Example sentences of "[verb] [pos pn] [noun pl] for the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 'd be easier if we met my troops for the first time at the concert , ’ he said . |
| 2 | Although Goldmann accepts the significance of the social determination of knowledge thesis for epistemology he does not pursue its implications for the Marxist concept of ideology . |
| 3 | A program allows one to frequently modify the hypertext database and test its consequences for the linear form . |
| 4 | Research grants worth £420million have been announced by the EC , revealing its plans for the third set of Esprit projects . |
| 5 | ‘ They 've been encouraging local authorities to tighten their belts for the last 14 years , ’ he protests . |
| 6 | She 's been reported missing and we 're checking her movements for the two weeks before she vanished . ’ |
| 7 | A used car dealer is offering a ten thousand pound reward to track down arsonists who 've attacked his premises for the second time in two weeks . |
| 8 | He described his proposals for the coming year as neutral because he did not want to hamper recovery . |
| 9 | ‘ Listen ! ’ said the young man named Lawrence suddenly , and checked to strain his ears for the small , recurrent sound that had reached him . |
| 10 | We send our mandates for the certain death of thousands and ten thousands ! |
| 11 | Right , very good , that 's all from Headquarters , right then we move on to then any other business , erm I think mainly it 's just the odd verse with arrangements for next meeting , because our next meeting is our own A G M , erm , at , which we erm elect our officers for the next year , er , and there are , are other arrangements to make , erm we sometimes put a little form do n't we on the end of the minutes that , people to fill in if they wish to nominate someone , I think we should do that even though very , very rarely gets actually filled in , erm , and we have some post which we have elections for others where we can phone the people who are doing those jobs and , and hope they 'll carry on . |
| 12 | Next April 's meeting need do no more than put a tick alongside South Africa 's name and we can all start booking our tickets for the 1995 thrash . |
| 13 | During November the three largest parties announced their candidates for the presidential elections scheduled for April 26 , 1992 , to elect a successor to Kurt Waldheim , who had in June 1991 declined to stand for a second term [ see p. 38298 ] . |
| 14 | A snowfall the previous night , however , had covered the tracks of Graham Little and A. Baker , who had climbed it the day before — also singing its praises for the deep caves and icicles . |
| 15 | On April 27th Euro Disney , which runs a big amusement park outside Paris modeled on American ones owned by its parent firm , Walt Disney , announced its results for the six months to the end of March 1993 . |
| 16 | She and Sarah tried to arrange their dates for the same evenings , so that for the rest of the week they were free to go out together . |
| 17 | They shared their responsibilities for the smooth running of Zone I with the enthusiasm of those bound by a loveless marriage . |
| 18 | He asked their Lordships for the forthcoming Proof before the Sheriff to be heard away from Orkney in mainland Scotland . |
| 19 | Christies International , one of the world 's leading art auctioneers , yesterday revealed their profits for the last six months had been hammered by £1 million down to £2,112,000 . |
| 20 | But there were others who , despite their disaffection to Hanover , had little desire to risk their necks for the positive alternative the Pretender represented . |
| 21 | CHELMSFORD Ladies Hockey Club are unlikely to disband the A team , whose existence many first team players feel would hinder their prospects for the 1993/94 season . |
| 22 | But now it has revealed its plans for the next generation of VAXes to be built around the new Alpha RISC chip , DEC is again keen to push the advantages of staying with VAX . |
| 23 | This year , as the locos dropped their fires for the last time , the cash bag totalled more than £1243.72 . |
| 24 | Several chandlers are revising their catalogues for the new year . |
| 25 | ‘ Those people — and thousands of them went through the proper procedure — will be contacted later this month and given the opportunity to purchase their tickets for the next home game . ’ |
| 26 | Other unions were equally alarmed by the potential scale of the problem , which was just emerging as schools received their budgets for the new financial year . |
| 27 | In the Third World new nations were flexing their muscles for the first time . |
| 28 | Mayor dropped his plans for the new committee and agreed to keep the Executive Board more fully informed of his actions in future . |
| 29 | Thus , although it has been stated that there are practically no high kicks in kung fu , the practitioner who emulates the crane is training his legs for the highest possible kicks . |
| 30 | To Sara , more hard-pressed than ever at Lime Street , the intellectual and emotional sympathy binding Coleridge and Dorothy must have been both apparent and distressing , even if Dorothy , in De Quincey 's words , was a woman possessing ‘ no personal charms ’ : on only the second day of the visit Coleridge and Dorothy were occupied together correcting his poems for the new edition while Sara was left to carry the domestic burdens of the teeming cottage . |