Example sentences of "[noun pl] of [noun] [verb] for [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There were many different sorts of trials set for the field-worker ( something noted in their field-work experience by Douglas 1972 and van Maanen 1982 ) , and the apologies other members of the section later gave her because of this policeman 's conduct is proof that these other trials , too , were successfully passed . |
| 2 | I put him though the hoops because there are all sorts of people looking for a dog for the wrong reason . |
| 3 | He then spent a brief spell on the staff at the Gaczyna spy school before being sent to Angola in 1974 as a senior military adviser ; three years later he took over as commandant of the notorious Balashikha , a centre on the outskirts of Moscow used for the training of international terrorists . |
| 4 | Over the porch was a wooden pointed hood with scalloped edges , to keep off the rain , presumably from the heads of visitors waiting for the door to be opened . |
| 5 | The use of the word ‘ devolved ’ is intentional since , while formalized channels of communication exist for the conveyance of policy , service implementation is often determined at local level . |
| 6 | copies of reports prepared for the purposes of the concentration and from which information has been taken for the purposes of the Form CO ; |
| 7 | 350,000 copies of Corel Draw for the PC have been sold worldwide to date and an Apple Mac version is scheduled for release later this year . |
| 8 | People strolled past without giving him a second look — couples hand in hand , families with pushchairs , groups of friends looking for a good spot to picnic . |
| 9 | Only one person remarkably said that Oxford United would win by one goal to nil , I think loads of people go for the three ones or the four ones or things like that . |
| 10 | For example , the pay schedule code contains all the rates of pay and hours of work allowed for a particular grade and will therefore act as a validation check when grade , hours and pay are entered . |
| 11 | that the hours of work required for a person to be treated as in ‘ remunerative work ’ will be reduced from not fewer than 24 to not fewer than 16 hours a week from April 1992 . |
| 12 | The arguments contained in The Case for the Oppressed Africans ( 1783 ) issued by the Friends in advocacy of abolition set useful signposts to the general lines of persuasion adopted for the following twenty years . |
| 13 | These may be for short periods of time to account for the non-matching of the firm 's payments and receipts from its business . |
| 14 | Very little food was imported up to World War I , and even after 1918 imports of foodstuffs accounted for a much smaller proportion of total imports than in some other industrial nations , particularly Britain . |
| 15 | Yet oh so many sparks of phosphorescence yearned for the potency of the denizens of that other realm , or else signalled obliviously to those creatures , blinking their little lamps — to summon the equivalent of sharks , or krakens of twisted intelligence . |
| 16 | It is disgraceful that when paper mountains of directives exist for the size and shape of fruit and vegetables , the Government has so casually signed away the plight of millions of defenceless creatures . |
| 17 | The win by Peter Crispe and navigator Tony Poole was an exceptionally popular one , the pair having been stalwarts of air racing for a long time . |
| 18 | And I anticipate new perspectives on how these connections are reflected in the lives of mothers working for the health and survival of their families . |
| 19 | The development of a GIS capable of storing and manipulating the volumes of data required for a global research programme is still some way off , but smaller GIS have been used to attempt to provide at least a beginning . |
| 20 | Maths tuition can be tailored to the needs of people budgeting for the family groceries , learning to measure and switching over to metrication or simply those wanting to be able to help their children with maths homework . |
| 21 | The private sector has , in fact , been struggling with the intricacies of inflation accounting for the last 25 years and have , by and large , abandoned the idea as being too difficult . |
| 22 | Among the pieces of evidence advanced for the traditional view , for example , are the facts that until late in the reign of Suleyman the Muftis were considerably less well-paid than the kazaskers and that the Muftis did not sit in the divan whereas the kazaskers did . |
| 23 | I hope that those pieces of correspondence supplied for the last 2 addresses are acceptable . |
| 24 | The schools may be primary , secondary intermediate , grammar or special ; membership of boards of governors differs for the different types of school , but they include representatives of parents , teachers , education and library boards , and sometimes churches ( mainly the Protestant churches ) . |
| 25 | SUPPORT for Britain 's coal industry came last night from an unexpected quarter as the right wing pressure group Aims of Industry called for a wide ranging review . |
| 26 | May we use our knowledge of history and our memories of war to strive for a world in which people live together in peace . |
| 27 | Only two developments are worthy of note , both of which serve to substantiate further the notion of the institution as formalizing and legitimizing property arrangements : first , the gradual recognition of the right to end the relationship ( with greater ease as social mobility increases and old class structures requiring protection of their pedigree collapse ) on the condition that the more vulnerable party economically be protected ; and the corollary idea that , given the possibility of separation and divorce , while the relationship subsists , certain mutual rights of support exist for the partners . |
| 28 | But they did manage to get as far as Wales , where the foothills of Snowdonia passed for the Karakoram mountains . |
| 29 | Heating water etc. to cope with large quantities of laundry made for a periodic need to bring in extra labour over that maintained in the household . |
| 30 | The Law Society and the BSI are drawing up plans which would allow firms of solicitors to apply for a kitemark . |