aid " and that the initiative was also intended to bolster the economic and political changes already taking place in the region . |
| 2 | His account is intended to provide the structural and analytical framework for two companion volumes ( Uncertain Unions and Broken Lives ) which will give more illustration of the making and breaking of marriage . |
| 3 | And , despite claims , particularly among the Germans , French , Italians and Spanish , that it is a bad thing , many American insurance companies reckon that people with low blood pressure in middle age , far from suffering a disease , are expected to lead the longest and healthiest lives . |
| 4 | In a linked announcement made at the same time the company unveiled a low-end addition to its 6611 multi-protocol router family — designed to tackle the burgeoning and lucrative branch-office market . |
| 5 | We need to offer disruptive children an education that does not limit them in a straitjacket designed to serve the political and economic needs of a society characterised by a culture of individualism . |
| 6 | The forces creating a waged proletariat were not only stronger there in mining and in manufacturing , but after the mid eighteenth century a distinctive agrarian proletariat had come to characterise the southern and Midland counties . |
| 7 | 7.1 Each of the Parties agrees during the term of this Agreement not to participate in any project which competes with the Project or which is designed to fulfil the same or similar objects . |
| 8 | The study was designed to determine the gastroprotective and ulcer healing efficacy of basic transforming growth factor ( bFGF ) and to assess whether this peptide contributes to the action of sucralfate on the rat stomach . |
| 9 | For Le Preziose , Buitoni have created four new shapes , which do more than just look beautiful on the plate , they are specially designed to hold the delicious and subtle sauces that you 'll find in our recipes . |
| 10 | The versatile artist raises the question of relationship between the arts , and how far they can be considered to have the same or similar aims . |
| 11 | There was no doubt that they were expected to admire the former and scorn the latter ; anyone misguided enough to get the preference the wrong way round , would be regarded as at best naïve and misguided , and at worst corrupted in sensibility . |
| 12 | The activities are designed to exploit the motivating and memorable appeal of music to the learner and the author proves his point that ‘ anything you can do with a text , you can do with a song ’ . |
| 13 | The same reflections were measured on each crystal at three wavelengths , λ 1-3 , chosen as previously recommended to maximize the dispersive and anomalous differences from the selenium K-edge . |
| 14 | This latter emphasis is intended to highlight the underlying but centrally important issues of control , power and interests together with the generation of conflict , rather than with mechanisms and techniques for its resolution . |
| 15 | In 1922 the membership was expanded to include the medical and veterinary professions . |
| 16 | In pursuit of this goal France also decided to minimize the military and to highlight the civilian and communications facets of its space programme . |
| 17 | These were closely tailored to meet the economic and political needs of the colonizers : education became one of the major instruments for extending colonial power . |
| 18 | In some areas nursing corps were organized to visit the poor and , sometimes , a Free Church Help Society to assist in cases arising from previous visits . |
| 19 | A careful distillation of the principles of public service broadcasting submitted by the Broadcasting Research Unit to the Peacock Committee in 1985 showed that the old values that were in place in 1945 could still be made to fit the diverse and vastly changed system forty years on . |
| 20 | Unions of journeymen commonly sought to retain the restrictive and regulative customs of the " trade " over such institutions as apprenticeship and expected of the state that it continue to guarantee " rights " against , in particular , the " infringements " of innovating masters . |
| 21 | A centre island had been built to divide the oncoming and ongoing traffic . |
| 22 | For several years , a sustained attempt had been made to inject the institutional and cultural life of the nation with market philosophies and business values , to galvanize national complacency with the short , sharp shock of enterprise . |
| 23 | Indigenous organizations had threatened to boycott the presidential and congressional elections unless their demands were met . |
| 24 | Given such a lead , it is scarcely surprising that British scientists have sought to demonstrate the practical and financial consequences of environmental events and processes ; Table 9.1 , for example illustrates their perception of the importance of global environmental research to the UK domestic economy . |
| 25 | An attempt was made to stop the bleeding or to prevent further haemorrhage by local injection of polidocanol . |
| 26 | We should not have to anguish over what needs to be done to stop the physical and mental havoc which such racists wreak on black people . |
| 27 | As the words blazed their rainbow colours around him he flung his hands back and prepared to say the eighth and final word that would appear in coruscating octarine and seal the spell . |
| 28 | The " continuum " which is said to link the high and low varieties results from the fact that individuals in the community have differential access to these varieties depending on their social status and social relationships at home and at work . |
| 29 | Rather , it seems preferable that , in making a general assessment of the quality of life of a particular old person , some attempt be made to examine the negative and positive aspects of the relationships which they presently experience . |
| 30 | YOP was only intended to help the unemployed and those who had difficulty in finding jobs — the disadvantaged . |