Example sentences of "[noun] are [verb] [adv] for [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | These Accounts are drawn up for a period of 52 weeks ended on 27th March 1993 and the comparative figures stated are in respect of a period of 52 weeks ended on 28th March 1992 . |
| 2 | Although the accounts are drawn up for the benefit of the proprietors or shareholders of a business , the primary objective of such accounts could be said to establish the amount of tax due to the Inland Revenue . |
| 3 | At present , local authorities are building not for the poorest , nor for the slum-dweller , but mainly for those better off . |
| 4 | The forces of Chaos are driven back for a time and a fragile peace descends on Ulthuan . |
| 5 | Plans are going ahead for the proposed course — arrival on the Friday 16th May — start 17th May and end 23rd May — departure Saturday 24th May . |
| 6 | Today a majority of those travelling south over the Gotthard are heading either for the popular lakeside resorts of the Ticino , or beyond that into Italy . |
| 7 | The programmes are noted particularly for the high quality of choral singing . |
| 8 | Activities and programmes are organised primarily for the benefit of juniors . |
| 9 | It has been said , in the first place , that they are used to throw into relief the particular property in the noun phrase which is of interest to the speaker ; that is , that adjectives are used postnominally for the sake of emphasis . |
| 10 | Contour maps for estimated inversion based on the shale velocity and the vitrinite methods are shown here for the central Southern North Sea ( Sole Pit area ; Figs. 9 and 10 ) . |
| 11 | Statistical methods are described separately for the continuous variables ( knowledge , attitudes , and beliefs ) and discrete variables ( smoking behaviour ) . |
| 12 | A disgruntled father whose two sons have been on several skiing fortnights feels school trips are run primarily for the teachers ' convenience . |
| 13 | Now that 24 hour pressure recordings are used increasingly for the investigation of disorders of oesophageal motility in patients with chest pain of undertermined origin , it is important to have a better understanding and a more precise characterisation of the non-deglutitive and non-peristaltic motor activity of the normal oesophagus . |
| 14 | For simplicity , the data are given only for every third year from 1973 to 1985 . |
| 15 | As a climax , you could arrange for some of the room lights to be switched off one by one before the tree-lights are switched on for the first time ( test them first ! ) . |
| 16 | The Disabled Drivers Association has been helping disabled people since 1948 , and all donations are used explicitly for the benefit of disabled people . |
| 17 | At the annual Radcliffe lecture in Oxford , Dyson pointed out that eight tonnes of oxygen are used up for every three tonnes of coal or oil burned . |
| 18 | Similarly , children who are gifted perhaps in dance are taken out for a master class and so on . |
| 19 | The Swedes , at No. 16 with Dancing Queen are working together for the first time in seven years . |
| 20 | Railway enthusiasts are queueing up for a nostalgic trip on a steam train . |
| 21 | At Highlander , workshops of this sort of cultural exchange play a critical role in reaching across the natural human barriers which we can expect to find when a number of different people from widely different communities , cultural backgrounds , and economic and social circumstances are thrown together for a weekend to discuss their common problems in an attempt to find solutions . |
| 22 | High expectations are set up for the client to gradually learn to achieve deep feelings of heaviness and relaxation throughout the body . |
| 23 | Then it is back to monthly meetings as the money begins to come in and ideas are put forward for the following year . |
| 24 | his weakness of central parliamentary control is in spite of the fact that decisions on tax are taken centrally for the whole country and the revenues are then distributed among the Länder . |
| 25 | So all the excavations are filled in for the sake of tidiness , and all the bolt-holes and entrance holes are filled in to help assess what 's been left . |
| 26 | Banks are competing fiercely for a share of the slower-growing market . |
| 27 | The families are heading off for the only place where they can make a living these days : the jungle area of Chapare in Cochabamba. province . |
| 28 | WIGAN ATHLETIC 'S mysterious new owners are standing by for an instant bonus — a third found FA Cup-tie at Old Trafford and the Pounds 100,000 minimum windfall it would bring in . |
| 29 | ’ Pluralist ’ reforms are promised vaguely for the future . |
| 30 | Under English evidential law , specific provisions are laid down for the submission and use of computer records in court . |