Example sentences of "[art] [noun pl] ' [noun] for [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | During the 1950s pressure for road improvements mounted ; the British Roads Federation , which represented road construction interests , joined forces with professional lobbies , motor manufacturers and traders , while the TUC aligned with the employers ' associations for more spending . |
| 2 | The nine year-old collie cross was one of several ‘ patients ’ seen by the princess during a visit to the Peoples ' Dispensary for Sick Animals , Richmond Terrace , Liverpool . |
| 3 | The nine year-old collie cross was one of several ‘ patients ’ introduced to Her Royal Highness during a visit to the Peoples ' Dispensary for Sick Animals , Richmond Terrace , Liverpool . |
| 4 | This is an appeal from a judgment dated 30 November 1989 of the Court of Appeal of Bermuda ( Blair-Kerr P. , Roberts and Henry JJ.A. ) allowing an appeal from a judgment of Hull J. dated 14 November 1988 of the Supreme Court of Bermuda ( Civil Jurisdiction ) awarding the plaintiff , Mr. Kelly , damages in the sum of $200,000 , declaring that the defendants , a firm of estate agents trading as Cooper Associates , were not entitled to commission on the sale of the plaintiff 's property , Caliban , and dismissing the defendants ' counterclaim for such commission . |
| 5 | Even the relatively uncontroversial Points One and Two ( the Danubian Principalities and control of the mouth of the Danube ) occupied the negotiators ' attention for some weeks . |
| 6 | The rats ' liking for newborn rabbits ensures they are treated with respect . |
| 7 | Examples include the Parents ' Campaign for Integrated Education in London ; the Campaign for Choice in Special Education , also based in the Inner London Education Authority ; LINC in Rugby . |
| 8 | But when average shrinkage — the retailers ' word for shoplifted goods — is expressed as a percentage of net profit before tax , the position is much worse , reflecting the reduction in profits over the last two years . |
| 9 | Although the rebels ' demands for personal freedom are conspicuous in the chronicles , this can hardly have been the main motive of the Kentishmen , one of the most prominent groups among the peasants , because in Kent there was no serfdom . |
| 10 | Now it is the stockmarkets ' turn for electronic treatment . |
| 11 | A change in the banks ' demand for excess reserves |
| 12 | It would seem reasonable for the seller to stipulate that he will not guarantee the goods ' suitability for that purpose . |
| 13 | Having regard to the true construction of section 9 of the Act , the House concluded that the refusal of the council to make a refund was not in accordance with the statutory intention and so affirmed the decision of the Court of Appeal [ 1987 ] 1 W.L.R. 593 allowing the taxpayers ' claim for judicial review of the decision . |
| 14 | Labour 's plans to establish home rule for Scotland will also strengthen the Unionists ' push for decentralised power , cutting across the Anglo-Irish treaty . |
| 15 | For example it was packed into the holds of ships sailing to the New World , to satisfy the expatriates ' desire for Spanish tableware in their overseas posting . |
| 16 | I 've been championing the suppliers ' cause for some time now and I really feel let down . |
| 17 | The producers are all members of the Meat and Livestock Commission 's Sheepbreeder scheme and are aiming to satisfy the customers ' demand for lean meat by giving farmers access to rams of known performance . |
| 18 | However , the acknowledgement of the users ' need for direct access or browsing has not been coupled with any analysis of searching behaviour at the shelves or evaluation of the approach . |
| 19 | The coroners ' verdicts for these deaths fall into the three categories of suicide , undetermined , and accidental . |
| 20 | Owen could take over the transcendentalists ' search for underlying patterns , but , since the relationships were ideal rather than physical , he could follow Cuvier 's refutation of transmutation by emphasizing the gaps between the different forms of vertebrate life . |
| 21 | Yeah , Mao said we support the peasants ' demand for equal distribution of land in order to help the masses of peasants speedily to abolish the system of land ownership , but we do not advocate absolute egalitarianism , whoever advocates absolute egalitarianism is wrong , such thinking is reactionary , backward and retrogressive in nature |
| 22 | She had laid siege to the typists ' room for some minutes before Marshall had persuaded her downstairs . |
| 23 | He was a key figure in the Quakers ' side for six seasons and played an equally important role with Bristol City until he moved abroad to play for Turkish side Beskitas . |
| 24 | applications to the domestic panel of the magistrates ' court for various kinds of matrimonial relief ; |
| 25 | The prices quoted below are , unless otherwise stated , the cheapest on the agents ' lists for shared twin-bedded rooms . |
| 26 | The loyal workers were gobsmacked to find two months later their ex-boss had bought all his ex-machinery at the receivers ' auction for next to nothing and started up in business again under another name in the same premises . |
| 27 | On July 28 an estimated 1,000 delegates from across the country attended the founding congress of the Citizens ' Movement for Democratic Action Party ( ROAD ) , which had been created on July 16 with the support of over 40 members of the 259-strong Solidarity caucus in parliament . |
| 28 | Polish television reported on April 20 that the Citizens ' Movement for Democratic Action Party ( ROAD ) , established in July 1990 by Solidarity supporters [ see pp. 37620-21 ] , had dissolved itself and had re-formed as the Democratic-Social Movement . |
| 29 | The Bolsheviks ' contempt for liberal democracy , and their advocacy of a dictatorship of the proletariat going far beyond Marx 's limited notion ( Medvedev , 1981 ) , froze official Marxism into an insurrectionary stance . |
| 30 | This is not to deny that the Bolsheviks ' intentions for future political , social and national minority devolution were genuine , but at the close of the Civil War they governed a financially exhausted country . |