Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] [verb] [adv] for the " in BNC.
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| 1 | As my hon. Friend the Member for Oldham , West said , by the end of the decade , they will unilaterally have slashed £12 billion from the value of SERPS , transferring funds paid in by all of us for the future into private funds run solely for the benefit of the few . |
| 2 | As seen in Chapter 3 , this was also true in the nineteenth century , despite lower clergy support particularly for the Fenian movement . |
| 3 | Tossed between them like a broken toy fit only for the dustbin . |
| 4 | AN international treaty which commits three very different communities to work together for the common good is to be signed in Middlesbrough next week . |
| 5 | And this venue worked wonderfully for the most successful part of this concert the Poulenc Organ Concerto . |
| 6 | To quote Piesse again , " If there is much legal jargon and intricacy of arrangement [ the client ] may feel he is the victim of some art practised perhaps for the draftsman 's own purposes or at least with neglectful indifference to its effect on ordinary people " ( p54 ) . |
| 7 | One congratulates the gallery in opening its stable doors to youth , but at 33 , Fojcik has already proved himself amply equipped to enter senior playing fields and this outing augurs well for the future ; it also challenges Glasgow 's unique claims to youthful success , commitment and vigorous imagination . |
| 8 | At a press conference held on April 30 Lee acknowledged officially for the first time the existence of a CCP-led government in Beijing . |
| 9 | The 12 governors met yesterday for the third time in a week at Bush House , in London . |
| 10 | Maybe we 've got some thing to learn here for the nineteen eighties . |
| 11 | Pallister missed the European Championship because of back and foot injuries and Ferguson stressed : ‘ He has worked so hard this summer to get right for the season and I am sure it will pay off for him . ’ |
| 12 | The figure of 2 km assumed here for the area of interest further north is therefore more likely to be an over than an underestimate . |
| 13 | Anybody who " ramps " or causes " ramping " of USM stocks in this way cares more for the profits on his own transaction profits possibly running into thousands of pounds than he does for those of his clients . |
| 14 | This year began well for the zoo with the successful hatching of 56 penguin eggs and the successful rearing of these chicks to maturity . |
| 15 | ‘ Success in television must at the end of the day be measured in terms of programme standards , and to achieve so much this year augurs well for the future . ’ |
| 16 | There is also disagreement on the method that should be used for frost testing , with the British representatives pressing hard for the most rigorous system . |
| 17 | Fifteen minutes later , having banged and bumped our way up another track heading directly for the low hills , the two of us came to the small tin-roofed hut which I had imagined and there , standing before it , was the single link required to bring Balboa 's journey and mine into their final conjunction . |
| 18 | Equally , however , the farmer is entitled to demand that the countryside be viewed neither as a more extensive version of an urban recreation ground , nor as an arcadian idyll set aside for the pursuit of an indulgent atavism . |
| 19 | Over 400 rich Middle Eastern and European buyers packed into Paris 's Maison de la Chimie on 7 March to compete hard for the art collection of Syrian multi-millionaire Mowaffik Midani . |
| 20 | The move came four months after the Diet had approved a law permitting Japanese forces to serve overseas for the first time since the end of the Pacific War [ see pp. 38962-63 ] , and followed a request from UN Secretary-General Boutros Boutros-Ghali . |
| 21 | Such potential augurs well for the 1990s . |
| 22 | Were they just words he was reading , or did he realize that three aircraft meant twenty-one crew , and countless women waiting anxiously for the phone call that would tell them their man was safe — or the letter that would tell them he was not ? |
| 23 | Furthermore , bearing in mind the reservations about changes in different varieties that I expressed in section 5.2 above , the early date suggested here for the loss of the velar fricative does not affect the fact that there are dialects of English ( in Lowland Scotland ) which have not yet lost the fricative . |
| 24 | Very easy plant to grow even for the absolute beginner . |
| 25 | Environment and parliamentary groups pressed repeatedly for the UK to drop its opposition to the Directive . |
| 26 | One of the worst proposals put forward for the church was to turn it into a hamburger joint , run by the restaurant chain , Garfunkels : hardly a use compatible with the dignity of a historic church . |
| 27 | It was on this trip that a remarkable partnership came together for the first time . |
| 28 | Is it a domestic journal intended primarily for the church members ? |
| 29 | Furthermore , it became clear that a number of the parties would be arriving some time before the three days set aside for the conference , thus giving themselves time to prepare their ground and gauge the mood of fellow guests , though their exact arrival dates were , again , uncertain . |
| 30 | In the limit of low velocities and small gravitational effects GR reduces to Newton 's law with small corrections , and these corrections account precisely for the small residual advance of perihelion in the case of Mercury . |