Example sentences of "[prep] [art] [adj] [adj] [noun pl] [art] " in BNC.

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1 For the six full sessions every Monday and Tuesday so far , at least 400 of the 542 Supreme Soviet members have been present throughout the day .
2 The notice can in fact be contained in a market counterparty terms of business letter or agreement ; this may be used in order to provide for the various commercial protections the firm may want and the material interest disclosures that may still be needed at law as a result of fiduciary obligations even if ( exactly because the market counterparty is not a customer ) they are not required by the COB Rules .
3 For the highest level jobs a whole country or even an international community might be considered , but in European countries most workers attempt to find jobs which do not require either moving house or excessive travelling , and such proximity has corresponding advantages for the potential employers .
4 For the other three bodies the problem was the same : either the districts ( for Primitive Methodists ) or the individual chapels ( for Congregationalists and Baptists ) allowed men into the ministry who had no academic qualifications .
5 On the strength of its hearings for the first eighteen applications the Reviewing Committee for the Export of Works of Art duly stopped all the drawings and starred the group , thus indicating its special status only the sixth time this has ever happened .
6 Perhaps a million or more Americans now make their own brew , which is tax-free for the first 200 gallons a year .
7 For the first two weeks the office treated it as a joke .
8 For the first few days the hands and feet become too sore to practise with , but in time they become sufficiently conditioned to withstand the constant impact and calluses begin to develop in the key areas .
9 For the first few weeks the cast used the bedrooms as dressing rooms .
10 For the first few years the Sunday School met in a private house , possibly that of a Mr Thomas Leathem .
11 For the first few years the maximum carriage length remained at 42ft .
12 For the first few years the work was concerned with the Old Red Sandstone along the southern margin of the Highlands but soon men were stationed at various points around the Grampians , including the Moray Firth area , and were advancing towards the higher ground .
13 For the first few years the remands were unopposed , since it would plainly have been inappropriate to proceed against the applicant whilst the Carrian prosecution was still afoot .
14 The CNAA could not establish boards for every subject component of degrees in education , and in the event for the first few years the Committee for Education , using a range of specialist panels in support , itself carried out the validation work .
15 After 1839 the number of staff gradually increased but for the first 20 years the work was confined to southern Britain , limited by the availability of Ordnance Survey maps .
16 They found that 161 of the children were admitted , and for the remaining 200 children the initial decision was that they should not come into care although subsequently a significant proportion did .
17 For the following nine seasons the club has guaranteed not to increase these season ticket prices by more than the annual rate of inflation .
18 Even for the northern regional championships the players at Cleveland Spastics Centre in Middlesbrough had trained five times a week .
19 Each year for the past five years the South Cambridge Forum for Industry Education Liaison has organised a ‘ Chemistry at Work ’ exhibition for fifth and sixth formers from schools in its area .
20 For the past five years the scheme 's costs have been met on a limited term basis through special funding by the Government and then by joint agency funding .
21 The area of Washington I know best lies around Dupont Circle , its streets now ablaze with pink , purple and white azaleas , the pavement cafes now opening up , and where for the past two decades the left think tank , the Institute for Policy Studies , has been loc-ated .
22 For the past two years the trustees of the Marriott Bequest have funded a scheme aimed at giving young members of the RSC a taste of scientific publishing .
23 For the past two years the BVDG has used the Cologne Art Fair as a platform to promote support for particular museums .
24 For the past two years The Fellow , who is half a thoroughbred , half trotter , has come to the final fence with Europe 's classic steeplechase seemingly won , only to lose it by a whisker on the run-in .
25 For the past six hours the downpour had been continuous and torrential .
26 However some employers must have moved more quickly , since the Scotsman for the same day carried the following report : The masters say they have engaged workmen from England who have proved equal to the occasion , while for the past few weeks an experiment was made with educated females at the case .
27 Although occasionally Dutch finance companies with Antillean parents ( taxed at a turn on the interest in the Netherlands ) are still seen , for the past few years the perceived wisdom has been that the Swiss finance branch structure is superior .
28 For the past few years the incoming information has been startlingly similar from one season to the next .
29 For the past three years every general practitioner in Britain has been forced to waste professional time and scarce resources on unproved and possibly harmful procedures .
30 This brief has been fulfilled with distinction , and every three or four months for the past 20 years the office has produced an objective , well-documented , literate , and attractively presented booklet encapsulating the known facts about subjects ranging from suicide , rabies and heart disease , to the cost of running hospitals and what the public expects from the NHS , always adding a few percipient comments and conclusions of its own for good measure .
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