Example sentences of "[prep] [adj] [noun sg] for the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Whereas in the 1980s the reforming emphasis was on market economics without political openness ( perestroika without glasnost ) , the China of the mid-to-late 1990s was driven by a concern for political openness for the first time in its history . |
| 2 | His list of 400 healing plants , described and detailed in four books , is probably the most famous materia medica of all , and continued to be a standard reference for European medicine for the next 1,500 years . |
| 3 | Alan Maley , the series editor , worked for The British Council from 1962–1988 , serving as an English Language Officer in Yugoslavia , Ghana , Italy , France , and China , and as Regional Representative for The British Council in South India ( Madras ) . |
| 4 | On Feb. 27 the EC Commission agreed on its proposals for agricultural support for the 1991/92 EC agricultural year starting on April 1 . |
| 5 | In the wake of your SHOCK HEADED PETERS piece , I think you should know that Karl Blake has n't worked for British Rail for the past year and a half and is currently an art student in Sheffield . |
| 6 | Having been employed now for British Gas for the last twenty five years er , I 've got seventeen years of pensionable service , which has only just been negotiated through the G M B since nineteen eighty to nineteen ninety three and now it is probably one of the better pensions , company pension schemes , in the country . |
| 7 | " Sacrifices could be demanded in the name of democracy which could not be expected for mere patriotism for the social order as it was . " |
| 8 | Problems have arisen despite this year 's cash for the NHS appearing , when it was announced last November , to allow for real growth for the first time in years , even after taking into account inevitable pressures such as the rising number of elderly people . |
| 9 | The judge left it to counsel to submit suggestions for appropriate relief for the limited infringement of copyright . |
| 10 | He retired as Chief Scientist for the Welsh Water Authority at the time of its privatisation , and is currently a member of the NRA 's Welsh Regional Rivers Committee , among a host of other things . |
| 11 | It had a cross-over , a set of catch points and four block instruments , two for permissive block working and the other two for absolute block for the main lines . |
| 12 | There were demonstrations in Moldavia ( renamed Moldova ) calling for greater control over local affairs , and in particular for official status for the Moldavian language ; there were counter-demonstrations by the republic 's non-Moldavian population , more than a third of the total , against what they saw as a form of reverse discrimination ( Russian , in the event , was retained as a means of inter-nationality communication ) . |
| 13 | This was not to deny the importance of technical education for the prospective tradesman , but he would be ‘ unsafe ’ unless this was supplemented by a training which allowed him ‘ to adapt himself to new conditions ’ . |
| 14 | But it is worth noting also that Scotland has had a relatively strong tradition of technical education for the last century , in contrast to the rather patchy developments south of the border ( Argles 1964 ) . |
| 15 | Similar stations were established by other colonizing powers , and , along with colonial geological surveys , provided an important source of professional employment for the growing number of trained European scientists . |
| 16 | The focus of the inter-war depression in Scotland , the Northern Region and Wales is universally attributed to specialization in a narrow band of declining industries , and these areas were identified as the principal target of regional policy for the subsequent decades . |
| 17 | The big industrial company , says Mr Chandler , has been the engine of economic growth for the past 100 years , and will continue to be so for the next 100 . |
| 18 | But he is taking one major step forward today , and that is a step towards the cliff of political oblivion for the Conservative party in Scotland . |
| 19 | The Councils could never rid themselves of their reputation as just another manifestation of Political Dissent for the simple reason that the charge was essentially true . |
| 20 | An area of defensiveness is around the Labour Party because that 's been one of my main arenas of political activity for the last eight , nine years or so . |
| 21 | The research examines the relationships between objective consumer conditions , mass perceptions of the economy and levels of political support for the major political parties |
| 22 | He said Hong Kong could face a ‘ period of political siege for the next four years followed by an abrupt transition to a harsher and more repressive regime . ’ |
| 23 | The Romanian leader 's brother , Lieutenant General Ilie Ceausescu , a deputy defence minister and head of political administration for the armed forces , has been closely concerned with the presentation of the historical case and has unhesitatingly attacked the Hungarians in several articles published in the Romanian press . |
| 24 | They , therefore , form a smaller share of total income for the highest income group . |
| 25 | Initially they were areas of strong support for the radical campesino organizations and the FMLN forces , but they have now expanded to cover over one-quarter of national territory . |
| 26 | Intel stresses that there are no problems with the P5 and that it is taking the opportunity of strong demand for the 80486 family to spend longer testing the highly complex new chip in the hope of avoiding the bugs that plagued the 80486 in its early days . |
| 27 | Yet his Concertino of 1920 is a work of historic importance for the clear way in which it marks the connection between his early Russian style and the kind of neoclassicism that occupied him thereafter . |
| 28 | The new Teesside facility will control emissions during the treatment of liquid iron for the steelmaking plant . |
| 29 | The out-fields were badly cultivated , cattle husbandry almost impossible , trees a luxury on small plots where land could not be ‘ wasted ’ ; the sheer cadastral complexity of the system was one of the most serious bars to badly needed systems of agricultural credit for the small man . |
| 30 | On 25th September , 1858 , The Saturday Review carried an article entitled ‘ The Question of Architectural Style for the new Public Offices ’ which , according to The Building News , ‘ many will be inclined to take as an official article ’ . |