Example sentences of "[prep] the [noun pl] for [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Wiping her tears with the corner of her apron and clutching the baby to her she searched for the reasons for this volte-face . |
| 2 | These changes have considerable implications for the criteria for social work intervention in the lives of families and for the nature of public child care provision . |
| 3 | Do you have a strong logo and make consistent use of a particular style of print for the headings for all school correspondence ? |
| 4 | The most difficult requisite to produce was ‘ Conscience ’ for the struggles for political liberty had always been in the name of ‘ Rights ’ , and in this conflict , ‘ the other side of the civic relation naturally fell out of sight ’ . |
| 5 | A failure to consult in accordance with a clear duty to do so before the decision to close a unit may be ruled unlawful , but may amount to little more than a Pyrrhic victory for the applicants for judicial review . |
| 6 | Parallel with the shift in emphasis epitomised by the concept of human resource management is the growing emphasis on ‘ excellence ’ and ‘ quality ’ as the criteria for effective management . |
| 7 | For the third term , the key policy areas , which would tackle the ‘ really big job ’ of the ‘ inner cities ’ , were named as the policies for local government , education , and housing . |
| 8 | As the objectives for online orientation are so similar for both end-users and intermediaries , it is reasonable to assume that orientation programmes can be produced which can be useful in the teaching of both groups . |
| 9 | Meanwhile , since the early 1980s the movements of home-owners to the South has become increasingly difficult as the pressures for net in-migration from the rest of Britain and overseas has outstripped the rate of new house building and led to massive inflation in the price of houses and land with planning permission ( Champion , Green and Owen , 1987 ) . |
| 10 | If as reader , you can not imagine how different they are in structure I suggest you try your hand at drawing the relationship between the partners for each example . |
| 11 | An obvious example is the contradiction that may arise between the requirements for parental affection , on the one hand , and status with peers , on the other . |
| 12 | Yet , as will be seen in the next section , there were quite strong correlations between the scores for this variable and project success . |
| 13 | The transformation seems to involve three groups each promoting something it values : 1 The national press favours ‘ sociological ’ explanations of society , perhaps because when most editors and senior reporters went to school , optimism about the potentialities for social reform was high . |
| 14 | People living near the mosque at the junction of Princes Road and Bow Street say they have been kept in the dark about the reasons for recent building work . |
| 15 | If we are right in our inferences about the rules for associative learning , they clearly do seem to have adapted qualities . |
| 16 | Is he concerned about the rewards for that achievement — the brutal loss of employment , the economic devastation of the coalfields , the adverse effect on our balance of payments , which will get worse , the excessive and inevitable energy dependence , and the deceitful diversion of funds from the coalfields as a result of the Government 's approach to the European money that should be available to us ? |
| 17 | The British Government expressed grave reservations about the proposals for Political Union , particularly the Social Charter , the common foreign policy , new EC policy areas and more powers for the European Parliament . |
| 18 | The Monopolies Commission recommended scepticism about the figures for nuclear fuel-cycle costs until more figures were available from the CEGB 's own work and from British Nuclear Fuels Limited . |
| 19 | I see no reason to be optimistic about the prospects for Soviet democracy . |
| 20 | There was much optimism about the prospects for British film production in the aftermath of the First World War . |
| 21 | I am by no means gloomy about the prospects for British Coal , but its future success and security depend on its becoming more competitive and productive so that it can secure a large part of the British energy market in years ahead . |
| 22 | The Independent on Sunday , published three days afterwards , carried a long article about the prospects for local authority compulsory competitive tendering under the Labour government the writer assumed would be in place once the paper was published . |
| 23 | He 's a little sceptical about the prospects for straw-based chocolate cake . |
| 24 | The combination of the reproducibility and reliability of long-term potentiation as a physiological phenomenon , the evidence of the central role played by the hippocampus in mammalian memory and the renewed enthusiasm about the prospects for productive research into the cellular processes of memory produced , in the early 1980s , an extraordinary bandwagon in hippocampal studies . |
| 25 | And they identify and explore thought-provoking questions about the implications for social policy and the future of the welfare state . |
| 26 | They were interested in learning about the opportunities for French involvement in rebuilding the East German economy , but asked how Mr Mitterrand felt about Germans , as a former prisoner of war . |
| 27 | Elinor 's looking through the records for another tango to practise with Nigel . |
| 28 | There was no effective management of the woods for profitable timber production , and regeneration was prevented because the young shoots were eaten by the deer and by commoners ' cattle , which roamed the forests at will . |
| 29 | One of the problems for local government is that it is easier to see how this might work at national level where the interests are clearer and more easily identifiable . |
| 30 | His filly Silk Slippers became one of the favourites for next year 's Oaks after winning at Ascot recently and he also owns a share in The Caretaker , who won Saturday 's Cartier Million . |