Example sentences of "[adj] for the [adj] [noun sg] and " in BNC.
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| 1 | The time was right for the Prime Minister and the Leader of the Opposition to do so today , but they did not . |
| 2 | It is , however , possible for the injured party and the insurance company to agree on a ‘ structured settlement . ’ |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Thus she was constantly grateful for the unfailing vigilance and support of her Chief Wren . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | We are grateful for the ready co-operation and forbearance of the headteachers who completed two long and details surveys on pupil attendance . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 ) . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | But most Roman varieties were unsuitable for the British climate and the Norman varieties rapidly took precedence . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Mary Rose was pregnant for the fourth time and not feeling too good . |
| 14 | Oreopithecus is clearly not a dryopithecin , which indicates these postcranial characters may be primitive for the great ape and human clade , but if Sivapithecus belongs in the orang-utan clade , as I have argued , the shared morphology of the orang-utan and the African apes must have arisen independently . |
| 15 | This is because the students will be dealing with this for the first time and this is thought to be a clearer presentation . |
| 16 | Gooch and Pringle then added 113 for the seventh wicket and Neil Foster gave good support to remove all fears of an Essex follow-on . |
| 17 | Higher notes may be reached in ff by good symphony-orchestra players , and are often found in big scores , but they are extremely risky for the average player and cause physical discomfort both to him and his audience . |
| 18 | The result was 9,122 for the Unionist candidate and 3,944 for the NILP . |
| 19 | 236 for 2 overnight became 296 for 7 next morning as England bowled themselves back into the game , but Lloyd and Garner put on 83 for the eighth wicket and then Holding and Croft an unbeaten 67 for the tenth as the bowlers tired , enabling Lloyd to declare on 468 . |
| 20 | In the past , most of the pottery workers have been individuals working virtually unaided , and it says much for the hard work and devotion of people like John Gillam , that so much has been achieved . |
| 21 | Nearly one out of three sixteen year olds are without work , not much for the Tory law and order . |
| 22 | As the government and many local authorities are striving to make the operation of the system quick , simple for the lay user and an encouragement to development when it is employment-related , so the public is not only taking a greater interest in its immediate environment , historic buildings and countryside and conservation generally , but is increasingly using the planning system to try to achieve its aims . |
| 23 | Having already paid for my return ticket I was cross at having to buy another one , and even more upset at having to pay extra for the one-way ticket and convert sterling at an unfavourable rate . |
| 24 | Medical opinion is that both will be fit for the Triple Crown and Calcutta Cup bid . |
| 25 | He began running at the end of 91/92 season to get fit for the next season and things snowballed from there . |
| 26 | According to NMW coordinator Jan Martins , some employers do n't just have separate canteens for different grades of staff , they even have two sorts of lavatory paper — soft for the senior executive and , you guessed it , the scratchy kind for your humbler bottom . |
| 27 | He also enjoyed staunch support from both Salisbury ( 12 ) , who stayed 82 minutes to help add 73 for the seventh wicket and Tufnell , who was 10 not out at the close and had become the fourth England player in the match to better his previous best Test score . |
| 28 | Unlike Miliband , who was trying to argue that there was scope in the short term for autonomous state action , Poulantzas ( while recognising that policies against the dominant class and other sectors of capital was possible ) was still insisting that when this did occur it would always be functional for the long-term survival and hegemony of the monopoly sector . |
| 29 | Valuable for the oral practice and the interesting situations raised . |
| 30 | Ideal , both of which are ideal for the occasional glass and perfect for parties . |