Example sentences of "[verb] [art] [noun pl] for [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was not consulted about membership of the Group , and with the exception of Dr Charles Suckling , a member of the Kingman Committee , I met the members for the first time when we assembled in London for our opening working session . |
| 2 | On Monday , the managing director , Jacques Calvet , met the unions for the first time but said there could be no discussion of pay until production was resumed . |
| 3 | Its dictator , President Siad Barre , ditched the Russians for the better-heeled Americans . |
| 4 | Wordsworth writes as if he is a new kind of human being , like Adam naming the creatures for the first time . |
| 5 | Then repeat the calculations for the actual construction programme , making due allowance for exceptionally adverse weather and delays which are at the contractor 's risk . |
| 6 | Aaron and McGuire ( 1970 ) derived from assumptions about individual utility functions and the procedure determining public goods supply an explicit allocation formula , which values the ith person 's consumption of the public good at his marginal rate of substitution between the public good and income ( using the conditions for the optimum supply of the public good discussed in Lecture 16 ) . |
| 7 | Using the equations for the expected return ( 5.7 ) , actual return ( 5.19 ) , beta ( 5.20 ) , variance due to the market ( 5.21 ) , non-market variance ( 5.22 ) , and total variance ( 5.23 ) we may construct and analyse any portfolio of equities . |
| 8 | I should add that Decca are still using the notes for the original LP set . |
| 9 | You 'll all be given the instructions for the small group sessions for bail today . |
| 10 | Olivetti will also adapt the communicators for the European market — for DECT and Groupe Speciale Mobile cellular networking compliance , for example . |
| 11 | Furthermore , could not the very reproduction of the species itself be regarded as depending on a form of memory — genetic memory , the apparent capacity of the DNA , transmitted between parent and offspring , to carry the rules for the future accurate development of the new organism ? |
| 12 | Tomorrow , she would go to the finest jeweller in London and sell the gems for the best price she could get . |
| 13 | He remembered her ripping it the day she 'd taken him to see the hens for the first time . |
| 14 | Cornwall , asked to bat first by Ian Cockbain , laid the foundations for a decent total by reaching 110–2 in the 32nd over . |
| 15 | Although Marx himself did discuss the issue of colonialism in various places , it was twentieth-century Marxists like Lenin , Rosa Luxemburg , Hilferding and Bukharin who laid the foundations for a Marxist theory of imperialism . |
| 16 | The principal reasons for this state of affairs lie in the explanations given at the beginning of this chapter ; scholars with museum backgrounds laid the foundations for an artefact-based subject in the first half of the twentieth century and introduced the strong historical background to such studies . |
| 17 | They helped to bring about a severe crisis of authority at the end of Alexander 's reign , they laid the foundations for the major radical parties of the twentieth century , including the Bolshevik Party , and they provided the country 's leadership in the early Soviet period . |
| 18 | Bell , therefore , not only saved the deaf class in the school from closure , but also introduced the oral method of teaching and laid the foundations for the present day Garvel Centre for the Deaf ( as the unit is called ) . |
| 19 | It was with this in mind that a unanimous Parliament supported not a conspiracy of Tory landowners , but Attlee 's postwar Labour Government in passing the 1947 Agriculture Act , which laid the foundations for the great agricultural revolution of our times . |
| 20 | The Miseroni were called to Prague to set up a workshop for crystal carving and gem cutting , and they laid the foundations for the Bohemian cut-glass industry . |
| 21 | Later that year Sir Kit laid the foundations for the eventual takeover , when he sold a 14.9% stake in the Midland to the Hongkong Bank in return for a much-needed £383m injection . |
| 22 | ROBERT BRUCE RONALD ( 1831–1907 ) went to Australia in 1852 as a clerk in a woolbroker 's office and , later , laid the foundations for the Australian Mercantile Land and Finance Company , still one of the country 's leading financial institutions . |
| 23 | Indeed it was the sheer beauty of some of the finer implements from these remote periods which helped to excite the interest of the collectors who laid the foundations for the scientific study of prehistory . |
| 24 | In this memoir he identified the arrivals of dilatational and distortional body waves ( P-waves and S-waves ) and of surface waves in seismic recordings , a finding which was further documented in a paper of 1900 and which laid the foundations for the instrumental study of earthquakes and of the Earth 's deep interior . |
| 25 | Previously , sources said , SunSoft required an up-front payment of $120,000 to qualify for a 55% discount , a practice that worked against small reseller and laid the seeds for a grey market developing . |
| 26 | They became the baddies for a zealous section of the population . |
| 27 | I am very concerned to read about the proposed restrictions and charges , which will from 16 May onwards ban tandems , tricycles and Rann trailers altogether and will make the charges for an ordinary bicycle payable on all journeys no matter how short . |
| 28 | I am very concerned to read about the proposed restrictions and charges , which will from 16 May onwards ban tandems , tricycles and Rann trailers altogether and will make the charges for an ordinary bicycle payable on all journeys no matter how short . |
| 29 | These problems alone would not make the prospects for the straightforward treatment of deictic sentences within truth-conditional semantics look very hopeful . |
| 30 | More specifically , the seminars are intended to identify the nature and effectiveness of the public policy response in terms of the broad strategy and detailed instruments used and to debate the alternatives for the 1990s . |