Example sentences of "[prep] its [noun] for the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A 6,713-delegate nominating convention of the ruling Democratic Liberal Party ( DLP ) , held on May 19 , chose Kim Young Sam as its candidate for the 1992 presidential elections . |
| 2 | An Academic Development Officer was appointed and an Academic Development Committee set up , and in 1971 the Polytechnic was approved by the CNAA as a centre for its awards for the next five years . |
| 3 | Middlesbrough Council is distributing 2,000 leaflets telling the ‘ real facts ’ about its plans for the floodlit development on Clairville Common . |
| 4 | Mr Haydn Cook , chief executive of the Friarage , said negotiations were going on with the Scorton hospital about its contract for the forthcoming year . |
| 5 | It 's not possible really to understand Eastern Europe now unless you know a little bit about its history for the last 150 years . ’ |
| 6 | Just how little the opening of a new Front in the east matched the widespread desire for a rapid end to the war , and how risky the extension of the conflict was felt to be , can be seen in the admission , a few months later , by Adolf Wagner , Gauleiter of Munich and Upper Bavaria , at a meeting of Party functionaries , that if Hitler had consulted the German people before the start of the war in the east about its readiness for the Russian campaign , the vast majority of the population would have said : ‘ My God , keep your hands off , my dear Adolf Hitler . |
| 7 | Thus , the Cambridge Board had secured resources to begin the development of its policies for the regional provision of adult education prior to the introduction of the 1932 Regulations . |
| 8 | These political and legal developments have encouraged a pronounced shift of emphasis : from a law enforcement conception of policing , which ‘ views enforcement of the law as an end in itself , regardless of its consequences for the social order ’ to a peace-keeping conception which ‘ views law enforcement as a means towards an end : the highest possible level of public safety , order and preservation of life and property ’ ( Sherman , 1983:230 ) . |
| 9 | If IBM has any sense ( which is in itself a topic worthy of serious consideration ) it will offer versions of its engine for the entire ES/9000 range ; should it do so , the 9221 version might be nothing larger than a circuit board or two that fits in a standard rack . |
| 10 | This response of J's to the explicit time reference ( to " a day " ) embedded in the Creole part of B's turn is independent evidence of its salience for the other participants . |
| 11 | There is a tradition of strong social consciousness in the Church of Ireland , evidenced by its building of hospitals , the support of some of its leadership for the locked-out Dublin workers in 1913 and their activities in other works of mercy without a proselytizing aim . |
| 12 | By the time he got out , the performing pig had lost most of its charm for the paying customer . ’ |
| 13 | On the strength of its hearings for the first eighteen applications the Reviewing Committee for the Export of Works of Art duly stopped all the drawings and starred the group , thus indicating its special status only the sixth time this has ever happened . |
| 14 | Once home , rainhood under scarf , over head , she pins up the sides , grips the fringe , adds the elasticated bag for extra provocation and I swear , with my curly hand on a can of ozone-destroyer , that not one hair ventures out of its area for the full fourteen days . |
| 15 | Under the terms of the Act , the land was protected because of its importance for the northern spotted owl . |
| 16 | Finally , one issue merits more detailed comment because of its implications for the entire Docklands community — housing . |
| 17 | Its main ploy for deflecting criticism will be to demonstrate the depth of its respect for the dead man : it is talking of building him a memorial . |
| 18 | The Central Committee believes that the implementation of its programme for the five years can help create the conditions for real peace — reconciliation , harmony , well-being , mutual respect , a sense of community and inter-dependence . |
| 19 | Here a community is fighting against its destruction for the short-term benefits of outside economic interests . |
| 20 | Besides , in the week of Back To The Future II ( Empire PG ) , with its trailer for the third episode shamelessly tacked on to the end , and dozens of trade names shamelessly glaring through its mise-en-scene , Field Of Dreams seems positively purist in its appeal . |
| 21 | Markham , Ontario-based Geac Computer Corp — which has been promising an acquisition a month over the next 12 months , got two under its belt for the same month in May : it has bought the UK end of struggling MAI Systems Corp , MAI ( UK ) Ltd , and has also picked up Tekserv Computer Services Ltd . |
| 22 | The Howie Committee has recommended that a number of occupational areas should be developed under its proposals for the new SCOTCERT award ( see page 4 ) . |
| 23 | The petition produced a negative reply from the Home Office in July 1903 , but the episode is noteworthy as one of the innumerable steps taken by the BDDA in its campaign for the better education of deaf and dumb children . |
| 24 | At the extreme , if it turned out that one opinion was in a minority in every group or constituency mandating its one representative , then the gathering of representatives would be unanimous in its support for the other opinion , while the minority opinion would be entirely unrepresented , even though , in principle , it could be held by 49 per cent of those taking part in the mandating process . |
| 25 | She argues that , before the Public Order Act 1986 was passed , ‘ it was the moral panic surrounding football hooliganism which the government used in its publicity for the new law . |
| 26 | Similarly , an airline or even government operated air traffic control authority might amend a procedure promulgated in its manuals for the same reason . |
| 27 | The company has used a modified version of the design in its proposal for the European Teraflop initiative . |
| 28 | The completed cycle was screened in its entirety for the first time at the Venice Festival this autumn . |
| 29 | The music ranges from the familiar to the unknown — from an early opera played in its entirety for the first time to a unique performance of The Messiah where you can actually join in the singing . |
| 30 | This trailblazing series is currently on show at the National Portrait Gallery in its entirety for the first time since 1935 , together with more conventional colour portraits of John Gielgud , Vivien Leigh , the Mountbattens and Lisa Maugham , and black-and-white work from the later years . |