Example sentences of "[adj] for [art] [adj] [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Thankfully she made a quick and full recovery , and was outstanding for the Irish Under-21s at last month 's Home Countries Championships . |
| 2 | As might be expected the agreement was greatest for the unambiguous cases of severe dementia and diminished as the diagnosis became less clear cut . |
| 3 | If a planning authority wished to restrict its activities , it was held that it was only right for the extra costs to be reimbursed . |
| 4 | On the major question of the legal basis for pension schemes in the future , Mr. Murphy said ‘ The Working Party consider that the principles of trust law appropriately updated , continue to be valid , but we think it would be right for the central principles of trust law to be re-stated and put into the context of pension schemes . |
| 5 | Having recognized that form is a reflection of the underlying energy pattern and that it interacts with it , it is possible for the best sites to be found . |
| 6 | Meanwhile Home with great determination had been to the hospital in London and obtained Macmillan 's written resignation , which was read to the Conference on Thursday afternoon : ‘ I hope that it will soon be possible for the customary processes of consultation to be carried on within the party about its future leadership . ’ |
| 7 | I hope that it will soon be possible for the customary consultations to be carried out within the Party about the leadership . ’ |
| 8 | Gadansk 's Honour is a possible for the 1,000 Guineas at the following Newmarket meeting , but her participation depends on the performance of Miznah in tomorrow 's Nell Gwyn Stakes . |
| 9 | If your employment ends because of , say , revolution overseas , the contract may be regarded as frustrated , ie completely brought to an end by operation of law , because it is no longer possible for the contractual duties to be performed as you and your employer originally envisaged . |
| 10 | One feels sorry for the little ones in some circumstances and they nearly become like children — but not quite . |
| 11 | As we stepped into the street , behind the others , as grateful for the iced Cokes in prospect as they were , she whispered to me : ‘ You are doing well , Adolph . |
| 12 | On the very Sunday that the new church opened we looked in vain for the empty seats in St Luke 's : it seemed that God had given to us at the mother church a new group of people who had either moved into the area or who were to be converted and we saw the truth of the saying : ‘ Give and it will be given to you , pressed down and running over . ’ |
| 13 | Again , I remember a great many rehearsals , sixty or seventy each for the first performances of the Bach or the Beethoven . |
| 14 | In December 1697 a civil list of £700,000 a year was established , which , for the first time , distinguished between money provided for defence purposes and that for the other expenses of government . |
| 15 | One can only speculate on the implications of that for the last years of life and , in particular , for the acceptance of tending roles . |
| 16 | Pointing to the way in which poverty structured the lives of the majority of her respondents , she concluded that ‘ young Black women and young white women become pregnant for the same sorts of reasons , and this is because they share the same socio-economic contexts ’ ( Phoenix , 1988a , p. 154 ) . |
| 17 | The WO then further subdivides this for the eight counties of Wales . |
| 18 | Context made the meaning clear for the following words with multiple meanings in the previous few paragraphs : book , original , form , still , familiar , type , tends , well , lost , sounds , can , found , links , present . |
| 19 | Fifteen years was quite adequate for the necessary stages of component research , reduction of options , testing of prototypes , laying down of a production line , through to full-scale manufacture . |
| 20 | ‘ The training resources , although limited , particularly in terms of finances are nevertheless adequate for the current needs of the department . |
| 21 | The resulting set of lists — which are , in effect , indexes — is shown in Fig. 8.2 for the same records in a data file that have already been shown in Fig.8.1 . |
| 22 | The admiration which churchmen such as Cardinal Arthur Hinsley and Bishop G. K. A. Bell of Chichester [ qq.v. ] had for Dawson involved him actively as vice-president in the Sword of the Spirit , a proto-ecumenical movement which , to his disappointment , proved to be too visionary for the Roman authorities of the time . |
| 23 | Our sixty-four arrests included a few for the traditional crimes of burglary ( but now at chemist 's shops ) , forgery ( but of NHS prescriptions , not bank notes ) , as well as the new offences of unlawful possession of amphetamine or LSD . |
| 24 | Will representations to other Governments be as strong as possible to encourage them to make the sort of contributions to the know-how fund and to know-how activity that is absolutely crucial for the developing economies in central and eastern Europe , and without which they will never develop democratic politics as well ? |
| 25 | The timing of these concerted attacks to the same day , along the entire front , made it impossible for the Austro-Hungarian forces to be switched back and forth behind their line , with the result that they had to fight each battle with the support of no more than local reserves . |
| 26 | When Sarah McCabe ( 1980 ) queried the logic of why just one police system should be entrusted with the control of crime , law , order , and social assistance , pointing out , ‘ there is some disagreement about the use of the criminal law — unease about control of the streets … [ which poses the question ] who will be controlled and [ who will be ] assisted ’ , she found the tenor of her ‘ thoughtful and moderate examination of the police role … was too much for the senior officers to whom it was presented , and they set out to discredit it with a will ’ ( Greenhill 1981 : 98 ) . |
| 27 | That does not say much for the top chasers of the day , which are very thin on the ground . |
| 28 | All this is in the $16 billion increase in federal spending this year , and it does not leave much for the obvious benefits of public works and grants to local governments to mend their bridges and roads . |
| 29 | It was a normal practice in the period 1259–1340 for the higher offices in the administration of Aquitaine to be held by Englishmen , or at least non-Gascons . |
| 30 | Nonetheless , it may be sobering for the European governments considering stockpiles that the private sector has already beaten them to it — and that the stores of the materials themselves are tantalisingly close to the industries that , some day , may be desperate for supplies . |