Example sentences of "[is] [vb pp] [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Tax is deducted from all interest payments at a ‘ composite rate ’ which rate is calculated to yield that amount of tax which would have accrued to the Exchequer had the standard rate been applied only to the interest received by those liable to pay tax . |
| 2 | A new video that 's intended to attract more tourists to Oxford has been condemned by city councillors . |
| 3 | The operating profit of £410.9m is redefined to exclude exceptional items . |
| 4 | This research is intended to explore these matters through a study of the enforcement machinery of a county court and an examination of social and economic consequences of this machinery for creditors and debtors involved with it . |
| 5 | The second key component in the RAWP procedure consists of an adjustment which is intended to represent regional differentials in need for each service . |
| 6 | Figure 3.1 is intended to represent Cartesian dualism in a schematic , highly simplified form . |
| 7 | The project , which aims to cover three-quarters of the service work by the end of the century , is intended to give chief executives of agencies a higher degree of autonomy from central control . |
| 8 | Sometimes conditions could be even worse : Godwin , for example , describes a London court where ‘ the basement story of nearly all the houses was filled with foetid refuse , of which it had been the receptacle for years ’ , and one water barrel of 50 to 60 gallons is intended to serve two houses , containing between them at least a hundred people . |
| 9 | Although each version is intended to serve pedagogical needs , neither one provides a pedagogically-based rationale for the selection of themes that it proposes . |
| 10 | It is intended to compare two schemes to identifycorresponding differences in typical experiences , problems and relations with and effects on the wider community . |
| 11 | It is intended to compare these costs with tax revenue ; to examine their incidence ; and to identify the particular areas and causes of high compliance costs . |
| 12 | It is intended to update this listing on a regular basis . |
| 13 | Consequently , it is intended to acquire inflected versions of the above collocation dictionaries and compare these with their lemmatised equivalents ( using the same text recognition data ) . |
| 14 | It is intended to foster greater appreciation of the complex and contentious issues associated with research in this and other controversial areas . |
| 15 | The Act is intended to preserve this state of affairs in section 3(3) , which provides that : |
| 16 | In an open letter to MPs this week , he stated : ‘ The programme is intended to extend performance-related pay to clerical staff , to reward them for their success and hard work . |
| 17 | ‘ A witness may be cross-examined as to previous statements made by him in writing or reduced into writing relative to the subject matter of the indictment or proceeding , without such writing being shown to him ; but if it is intended to contradict such witness by the writing , his attention must , before such contradictory proof can be given , be called to those parts of the writing which are to be used for the purpose of so contradicting him : provided always , that it shall be competent for the judge at any time during the trial , to require the production of the writing for his inspection , and he may thereupon make such use of it for the purpose of the trial as he may think fit . |
| 18 | The editors of Arlidge & Parry on Fraud ( 1985 ) , p. 97 , para. 3.39 , express doubt as to whether the term ‘ employment ’ is intended to include any form of paid work or is confined to contracts of employment in the strict sense . |
| 19 | New legislation at the end of the 1980s is intended to take this process further , by reducing the housing stock managed by local authorities . |
| 20 | This chapter is intended to justify those priorities . |
| 21 | Finally , the index is intended to remedy one defect of the book , which is that topics , theories and approaches recur at different places as we go along . |
| 22 | The project is intended to remedy this deficiency by examining the use made of mathematical statistics , and particularly of their application in sampling , in the production of Soviet official socio-economic data . |
| 23 | The system is intended to allow greater transparency by making clear the extra spending that will follow the awarding of the ERDF grants . |
| 24 | The program ‘ Search Strategy ’ is intended to teach new users search strategy design for online systems which make use of Boolean logic . |
| 25 | As such , it is intended to draw wider lessons about the workings of pressure groups in modern Britain . |
| 26 | Such financial and staffing delegation is intended to enable governing bodies and headteachers to deploy their resources in accordance with their own needs and priorities and to make schools more responsive to parents , pupils , the local community and employers . |
| 27 | It is intended to reassure key figures in Hong Kong that they have a ‘ safety net ’ and need not emigrate elsewhere if relations with China do not improve as the 1997 handover approaches . |
| 28 | It is intended to reassure key figures in Hong Kong that they have a ‘ safety net ’ and need not emigrate elsewhere if relations with China do not improve as the 1997 handover approaches . |
| 29 | Although it is intended to charge actual staff costs , including incentive allowances , National Insurance , pensions and other costs , to the school 's budget , the formula by which the school 's finances are allocated does not take this into account . |
| 30 | This leaflet is not an authoritative interpretation of the law , but is intended to help employed people to understand their duties and obligations and also to advise them of the protection the Order gives to them . |