Example sentences of "[noun pl] in [noun sg] for the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Trade unionists could be persuaded to accept a moderation of their organization 's stated goals in return for the fulfilment of part of those goals . |
| 2 | This causes temporary softening of the ligaments in preparation for the birth . |
| 3 | Banks were able to bid aggressively for wholesale deposits and to take in funds in return for the issue of certificates of deposit . |
| 4 | Carr and Morgenthau rejected the prescriptive and utopian elements in Idealism for the sake of a science which sees the world as it is . |
| 5 | Yet the Secretary of State says that child benefit is one of the main elements in support for the family , and the Prime Minister says that he attaches ’ particular significance ’ to it . |
| 6 | Boltanski photographed each of 143 pupils when he visited London in September and he is testing the way in which art is created by its context by also sending the portraits to the pupils ' parents in return for the fee which would have been charged by the school photographer . |
| 7 | The Environment Committee had it 's last last meeting by a majority vote , made a decision that the proposed reductions in service for the Fire Service sh er er should not be gone ahead with and that and that issues around the should be looked at again at the . |
| 8 | The 25-year-old will cost around £700,000 and the signing is likely to be pushed through in the next few days in time for the Christmas programme . |
| 9 | ‘ Oh , just the small matter of the DGSE turning a blind eye to arms sales to Iranian terrorists in return for the release of our French hostages in Beirut . ’ , |
| 10 | The aim of the Book Delivery Survey was to assess the quality of the current service , and , as an aid to planning the distribution of the collections in preparation for the completion of the Causewayside Building in 1994 , to provide information about the use of closed-access material by the Library 's readers . |
| 11 | ‘ They are feeding on insects in preparation for the flight south they will soon make . |
| 12 | With the Congress leadership in jail , the Round Table conference which met in London in November , at Irwin 's initiative , to discuss constitutional advance , came to nothing , and Irwin realized that he must forego the pleasure of seeing the troublemakers in jail for the hope of constitutional development along the lines he had in mind for India . |
| 13 | On Jan. 24 , 1990 , in Miami Dade Circuit Court , Judge Joseph P. Farina sentenced William Lozano to seven years in prison for the manslaughter of two unarmed black men in January 1989 . |
| 14 | Gerard Harte , 27 , was convicted and sentenced by a Dutch court on April 2 to 18 years in prison for the Roermond murders of May 1990 , when the IRA had admitted responsibility for shooting two Australian tourists mistaken for UK service personnel [ see p. 37537 ] . |
| 15 | In a letter received by the Agence France-Presse news agency in Bonn on April 13 the extremist Red Army Faction ( RAF ) announced that it would cease attacks on leading economic and government figures in return for the release of some of the longest-serving RAF prisoners . |
| 16 | It is intended and er all four sets of government officials are resolved to integrate the two agencies in time for the commencement of the P I production phases . |
| 17 | With the two institutions in competition for the audience , their policies converged towards the demands of the audience . |
| 18 | We must face the issue seriously and not in the way in which the Prime Minister faced the issue at Harare when he said that he would write off some of the debts in return for the acceptance of an economic model imposed by the International Monetary Fund , and say that there has to be a write-off of debt . |
| 19 | In addition to the mobility required of them as deputies in battle for the king , they were also kept in attendance at their father 's court at Aachen for long periods of time . |
| 20 | In Manders v. Williams , brewers supplied porter in casks to a publican on condition that he returned the empty casks ; held , they could maintain trover against a sheriff who took the casks in execution for the publican 's debts , for directly they were emptied the right to immediate possession was in the brewers , the publican becoming a mere bailee at will . |
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| 22 | Parliament granted taxes in return for the king 's promise to grant the ‘ requests of the Commons ’ for the observance of the Charters and the Ordinances , and the appointment of commissioners to make perambulations of the forests . |
| 23 | Running parallel to the Medau sessions was a course organised by Anne Talintyre for the British team of Modern Rhythmic Gymnasts in training for the World Championships . |
| 24 | We hope that the results of the evaluation will enable us to make further improvements in time for the start of the next session . |
| 25 | The Holland Sweetener Company ( HSC ) has announced new investment and market strategies in preparation for the expiry of its rival NutraSweet 's aspartame patent in the US . |
| 26 | Having spent the last few minutes in preparation for the strain of an interview with Davout , Thiercelin almost visibly relaxed . |
| 27 | We are committed to the highest safety and environmental standards and put great store by the contractual arrangements in place for the return of wastes . |
| 28 | In HELP schemes the development took place on land formerly owned by the local authority and sold on favourable terms in return for the acquisition of some of the new dwellings by the local authority for its rented stock . |
| 29 | Six Irishmen , serving life terms in prison for the murder of 21 people killed in bomb attacks on two public houses in Birmingham in November 1974 [ see p. 26870 ] , were freed by the United Kingdom Court of Appeal on March 14 . |
| 30 | Below : A kite 's trailing edge showing the double row of Flat Fell seam stitches plus reinforcements in Dacron for the spine end and the cross-spar support . |