Example sentences of "[be] rendered [adj] " in BNC.

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1 Another line of argument emphasizes how women are rendered invisible in these statistics .
2 Just as cockfighting allows a world where women are rendered invisible , so Geertz 's writing creates a text where his actually present wife is ignored as a non-person .
3 In Oakeshott 's account of the ideal character of civil association , his views on the nature of law and government are rendered explicit .
4 The prohibitions in the CSA 1985 are rendered ineffective where the defendant can show that , notwithstanding the fact that he fulfilled all the conditions mentioned in ss.1 and 2 CSA 1985 , the dominant purpose of his trade was not with a view to making a profit or avoiding a loss for either himself or another person .
5 Legislation has intruded on free contracting in few cases ; particular types of clauses in consumer contracts are rendered ineffective , and in some cases contracting must be in prescribed form .
6 These norms are rendered specific to the military sphere .
7 Rather , it refers to the processes , categories and know ledges through which communities are defined as such : that is , how they are rendered specific and differentiated .
8 Accident prevention is extremely important because there are certain situations where you will be unable to help yourself , such as if you are rendered unconscious through a fall or an electric shock .
9 Since normal practice is for a member to be issued with paid-up shares , the member 's liability is limited to the extent that the shares which he or she has in the company are rendered valueless .
10 Thus , it is claimed , the economic and political environment is absolved from responsibility for disease and collective responses are rendered unnecessary .
11 As a national newspaper reported in June 1851 : ‘ Some of the cottages in the parish , from continual neglect and the total absence of repair , are rendered insecure to that degree , that the inmates must be in a continual state of ‘ fear and trembling' ’ .
12 Easy categorisation about the literary and the historical are rendered impossible .
13 To foul up the analysis further , Kane 's alleged physical characteristics are meant to predispose blacks to the sports demanding speed and strength while whites , because of their body make-ups , are rendered liable to go for endurance events .
14 If there is heavy rain during their exposed period , the pools are rendered brackish , rather than saline .
15 " This Meeting having considered an overture of the Kirk Session of Bowmore … respecting the procuring of Mortcloths for the better and ordinary Classes of people … do hereby agree to Guarrantee to the said Kirk Session , that whatever sum shall be laid out in the purchase of the said Mortcloths , the Princl. sum and interest shall be reapid to the Session , before they are rendered unfit for use …
16 All our efforts are rendered irrelevant .
17 The reason is believed to be a property that was known previously for a two-dimensional system : if small regions are rendered nonconducting then , providing there is a path connecting conducting parts , the Hall resistance is scarcely affected .
18 With frequencies less than one kHz apart both are rendered unusable over a large area by light aircraft with the aforementioned ADF equipment .
19 Generally , unripe fruits are rendered unpalatable by the tannins that precipitate salivary mucoproteins and cause astringency .
20 More and more women are going it alone , and men are rendered homeless by housing allocation policies which do not account for the needs of the single and childless .
21 As is apparent with the Henry V film 's cuts and remodelling of the Shakespeare play , however , desires within the twentieth century mean that aspects of the Renaissance which do not conform with current needs are rendered silent .
22 In the US , farmers work the soil so hard that around five billion tonnes are blown or washed away annually and an area twice the size of California has been rendered unproductive .
23 England , meanwhile , has another of the non-league , partly Anglo-Welsh club days which — with occasional exceptions such as Bath 's visit to Neath — have been rendered peripheral by the coming of Courage .
24 More than once , for example , the machine has been rendered catatonic .
25 The house had seemed less threatening in the cold light of day , and it became obvious that a pretty establishment had been rendered hideous by neglect .
26 From there , if and when it became possible , he would be taken to the castle at Soragna where the Principessa Meli Lupi was prepared to take him on in the guise of a gardener — a refugee who had been rendered deaf and dumb in the bombing of Milan .
27 If it exists at all , their efforts must be going unrecognised , or have been rendered inoperative , or were never activated in the first place .
28 One of the most important components of the legal framework created by parliament for their protection will have been rendered ineffectual for them .
29 Why should the Tory rebels vote for a wrecking amendment which has been rendered futile ?
30 The Employment Appeal Tribunal was not satisfied that this amounted to a binding agreement , but held that even if it did , it would have been rendered void because it would have been an agreement purporting to preclude the employee from presenting a complaint to a tribunal .
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