Example sentences of "[adj] for the [adj] [noun sg] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That he 'd do that in the morning as a little part time job for 'em , and all he 'd do is erm , the Pool Manager , which is at Lock Gates , he know what ships come in the day before and he really know the man and then in the morning they 'd say well so and so ship has arrived but perhaps he might know it , then he 'd send , he 'd know what men to send and this , cos I , I used to get the latest information , they did n't worry him , they worried me about lates latest information and of course we knew what ships was due for the next day so we knew what allocation we wanted . |
| 2 | The time was right for the Prime Minister and the Leader of the Opposition to do so today , but they did not . |
| 3 | Not the equipment manufacturer because he is interested in the commercial aspect of selling his own equipment whether it be right for the particular job or not . |
| 4 | It is , however , possible for the injured party and the insurance company to agree on a ‘ structured settlement . ’ |
| 5 | It is difficult to believe that every time Tinbergen presented a model bill to a chick his activity coincided with a third , unobserved variable that was really signalling to the chick to start pecking ; that would however be possible for the natural observation that chicks peck when their parent arrives . |
| 6 | Furthermore , your Lordships may feel that it is inconvenient and undesirable for the criminal law as enunciated in Lawrence and Dobson to be in conflict with the law affecting the title to money and other kinds of property . |
| 7 | These remain unused for the entire time that the child is in nappies . |
| 8 | I am sorry for the poor girl if her bridegroom chooses to behave as he did tonight , and , knowing him well , I can not imagine that he will be any better behaved when he is married to her than he was before . ’ |
| 9 | If we feel sorry for the dying cat that can not understand what is happening to it , we should remember that it has one enormous advantage over us : it has no fear of death , which is something we humans must all carry with us throughout our long lives . |
| 10 | I feel sorry for the little girl and I suggest to the writer that she consoles her daughter by telling her that the vile custom of killing wild animals for fun is on the way out , that almost all british people feel as she does , and are determined to end such cruelty , and that she can help to bring about its end by supporting the League Against Cruel Sports and talking about the work they do to her schoolfriends . |
| 11 | She 'd feel a little sorry for the little girl if she blacked out in the race and fell under all those hooves . |
| 12 | Pauline , who always had back problems , felt so sorry for the little mare that she took her over from Jackie . |
| 13 | Others are grateful for the additional money but believe that the ISF should work more closely with government agencies . |
| 14 | Thus she was constantly grateful for the unfailing vigilance and support of her Chief Wren . |
| 15 | He fell silent , but his face was shadowed by the memory of a very personal anguish , and Maria could be grateful for the merciful ignorance that had carried her through those same six years in which he had been so haunted . |
| 16 | It was North who , by his own account , rushed into Reagan 's television room during the evacuation of American students from Grenada in 1983 , desperate that the students might forget ( on network television ) to be grateful for the American invasion that had freed them ; when the first student said ‘ Thank God for America ’ , Reagan hugged him , and told him he ought to have faith . |
| 17 | People are not keen to complain about food in hospital because they are grateful for the medical attention and because the majority of patients are not there for long . |
| 18 | We are grateful for the ready co-operation and forbearance of the headteachers who completed two long and details surveys on pupil attendance . |
| 19 | Central Council is most grateful for the generous support that has led to this successful outcome . |
| 20 | I find the Epigraphes antiques short of that elusive Debussyan charm which needs pianistic half-lights , and although the other shorter pieces on this disc are thoughtfully done ( for example , La plus que lente , Le petit nègre and the Danse bohémienne ) , one looks in vain for the special insight and sensitivity that would make these performances memorable . |
| 21 | Under the federal Constitution adopted in 1901 , legislative power is vested in the bicameral Parliament , comprising a 148-member House of Representatives elected for a three-year term and a 76-member Senate ( 12 seats for each of the six constituent states and two each for the Northern Territory and the Capital Territory ) . |
| 22 | Under the Federal Constitution which came into force in 1901 , legislative authority within the Commonwealth of Australia is vested in a bicameral Federal Parliament consisting of the Senate whose 76 members ( 12 from each of the country 's constituent states and two each for the Northern Territory and the Capital Territory of Canberra ) are directly elected for a six-year term and retire by rotation , one-half from each state on June 30 of each third year ; and the 148-member House of Representatives elected for three years ; each state has its own legislature , government and constitution . |
| 23 | Both those statements were momentous for the Royal Family but the historical impact of Charles and Diana 's separation is likely to be greater . |
| 24 | Such discounts can mean the price is many times lower for the branded drug than for the generic drug and consultants may be unaware of the price in the community . |
| 25 | Another example is the case of a generalized infection in which a fever is often observed — the result of the body 's attempt to make the environment unsuitable for the invading organism and so rid itself of it . |
| 26 | But most Roman varieties were unsuitable for the British climate and the Norman varieties rapidly took precedence . |
| 27 | Er and you 'll see that in group two , the impact of the various routes on occupiers , residential occupiers , you 'll see that for the blue route and that this is where we have the number of properties demolished by the different routes , on the top line , er in terms of noise effects adjacent to new road , number of houses within a given distance , a centre line , nought to fifty metres there are are only five properties within nought to fifty metres of the blue route whereas there are thirty on the purple , twenty er on the orange , less on the red , four and five on the pink . |
| 28 | He noticed too that for the first time since he had arrived at the Cages there was a total silence , as if all the eagles , and all the imprisoned creatures thereabout had instinctively understood that this old eagle 's troubled painful words marked an end to a terrible life ; and perhaps in some strange way the beginning of something none dared hope might come to pass . |
| 29 | If a functional group on CP 96345 interacts with His197 , removing that functional group should result in a dissociation constant for the H197A mutant equal to that for the wild type because the His197 specific interaction is no longer present . |
| 30 | Re-entry into the labour force after child-rearing was less usual for the older group than for the younger ( Martin and Roberts 1984 ) and therefore fewer would have had pensionable paid employment in the years before retirement . |