Example sentences of "[vb mod] be rendered [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 1815 " The Meeting concieving it to be highly usefull that the Road from Portaskaig should be rendered complete , do willingly Stent themselves in the sum here stated . " |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Carbon dioxide could be rendered harmless as a greenhouse gas by pumping it into the sea , according to consultant physicist Raymond Harrowell . |
| 4 | The judge at first instance invoked the wardship powers of the court to protect the girl : he weighed her interests against that of the publishers , and concluded that the balance came down in favour of restraining publication , since the book could be rendered harmless by excising a few paragraphs . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | But the Act may be rendered inoperative if , before the lease was granted , the original landlord and original tenant agreed that the Act would not apply and obtained a Court order to that effect . |
| 7 | As the French experience following the oil shocks of 1973 and 1979 indicates , the commitments in programme contracts may be rendered meaningless by major changes in the economic forecasting parameters upon which they are based ( Shirley 1983 : 77–80 ) . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | The Lancet 's sustained opposition to the first women doctors , the ‘ advance guard of the Amazonian army ’ as it dubbed them , was argued on the grounds that young ladies would be rendered indelicate , and by implication immoral , by attending lectures and dissections on human anatomy and pathology . |
| 10 | In the Liberal tradition , Asquith preferred to think of state welfare as a temporary measure which would be rendered unnecessary by the increasing capacity of the population to practice self-help . |
| 11 | Eventually , the existing form of monetary control would be rendered useless . |
| 12 | Guests were informed that Accounts would be rendered weekly and ‘ Visitors for less than a week are charged 1 shilling per day extra ’ and that the Swimming Pool opened ‘ Daily at hours which can be ascertained from the office . ’ |
| 13 | They would be rendered powerless — there was no way they could do anything with him . |
| 14 | The clause could be amended to read as follows : The Landlord covenants with the Tenant to insure the Centre and all parts thereof except during such periods as the insurance shall be rendered ineffectual or avoided by any act of the Tenant |
| 15 | In his discussion of the metaphor ‘ man is a wolf ’ , Black describes the work of metaphor in discursive terms : ‘ Any human traits that can without undue strain be talked about in ‘ wolf-language ’ will be rendered prominent , and any that can not will be pushed into the background' ( 41 ) . |
| 16 | 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 . ’ |
| 17 | Mr. Sturge in his argument has maintained that such a lease would be valid , and that , even if the term is uncertain at its beginning when the lease takes effect , the fact that at some future time it will be rendered certain is sufficient to make it a good lease . |
| 18 | The colour given will be a sort of red , not unlike that of mahogany ; and by afterwards oiling the chair and rubbing it well , and for a long time , with woollen cloths , the veins and shading of elm will be rendered conspicuous . |
| 19 | Incineration is the most appropriate disposal method for many wastes which can be rendered harmless only by breaking them down through the controlled use of heat . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | Fortunately , it has been found that flint pebbles with surface layers of ferric oxide can be rendered radioactive and this eliminates much of the laboriousness of the earlier experiments . |