Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] [noun] for the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Second , Fuchs blamed the deficit on the museum 's poor administrative structure , ‘ I did not have a system which enabled me to accept responsibility for the financial affairs of the museums ’ . |
| 2 | Furthermore , this focus on child support does nothing to compensate women for the real inequalities that marriage and child-rearing brings . |
| 3 | I thanked God for the small wrist compass that I wore as a matter of habit whenever I set out in a boat . |
| 4 | The tier of local government which accepts responsibility for the major spending departments of education and social services becomes dominant in financial terms and consequently in status . |
| 5 | Brother Mark is no outsider to Continental markets , having done his MBA at Insead , the business school at Fontainebleu , which trained executives for the Single Market . |
| 6 | management accounts which provide data for the efficient and profitable operation of the business . |
| 7 | He became the first Earl of Iveagh , and set up the Guinness and Iveagh Trusts which provided homes for the poor in Dublin and London , and made substantial contributions to Trinity College and Dublin hospitals . |
| 8 | The Inter-Andean Depression of Ecuador is controlled by two terrane boundaries ( sutures ) , the Cainozoic reactivation of which provided channelways for the double chain of volcanic cordilleras , which form a caldera-graben . |
| 9 | In 1986 the International Whaling Commission , which has responsibility for the baleen whales , declared a moratorium on commercial whaling of the 11 great whales so that stock could be assessed . |
| 10 | The economy continued to suffer , however , from persistent inflation , balance-of-payments and budget deficits , and a shortage of foreign exchange reserves , the management of which posed problems for the incoming National Front government . |
| 11 | Breakdown truck which cost £3,000 for the basic truck and £600 to have the crane fitted . |
| 12 | In Chalatenango a permanent Local Government Executive was elected in May 1983 , which administers affairs for the whole zone . |
| 13 | John and Stephanie used a kit home , which included plans for the traditional Scottish tower . |
| 14 | The 1966 congress of the CPNI adopted a ‘ Democratic Programme for Unity ’ , which included demands for the electoral law in Northern Ireland to be brought into line with that in Britain , except for the reintroduction of proportional representation and the abolition of cash deposits by candidates . |
| 15 | The total cost of the scheme would be £585,000 which included £60,000 for the Foreign Office , required during that year , and £30,000 for its site . |
| 16 | Thus Housman satisfies those provisions for " Englishing " which demand respect for the original content and the supplying of a prosody which at least conveys the organisation of the source poem and something of its interpersonal accent . |
| 17 | Mr McNamara said the bombing was in complete disregard of the Geneva Convention , which demanded respect for the wounded and sick . |
| 18 | Roll argues that the empirical investigations of the CAPM which use proxies for the true market portfolio are really tests of the mean-variance efficiency of those proxies , not tests of the CAPM . |
| 19 | Their immediate neighbours helped the Hauxwells with a willingness which speaks volumes for the selfless , caring attitude common among Dalesfolk . |
| 20 | The monitoring and evaluation completes the course of action for that year ; it also begins to produce fresh information on which to base action for the following years , and so the cycle can begin again . |
| 21 | The second was the rhythm of the war itself , which gave time for the detailed discussion of post-war policy . |
| 22 | The intention of the Merger Regulation was to introduce a ‘ one-stop , merger control , described by Commissioner Sir Leon Brittan as a ‘ system whereby , in the case of smaller mergers , they would be subject only to national regulation … while in the case of the really large mergers which have implications for the whole Community , the European Commission would have the power to intervene , and companies would not normally need to be concerned about the national regulatory authorities ’ . |
| 23 | No-one claimed responsibility for the co-ordinated series of explosions across Bombay during a busy afternoon . |
| 24 | No-one claimed responsibility for the co-ordinated series of explosions across Bombay during a busy afternoon . |
| 25 | I know people get tired of appeals , but I urge them to organise fundraising for the echo-cardiograph equipment as undoubtedly a great number of people will follow me through the coronary unit and the machine will surely be of great help to them . |
| 26 | The decision has been attacked by Health Service watchdogs who say care for the elderly is now chronically underfunded . |
| 27 | The poor were the landless who provided labour for the rich . |
| 28 | Bruno Kurdna , who played fly-half for the great Czechoslovak team of the '70s , which beat Italy , Spain and drew with Romania , was thrilled . |
| 29 | And it was , were you shop steward for the whole factory or just part of the factory ? |
| 30 | Now Tim appears to have rekindled Princess Anne 's interest in sailing — she paid £94,000 for the 36-footer Blue Doublet earlier this year — and last year she made a glowing contribution to a celebrity compilation of ideas of Paradise . |