Example sentences of "[prep] [verb] [adj] [noun pl] for the " in BNC.
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| 1 | There are , however , no theoretical grounds for preferring demand-side explanations for the growth of retirement to supply-side ones , and the evidence available on changes in the retirement process in twentieth-century Britain is ambiguous . |
| 2 | Ingres is now under the firm charge of ex-DEC European chief and now ASK Group president Pier Carlo Falotti , replacing Dennis McGinn who has taken over responsibility for developing strategic partners for the company . |
| 3 | Mr Wilson added : ‘ The cost of improving water quality has become hopelessly confused with the cost of financing huge profits for the privatised water companies . |
| 4 | ‘ I could see how the notion of raiding charnel houses for the secrets of life had always been present in Shelley 's thought ; but these horrid machine speculations were new . |
| 5 | A loud , acerbic beginning , with grunting low bassoons and shrieking high clarinets , leads into a sequence of seven moody and knottily polyphonic character-pieces , apparently inspired by Oliver 's experience of writing new recitatives for the Glyndebourne Clemenza di Tito . |
| 6 | This is an appeal deriving from a politically specific stance which is liberal in outlook , implying the importance of improving living conditions for the poor , and from the ability of the aware and self-critical planner to do it through the state machinery . |
| 7 | But he noted that there had been great differences over the issue of securing international guarantees for the zone , and concluded that the practical realisation of the zone idea was a long-term task . |
| 8 | Hunter 's known subjects are few — two , to be precise , and both private commissions — and intended as practical examples of his research , related more to improving contemporary methods of preserving anatomical specimens for the medical student than as a deliberate contribution to the undertaking trade . |
| 9 | But now instead of providing cut flowers for the gentry at the big house , David is supplying plants for anyone who wants to beautify their gardens . |
| 10 | He also had the responsibility of recruiting top men for the Alfa team and one of his biggest recruits was not a driver , but a top designer Vittorio Jano from Fiat . |
| 11 | Such curves are obtained by dilatometry which is a slow experiment and therefore capable of giving reproducible results for the glass transition temperature which , as we shall see , is strongly time-dependent . |
| 12 | The logic of choosing pensionable ages for the purposes of disentitlement under section 82 must be that after retirement there could be no redundancy . |
| 13 | But during the last decade the challenge of achieving expanding opportunities for the many has been ignored — instead , the priority has been to bring benefits only to the few . |
| 14 | It should perhaps be mentioned that there are also accounting exemptions for medium-sized companies ( annual turnover not exceeding £5750000 ) but these are modest and are barely worth the effort and expense of preparing separate accounts for the shareholders and filing with the Registrar of Companies . |
| 15 | In November of 1924 the House Committee submitted a special report to the Board concerning the difficulty of obtaining suitable nurses for the Poor Law Institution . |
| 16 | As BR and union leaders tried to resolve the problem of finding new jobs for the teams , the men turned up for work each day at Liverpool 's Central Station and simply sat in their vans for eight hours a day . |
| 17 | Even ignoring the fact that they were meant as definitions of natures or essences , Gassendi finds something wrong with the idea of finding universal propositions for the premisses of a scientific syllogism . |
| 18 | I do n't support this blanket band of reducing surplus places for the sake of reducing surplus places , like the district auditor , and if quote right , it 's an accountant looking at erm , looking at figures and nothing else , and I think that is the problem with the issue , erm , we 've seen in other schools , in larger schools , where they 've developed erm , classrooms into a decent library , or resource area , but in the , in the , in the overall spectrum they 're still counted as classroom spaces , and if that classroom was put back er in , into a class , the school would suffer environmentally , because that school would have no library facilities , no resource facilities which it 's able to appreciate at the present time . |
| 19 | If the great aristocracy was responsible for providing large contingents for the war ( and , in England , at least , it was they who , after the king , provided the largest ) the work of raising these soldiers was often done by men of local knowledge and influence who subcontracted with the royal captains to raise the troops required . |
| 20 | They claim their new car , launched this month , the eight two seven , is the answer to winning over the Americans who were unimpressed by problems with service and with getting spare parts for the original eight two five launched two years ago . |
| 21 | The benefits of this are dubious , specially as it is often used for electoral purposes with destabilising inflationary effects for the domestic economy . |
| 22 | But he 's not above making furtive preparations for the worst . |
| 23 | Problems may arise with obtaining written instructions for the lace carriage and motif cams . |
| 24 | The 30th of June ends with making last-minute arrangements for the annual Squadron Open Day . |
| 25 | Each state in the Soviet equivalent of the EEC would specialize in producing certain things for the general good . |
| 26 | This suspension was justified by senior staff on the grounds that in producing grandiose schemes for the further development of the infrastructure it was neglecting the more important area of study skills and its pivotal role in articulating library resources with the curriculum . |
| 27 | However , there are distinct advantages in using lower-energy photons for the excitation . |
| 28 | In announcing future arrangements for the validation of sub-degree courses in agriculture and related subjects , it stated the CGLI had been invited to establish a National Consultative Group for the Co-ordination of Validation Arrangements in Agriculture and related subjects . |
| 29 | Apart from establishing common criteria for the licensing of airlines and routes , they set out to guarantee an EC-wide right of cabotage ( the carriage of one country 's freight or passenger traffic by an airline from another country ) , to phase out capacity quotas at airports , and to end the preferential access arrangements accorded by some countries to their own domestic airlines . |
| 30 | German planes used this war as ‘ bloody good practice ’ or exercises in training Nazi airmen for the World War being prepared by both dictators . |