Example sentences of "[pron] [adj] [noun pl] for the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Royal Horticultural Society Encyclopedia of Gardening ( Dorling Kindersley , 1992 , £29.95 , 0 86318 979 2 ) , a companion volume to the quarter-million-selling Encyclopedia of Plants and Flowers , tries to be comprehensive for gardening techniques ; I have used it for all my practical enquiries for the last three months and it has let me down only once . |
| 2 | I FEEL I must write and thank my fellow citizens for the magnificent turnout at the main Battle of the Atlantic march-past . |
| 3 | Ron was delighted too , saying that I had run well after my lay-off with injury and had beaten one of my main challengers for the European title . |
| 4 | The official communiqué referred to developments in global financial markets , " especially the decline of the yen against other currencies and its undesirable consequences for the global adjustment process " . |
| 5 | Up to 15 of the 40 companies affected may not be able to function from their normal premises for the foreseeable future . |
| 6 | Comparative evidence from better-documented periods indicates that at times of monetary reform transitional arrangements were made to enable people to exchange their old coins for the new ones . |
| 7 | Smith 's organisation has run their commercial activities for the past six years . |
| 8 | R. G. Wallace and Kevin Jeffereys have disagreed about the relative responsibilities of politicians — R. A. Butler and J. Chuter Ede — and their civil servants for the reforming intentions of the Act . |
| 9 | This reflected the successful Soviet cultivation of this small state and it helped the Soviet Union legitimise a number of its cherished initiatives for the Mediterranean . |
| 10 | In the Sixties , their chosen models for the urban Britain of the future were American . |
| 11 | Solihull ladies ' guild , formed in 1964 , was made into a branch in October last year , thus admitting men through its hallowed portals for the first time ! |
| 12 | Clare was the great exception , an articulate peasant , and he might have described that world for us in all its natural beauty and its deep associations for the human race — twelve or thirteen centuries of unbroken continuity — but he came almost too late for this kind of England . |
| 13 | It keeps its nuclear weapons for the same reason NATO needs short-range missiles on European soil : as a deterrent against enemies whose potential advantage in conventional warfare is simply too great to match any other way . |
| 14 | ‘ Fiona of Burnham ’ and ‘ Morning All ’ both headed their respective classes for the second time , while the Contessa 32 ‘ Space ’ ( R Brooking and P Trudgett , HPYC ) could feel extremely satisfied with a second and a third to show for her weekend efforts . |
| 15 | As the profession 's representative body , the Law Society has had to face the question of how to achieve its strategic aims for the healthy development of the profession over the coming decade , in the absence for most of the year of the promised green shoots of economic recovery . |
| 16 | Further to the question from my right hon. Friend the Member for Birmingham , Sparkbrook ( Mr. Hattersley ) , and given the obvious confusion among Ministers about the implications of their electoral promises for the future level of value added tax , can the Leader of the House conjure up the actual figure for value added tax when his Government came to office in June 1979 , and the level now as they go out of office ? |
| 17 | The black wings and running-board set off the sober mole colour of the body , and the President glowed as he proudly explained the working of the controls and gear lever , opened the doors to display the interior with its adjustable foot-rests for the rear-seat passengers and obliged a request from one admirer to see how much space there was in the luggage compartment at the back . |
| 18 | Six weeks later a great demonstration in the Royal Albert Hall demanded the establishment of a Merchant Seamen 's League to put the boycott into effect and " to assist them in maintaining their benevolent institutions for the aged and infirm " A short time ago , he declared in 1918 , he had received a document from four leading German trade unionists attempting to justify the U-boat campaign by arguing that " only a campaign of frightfulness against the British and neutral vessels trading to ports in the United Kingdom and the starving of the people of the British Isles would bring the war to a speedy close " . |
| 19 | Yet such is the burden of bad debts that their final results for the fiscal year to March , which have just been announced , are dismal . |
| 20 | The infantry went to church in their new uniforms for the first time on 9 September , and had the singular honour , a month later , of joining their fellows in the cavalry who were escorting the funeral cortège of the late Earl of Cork ‘ in slow and decorous movement suitable to the solemnity of the occasion ’ . |
| 21 | Mary Shirley , a new teacher in the Kent area , is another trail-blazer who has been stirring interest with her special classes for the elderly and their carers . |
| 22 | The operating divisions prepare their preliminary budgets for the following year in March . |
| 23 | LIZ McCOLGAN will play ‘ mind games ’ tonight in a bid to drive her main rivals for the 10,000 metres gold crazy . |
| 24 | ‘ It 's remarkable that , in addition to playing 11 cities around the country , the educational programme played to over 5,000 kids and brought many of them to the main theatre in their local cities for the first time in their lives , on subsidised tickets . |
| 25 | However , their potential implications for the major conurbations merits their inclusion here . |
| 26 | A year later , and Nirvana will headline the 1992 Reading Festival , their staggering rise , post-Reading '91 , making them obvious contenders for the prestigious Sunday night slot . |
| 27 | And it could be that he will be battling his old team-mates for the big prize come the New Year . |
| 28 | Digitisation brings with it exciting possibilities for the archival scholar . |
| 29 | Often , however , an attack of non-specific urethritis can be followed by months , if not years , of needless worry and anxiety , simply because , following the mind 's focusing on the genitalia , the patient has noticed certain characteristics of his sexual organs for the first time , and normality has become abnormality . |
| 30 | The 56-year-old engineer-already renowned for railway bridges in Portugal and Hungary , the colossal Gabarit viaduct in the Auvergne region and his gigantic locks for the first disastrous attempt to build a Panama Canal — declared his creation open on March 31 , 1889 to an accompaniment of fireworks and a 25-gun salute . |