Example sentences of "[verb] [art] [noun pl] for the [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 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 ) . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | These problems alone would not make the prospects for the straightforward treatment of deictic sentences within truth-conditional semantics look very hopeful . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | It had been he himself , Lewis , who had finally got on to the man there who was in the process of completing the proofs for the forthcoming seminal opus entitled Pre-Conquest Craftsmanship in Southern Britain , by Theodore S. Kemp , MA , DPhil ; the man who had been closeted with Kemp that fateful morning , and who had confirmed that Kemp had not left the offices until about 12.30 p.m . |
| 25 | Once again I must congratulate the officers for the excellent budget . |
| 26 | The three parties fought the elections for the Constitutional Convention as a coalition with a joint manifesto which-emphasised that Northern Ireland should remain indefinitely as an integral part of the United Kingdom and that power would not be shared with Republicans although that was not an objection to Catholics as such . |
| 27 | This applied , I planned the routes for the next weekend . |
| 28 | The figures for the London Boroughs present several problems of comparison : the estimates for both education and socio-economic deprivation refer to the entire Inner London Education Authority ( ILEA ) , rather than to the individual Boroughs ; the estimates based on population density and for transport and recreation redistribution should be the larger of the two figures presented for comparative purposes , in order to include the provisions for the Metropolitan Police ; finally , where relevant , we have added average expenditure assessments for the Greater London Council ( GLC ) to each London Borough , in order to obtain total figures . |
| 29 | Indeed they said they could even help , and make the changes for the better . |
| 30 | Make the sprays for the small whales in the same way , cutting out four 6·5x10cm ( 2½x4inch ) rectangles of rice paper . |