Example sentences of "[verb] for the [adj] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The current year , the ninety three ninety four year I have figures only up to the end of December and in comparison to the previous full twelve months the number of applications is almost as high in the first three quarters of the year but the fee income is about half what had been received for the full previous year and that is the problem that we 're facing , that the number of applications , the amount of work is , is staying the same or is indeed increasing slightly , er but the fee income , because of the nature of the the applications and the fee regime that is charged , is actually falling off quite rapidly . |
| 2 | An elderly man living alone , for example , was 5.74 times more likely to have had a home-help visit during the previous month than an elderly couple , after allowing for the different average disability levels of the two types of household . |
| 3 | From the outside it looked as if the NAMIBIA players surrounding their coach-cum-manager-cum-union President , Henning Snyman , had gathered for the ritual pre-match huddle . |
| 4 | The map is an example of those developed for the new Regional Geochemistry series . |
| 5 | The degree to which opportunities for either vertical or horizontal career mobility have been developed for the paraprofessional social service worker is highly variable among the countries we studied and between geographic areas within these countries . |
| 6 | Unfortunately , it forgot to plan for the needed new council chamber within that civic centre . |
| 7 | For example , organisations may tend to concentrate on improving minor internal processes while failing to plan for the single European market . |
| 8 | It was even argued that a State could justifiably be compelled , by the other members of that system , to sacrifice for the common good territory to which it had every legal right , just as it in its turn could compel one of its subjects if necessary to sacrifice some of his wealth to its needs ; for ‘ the most legitimate rulers must sometimes renounce their rights in order to maintain the balance ’ . |
| 9 | And if the murderer were an outsider , then how account for the locked front door , the intact alarm system , and the fact that Lorrimer must have let him in ? |
| 10 | Or huge satin ballgown skirts in shocking pink or lilac satin topped with rib-hugging knits for the new dance-in-a-cold-climate look . |
| 11 | Bosnian Serbs meanwhile allowed two stranded aid convoys to head for Gorazde and Sarajevo , but another convoy intended for the besieged Muslim town of Srebrenica remained stuck at the border . |
| 12 | That goes for the whole Scottish team , poised between the extinction of their American dream and a famous victory . |
| 13 | It is usually calculated for the typical average person of the group at risk . |
| 14 | Later , there followed competition wins for the Catholic Apostolic church , Edinburgh ( 1871–3 ) , Edinburgh school board schools ( 1874–7 ) , and Edinburgh University medical schools ( 1874–86 ) . |
| 15 | It doubles up branch and conditional registers and integer and floating point units and a version of the PowerPC , derived from the design , is expected to execute up to four instructions per cycle , although whether those kinds of superscalar performances can often be achieved in practice will depend on how well the compilers are optimised for the new internal architecture . |
| 16 | Materials designed for the international English teaching market , as well as the more restricted range intended for use in the United Kingdom will be examined and discussed , as will the growing body of materials designed to meet a local need , and informally circulated . |
| 17 | He proposed a test , based on communication via teletypes with an unseen entity that was to be at first a human and then a computer , and if the human interlocutor , who had been told he was communicating on the subject of the differences between men and women , failed to notice that a machine had been substituted for the original human partner in the dialogue , then the machine was deemed to have passed the test , and Turing suggested we might as well speak of such a successful machine as thinking by polite convention , just as , ‘ instead of arguing continually … it is usual to have a polite convention that everybody thinks ’ . |
| 18 | BY ANY standards , the success of the film Hedd Wyn in becoming the first Welsh language film to be nominated for the prestigious Royal Television Society award was a significant breakthrough for the burgeoning industry . |
| 19 | In principle , the Hall is occupied for the full academic year of 36 weeks . |
| 20 | Perhaps if we are American we long for the early seventeenth-century Puritan theocracy of New England . |
| 21 | SEND FOR THE FREE TITAN BROCHURE OF YOUR CHOICE |
| 22 | We were not able to adjust for the possible confounding effect of body weight as this information has not been collected . |
| 23 | To ask the Secretary of State for Defence what plans he has for the Royal Naval Reserve ; and if he will make a statement . |
| 24 | In Los Angeles , discussions centred not merely on drug usage as a topical exploitation subject for movies but also on the widespread and varied substances which were readily available , being increasingly used and largely blamed for the incredible recent upsurge in violence within the protest movement . |
| 25 | Neither the programme of resettlement in Siberia , nor peasant purchases of noble land came close to compensating for the continued steep rise in the rural population in these regions . |
| 26 | Among the RAC 's five million members are approximately 3,000 motorists who will qualify for the new long service awards . |
| 27 | And remember — you 'll qualify for the special free gift overleaf once your Plan is in force ! |
| 28 | France 's Channel 5 — La Cinq — abandoned its fight to survive just as the Independent Broadcasting Authority opened bidding for the new British station with a warning of the commercial risk . |
| 29 | Chair , if I can , if I can speak to it from a financial point of view , this is the scheme where we have been successful in bidding for the European Rural Development Fund grants . |
| 30 | The Doppler shift was used to compensate for the gravitational spectral shift of photons travelling along the tower . |