Example sentences of "be rendered " in BNC.

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1 Among nationalist politicians , the main question on the UDR is whether the force should be abolished or whether , with radical changes , it could be rendered more acceptable to Catholics .
2 But in no way can effective environmental policies be rendered compatible with the anti-statist , non-interventionist creed which has inspired a good deal of Thatcherite rhetoric .
3 This knowledge lurks around the feminized male , which is one reason why he tends to be rendered either safely fashionable , or denigrated .
4 These will have to be rendered harmless .
5 In November 1983 , a registrar ordered the grant of letters of administration to the three solicitors to be rendered null and void and Thomas thought the case was over .
6 ‘ If a cause were to be rendered of natural appearances in special as what are the motions and influences of the heavenly bodies and of their parts , the reason hereof must either be drawn from the parts of the sciences above mentioned , or no reason at all will be given , but all left to uncertain conjecture . ’
7 Despite their name they do not sterilise but articles fully immersed in them , for 30 seconds or more , after cleaning , may be rendered free from harmful micro-organisms provided operational temperatures have been reached and are maintained .
8 Given that redistribution is a characteristic of the social services , the general presumption must be that they will be rendered only on evidence of need , i.e. of financial inability to provide each particular service out of one 's own or one 's family 's resources .
9 I am not demanding that every subject which has a technical vocabulary or which employs concepts other than those employed by common sense should be rendered simple , and fit for consumption by every man or woman in the street .
10 The distinction made so far between primary and secondary sources can be rendered even more useful if we adopt a further division of documents between what John Madge , after Gottschalk , called ‘ records ’ and ‘ reports ’ .
11 John Buddle , a mine inspector and owner 's agent with whom Davy had consulted , wrote to Davy on 1 June , 1816 : ‘ I am convinced that with the happy invention of the safe lamp large proportions of the coal mines of the empire will be rendered available , which otherwise might have remained inaccessible . ’
12 Where fees are based on time charges the effect of programme delay may not influence cash flow , unless the stages at which accounts can be rendered are linked to progress points .
13 Some 20 years ago , the Americans became aware of the fact that poisonous vehicle emissions could be rendered virtually harmless by attaching a contraption known as a catalytic converter to the exhaust .
14 It was assumed that the liquid discharge would disperse and be rendered harmless .
15 For this weak semblance to be rendered strong ,
16 They also get the tusks and the bristles which they sell or barter in India , and a large proportion of the fat , which can be rendered down and used for cooking , or dried and preserved to smear on cuts and bruises .
17 Equally , there are , at any given time , laws which , if passed , could not be rendered effective , e.g. because they affected matters outside the jurisdiction of United Kingdom administrative or enforcement agencies .
18 Vitamin C This vitamin is present in fresh fruit , particularly orange and grapefruit , and vegetables , including new potatoes , but it can be rendered useless by long storage or over-cooking .
19 The Greek word entos translated here as ‘ within ’ should more accurately be rendered ‘ among ’ you or ‘ in your midst ’ ( Nolan 1976:46 ) .
20 As we noted previously , ‘ Kingdom ’ is a dynamic concept which might better be rendered ‘ Kingly rule or government ’ .
21 They would be rendered powerless — there was no way they could do anything with him .
22 In small birds it can hardly be rendered except as a blur of wings ; we can sometimes see their wingspread clearly when they threaten each other or quarrel at bird tables .
23 The basic examination should consist of : ( a ) an interview with frequent switching from language to language ; ( b ) an improvised short speech in the first language on a topic chosen at random , to assess general knowledge ; ( c ) non-technical information in one language to be rendered consecutively in a second language ; ( d ) translation from a text off-the-cuff .
24 This was a position which also continued to express the preference of most abolitionists that government intervention be limited to policy guidelines to be rendered into detailed legislation and implemented by local assemblies and officials except in the Crown Colonies .
25 The western towns tend to be the richest and the oldest , and here the architecture may be rendered in stone .
26 Would all the energies and the enthusiasm of the teachers who have taken part in the records of achievement movement be rendered pointless ?
27 Thus policy based on statistical forecasts can easily be rendered counterproductive .
28 Finally , services could be rendered more attractive to users .
29 If this is so , then these facilities are urgently needed , because it is intended to produce the revised OED in serial form , which means that forward cross-references could be rendered incorrect by revisions undertaken after the fascicles in which the cross-references appear had been published .
30 Roberts maintained that the negative attitude taken towards air power in NSC 8/2 would have to be rendered positive through its ‘ air detachments ’ being ‘ stretched a little ’ .
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