Example sentences of "[art] [noun pl] [vb base] for the [adj] " in BNC.

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1 He regressed the change in the spot price on the change in the futures price for the previous five-minute period and found a positive and highly significant relationship .
2 The groups exist for the whole age range , from pre-school upwards .
3 In lively talk with friends we all continually break the rules appropriate for the written form , and Mr Baker on the radio was no exception .
4 This is the operations base for the largest onshore oil field in Western Europe .
5 Malaysia 's Industrial Master plan also represents such thinking , though many question whether the goals set for the twelve priority sectors of development strategy can be achieved .
6 The pattern of attacks has not really changed at all ; the Iraqis go for the Iranian oil tankers on the shuttle from Kharg Island to Larak Island , and the Iranians then retaliate with a burst of rocket-propelled grenades and machine gun fire against almost any vessel unaccompanied by a warship .
7 reckons that the ovaries compete for the monthly honour .
8 When the President 's Committee on Mental Retardation proclaimed in the early 1970s that the intellectual similarity of parents and children was ‘ mainly because of the environment that the parents create for the young child ’ , the decisive evidence was Heber 's Milwaukee Project .
9 a study of the reservations chart for the same period last year ;
10 Only when the conditions mature for the wide use of mechanical farming for the organization of collective farms and for the socialist reform of rural areas er can the need for a rich peasant economy cease and this will take a somewhat lengthy time to achieve .
11 Even the few examples we have seen illustrate how species with biparental care tend to be monogamous , species in which only the female looks after the young tend to be polygynous , and species in which only the males care for the young tend to be polyandrous .
12 One afternoon the following week , Mary was coming into the yard having been to hear the banns read for the last time , when she came upon a group of local women standing around gossiping about the wedding .
13 The problems multiply for the newer financial and hedging instruments , many of which do not easily fit into existing statute and case law .
14 Yes , well that 's just the name the astronomers use for the mean distance , the average distance , of the earth from the sun .
15 Chester-le-Street 's Lindsay Hardy , 15 , also won the girls race for the second year in succession , finishing 12th overall , and was surprised to beat Middlesbrough and Cleveland 's Kerry Matthew by over a minute and a half .
16 The man was questioned by officers working on Operation Mountbatten — the police hunt for the so-called Horse Ripper who has carried out almost 30 attacks over the last 18 months in Hampshire and surrounding counties .
17 They will defend themselves if attacked , and will speak if spoken to or if the adventurers head for the spiral staircase opposite .
18 Nearly half of those registered are in the jobs market for the first time .
19 Moreover , ideological divisions have frequently led to union rivalries which can undermine strike action , especially since the unions compete for the same grades of employees ; in BR a single union can in most cases bring out most or all members of a grade .
20 Though the Lions ' backs have the credentials and Winterbottom and Dean Richards have been in the heat of a Lions Test scrum , there are six forwards who will be experiencing a Lions Test for the first time .
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