Example sentences of "[prep] [verb] [noun pl] for the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Two TODAY reporters took their children on skiing trips for the first time . |
| 32 | The computerised exchange — known as Direct Dialling In ( DDI ) — has already gone a long way to reducing delays for the thousands of callers daily using the Essex Rivers Healthcare Trust switchboards . |
| 33 | The third session was devoted to developing the ability to interview others and to drafting questions for the following week 's visitors , who would be able to recall the war . |
| 34 | Nevertheless the national curriculum in maths , science and English was introduced in 1989 and the teachers have complained bitterly of the short time available for training and of the meagre resources devoted to it — £47.5 million for training in content and £33.1 million for preparing teachers for the new tests and assessment . |
| 35 | We were famous for bombarding teams for the first 20 mins of games … beating them into submission … p[laying at a pace . |
| 36 | The setting of goals and targets for health has advanced considerably in Australia , through focusing attention on specific social groups in the population with very poor health and through formulating targets for the wider social and environmental determinants of health . |
| 37 | Adapt any other slimming diet by using substitutes for the four zero foods . |
| 38 | As one commentator noted wryly , there are more companies announcing Pentium-based machines then there are actual processors : a couple of dozen manufacturers spread their wares and Intel topped the whole thing off by announcing prices for the first time , and they are not cheap — 60MHz Pentiums cost $878 , while the 66MHz chip is $965 in quantities of 1,000 . |
| 39 | We could try harder and do better by specifying certain electrical facts , an ignition temperature for a material , and so on-in general by giving conditions for the particular chemical reaction of combustion that occurred-but there is no need . |
| 40 | This was a formal process which focused on staff development by setting goals for the coming year . |