Example sentences of "[adj] for [art] [noun] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The board has recommended a final dividend of 3.95p per share , making a total for the year of 5.4p , a 10pc improvement on 1991 . |
| 2 | The company is recommending a final dividend of 4.1p per share , making a total for the year of 5.8p , up 14pc on last year 's payout of 5.1p . |
| 3 | Shareholders will receive a final dividend of 14.9p a share , making a total for the year of 21p per share , up by 15pc . |
| 4 | Back was outstanding for the Midlands against South West two weeks ago and tore into the Barbarians like a wolf at a flock of sheep . |
| 5 | Yolanda was a spotty , bespectacled girl from Barcelona who spent her time translating every word I said into Spanish for the benefit of Garcia , a missing-link anthropoid from one of your immediate neighbours . |
| 6 | Before I start , I would like to draw out two birthday titles , both paperback originals and both due for a lot of press coverage . |
| 7 | ‘ This afternoon we were — are — due for a walk to Ramsgate . ’ |
| 8 | He ruled that damages were due for the effects of surfactants but not for a small presence of phosphates . |
| 9 | In the following year these became even tougher : he demanded the crown of France ; then he reduced this to the territories of Angevin days , Normandy , Maine , Anjou , Touraine , Aquitaine ( to include Poitou , part of the concession made by the princes at Bourges in 1412 ) , together with the substantial arrears still due for the ransom of John II and , following the now well-established pattern , the hand of a daughter of the French king , this time Catherine , sister to Isabella whom Richard II had married in 1396 , together with a dowry . |
| 10 | Johnson was furious Northern second row Karl Fairbank was n't sent-off for a challenge on full-back Rob Myler . |
| 11 | By and large , energy efficiency is profitable for the user of electricity . |
| 12 | Now I I 've chosen an example w with a Conservative Secretary of State and the Labour majority , but I ask the Noble Lords on all , in all parts of the House to think it could work the other way round , because a Labour Secretary of State could exercise exactly these powers in an area where with a er Conservative majority on on er on on the local council or councils and I ask the House to think of this , not in a party er as a as a party issue between Labour , Conservative or Liberal Democrat , I just ask you to consider whether it is right for a Secretary of State of any political persuasion to er secure by appointment to a police authority a political control from the centre of that police authority , because that is what the Government 's presents proposals would still achieve and er it is our view and it is the view of which is which is finds expression in Amendments five , eight and eleven that the we should return to the tripartite system of p of policing which policing is a partnership between the Chief Constable er the local authority in the area and the Home Secretary , that er tripartite arrangement has worked extremely well for thirty years , there have been minor conflicts in some parts of the country , but nothing to justify the wholesale removal of of of the partnership which is now proposed . |
| 13 | From a distance I have managed to see something of their spectacular courtship frolics that take place both on the ground and in the air and I have listened to their songs which , though not rich in melody , seem just right for a world of cliffs and screes . |
| 14 | From a distance I have managed to see something of their spectacular courtship frolics that take place both on the ground and in the air , and I have listened to their songs which , though not rich in melody , seem just right for a world of cliffs and screes . |
| 15 | South 's hand did not look right for a rebid in no-trumps so , rather than explore with an ambiguous bid in the opponent 's suit , he decided to stress the quality of his own suit with Three Hearts . |
| 16 | Would it not be right for the Secretary of State to come to the House to say what steps are being taken to try to ensure that the sort of dishonesty and crookery that went on at MGN is not being repeated elsewhere ? |
| 17 | So do ask lots of questions to make sure that the hypnotherapist you choose is right for the kind of treatment you want . |
| 18 | Furthermore , with a growing public awareness of the need to protect the environment and generate crop production systems that are sustainable , the social and political climate is right for the development of biocontrol . |
| 19 | And yet above that and beyond that what you were seeking to do was not just to serve the Board of World Mission and Unity , it was to serve what you believed was the good and right for the church of god which you have sought to serve and to support and to take further . |
| 20 | The Progressive Socialist Party ( PSP ) of the Druze leader Walid Jumblatt had likewise said that it would participate in the elections , although Jumblatt on July 17 expressed reservations about the new electoral law , reiterating that he did not think that conditions were yet right for the holding of elections . |
| 21 | ‘ This time , a far bigger bite was taken and even those which have been relatively stable for a number of years have been damaged . |
| 22 | Whatever ‘ security ’ there may be in the working for the Church of England has been lost . |
| 23 | Paine , Bentham , and to a lesser degree James Mill , shared in the optimistic mood of the decades after 1789 , when it was possible for a radical like William Hazlitt to affirm , without qualification or self-consciousness , that " Vox populi vox Dei , is the rule of all good Government … " . |
| 24 | Emily had read a lot of magazines , she knew that it was perfectly possible for a girl with Nan 's looks to rise to be the highest in the land . |
| 25 | Played a crucial part in setting up a network of anti-tobacco organisations to campaign in the most effective way possible for a ban on tobacco advertising |
| 26 | It is possible for a series of nick points to migrate up a stream and for the whole series to coalesce when they are held up by a resistant bed . |
| 27 | Your job is to go out and create as large a market for your band as is possible for an act without industry representation . |
| 28 | Only if all new investment in the firm has to be financed from retained earnings is it possible for an increase in dividends to reduce net investment and thereby reduce the ability of the firm to deliver real income in the future . |
| 29 | Is it possible for the Church of England to proclaim this redemption with integrity and conviction in our day unless it ordains women as well as men as priests ? |
| 30 | It would even have been possible for the Secretary of State to have a reserve power to insist on ever more names from which to choose . |