Example sentences of "[adj] [noun pl] [verb] for [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | PAKISTANI authorities have for the first time begun arresting farmers in the North West Frontier Province who have been found planting opium for next year 's harvest . |
| 2 | The five CODESA working groups met for the first time on Jan. 20 in Johannesburg . |
| 3 | Only six solo roles call for a male soprano , on the basis of which it is possible to make a few observations . |
| 4 | On-shore activities make for a lively and exhilarating festival . |
| 5 | So , for high taxes vote for the Labour party , and for low taxes vote Conservative . |
| 6 | One of the first top riders to sign for the 1993 British League season , Rickardsson has no sympathy with riders who are refusing to sign this year because of the promoters ' strict pay policy . |
| 7 | The code in fact incorporates a degree of redundancy , so that in some cases as many as six different triplets code for the same amino acid . |
| 8 | The generally optimistic tenor of this debate provides a revealing comparison with those public views examined for the earlier period . |
| 9 | Utilities were among the more buoyant sectors , helped by the search by pensions funds for higher-income investments to compensate for the five-point drop in their investment returns as a result of the Budget changes . |
| 10 | THE English schools team for the 21st annual home countries schools international at Hull on Saturday includes three Newcastle swimmers . |
| 11 | This very strong assumption precludes any role for unobserved variables to account for a substantial proportion of population heterogeneity . |
| 12 | Phase ( III ) will be a series of interviews to obtain more detailed information on the strategic and tactical considerations involved for the contracting parties . |
| 13 | On the night of Wednesday 4 July 1759 Rear-Admiral George [ later Admiral Lord ] Rodney in the 60-gun Achilles , led four 50-gun ships of the line , five frigates and six bomb-ketches , described earlier , into Le Havre and , impudently anchoring in the main channel , began next morning a heavy bombardment of the docks , the warehouses storing timber , the construction yards , and , most important of all , the completed flat-boats intended for the coming invasion . |
| 14 | The buccaneer impulse revealed in these artless words accounts for the vigorous campaigns against other villains in other castles , though the immediate object is almost always the traditional one of help for a distressed damsel . |
| 15 | Pawson has pointed out that in building the canals , British engineers had for the first time " to grapple with large scale civil engineering problems " . |
| 16 | Commanded by Gen. Satish Nambiar of the Indian army , the force included contingents from 30 countries including for the first time Security Council permanent members France , Russia and the United Kingdom . |
| 17 | Yeah , I 'm rather concerned that this kind of thing seems to be happening rather a lot , I mean this is so reminiscent of what happened in the , the four maisonette in in Fern Hill where we had empty blocks left for a long time erm becoming a magnet for vandalism and all kinds of everything ! |
| 18 | Some companies opt for a simple mailing of information supported by the product samples , or the complete package may be personally delivered to selected media by the PR executives concerned . |
| 19 | Expressing concern about the global economic recession , US and German officials called for a special G-7 summit to break the existing stalemate on GATT talks . |
| 20 | Some versions substituted for the front pair a .5 Browning heavy machine gun , and some jeeps had a single Vickers fitted in such a way that the driver could operate it . |
| 21 | If you have made too few contributions to qualify for the basic pension , you may be able to use some of your ex-husband 's contribution record to build up your pension to the full amount . |
| 22 | Leaving its Lyneham home , with British troops bound for the United Nations in Bosnia . |
| 23 | The party ran only 148 candidates , of whom 136 were elected , a larger proportion than in recent elections , but far short of the 257 seats required for an overall majority in the 512-member House of Representatives . |
| 24 | The reason for this seems to have been that Victorian British industrialists looked for a quick return , while the Germans were more prepared to take a long view . |
| 25 | Even with the advantages of other income sources , studios depend on a few hits to pay for a large number of duds . |
| 26 | I got involved with agencies who specialise in placing children who were difficult to place , be it handicapped , black or of the wrong age , and that led to my doing a lot of work taking photographs for a magazine published by the British Agencies for Adoption and Fostering and various publicity and public relations work for the Catholic Children 's Society . |
| 27 | Not only are different names used for the same thing , different things are known by the same name . |
| 28 | There are different ways to control for a third factor when investigating a relationship between two variables . |
| 29 | The surprise for well-fed French bureaucrats heading for a busy day paper shuffling at the European Commission was lightened only by the inclusion of croissants as a side course . |
| 30 | The result was the creation of large-scale public bureaucracies designed for the efficient regulation of water use . |