Example sentences of "[pron] [noun pl] for the [adj] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | To become an agent , these social secretaries simply have to reverse their roles with the agents who have been selling them acts for the previous few years . |
| 2 | Self-doubt probably still lurks somewhere so I write down very quickly all the things which went wrong and get them out of the way by incorporating my ideas on them into my plans for the next investigative session right away . |
| 3 | They tend , as they have done for the past fifty years , to respond to the events of the day without projecting forward the effects of their policies for the necessary 18–24 months . |
| 4 | Melanie slung her coat round her shoulders for the thin silky stuff hardly kept out the draughts and the house was freezing cold . |
| 5 | The motley band stared in awe at the figure who would be in charge of their lives for the next three months . |
| 6 | ‘ They 've been encouraging local authorities to tighten their belts for the last 14 years , ’ he protests . |
| 7 | Examine the conditions for local stability and discuss their implications for the comparative static results . |
| 8 | In truth she had done remarkably well staying out of her clutches for the past three days , but then , she reflected ruefully , Adam had kept his promise , staying practically glued to her side . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | In its implications for the long-term US-Israeli military relationship , it was deeply disturbing for Israelis to contemplate the prospect of US forces fighting alongside Arab troops . |
| 11 | Because i it is assumed management is learned by picking up the bad habits of your predecessor and their predecessors for the last five hundred years . |
| 12 | Christies International , one of the world 's leading art auctioneers , yesterday revealed their profits for the last six months had been hammered by £1 million down to £2,112,000 . |
| 13 | their percentages for the first three |
| 14 | In addition , the Treasury has offered an ex gratia payment of £580 to Ms Anouschka Zagorski , studying law at King 's College , London , to reimburse the cost of her fees for the last academic year . |
| 15 | Most Bangladeshi mothers breastfed their babies for the first few weeks , switching to either combination or bottle feeding after this period . |
| 16 | There , Daf workers who are made redundant will receive 70 per cent of their wages for the next four years . |
| 17 | The 18-year-old Bishop Auckland bowler is in the squad of 14 from which Durham will pick their sides for the two one-day matches against Essex at Chelmsford . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | Other unions were equally alarmed by the potential scale of the problem , which was just emerging as schools received their budgets for the new financial year . |
| 20 | Their hosts for the first few days , the Lord of the Isles , Sir Alexander Macdonald , and his wife Jane , a relative of Boswell 's , waited on the shore at Armadale , a small , dirty , sandy horseshoe of a bay , to greet them . |
| 21 | ‘ Acid ! ’ he cried after consulting his notes for the one hundred and thirty-ninth time . |
| 22 | Thus , although it has been stated that there are practically no high kicks in kung fu , the practitioner who emulates the crane is training his legs for the highest possible kicks . |
| 23 | Unlike baby goslings which lock on to the first moving object in sight , the newborn baby will be relatively undiscriminating about who tends his needs for the first three or four months of life . |
| 24 | That 's the point that Hughie has set as one of his objectives for the next twelve months , is to get the group acting as one team , and not five or six separate teams . |
| 25 | João went off hunting in the Alentejo with his friends for the last three days before the wedding , so Sara had little opportunity to get to know him better . |
| 26 | Gibbons is believed to be planning a realignment of portfolios , elevating the environment and lowering the life sciences in the OSTP hierarchy , but only one of his choices for the four vacant associate directorships has as yet been cleared by the White House and nominated by the president . |
| 27 | The Museum is a registered Charity with no public funding and Mick Miller , Finance Trustee , said : ‘ This sponsorship is a very generous gesture and we are delighted that this has come from an enterprising local company which has pledged support for our activities for the next three years . ’ |
| 28 | I think you might do better to live with him for a while , before you actually tie the nuptial knot with someone who may be borrowing your knickers for the next 60 years . |
| 29 | We all met at a pre-luncheon reception and then adjourned to the dining hall to sample the culinary delights which were to space our classes for the next five days ; four classes with dancing after dinner was the order of the day , all meticulously time-tabled . |
| 30 | The pension in these schemes is generally based on 1/80th of your earnings for the last few years before retirement , plus a lump sum of 3/80ths of the same earnings . |