Example sentences of "[noun] for the [adj] [conj] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Six weeks later a great demonstration in the Royal Albert Hall demanded the establishment of a Merchant Seamen 's League to put the boycott into effect and " to assist them in maintaining their benevolent institutions for the aged and infirm " A short time ago , he declared in 1918 , he had received a document from four leading German trade unionists attempting to justify the U-boat campaign by arguing that " only a campaign of frightfulness against the British and neutral vessels trading to ports in the United Kingdom and the starving of the people of the British Isles would bring the war to a speedy close " . |
| 2 | I should like to take this opportunity to thank all the employees of Johnson Matthey for the skilled and dedicated service that resulted in this year 's record performance |
| 3 | The concession for the elderly and disabled will take effect from next January , the region 's transport and roads committee announced … |
| 4 | Question D — focuses on explaining the reasons for the industrial and political unrest " in Britain in the five years before the outbreak of the First World War . |
| 5 | During the bullbaiting , thousands tore through the narrow streets of Wokingham , providing a splendid opportunity for the disaffected and unscrupulous to push their unwanted spouses or other associates in the path of the stampede . |
| 6 | This , however , is not the case for the first and third examples using the same adjective . |
| 7 | It remains for us to consider the macro-economic case for the widespread and general adoption of the industrial co-operative form . |
| 8 | The macro-economic case for the widespread and general adoption of the industrial co-operative form is that it is just such another structure ; that the structural change lies in making labour the employer of capital rather than , as at present capital the employer of labour ; that such a change would fuse the interests of ownership and labour , interests which so long as they remain separate must also remain ultimately opposed ; and that , because relations among co-operatives and between producers and providers on the one hand , and consumers and users on the other would be determined by the operation of a free competitive market , the workers in each co-operative will be exposed to its imperative discipline . |
| 9 | They must be careful not to make income support too generous , thus causing the taxpayer to lose out and causing funds to be taken from other provision for the elderly and disabled . |
| 10 | The Milan Congress gave impetus to those who favoured the Pure Oral method to agitate for the inclusion of education of the deaf in the proposed Royal Commission that was to be formed to look at educational provision for the blind in Britain , on the grounds that the Education Acts of the 1870s had ignored educational provision for the deaf and dumb . |
| 11 | Hon. Members told us that rural services , emergency services , call boxes and provision for the blind and disabled would all have an uncertain future under privatisation , yet in each case the future has been better , thanks to the privatised industry and the regulatory world that we have created . |
| 12 | Provision for the blind and deaf was reasonably comprehensive as a result , although often rather isolated , but provision for the heterogeneous general classes of disability was very slight and uneven between authorities . |
| 13 | So very different policies for the old and new liberated areas . |
| 14 | Lawton ( 1977 ) has summarized the interaction between components of change for the 1950s and 1960s ( figure 3.5 ) . |
| 15 | Events in March went a considerable way towards determining the outcome of the contests for the Democratic and Republican presidential nominations . |
| 16 | There 's always room at the place of prayer for the young and old . " |
| 17 | Spilling their love in prayer for the sick and worried . |
| 18 | Control of public expenditure until the 1960s was highly fragmented and largely revolved around the consideration of annual estimates : there was little or no attempt to plan expenditure programmes for the medium or long term . |
| 19 | The middle class is growing and the military is no longer the only path to advancement for the poor but able . |
| 20 | Their action effectively scuppered six years of negotiations , since all decisions taken by the 22 signatories to the 1959 Washington Treaty — the framework for the political and environmental protection of Antarctica - must be unanimous . |
| 21 | The Medium-Term Financial Strategy ( MTFS ) introduced in 1980 aimed to set out a medium-term financial framework for the monetary and fiscal policies consistent with the government 's overall strategy for reducing inflation and laying the foundations for sustainable economic growth . |
| 22 | Hilary particularly remembers ‘ … the mesmeric Senta , whose teaching was so brilliant that Rata Quick and I both achieved the splits for the first and last time in our lives , with no untoward effects ! ’ . |
| 23 | The main focus of the statement was on the need to guarantee peace through enhanced regional economic integration in order to achieve " a process at the national and regional level which permits an accelerated reconstruction and transformation of production and technology of the Central American countries as a base for the efficient and dynamic insertion of the region into the world market " . |
| 24 | He had provided the foundations for the strategic and tactical mobility that enabled the small regular Army to meet its commitments in the mid-1960s — but only just . |
| 25 | These were Denis Baxter for his delicate etching ‘ Cannington Viaduct ’ , Miranda Ellis for the almost abstract and evocatively coloured watercolour ‘ Blue morning kitchen window ’ , Sophie Rider for the solid and amusing sculpture ‘ Horse with tulip ’ and Bonnie Brown for the de Stael-like oil painting ‘ Celia 's dream on the headland ’ . |
| 26 | Central News South was the first regional news programme in Britain to experiment with sub-titles for the deaf and hard of hearing last January . |
| 27 | When Hitler invaded Russia in June 1941 and the war , for communists , abruptly changed its character , there was at least the prospect — in principle at least — of enhanced support for the revolutionary and patriotic cause in Vietnam ; but until Russia had withstood the German onslaught this in practical terms meant nothing . |
| 28 | He knew that a conspiracy ( exposed with the maximum publicity ) to murder the king and Parliament in one horrific holocaust would cause public opinion to recoil into solid support for the less than popular James I and himself . |
| 29 | And yet , in this last ( 1961 ) coherent play Williams managed to write , there is much sharp imagery ( ‘ Miss thin female standing-up Buddha , ’ a raving Shannon calls the cool , kimono-clad Hannah ) and tenderness for the weak and woebegone . |
| 30 | As for my right hon. Friend 's personal position , may I express my admiration for the frank and manly way in which he has offered his resignation ? |