Example sentences of "[prep] [adj] [noun pl] for the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is difficult to interpret this without further purpose-designed experimentation , but it is still possible to speculate about possible reasons for the observed pattern . |
| 2 | Mr. Lightheart will be consulted about possible uses for the annual grant . |
| 3 | Mr. Lightheart will be consulted about possible uses for the annual grant . |
| 4 | Groups of bed-sitters with communal lounge facilities have been tried , and in some places the shared lounge has been available for social facilities for the old people of the neighbourhood . |
| 5 | Though neither NTV nor FRCN can be regarded as unqualified spokesmen for the Federal Government , the state radios are certainly partisan spokesmen for their respective state governments and are seen as such by their political opponents . |
| 6 | Stockbrokers , politicians and company chairmen hanker after retail investors for the same , simple reason : they think they are chumps . |
| 7 | Several of the loops in domain 1 are flexible ; r.m.s. deviations between main-chain atoms for the two copies of sCD2 exceed 1.0Å for residues 20–26 , 34–37 , 44–47 , 70–71 and 85–86 . |
| 8 | The ironical and fundamental point is that during these post-war years , when international demand for tropical commodities for the first time since 1921 really justified vast investments in the Colonies ; when the Colonies had a huge back-log of demand for essential equipment ; when at last the British government was equipped with power to give or lend considerable sums to top up what the Colonies could afford to invest from their own accumulating surplus ; and when . |
| 9 | Sometimes they were envisaged as semi-penal institutions for the unregenerated poor . |
| 10 | Today the Opposition revealed themselves as dinosaurs because they acted as mere apologists for the old established order . |
| 11 | SCOTVEC has recently run a series of workshops for college staff involved in the preparation and validation of advanced courses for the 1989–90 Pilot Programme . |
| 12 | They decided Channel Five Holdings would not be able to keep up its proposed network of city-based stations for the full 10 years of the franchise . |
| 13 | Indena , Italian manufacturer of botanical derivatives for the pharmaceutical , cosmetic and health food industries , turned in a 20 per cent rise in profit in 1991 , on a $6.7m ( £1 = $1.75 ) turnover . |
| 14 | The offence is in outline very similar to the pre-existing offence under the Public Order Act 1936 , section 5A , although it adds ‘ behaviour ’ to the list of proscribed activities for the first time . |
| 15 | Anthony Kasozi 's work as ACET 's Director in uganda has recently received financial support form Tear Fund which has enabled him , together with ACET General Manager , Maurice Adams , to identify a number of church-based projects for the coming year . |
| 16 | Evidence that the Chinese economy was entering a period of growth emerged on April 7 with the publication of economic figures for the first quarter of 1991 . |
| 17 | The British delegation of eight comprised of two Principals of Oral Schools for the Deaf which had a combined total of less than 25 students ! |
| 18 | The man was a fellow-American and had been on a tour of European branches for the previous three days . |
| 19 | The range of normal values for the oesophageal pH environment has been derived from previous study of 30 asymptomatic control subjects in this laboratory . |
| 20 | The company is committed to pay 5% of total salaries for the next three years . |
| 21 | Barney , of course , is currently struggling his way through the next set of fabulous lyrics for the upcoming New Order album which is staggering to completion . |
| 22 | The report also calls for the provision of strong incentives for the regional power companies to reduce fuel consumption and increase energy efficiency . |
| 23 | Geological testing of possible sites for the deep burial of nuclear waste is to be restarted in France , some 15 months after public protests brought a halt to the previous programme . |
| 24 | And the appropriate way in which this matter should be considered is through the local plan when you are considering a much er more limited range of possible sites for the new settlement . |
| 25 | The final paper , from Harrison and Munson , is an interesting analysis of possible algorithms for the automatic numbering of document components such as figures , tables , equations and so on . |
| 26 | FOLLOWING the passing earlier this year of the Transport & Works Act 1992 , the Government are now completing preparation of detailed regulations for the new system of orders for new railway works which will replace both the old system operated under the Light Railway Acts and the former Private Bill procedure for larger scale works . |
| 27 | Sometimes differences in terminology are merely the use of different words for the same or similar groups ( such a ‘ West Indian ’ and ‘ Afro-Caribbean ’ ) ; at other times , different sets of terms refer to different classifications and different ways of classifying . |
| 28 | Tickets for the whole event are on sale , price £10.00 , from the box-office of the Empire Leicester Square , and we have pairs of free tickets for the first five readers to arrive at the cinema on Sunday morning bearing a copy of The Independent . |
| 29 | We have two pairs of free tickets for the following screenings : The Rachel Papers , based on the novel by Martin Amis ( Mon , 9.00 ) ; Scenes from the Class Struggle in Beverly Hills ( Tues , 8.30 ) , a farce about sexual imbroglio among the smart set of Bel Air , by Paul Bartel , the director of Eating Raoul ; My Left Foot ( Wed , 9.00 ) , starring Daniel Day Lewis as disabled Irish writer Christy Brown ; New York Stories ( Thur , 8.30 ) , the eagerly-awaited compendium film with vignettes by Scorsese , Coppola and Woody Allen ; more tales from Manhattan in James Ivory 's adaptation of Tama Janowitz 's novel Slaves of New York ( Fri , 8.30 ) ; Great Balls of Fire ( next Sat , 8.45 ) , in which Dennis Quaid pounds the ivories as Jerry Lee Lewis ; and the closing gala of Greenaway 's The Cook … ( next Sun , 8.00 ) . |
| 30 | Johnes and Taylor provide estimates of non-completion rates for the 1979 and 1980 entry cohorts into each university and suggest a number of reasons which may have contributed to these inter-university differences . |