Example sentences of "[noun sg] for the [adj] [noun sg] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was recruited because a man could not be found to act as porter for the annual salary of £27 . |
| 2 | In all three parts " reasonable " means providing no more than relevant and necessary protection for the legitimate interest of the covenantee . |
| 3 | Of course , not all their games have this aspect of preparation for the serious business of life . |
| 4 | He has been thrifty and pored over contracts , although there is no preparation for the mental upset of a group folding . |
| 5 | These drawings were originally prepared on the assumption that the Tussaud carriage was built in 1811 in preparation for the Russian campaign of 1812 in which it was reputed ( erroneously ) to have taken part . |
| 6 | Three miles to the west , near the village of Austerlitz , ninety thousand Russian and Hapsburg troops faced a slightly smaller number of French in preparation for the decisive battle of the campaign . |
| 7 | This put the central management of the Course on a more secure footing for the important preparation for the second resubmission of the Course in 1983 — 84 . |
| 8 | WITH the two main floodlit tournaments in Junior Rugby just around the corner , many clubs are looking forward to the opportunity to sharpen their skills in preparation for the first batch of league matches . |
| 9 | The Presidents of the four member countries , Uruguay , Argentina , Brazil and Paraguay , agreed to set a ceiling of 20 per cent for common trade tariffs on most commodities , in preparation for the complete elimination of tariffs by the end of January 1994 . |
| 10 | In preparation for the complete reconstruction of the Frauenkirche , the Landesamt fur Denkmalpflege has made an appeal for any documents , photographs , letters or memoirs that could help in their task . |
| 11 | He picked at another piece of raw wood that had been crudely cut in the workshop across the compound in preparation for the finishing work of the lathes . |
| 12 | It 's money for preparation for the next phase of building work which is to restore the Grand Stair and the rainwater system which has failed . |
| 13 | The government saw it as essential to slim down the coal industry [ see p. 38781 ] in preparation for the eventual privatization of British Coal itself . |
| 14 | He disarmingly admitted his lack of preparation for the huge range of problems with which he had to grapple . |
| 15 | I 'm sure you already have too many papers to read , but since I have spare copies I have enclosed a background paper we received on a European coastal conservation strategy , and a commentary on the EC and the Ramsar Convention in preparation for the 5th conference of the contracting parties of the Convention . |
| 16 | So it is perhaps not surprising , though it was n't made public at the time , that IBM last year paid a seven figure sum to what was then Interactive Systems Corp for the substantial body of Unix development work that Interactive provided to IBM 's Advanced Interactive Executive , AIX , effort . |
| 17 | But these rooms were much altered between 1865 and 1868 in a neo-Rococo style that was intended to blend with the 18C Rococo designs of Pacassi for the proposed coronation of Emperor Franz Josef I. In the end the emperor refused the crown of Bohemia deeming it too dangerous to accept it and upset the Hungarians . |
| 18 | There is plenty of opportunity for the general sense of ambiguity discussed above to manifest itself at the level of individual projects . |
| 19 | In principle , a satisfactory means of culturing post-implantation embryos affords an opportunity for the experimental study of embryonic cells in their normal environment . |
| 20 | We now have the challenge of a marvellous opportunity for the physical re-establishment of N C V O for years to come , in premises which will fully meet the needs both of its staff , and the wide range of visitors it attracts . |
| 21 | Rearing and plunging through bravura passagework and revelling in every opportunity for the richest variety of voicing and texture , he makes the many years since the work 's first performance roll away . |
| 22 | The increase in the regulatory role of public authorities provided further opportunity for the generalised application of the maxim . |
| 23 | In other words , a French upbringing for the future queen of Scots was not in principle a matter for concern ; but the particular nature of French royal upbringing in the mid sixteenth century may have been . |
| 24 | Mark poses alongside them as a theatrically seedy rock-hack for the all-seeing lens of Kevin Cummins . |
| 25 | A contract for the joint exploitation of these resources was signed on March 14 , 1990 , with Kuwaiti and Soviet interests and major oil companies , notably Exxon and Mobil . |
| 26 | CHESTER Branch fought off tough competition , not least from the existing account holders National Westminster , to win the banking contract for the new Countess of Chester Hospital NHS Trust . |
| 27 | THEN IT 'S OVER TO THE PERFORMER(S) , AND it is here ( at least in the Western Classical music tradition ) , that the point of contract for the great majority of music lovers occurs : not with the original text ( as with paintings , architecture , novels , poetry , often even drama ) , but with the interpreter . |
| 28 | Regional delegates ' conference will be held where the regional nat the regional negotiating councils or where there is a need for a regional sounding board for the effective operation of the national negotiating council . |
| 29 | At the most senior level , the Managing Director , Chief Executive or whatever the title of the most senior person in the organisation is , will be accountable to a Board for the effective work of the whole organisation . |
| 30 | Was it not his father who had implicitly argued a case for the moral uprightness of bourgeois culture and bourgeois education ? |