Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] for the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | The generally optimistic tenor of this debate provides a revealing comparison with those public views examined for the earlier period . |
2 | This year 's theme is Museums and the Environment and a database will be set up on projects completed for the 18 May . |
3 | Two pupils from Macmillan College in Middlesbrough showed Mr Fallon how they used the CDRom to search for the latest information about the fall of the Berlin Wall , the construction of the Channel Tunnel , and pollution in Teesside for their school projects . |
4 | Royal Aberdeen Golf Club had a more original way of observing its 200 years existence with a Royal Aberdeen Bicentenary Whisky blended for the special birthday occasion . |
5 | Increasingly all institutions catering for the 16–19 age group will need to run a ‘ mixed economy ’ — preparing students for entry into higher education or for employment . |
6 | When he and Adenauer met for the first time , de Gaulle records , ‘ We discussed Europe at length . |
7 | Like Las Vegas money machines — where lights whirl , the jackpot flashes and the sound of cascading money plays for the smallest win — so the sprung plywood floor of the wrestling ring thuds and echoes with exaggerated effect . |
8 | Suppose , father being impoverished and son having come into money , the father had required the creditor to sue for the whole sum ? |
9 | Bush said that Iraq should designate military commanders to meet their coalition counterparts within the next 48 hours to arrange for the military aspects of the ceasefire . |
10 | When the first contestant to go for the top prize , Marine Captain Richard MacCutchin who , oddly , specialized in haute cuisine , pulled it off by describing the ingredients of a royal banquet given by George VI to the president of France , three-quarters of American television sets were tuned in to watch him wrestle for the answers . |
11 | Others realized that it was only a matter of patience to wait for the guaranteed escape which would be provided by the end of the war , and as the war dragged on more and more people became converted to this view . |
12 | Quite what the taxpayer got for the extra money is not readily apparent . |
13 | The EC has also contributed to the restoration of the MountAthos monastery , to the reconstruction of the Chiado area in Lisbon , destroyed by the 1988 fire , and to the renovation of a building of the Coimbra University intended for the European College . |
14 | Equally depression of prostaglandin synthesis , by diminishing pain perception , could at least in part account for the high proportion of NSAID associated ulcers that are silent . |
15 | ABOUT 1.4 million payment notices for the final 70p instalment for Scotland 's two privatised electricity companies Scottish Hydro-Electric and ScottishPower were sent out yesterday . |
16 | One has transferred to the communications department and all were offered the opportunity to work for the new contract firm . |
17 | Utilities were among the more buoyant sectors , helped by the search by pensions funds for higher-income investments to compensate for the five-point drop in their investment returns as a result of the Budget changes . |
18 | But ten minutes sufficed for the blazing gun-fight , and for the affecting death scene with soaring strings . |
19 | In this context the authors note that ‘ equalizing ’ income differentials ( higher income to compensate for the lower attractiveness of some jobs ) are normally swamped by ‘ accentuating ’ differentials ( such as status and recognition following high income ) . |
20 | If , as these authors postulate , the tumour exerts some type of inhibitory effect on the proliferation of the cells surrounding it , it is possible that the lower labelling index reported for the rectal segment is at least party related to a wider — that is , extending beyond a 5 cm radius — zone of inhibition produced by rectal tumours with respect to those arising in other colonic segments . |
21 | In lively talk with friends we all continually break the rules appropriate for the written form , and Mr Baker on the radio was no exception . |
22 | It has been argued that human wealth is so illiquid that the greater is this h ratio , the greater will be the demand for money to compensate for the limited marketability of human wealth . |
23 | The statutory recognition of auditors ' resignation occurred for the first time in the Companies Act 1976 , prior to which resignation would have constituted a de facto breach of contract . |
24 | I have to admit that I felt a strange sense of elation as I hit him again , in fact I plumbed the depths of bad taste by yelling , ‘ Never one around when you want one , is there , Jack ? ’ as Armstrong bounced for the second time . |
25 | The first stage of Felix lased for the first time in August 1991 , and the second stage will be operational this summer . |
26 | In reality , the tsarist authorities substituted for the Nicholaevan concept of " obligated " peasants the slightly more beneficent concept of " temporarily " obligated peasants . |
27 | Though the Lions ' backs have the credentials and Winterbottom and Dean Richards have been in the heat of a Lions Test scrum , there are six forwards who will be experiencing a Lions Test for the first time . |
28 | For example , a recent act of Parliament has for the first time enabled citizens to own and operate radio stations . |
29 | For example , a recent act of Parliament has for the first time enabled citizens to own and operate radio stations . |
30 | But when they cast off Penry seemed reassuringly unconcerned , and sang under his breath as the Angharad headed for the turbulent stretch of sea separating Gullholm from the coast . |