Example sentences of "[adj] [noun pl] for [art] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | National goals and regional policies for the less-favoured areas also vary and grounds for comparison are difficult to establish and may not be relevant . |
| 2 | The instability of the horizons in these solutions can easily be demonstrated in that they require very specific forms for the initial functions f(u) and g(v) . |
| 3 | There are more than 260 ways to spell 18 to 20 basic English vowel sounds , and there are another 226 forms for the 23 consonants . |
| 4 | He also used transactions data on MMI futures for the same periods . |
| 5 | To explore possible reasons for the different kinds of error reported above the following calculations were made for each patient : total number of missing days , total number of retrospective completions , and total number of occasions on which a discrepancy occurred between written and electronic records . |
| 6 | This is the total arrears for the 4 years of Community Charge and includes the Region , Districts and Water Charge . |
| 7 | Well , we 've not got consistency when you 've got different rules for Apex , different rules for CAT , different rules for , different rules for the public services . |
| 8 | In the result , it was agreed between the Commissioners and the defendant that the amount charged upon him should be reduced , and that time should be given to pay it in three instalments ; he gave three promissory notes for the three instalments ; the first was duly honoured ; the others were not , and were the subject of the present action . |
| 9 | As for which wine — there 's all the choice in the world at Sainsbury 's from the freshest white wines — chilled for a summer evening to warm generous reds for the cooler evenings . |
| 10 | Wonderful Wang WORLD champion Wang Junxia fulfilled her ambition to become the first woman to run under 30 minutes for the 10,000 metres when she today slashed an astonishing 42 seconds off the world record . |
| 11 | Comparative evidence from better-documented periods indicates that at times of monetary reform transitional arrangements were made to enable people to exchange their old coins for the new ones . |
| 12 | Straining the last possible revolutions from her roaring Paxman engines , the old lady of the fleet , Vigilant was first to reach Guiding Lights , but despite darkness and mist had to wait no more than a few minutes for the other cutters to join her — a feat of seamanship that later lead to great praise from their Investigation colleagues ashore . |
| 13 | Mr E 's group had been a two-term group of middle and first school teachers sharing a site , all members attending the weekly sessions for the two terms , with myself as a temporarily school-attached consultant . |
| 14 | In one of his few appearances for the junior teams at Preston somebody threw the ball at him and said : ‘ You play soccer , you have a go . ’ |
| 15 | Norman on his wall has a a a list of er theoretical waitings for the different specialists at Orpington hospital and presumably he 's got one beside it for Queen Mary 's as well . |
| 16 | The magazine will just have to lurch along snuggled up to me and my ageing haemorrhoids for a few weeks . |
| 17 | It took two decades and a number of celebrated trials for the revolutionary implications of the legislation to be fully appreciated and applied . |
| 18 | He had no political aims and did not lead a faction , although he sought lesser posts for a few clients . |
| 19 | But while there may be a rapid rundown in drilling operations , it will probably take some years for the trickle-down effects to be felt from a spate of new projects spurred by tax changes . |
| 20 | But whereas those first person narrators are fairly transparent surrogates for the implied authors of those novels , the first-person narrators of modernist texts are more ambiguous , less reliable witnesses to their own experience , and are often framed by or counterpointed with other narrators — as , for example , in Henry James 's The Turn of the Screw or Conrad 's Heart of Darkness . |
| 21 | In the absence of theoretical explanations for the underlying mechanisms of continental movement , both views were propounded , but neither could be proved . |
| 22 | Burrows shows how Jane Austen makes skilful use of the common words to build up different idiolects for the different persons in the novels to bring out the differences in their characters . |
| 23 | What 's more , it only takes a few weeks for the real rewards to start appearing . |
| 24 | Prospective students seeking an award to carry out postgraduate work at the University may obtain application forms and further particulars for the following awards from the appropriate Faculty Administrative Officer ( see page 46 ) . |
| 25 | I just want to spread a few good words and hopefully raise a few pounds for the three groups that I am involved with , ’ says Rosemary . |
| 26 | One of the results of this difference is that such accents have different pronunciations for the two members of pairs of words that are pronounced identically ( i.e. are homophones ) in RP , e.g. ‘ won ’ and ‘ one ’ , ‘ nun ’ and ‘ none ’ . |
| 27 | Our usual transcription is given in brackets : This can be made to look less unusual by choosing different symbols for the basic vowels . |
| 28 | Nor was the Treasury convinced by the repeated arguments for the costly increases in police manpower which most Home Secretaries felt they had to secure in order to demonstrate their credibility . |
| 29 | The reader may be confused to find what we here call bivalves , referred to in other books as pelecypods or lamellibranchs — these are just different names for the same animals . |
| 30 | Some might set off from observations like these to construct a formal system which would provide different representations for the different types of non-linguistic referents ( beings or situations or things ) for which , logically , the various phrases could be used in our own or some other possible world . |