Example sentences of "supported [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Self-evidently these texts are strikingly different from original materials issued by the SI in the sense that they have the status of copyrighted property and have been funded by organisations which in the past may have supported progressive art but which do not sound like the champions of revolutionary causes . |
| 2 | ( The universities of Bath , Bradford , Brunel , Ireland , Loughborough , Salford , Sussex , Ulster , Warwick , and York have also supported geological research , but fewer than five theses were deposited in the years studied , and none were on Scottish subjects . ) |
| 3 | Berisha met with President George Bush and told him that Albania fully supported economic sanctions against Serbia , in spite of their high cost to Albania . |
| 4 | The Party had supported Labour candidates and was calling for the return of a Labour Government . |
| 5 | Suspicions have sometimes been voiced that , whenever government has supported civic education , the reason has been that learning of this kind has been interpreted as supportive of a respectful attitude . |
| 6 | This explains why so many philosophers have supported theoretical hedonism . |
| 7 | We wish to renew our gratitude to all those who have contributed to these various Funds , and to those who , over the years , have supported individual sections of the Library with regular donations — in particular , Christina Roaf in Italian , Agatha Ramm in Modern History , Norma Dalrymple Champneys in Bibliography , and Ann Messenger in English . |
| 8 | More recent events include the 1988 Easter course at Norwich City College and well supported annual rallies . |
| 9 | Dear Santa , as a well respected manager of the best supported premier league team in England please could you find it in your heart to deliever the following . |
| 10 | A reply giving a general definition of sabotage as ‘ everything from turning a tap off to blowing a pipe up ’ had been juxtaposed to questions on party strategy , he said , adding that it was ridiculous to imply that he had supported violent acts . |
| 11 | The assassination has thrown Arab leaders and diplomats into despair and shattered the most hopeful and broadly supported joint Arab effort to resolve the conflict at the core of 14 years of civil war in Lebanon . |
| 12 | He would never have supported cooperative politics had he thought that it would develop a Cooperative Party , pure and simple , antagonistic to the main democratic Labour movement . |
| 13 | The British Ceramic Research Association , for instance , have a routine impact test for ceramic tiles in which a loosely supported square tile is struck a measured blow in the centre of one flat face . |
| 14 | Wherever they had the opportunity , workers solidly supported socialist parties — in elections to the Duma , to social insurance councils , to trade-union boards . |
| 15 | Handcrafted by Graham Macey in Surrey , the machines are individually adjustable for minimum backlash and feature solid machined brass baseplates , a computer-aided ‘ involute ’ gear design for consistent feel and longevity , integral gears and rollers , fully supported synthetic bone rollers , a choice of plain or engraved plates and interchangeable buttons in ebony , rosewood , pearl or imitation ivory . |
| 16 | An opponent of the former Duvalier regime , Narcisse had later supported Gen. Prosper Avril , who staged a military coup in September 1988 but was forced to resign the presidency in March 1990 [ see pp. 37313-14 ] . |
| 17 | The miners ' strike action had begun with patchily supported one-day strikes in the Donbass , Vorkuta and Karaganda coalfields on March 1 , and in the Kuzbass coalfield on March 4 . |
| 18 | Ever since the oil companies came to Shetland they , along with the local authority , have supported regular sea-bird monitoring programmes , with a full-time independent biologist to run them . |
| 19 | The Dutch electronics group , which for so long supported current cost accounting , has decided to move to the historical basis with effect from 1 January 1992 . |
| 20 | States were therefore keen to see the federally supported mental health centres as the new agencies which could play the leading role . |
| 21 | Welfare feminists vociferously supported protective legislation , and equality feminists vehemently opposed it . |
| 22 | It has championed the best artists from the Soviet Union ; it has supported feminist art , some of it theoretically difficult and perhaps recalcitrant to a wide audience ; it has staged recuperative exhibitions such as the Independent Group . |
| 23 | Syse 's own Conservative party ( Hoeyre ) and the other party in his coalition , the Christian People 's Party ( KFP ) , were strongly in favour of closer co-operation with the EC and broadly supported full membership in due course . |
| 24 | She has strongly supported Pharmaceutical Management for Europe , a very new idea aimed at marketing drugs and integrating drug development at all levels throughout the EC backed by languages and management departments in the University . |
| 25 | The Windrush has supported numerous mills over the centuries , some of which are still standing . |
| 26 | Supported relational databases include an internal SQL database processor using the operating systems files or industry standards like Oracle , Ingres , Sybase and Rdb . |
| 27 | In the winter of 1939–40 pacifist feeling was still strong inside the Labour Party , and it was reinforced by the anti-war attitude of the Communists and ‘ crypto-Communists ’ , the latter being Labour Party members who , whether under Communist Party instructions or not , consistently supported Communist policies without openly joining the Communist Party . |
| 28 | He said his past role in the party did not mean that he had supported communist ideology . |
| 29 | The biological resources that just supported small nomadic populations at a neolithic level of culture can not be expected to support larger populations at southern standards of living . |
| 30 | While DUC members individually might have supported various other political campaigns such as CND and the anti-nuclear movement , they saw that success against uranium mining in Donegal would result only from a single-issue , locally-based and respectable campaign : ‘ The DUC was trying to get the support of the local community , was trying to get the County Council on their side and this was n't going to happen if you 're gon na have people running around burning JCBs ’ . |