Example sentences of "[noun sg] for the [adj] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The master , A. D. Lindsay ( later first Baron Lindsay of Birker , q.v. ) , encouraged him to work for a spell ( 1927–8 ) at a Quaker settlement for the unemployed in the Rhondda Valley — an experience which made a deep impression . |
| 2 | At half past four the morose office messenger would slink in with his brief case for the last of the week 's mail , ducking the cheerful insults the girls would fling at him . |
| 3 | If there are substantial doubts as to whether the provision of charity schools was ever sufficiently widespread , directed or differentiated from earlier , or later , efforts to have constituted a special movement , there is none that school provision for the poor in the middle and later years of the century remained uneven and spasmodic . |
| 4 | This did not automatically lead all in influential circles to conclude that there was a need for provision for the poor by the state . |
| 5 | Rosslyn realised that the horse was asking for help , and that his manners had n't just experienced a mysterious and miraculous change for the better during the course of the day ! |
| 6 | In the normal way , there should be some change for the better in the patient 's condition , so if weeks pass and the patient seems static , you need to know why . |
| 7 | Some felt the present arrangements to be satisfactory , believing that ‘ there had been a marked change for the better in the CNAA system over the years and felt that subject boards fulfilled a useful role ’ . |
| 8 | By drawing a rectangle round ‘ it 's a chronicle ’ Dostoevsky suggests a framed narrative for The Possessed like the story found by the frame narrator among a deceased ex-convict 's effects in The House of the Dead ; and by declaring ‘ I am a character ’ ( kharakter : a person , not a literary personazh ) he puts himself inside that frame . |
| 9 | Indeed , Thomson suggests that , in relative terms , today 's pensions are lower in value than support for the elderly through the mid-nineteenth century Poor Law . |
| 10 | He was also aware of the military advantages of creating a nucleus of support for the British among the country 's ruling class . |
| 11 | MIDDLESBROUGH , which is at the forefront of efforts to encourage the country 's disabled to take up sport , hosted regional table tennis championships organised by the British Sports Association for the Disabled at the weekend . |
| 12 | We have the Association for the Disabled for the blind , we have Age Concern but there is n't a for the mentally or for mental health or for whatever it might be called , and these groups are very useful in providing a focal point for liaison between statutory organizations , including the health service , and the users and carers , and providing points of lobbying concern , points on which we can comment and that that increasingly is the way we 're working in the community care consultation process . |
| 13 | DARLINGTON 'S Mayor Rita Fishwick and Tory councillor Paul Geldart passed on the thanks of the Scottish Sports Association for the Disabled to the town 's Dolphin Centre yesterday . |
| 14 | Momentous things were also happening socially in the North-West of England following the highly successful venture by the local society in the opening of the first social club for the deaf in the country in 1878 at Manchester . |
| 15 | Then we declare row t and column u unavailable and search for the smallest in the remaining available rows and columns , say , and set , declaring row v and column w unavailable . |
| 16 | This week , each will be hoping to move up a gear for the first of the year 's major championships , even if Augusta do still insist on calling it a tournament . |
| 17 | contribution rule for the poorest in the community and , thirdly , for devising and implementing the wretched tax in the first place ? |
| 18 | Raising money to support CAFOD 's work for the poorest in the world is one way in which schools are involved . |
| 19 | The late autumn and winter again aggravated his emphysema and he looked tired and pale.Although he preferred to stay where he was , his doctor insisted that he travel once more to the sun for the worst of the winter , and at the end of 1960 the Eliots went to Jamaica . |
| 20 | Hill gradually moves up the grid … he 's second for the last of the starts but his engine is n't quite powerful enough and comes home in fourth spot … |
| 21 | A national gallery for the twentieth-century before the twentieth century 's done ? |
| 22 | A national standard lithostratigraphy for the Palaeozoic in the subsurface of Jordan was prepared for publication . |
| 23 | Considering he was four over par after the first three holes of the New Orleans tournament , Faldo 's 11 under for the remaining 69 on a course he found demanding looks a useful dress rehearsal for the first of the year 's majors . |
| 24 | The National Council for the Aged in the Republic of Ireland reports that in a sample of schoolchildren 62 per cent felt they had a friendly relationship with older people in general . |
| 25 | A report entitled The Handicapped School Leaver , produced in 1964 by the British Council for Rehabilitation of the Disabled ( now merged with the Central Council for the Disabled as the Royal Association for Disability and Rehabilitation ) , highlighted the problem of this group and urged that more youth employment officers have special training for working with the handicapped . |
| 26 | Touring on the Riviera was a must for the well-to-do of the 1920s and '30s . |
| 27 | This would tend to support the idea that there is an important place for the paraprofessional in the social services whether or not there is a shortage of professionally trained personnel in a given locality . |
| 28 | An eye for the significant among the trivial . |
| 29 | When the 27-hour non-stop TV spectacular was last staged in 1990 , the Hampshire people proved as dotty as anyone in the bizarre ways they raised cash for the needy in the local community . |
| 30 | Despite an English-sounding name , he was born in central Europe and fought with distinction for the British in the Second World War . |