Example sentences of "[adj] [noun pl] for [art] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | National goals and regional policies for the less-favoured areas also vary and grounds for comparison are difficult to establish and may not be relevant . |
| 2 | The instability of the horizons in these solutions can easily be demonstrated in that they require very specific forms for the initial functions f(u) and g(v) . |
| 3 | To explore possible reasons for the different kinds of error reported above the following calculations were made for each patient : total number of missing days , total number of retrospective completions , and total number of occasions on which a discrepancy occurred between written and electronic records . |
| 4 | This is the total arrears for the 4 years of Community Charge and includes the Region , Districts and Water Charge . |
| 5 | Well , we 've not got consistency when you 've got different rules for Apex , different rules for CAT , different rules for , different rules for the public services . |
| 6 | In the result , it was agreed between the Commissioners and the defendant that the amount charged upon him should be reduced , and that time should be given to pay it in three instalments ; he gave three promissory notes for the three instalments ; the first was duly honoured ; the others were not , and were the subject of the present action . |
| 7 | As for which wine — there 's all the choice in the world at Sainsbury 's from the freshest white wines — chilled for a summer evening to warm generous reds for the cooler evenings . |
| 8 | Comparative evidence from better-documented periods indicates that at times of monetary reform transitional arrangements were made to enable people to exchange their old coins for the new ones . |
| 9 | Mr E 's group had been a two-term group of middle and first school teachers sharing a site , all members attending the weekly sessions for the two terms , with myself as a temporarily school-attached consultant . |
| 10 | Norman on his wall has a a a list of er theoretical waitings for the different specialists at Orpington hospital and presumably he 's got one beside it for Queen Mary 's as well . |
| 11 | The magazine will just have to lurch along snuggled up to me and my ageing haemorrhoids for a few weeks . |
| 12 | It took two decades and a number of celebrated trials for the revolutionary implications of the legislation to be fully appreciated and applied . |
| 13 | He had no political aims and did not lead a faction , although he sought lesser posts for a few clients . |
| 14 | But whereas those first person narrators are fairly transparent surrogates for the implied authors of those novels , the first-person narrators of modernist texts are more ambiguous , less reliable witnesses to their own experience , and are often framed by or counterpointed with other narrators — as , for example , in Henry James 's The Turn of the Screw or Conrad 's Heart of Darkness . |
| 15 | In the absence of theoretical explanations for the underlying mechanisms of continental movement , both views were propounded , but neither could be proved . |
| 16 | Burrows shows how Jane Austen makes skilful use of the common words to build up different idiolects for the different persons in the novels to bring out the differences in their characters . |
| 17 | One of the results of this difference is that such accents have different pronunciations for the two members of pairs of words that are pronounced identically ( i.e. are homophones ) in RP , e.g. ‘ won ’ and ‘ one ’ , ‘ nun ’ and ‘ none ’ . |
| 18 | Our usual transcription is given in brackets : This can be made to look less unusual by choosing different symbols for the basic vowels . |
| 19 | Nor was the Treasury convinced by the repeated arguments for the costly increases in police manpower which most Home Secretaries felt they had to secure in order to demonstrate their credibility . |
| 20 | The reader may be confused to find what we here call bivalves , referred to in other books as pelecypods or lamellibranchs — these are just different names for the same animals . |
| 21 | Some might set off from observations like these to construct a formal system which would provide different representations for the different types of non-linguistic referents ( beings or situations or things ) for which , logically , the various phrases could be used in our own or some other possible world . |
| 22 | He even devised new German names for the twelve winds and the twelve months of the year , showing a depth of interest and love of order that far exceeds mere military might and cunning . |
| 23 | The detailed arrangements for the non-metropolitan districts were not included in the 1972 Act but determined subsequently by the LGBC . |
| 24 | There are celebrated examples of bad communication between the Bank and the IFC ; and the sides have confused clients by offering different prices for the same services . |
| 25 | Western reports ascribed the relatively light sentences for the better-known dissidents to a desire to maintain good relations with the United States and the European Communities following the relaxation of sanctions in late 1990 [ see pp. 37783 ; 37859 ] . |
| 26 | Direct elections for the two houses , which sit for simultaneous four-year terms , took place in two rounds on June 4 and 18 . |
| 27 | We have two pairs of free tickets for the following screenings : The Rachel Papers , based on the novel by Martin Amis ( Mon , 9.00 ) ; Scenes from the Class Struggle in Beverly Hills ( Tues , 8.30 ) , a farce about sexual imbroglio among the smart set of Bel Air , by Paul Bartel , the director of Eating Raoul ; My Left Foot ( Wed , 9.00 ) , starring Daniel Day Lewis as disabled Irish writer Christy Brown ; New York Stories ( Thur , 8.30 ) , the eagerly-awaited compendium film with vignettes by Scorsese , Coppola and Woody Allen ; more tales from Manhattan in James Ivory 's adaptation of Tama Janowitz 's novel Slaves of New York ( Fri , 8.30 ) ; Great Balls of Fire ( next Sat , 8.45 ) , in which Dennis Quaid pounds the ivories as Jerry Lee Lewis ; and the closing gala of Greenaway 's The Cook … ( next Sun , 8.00 ) . |
| 28 | An adjustment of the rate support grant gave inner urban areas more resources and the urban programme was expanded , introducing central/local partnerships for the largest cities and more limited programmes for smaller towns . |
| 29 | The ghastly glossy mags for the Working Women Of The Nineties simply do n't have caption competitions . |
| 30 | Some countries use different systems for the two houses of parliament : Spain 's senate is elected by FPTP , its lower house by highest-average PR . |