Example sentences of "[adv prt] of [noun] for [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Conflict about assessment at Key Stage 4 and about equivalence with GCSE ultimately led to the giving up of proposals for double testing . |
| 2 | There will be a body of enacted legislation , a pattern of grants from central government , a range of procedures relating to the sanctioning of new initiatives including the taking up of loans for new capital expenditure , perhaps a pattern of inspection or policy review , and a variety of policy expectations enshrined in circulars and related messages from the centre . |
| 3 | The course started with an introduction to desktop publishing and continued with sessions looking at layout styles and techniques , the use and production of graphics , and the setting up of templates for regular publications . |
| 4 | As a child he was kicked out of school for various incidents , including throwing a desk at a teacher when he was just nine years old . |
| 5 | It was the first time that four large tanks — two crude storage , a ballast water and the Brent surge — had been taken out of service for planned maintenance in one year . |
| 6 | At a time when structural unemployment means that many — particularly the young — will be out of work for long periods of time , the old individualistic idea that ‘ all we need is a bit of enterprise and motivation ’ seems to get stronger the more inappropriate it becomes . |
| 7 | This model fell out of favour for numerous reasons . |
| 8 | There have been further problems with corrosion , cracking of materials and defective welds , leading to two stations , at Dungeness in Kent and Bradwell in Essex , being out of action for long periods . |
| 9 | Hostess work in some of the clubs involved little more than chiselling money out of tourists for fake champagne , and the money that changed hands for street assignations almost invariably led to an instant disappearance with no follow-through . |
| 10 | The National Foodstuffs Commission , replacing SAM , has been set up to implement government strategy that consists of price supports for basic food production , special incentives to producers of priority foodstuffs , the phasing out of subsidies for non-priority foodstuffs and a plan to tie retail prices of basic foods to increases in the national minimum wage . |
| 11 | She still sees Bailey often , gets on extremely well with Catherine , Bailey 's current wife , and if he is out of town for long periods of time , they speak on the telephone . |
| 12 | Intact chromosomes can be lifted out of cells for genetic studies ; plant protoplasts ( cells devoid of their cell walls ) can be persuaded to grow into whole plants and much has been learned of plant metabolism by grafting experiments — for example the grafting of tomato tops to potato tubers demonstrated the energy storing capacity of tubers , although the — hybrid was of little practical value hybrids of potato and tomato cells have also been grown . |