Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] for [adj] [noun sg] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Lake District 's Herdwick sheep are threatened by the reduction of an EC subsidy concession allowing for late lambing in the cold climatePHOTOGRAPHS : DON McPHEE Tyson Hartley … |
| 2 | It is certainly very unwise to use a form of contract designed for one jurisdiction in another , even though both have similar legal systems . |
| 3 | Flavell accounts for this paradox in terms of , what he calls , cognitive salience , which amounts to the claim that the thought of the three-year-old is determined by whatever is ‘ up front in consciousness ’ at any given moment . |
| 4 | The first Kodak ISO 400 reversal film for professional photographers has the speed required for fast shooting in low light conditions . |
| 5 | The first Kodak ISO 400 reversal film for professional photographers has the speed required for fast shooting in low light conditions . |
| 6 | After landing at Miami , 48 of the 53 passengers and crew on board applied for political asylum in the USA . |
| 7 | A minor but telling incident : a big army exercise scheduled for last week in which French soldiers were , for the first time , to do mock battle alongside British troops in West Germany was called off at the last moment because of East Germany 's election . |
| 8 | The Institute calls for more flexibility in the regulations governing summary statements , as the technical language that is currently prescribed defeats the point of issuing a shorter , less complicated statement to shareholders . |
| 9 | I think probably the County Council are in a better position than me er to advise you as to whether that thirty one thousand commitment figure is true of not , but if it were the case , then I think , Yes I would agree that erm the train would stop very quickly , and in view of the situation that we 're now in , there would have to be a degree of future flexibility to allow for phased reduction in development over future years . |
| 10 | They did a mass formation practise for some show in Cairo , and he would get in the back of an Audax , throw off his parachute and Sutton harness , then kneel looking backwards and control the formation like the leader of the Halle . |
| 11 | All the same , the insurer has so far agreed to pay £8 million in compensation to investors , a significant pile of money even for a major company , and a nasty hit to take for one slip in its monitoring system . |
| 12 | Peasants certainly lacked the spatial mobility required for regular participation in the politics of the realm . |
| 13 | Its case was based both on the opportunities that this route offered for regional development in the northern Negev , and on the destructive effects on the environment that any of the other routes entailed . |
| 14 | Siemens has licensed SoftBench as it is incorporated in the Toolbus environment from Informix ; Encapsulator , a tool for adding software products to the SoftBench and Toolbus environment for integration of tools supplied by independent software vendors or users ; and the C++ Developer software construction and browsing tool used for object-oriented programming in C++ . |
| 15 | Robin Cook , the shadow trade and industry secretary , said the Government had put forward the biggest tax increases for any Budget in history and described it as a ‘ Budget of failure and a Budget of cheats ’ . |
| 16 | A friend can be invaluable in helping you to establish and recognize the loudness needed for ordinary conversation in quiet circumstances . |
| 17 | Nevertheless , local newspaper reports say Peking is concerned that this could further fuel calls for greater democracy in Hong Kong , where the British government now seems more committed to increasing the pace of political reform . |
| 18 | The conference called for mass action in support of a transitional government and for a constitutional assembly to negotiate the new constitution . |
| 19 | It is now emphatically culturalist rather than political , each ethnic or national group arguing for cultural relativism in the strongest form . |
| 20 | Is it expected that that will be the embryo for a carbon tax to pay for more investment in renewable energies ? |
| 21 | To Abbott and Hornsby were added the names of Captain Lawrence , with whom Wilson had been associated in the formation of the Certificated Officers ' Union , Maurice Darby , the originator of the first Glasgow branch who was alleged to have gone over to the Shipping Federation in 1890 , Robert Pleasance , former secretary of the Tower Hill branch who had been expelled from the union in the same year , and a Thomas Carey , an official of the NSFU discharged for unsatisfactory conduct in 1911 who , Wilson claimed , immediately became involved with the Federation and , while still in its pay , assisted Lewis in setting up the British Seafarers ' Union . |
| 22 | The ‘ harmonisation ’ agreement was successful in warding off the immediate danger of tax-induced price increases for Scotch Whisky in its all-important European markets , although the two-tier minimum spirits rate makes no sense and is hard to reconcile with ‘ harmonisation ’ . |
| 23 | His exchange with the negligent Mr Brooke is abrasive , and the price paid for upper-class ignorance in human misery — the worn wife , the thieving child , the drunkenness throws into unsparing relief his landlord 's enthusiasm for the fine arts and social reform . |
| 24 | Good quality colour slides for potential inclusion in this guide can be sent , or dropped off , at the previous address . |
| 25 | These included inner-city offices for the Small Firms Service of the Department of Trade and Industry ; grants for inner-city Local Enterprise Agencies ( see Chapter 8 ) ; higher loan guarantees for small business in the Task Force ( see Chapter 4 ) ; and investment of about £10 million in managed workshops by English Estates — a development agency of the Department of Trade and Industry . |
| 26 | The Conservatives had clearly let the economy overheat for electoral advantage in 1955 , but as soon as the election was over , clamped down with a credit squeeze and requests to trim expenditure below the agreed levels . |
| 27 | Friends of the Earth contacted the European Commission asking for legal action in relation to the Drinking Water Directive , because from 5 to 21 March the plant produced water with excess aluminium levels . |
| 28 | Cultivation grants for non-pasture land in the UK under development plans have been withdrawn and drainage reduced from 70% to 50% since December 1984 . |
| 29 | National legislation on competition is excluded save that the Commission can , when approving a merger , attach conditions and authorise the member state concerned to apply national legislation to provide for effective competition in the local market . |
| 30 | It emphasises the need for participation rather than representation ; a call in short for social and political structures which offer people the possibility of control of the resources of modern society to care for each other in an active , convivial manner . |