Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] for the [noun] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | The usual scramble for the bathroom in the morning , cycling through the sunny streets to the shop , serving cakes and pies and bread all day , then cycling home and the rush to prepare for a dance or a visit to Sarah . |
| 2 | The first occasion was in the early 1980s when it and the Stock Exchange spent three years trying to develop an automated settlements system for the gilts market before the Bank took over total responsibility for the project in 1985 to develop what has become the highly effective Central Gilts Office . |
| 3 | A comparison of turn-lengths reveals a marked contrast between the weariness he implicates here and his uncontainable enthusiasm for the subject in scene four . |
| 4 | This makes it important to select the right measure for the purpose in view . |
| 5 | The war was a dislocating experience for the group in other ways too , disrupting families , interrupting working careers , sometimes precipitating emigration . |
| 6 | There was much public sympathy for the miners in general , however rebarbative the personality and creed of Arthur Scargill himself . |
| 7 | The SDLP 's public support for the Tories in the 1987 General Election caused its former leader , Gerry Fitt to comment : ‘ I would not vote for the SDLP because it is not a socialist party … |
| 8 | This , in itself , would appear to present a further anomalous dilemma for the Association in that last year , Tretorn signed a three year agreement with the LTA Trust to sponsor its Starter programme for schools . |
| 9 | Leopold 's own career progressed slowly and unadventurously : by 1758 he had risen up the ranks to become second violin , and also court and chamber composer , and five years later he became deputy kapellmeister ( the German term for the musician in charge of a musical establishment ) . |
| 10 | I am grateful to the right hon. Gentleman for the way in which he presented his case to me , although I hope that he did not take away from our meeting any belief that I was totally persuaded by the argument that he put forward . |
| 11 | I am grateful to the hon. Gentleman for the way in which he expressed his sympathy and that of his party and his revulsion at the events that have occurred . |
| 12 | If it seems husband or children are paying a high price for the caring in other ways this is difficult . |
| 13 | The position will , therefore , be very similar to that described for ransom strips in that the adjoining owner may demand a high price for the land in question or even refuse to sell . |
| 14 | The fragmentation and inequities of prewar arrangements were highlighted in 1937 by an influential report from the Department of Political and Economic Planning but it took the Second World War and the Beveridge Report of 1942 to change perceptions sufficiently to legitimise a greatly enhanced role for the state in the provision of health care . |
| 15 | We will support an enhanced role for the UN in peace-keeping and combating state-sponsored terrorism . |
| 16 | Such heightened public concern for the environment in 1969 ensured the emergence of the environment as a political issue . |
| 17 | It is similar to an instance discussed earlier , of choice between a peach and a pear , in which the spontaneous preference for the peach in full awareness of the flavours was approved on the authority of ‘ Be aware ’ . |
| 18 | Cash from the council 's community chest bought the tandem for Cleveland Area Tandems for the Sight Impaired ( CATSI ) , which was formed in 1989 and is based at the social centre for the blind in the town 's Stockton Road . |
| 19 | However , it is the setting up and initial implementation in practical day-to-day terms of recommendations from other professionals about the nature and extent of specialised equipment , materials and support that is the most demanding phase for the teacher in the ordinary school whose class contains visually handicapped pupils . |
| 20 | I am grateful to the hon. Member for the manner in which his question was posed . |
| 21 | A COMPREHENSIVE review of free travel for the blind in Cleveland is under way . |
| 22 | The same area saw a direct reversal for the bishops in July , when they had to withdraw their summons to the reforming preachers in the face of strenuous opposition from the local Protestant gentry who complained directly to Mary of Guise ; the regent promptly denied knowledge of the summons and proclaimed the doctrine of love of God and neighbour to the Protestants , while instructing the bishops to leave them alone . |
| 23 | Building and construction issues pushed ahead in anticipation of possible help for the industry in the shape of a cut in interest rates and increased infrastructure spending . |
| 24 | An additional difficulty for the archivist in UK government is the lack of a sense of history . |
| 25 | Taro Nakayama , the Japanese Foreign Minister , visited Hong Kong on Nov. 3-4 , 1989 , when he offered moral support for the colony in the future and help on the Indo-Chinese refugee problem . |
| 26 | Marri Cheni Reddy resigned as the Congress ( I ) Chief Minister of Andhra Pradesh on Dec. 16 after stating that he accepted moral responsibility for the unrest in Hyderabad . |
| 27 | • minimising your other taxable income for the year in question ; • leaving soon after the start of the tax year ; • maximising deductions from your other taxable income , for example by making voluntary contributions to an exempt , approved pension scheme . |
| 28 | The stated reasoning for the decision in the Manchester Corporation case is not , in my judgment , satisfactory : see the criticism , cited by Morland J. , by Spencer Bower , Actionable Defamation , at p. 280 . |
| 29 | " I run a similar institution for the Madam in London , but I would n't be ashamed to say Iran this one . " |
| 30 | The two main political parties — Tories and Liberals — agreed on a minimal role for the state in the nation 's affairs . |