Example sentences of "[noun pl] [pron] [verb] for the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A full-time welfare and education office is complemented by administrative and site executive offices which cater for the day-to-day operation of the Union and provide typing and photocopying facilities . |
| 2 | A full-time welfare and education office is complemented by administrative and site executive offices which cater for the day-to-day operation of the Union and provide typing and photocopying facilities . |
| 3 | The journalists who worked for the popular newspapers were only concerned to please their readers , and the truth was irrelevant . |
| 4 | The results represented a success for the Moderates and for two parties who exceeded for the first time the statutory 4 per cent threshold for parliamentary representation — the Christian Democrats ( whose only previous representation had been in 1985-88 when one of the Centre party 's seats was allocated to Christian Democrat in an electoral pact ) , and the New Democracy Party . |
| 5 | The Special Discount is being continued on the same basis ( see page 2 ) and for those policies which qualify for the first time the increase is offset by approximately 6% . |
| 6 | Owing to their deep-rooted hostility towards the very concept of involuntary unemployment and their a priori conviction that the labour market clears ‘ more or less continuously ’ , new classical macroeconomists are driven to look beyond this obvious explanation towards hypotheses which account for the acknowledged phenomenon of business cycles while at the same time preserving intact their beliefs in the robustness of all markets , including the labour market . |
| 7 | Though this is good news for American and Japanese firms , who share a paltry 11% slice of the luxury market , it is disastrous for European companies which account for the remaining 89% of sales ( see chart on next page ) , but which sell nearly half of all their fancy products in America or Japan . |
| 8 | The building was sanctioned by Oldrado da Tresseno in his capacity as the city governor , and the city 's chief magistrate sat in the huge room on the first floor flanked by two judges who adjudicated for the civil and criminal trials . |
| 9 | It 's not only the chrysanthemum or dahlia enthusiasts who search for the best types of plants for the show bench . |
| 10 | The key to an understanding of relief-giving is in the functions it serves for the larger economic and political order , for relief is a secondary and supportive institution . |
| 11 | The Defense Department employs nearly 80 per cent of the civilian and military personnel who work for the federal government and , in 1978 , was paying over 5 million incomes to military personnel and civilian employees past and present . |
| 12 | This appears to be because institutional shareholders who account for the great majority of shareholdings on The Stock Exchange see themselves as managing a portfolio for which they buy and sell . |
| 13 | But our to avoid that situation I left and went to work with which kept me in the Edinburgh branch and within three or four weeks I stood for the local organizer and had not been successful . |
| 14 | For many years I consulted for the American GE in Schenectady and the thing that struck me there was the way that when they wanted to attack a particular area they could mount an army of people on it , all of whom were pretty good . ’ |
| 15 | I use to dread going in to work — in the two years I worked for the Inland Revenue I do not think I worked a full month — and in the end I left . |
| 16 | A further example from the Police Foundation Oxford Conference gives some indication of the different perspectives which exist for the analytic researcher and the practical policeman : |
| 17 | Investigators who opt for the first solution may seek out variable syntactic elements where meaning variation does not constitute a serious problem ; this is the general approach taken by Cheshire . |
| 18 | A company is employee controlled if more than half its issued ordinary share capital and voting power is beneficially owned by full-time employees , namely individuals who work for the greater part of their time as employees or directors of the company or its 51% subsidiaries . |
| 19 | ‘ It 's one of the most important projects we have for the 1990s , ’ says Philip Goldsmith , head of Earth observation at the European Space Agency . |
| 20 | If in our plans we hope for the best and are prepared for the worst then we should be ready for anything in between . |
| 21 | Since the values for E and G vary , of course , for each solid the values we get for the theoretical strengths will vary too . |
| 22 | In what follows I will argue that there are specific financial advantages for Japanese firms which compensate for the presumed loss of efficiency that accompanied the shift away from the model of atomistic competition proposed in the reforms of the US Occupation . |
| 23 | In what follows I will argue that there are specific financial advantages for Japanese firms which compensate for the presumed loss of efficiency that accompanied the shift away from the model of atomistic competition proposed in the reforms of the US Occupation . |
| 24 | As with all dreams we reach for the ideal … ’ |
| 25 | As father said at the beginning of gruelling sessions in the vacs , the techniques I needed for the next few years — apart from those concerned with sport — dealt not so much with manual skills but with communication , both written and oral . |
| 26 | It is the mobility of dislocations which accounts for the mechanical differences between metals and non-metals . |
| 27 | It is symbolic that a Babylonian text records a payment of oil to Jehoiakin , the son of the king of Judah , and to seven Greek carpenters who worked for the Babylonian court ( Ancient Near Eastern Texts , 2 ed. , p. 308 ) . |
| 28 | Is my hon. Friend aware that despite the success of local management of schools , staff are still very worried that experienced older teachers who qualify for the higher salary scales will be discarded in favour of less experienced younger staff ? |
| 29 | Fiona Hyslop , one of the national executive committee members who voted for the unsuccessful motion drawn up by the policy vice-convener , Rob Gibson , which expressed regret at the leadership 's decision during last weekend 's NEC meeting , criticised the party infighting . |
| 30 | Rather , attention must be directed to ensuring that doctors who care for the dying understand and use the medicines and techniques now available . |