Example sentences of "[adj] in [noun sg] for the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Hindess ( 1971 ) analysed this in detail for the case of Liverpool , and although the detailed studies of other areas which might support a definite generalisation were not carried out , it seems plausible that a parallel evolution was taking place in other city Labour parties . |
| 2 | I 'm as much in line for the title as the rabbit you inferred a moment ago I 'd be unable to support . |
| 3 | First , is the procedure that the buyer has to go through to claim the remedy a proper one from an administrative point of view , or is it designed to make it difficult or impossible in practice for the buyer to invoke the clause ? |
| 4 | THOSE Sassenachs , like me , who make regular pilgrimages to your magnificent country to fish inevitably become lost in admiration for the scenery and for its inhabitants . |
| 5 | The project , presented by the Minister for Culture and Education , Jack Lang , and adopted by the Cabinet on 26 August , should be operational in time for the exhibition ‘ The century of Titian : from Giorgione to Veronese ’ scheduled at Paris 's Grand Palais from 20 February to 31 May 1993 . |
| 6 | But leave him there alone and snared for as long as ten days , and yes , if he had by then any secrets left , he would confide them all in exchange for the air of the great court , and the music of the Office . |
| 7 | The flying grey deserves them all in return for the joy and thrills he has given thousands while humping 12 stone in weight around on his back . |
| 8 | Defender Bryan Small , midfielder Garry Parker and striker Cyrille Regis are all in line for the chop . |
| 9 | Plans are well in hand for the lecture demonstrations taking place in the south west during September ; everyone is working hard to promote ‘ Weston-super-Medau ! ’ |
| 10 | Kay Evans who is greatly involved in work for the improvement of the quality of life of handicapped people , drew our attention to the fact that the United Nations has proclaimed 1981 as the International Year for Disabled People . |
| 11 | It is therefore possible in principle for the application to keep track of the structures it is handed and to assign a score to each one behind the scenes , telling CLE-I that each one is implausible . |
| 12 | Cakes for the stall in aid of the Petersfield Hospital may be left either with the treasurer at 14 Syers Road or with the president at 6 Forest Rise on Friday , April 17th in readiness for the sale on Easter Saturday at 8.30 a.m . |
| 13 | The effect of s80 is that if , for instance , the settlor creates a trust for himself for life and then his son for life or absolutely that in order for the trust to be an excluded property trust the settlor must not be domiciled in the United Kingdom at the time when the settlement is created and nor must he be domiciled in the United Kingdom ( and this would include deemed domiciled in the United Kingdom ) at the time of his death . |
| 14 | Every time another load of red shale appeared we raked and then raked some more in preparation for the rolling later in the week . |
| 15 | The Secretaries of State are responsible in law for the promotion of the education of the people of England and Wales . |
| 16 | On an appeal by the plaintiff the Court of Appeal held ( dismissing the appeal ) that in so far as the rules of the club provided that two of its officers were to be responsible in law for the conduct of the club then ( in the absence of an express provision that the officers were responsible for the condition of the club premises ) the rules did not give rise to a duty of care towards individual members to maintain the club premises in a reasonable state of safety and repair . |
| 17 | In the Western democracies of the late twentieth century the state has taken on an entirely different character from that which it had in the period of laissez-faire capitalism , or in earlier periods , when its functions were mainly confined to tax collecting , internal repression , and external conflict with other states ; now it is responsible in addition for the operation of a great range of public services as well as a general regulation of the whole economic system . |
| 18 | There are two levels of cacheing available in software for the PC user . |
| 19 | If the exact figures are not available in time for the Council meeting , a full breakdown will be included in the Spring 1993 Council report . |
| 20 | Will the right hon. Gentleman give a commitment that capital will be made available in time for the accident and emergency unit to be completed and ready to receive patients when Westminster hospital closes ? |
| 21 | It added : ‘ When copies of the Queen 's Christmas Broadcast to the Commonwealth are made available in advance for the convenience of the media in this country and abroad , such a system depends upon all the media accepting the obligation not to publish it prematurely . |
| 22 | He had begun working on plans to turn the Wapping Post into a national strike paper when Pilger tipped him off that he was first in line for the editor 's job at News on Sunday . |
| 23 | There are three day schools at Liverpool Museum on November 14 , December 5 and January 16 in preparation for the link up next March . |
| 24 | In Jammu and Kashmir , local politician 's daughter Nahida Imtiaz Soz , kidnapped in Srinagar on Feb. 27 by the Jammu and Kashmir Student Liberation Front , was freed on March 8 in return for the release of an imprisoned " Pakistani-trained militant " , Mushtaq Ahmed ; three policemen had also been abducted in an effort to secure the release of five separatist activists . |
| 25 | It agrees that companies should be publicly accountable in return for the privilege of limited liability , it says , but that accountability lies in filing the accounts , rather than their audit . |
| 26 | The new car was rolled out on March 31 1982 in time for the retirement of its designer , Chief Engineer Stuart Pillar . |
| 27 | Indeed the adjective must be so understood ; if we try to imagine using , in the structure of ( 16 ) , an adjectival property which is not ascribed to the entity of the noun phrase ( nor helping as a qualifier to identify any entity of the sentence ) , there will be only two possible outcomes : If it is a property semantically compatible with the verb , the result will be taken as an ungrammatical way of expressing a thought which should have incorporated an adverb : ( 17 ) Alastair likes his beef tea great Alternatively , it will be a property that is not compatible with the verb either ; but , in that case , there will be no way of guessing what that property should be applied to — it will in effect be semantically " loose " , so that the whole will be incomprehensible : ( 18 ) the process left the documents puzzled Thus , the property of the adjective qualifies , in purely syntactic terms , the inner grouping of verb and object ; it is applied to the entity of the noun phrase , but not directly , only as part of an interlocking structure with three elements — as in certain engineering and architectural structures , each of three elements needs the other two in order for the whole to function effectively . |
| 28 | However , mature men did wear beards in mourning , and the very earliest portraits of Octavian show him bearded in grief for the death of Julius Caesar . |
| 29 | Therefore , one further reason why policemen dislike dealing with rape might well be that they feel uneasy about having to ask the very personal questions which are necessary in order for the victim to be taken seriously , and on the occasion quoted above the sergeant went on to say that as a result of asking for these very personal details policemen ‘ have had a very bad rap over dealing with rape cases ’ ( FN 16/3/87 , p. 14 ) . |
| 30 | Any photographer will tell you that a tripod is necessary in order for the camera on top to remain stable . |