Example sentences of "[noun pl] [pron] [vb base] 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 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% .
4 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 .
5 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 .
6 It 's not only the chrysanthemum or dahlia enthusiasts who search for the best types of plants for the show bench .
7 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 .
8 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 .
9 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 :
10 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 .
11 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 .
12 ‘ 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 .
13 If in our plans we hope for the best and are prepared for the worst then we should be ready for anything in between .
14 Since the values for E and G vary , of course , for each solid the values we get for the theoretical strengths will vary too .
15 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 .
16 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 .
17 As with all dreams we reach for the ideal … ’
18 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 ?
19 Rather , attention must be directed to ensuring that doctors who care for the dying understand and use the medicines and techniques now available .
20 In the experience of friends who canvass for the Labour party , old , white , middle-class men are the rudest .
21 Gareth Rees , co-ordinator of the Norwich Union Coastwatch programme at Farnborough College , said : ‘ Despite increased government legislation and political rhetoric , we are faced with results which indicate for the fourth year running a deterioration in the state of our coastline .
22 Like tourists who visit for the first time , it seemed our resident rabbits sensed the tranquil harmony that is the essence of this tiny unspoilt paradise in the Mediterranean .
23 Doctors at the Johns Hopkins medical school in Baltimore say that after intensive tests they believe for the first time the Aids virus had been eradicated from the patient 's body before he died from a separate lymphoma cancer .
24 When a new hotel opens what are the effects on existing hotels which compete for the same customers ?
25 But others who vote for the same party may be motivated by directly opposite considerations — a strong commitment to education , say , but no concern about pensions .
26 MORE THAN 10,000 women who work for the Regional Council have received a cervical smear test since 1988 , and the Women 's Unit has played a major part in that achievement .
27 Key resources are technical personnel and aircraft spare parts which account for the largest share of the maintenance budget .
28 They are often used in the paints they mix for the illuminated manuscripts . ’
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