Example sentences of "[noun sg] [noun sg] for the [noun sg] [conj] " in BNC.

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1 The basic benefits available to lone parents ( with the exception of widows ) are the same as those available to other poor families with children : income support for the non-employed and family credit , and other means-tested benefits , for the low-paid workers .
2 Now someone has written a computer programme for the race and the results are available by teatime .
3 ‘ Technology ’ , for Robbins as for Pynchon , becomes a short-hand term for the conditioning and patterning pressures in American life ; pressures to be resisted whether in his comic struggle with his Remington type-writer which frames his next novel , Still Life with Woodpecker ( 1980 ) , or , more importantly , through his disruption of narrative illusion and orderly sequence .
4 And if it does , then the SMC plans to donate £1 of the proceeds of every book sold to grant aid for the repair and maintenance of footpaths in Scotland .
5 The eight provincial councils were required to ‘ settle the broad economic land use and investment framework for the planning and development policies of operational authorities ’ ( Redcliffe-Maud 1969:Vol. 1 74 ) .
6 Under such a concept the ‘ core ’ is the central base for professional staff who are engaged in the rehabilitation and personal development of individuals living in the homes ; it may also serve as a training base for staff , a research base for the evaluation and monitoring of the service and a place where the residential care staff meet to exchange ideas .
7 A survey carried out by the Silsoe Research Institute for the Health and Safety Executive found 156 out of 210 ptos inspected damaged .
8 The Conservative Party was thus preserved intact , and the fact that it was able to provide a rallying point for the middle and lower middle classes was arguably one of the main bulwarks against political extremism in the 1920s and 1930s .
9 Malcolm Morley 's spectacular copy of Vermeer 's ‘ Portrait of the artist in his studio ’ ( Sotheby 's lot 43 , est. $350–450,000 ) established a new auction record for the artist when it was sold to Los Angeles collector , Eli Broad , for $570,000 ( £316,700 ) at the evening sale of 6 May .
10 Senior research metallurgist for the Cutlery and Allied Trade Research Association , Alan Medlock , says that it depends on what you call 13/0 .
11 On a holiday trip last year we were averaging 40 mpg on cheap French diesel fuel ( another bonus point for the diesel if you like to take your car abroad ) in the superbly comfortable big Citroen .
12 We did n't have to stop at the ambulance station for the key because Dei already had it — one of the ambulance drivers being a cousin of his .
13 SUMMARY : Vitrinite reflectance data for the Carboniferous in 68 Southern North Sea Basin wells have been used to determine a maturity-depth relationship for the basin and to provide an estimate of basement inversion .
14 Replying to Salisbury , Law urged the positive side of the tariff policy for the economy and the danger of a party split if the referendum were not repudiated ; there was a minority of free-traders , but there was also a vociferous majority of tariff reformers .
15 He patrolled the crime beat for the Globe and was on friendly terms with half the criminals in town .
16 PETE Townshend played air guitar on his shovel and Chuck Berry flashed his famous footwork as they helped break ground for the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum in Cleveland , Ohio , yesterday .
17 include FINGER , for ‘ telephone'-type enquiries , i.e. finding the e-mail address for the person or institution you want ; GOPHER , a system of linked menus to help find resources anywhere in the Internet ; ARCHIE , which allows searching indexes to remote computers to find out which of their searchable files are of interest to you ; WAIS , for searching remote databases ; and WWW ( World-Wide-Web ) , which is similar but which uses an extremely user-friendly full screen with hypertext features .
18 This hardly tallies with the sentiments expressed in a letter in the possession of the College in which Coleman , writing on 24 February 1813 , gracefully declined an invitation to become President of the London Veterinary Society : ‘ Gentlemen , I received your letter , and it gives me great pleasure to see so much zeal for the improvement of the veterinary art in Gentlemen , whom any & every Teacher might well be proud to call his Pupils — I shall most willingly grant the use of the College Theatre for the examination and discussion of such points as may be considered by you most important for the advancement of the Veterinary Science … you rightly observe that a number of minds concentrated on one object can not fail to improve any art far beyond the reach of any individual and I have no doubt that the Public will ultimately derive great benefits from your united exertions .
19 Originally named the Laboratory Equipment Corporation LECO is based in St Joseph , Michigan , USA and started life by developing and introducing the first volumetric carbon determinator for the iron and steel industry .
20 Prepare a monthly profit and loss statement for the present and proposed new programmes .
21 It also helps represent ICI in its involvement with Recap , a multi-material project for the recovery and rescue of plastics from scrap cards .
22 The completion date for the stage or project must be defined both in terms of time and criteria of success .
23 The designation of the NHS chief executive as the accounting officer for the hospital and community health and family practitioner services may also improve his standing relative to senior DoH civil servants .
24 Well when we clean out the er thing with the big fishing net for the pond but it 's a small one when we clean out the fish tank .
25 Kate nodded , and rummaged in the carrier bag for the bottle and the corkscrew .
26 It can not be said , merely by looking at the allegations in the statement of claim , which is all that is permissible under the terms of the preliminary point of law , that the council could not have considered the action expedient for the promotion or protection of the interests of the inhabitants of Derbyshire .
27 He has overall management responsibility for the membership and administration activities .
28 Er , failure to produce his driving licence failure to produce a test certificate for the vehicle and failure to produce his insurance documents and what Mr says in respect of er , those three offenses is that er , the officer , he accepts , did tell him that he was obliged to produce the documents to a police station but he says that he was suffering some shock as a result of the road accident and er he did n't appreciate what the officer was saying to him at the time and , never having had to produce his documents at the police station before er , he had never er no , known that that was a procedure that had to be followed and in the circumstances he did n't pay any attention to the print on the H R T er , one form that was issued to him and he did n't produce the documents .
29 Er failure to produce his driving licence , failure to produce a test certificate for the vehicle and failure to produce his insurance document .
30 The actress playing in the Western abandons her cowboy lover for the comic after he promises to take her to Hollywood and put her name up in lights , but the scandal that follows wrecks her career .
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