Example sentences of "[prep] [noun] [noun sg] for the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | My task , after having been subjected to a six months ' course to learn Russian , was to supervise the packing up of the Wilhelmshaven dockyard , and arrange its shipment back to the Soviet Union as part reparation for the enormous damage that had been done to that country by Nazi Germany . |
| 2 | Refer to General Condition 1 for Small Craft and General Condition 2 for Yacht Policy for the reasonable care conditions . |
| 3 | Two Pantograph cars in the post-1937 cream livery pass in Dickson Road during demolition work for the new Odeon cinema opened in 1939 . |
| 4 | The cheque for Action Research for the Crippled Child was presented at a reception in the Mayor 's Parlour in Reigate on 19th March 1986 and a representative from Age Concern will be coming to the A.G.M. to receive their cheque from our President , Lady Braithwaite . |
| 5 | Erm , leisure services product , erm , project erm , closure , really that was an opportunity to erm , to close the loss making element of provision without cost , and in view of the erm , rather poor outlook for maintenance work for the next contract year , it seemed sensible for us to do that . |
| 6 | The reaction to the sudden call , just before Christmas 1941 , for a collection for winter clothing for the German troops in the east was one of profound shock and bitterness . |
| 7 | The targets for Companies House for the two years to April 1991 were as follows ( Cm. 1261 ) : |
| 8 | Unfortunately figures for Honours Classification for the whole student cohort over the same period could not be obtained . |
| 9 | They gave him a bit of consultancy work for the first year , but after that he did n't know what he would do . |
| 10 | Recruited from Tesco to oversee the transformation of Victoria Wine for the Nineties , she accepts that ‘ Oddbins is the one retailer that took the 1980s very much to heart ’ . |
| 11 | The Duchess of York , President of Action Research for the Crippled Child , visits the Duncan Guthrie Institute at the Royal Hospital for Sick Children , Glasgow ; and this afternoon , as Patron of Museums Year 1989 , opens the Customs and Excise Museum and Exhibition at Custom House , Greenock , Glasgow . |
| 12 | BUCKINGHAM PALACE 10 October : The Duchess of York , President of Action Research for the Crippled Child , this morning visited the Duncan Guthrie Institute at the Royal Hospital for Sick Children , Glasgow . |
| 13 | For its function in the modern economy was not merely to supply food and raw material in rapidly growing quantities , but also to provide a — indeed the — most important reservoir of labour power for the non-agricultural occupations . |
| 14 | In 1914 they launched what was one of their crazier attacks , and on 4th June , the deaf community of Dundee was very nearly the victim when a massive bomb was placed against the doorway of Dunhope Castle , the home of Dundee School for the Deaf and the Dundee Mission to the Deaf and Dumb . |
| 15 | In Thailand in 1991 the falling incidence of chancroid approached that of herpes genitalis for the first time , reaching 0.22/1000 compared with an incidence of herpes genitalis of 0.18/1000 . |
| 16 | A unit should be up and running in three to six months with sales of $1m forecast for the first year . |
| 17 | Roy Dennis , North of Scotland officer for the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds , said there could be as few as 2,000 left in the highlands , an 80 per cent decline in the past 15 years . |
| 18 | agencies contracted to do community care assessments , such as Edinburgh and East of Scotland Society for the Deaf and the Society for the Welfare and Teaching of the Blind ; |
| 19 | Of his education little is known but it seems likely that his family engaged a private tutor for him — he may have also have been a private fee-paying pupil at the West of England School for the Deaf at Exeter . |
| 20 | Another casualty of this bombing raid was the Royal West of England School for the Deaf at Exeter , which at that time had seemed a safe haven , not only for the children of the area the school served , but also for the 52 children and staff of the Anerley School for the Deaf , London , who had been evacuated there on 14th September 1939 . |
| 21 | The mangonel , which projected massive , damaging boulders and was a vital engine of siege warfare for the Christian forces . |
| 22 | The centre will look after internationalisation of Sun software for the European market and will be staffed by up to 100 employees over time . |
| 23 | Ella Bembridge was a formidably hearty spinster of fifty-five who had lived , with a wilting friend of much the same age , in a small cottage on the Lulling corner of Thrush Green for the past ten years . |
| 24 | The Dwarfs concentrate on fortification and consolidation , so few records are made of Orc activity for the next few hundred years . |
| 25 | He was also the founder of Coventry Institute for the Deaf . |
| 26 | Apple Computer Inc says it bought the C2 level security software for its A/UX Unix from SecureWare Inc , Atlanta , Georgia : SecureWare is the approved vendor of security technology for the Open Software Foundation 's OSF/1 operating system . |
| 27 | Altruistic behaviour , for long a puzzle to evolutionists , may now be explained largely in terms of kin selection for the inclusive fitness of individuals . |
| 28 | Football since the 1950s has come to provide a kind of surrogate community for the young ; the club defines their identity and the ‘ end ’ is their territory , even if they have moved out to high-rise blocks miles away . |
| 29 | Football since the 1950s has come to provide a kind of surrogate community for the young ; the club defines their identity and the ‘ end ’ is their territory , even if they have moved out to the high-rise blocks miles away . |
| 30 | It can be no bigger than A4 , and it must n't project more than 3 inches , but at the moment they are pouring into Rosie Headers house , and we 've had stuff from Japan and America already , and also from artists in the community , but anybody can enter for Mail Art , so if anybody 's interested in a Mail Art sheet , I can get one for you , but those exhibitions are going up in Freud 's , which is our sort of Festival Centre for the two and a half weeks during the Festival . |