Example sentences of "[noun pl] for the [adj] [noun] [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Small investors will pay less than institutions for the first instalment though how much less will not be known until June 29 after the international offer closes . |
| 2 | Mr Wigley said the company 's banking facilties are sufficient to support activities for the forseeable future while it strives to reduce debt further until rental and retail income covers interest costs and overheads . |
| 3 | Stephen Meads made it three straight wins for the English contingent when he beat Darren Webb 15-6 , 15-12 , 15-7 . |
| 4 | Stephen Meads made it three straight wins for the English contingent when he beat Darren Webb 15-6 , 15-12 , 15-7 . |
| 5 | To use the army as strike-breakers for the first time since Franco ( and Spain 's universally detested military service would have caused some intersting tests of loyalty ) would have provoked a confrontation with an unclear outcome for both sides . |
| 6 | ( Hawks wear bells for the same reason as mountain cattle — so you can hear them when you ca n't see them . ) |
| 7 | He described his proposals for the coming year as neutral because he did not want to hamper recovery . |
| 8 | Years later when I saw John Sayers of West New Houses for the last time before he unfortunately died , I mentioned that I was planning to start riding my bike again , and he was most amused . |
| 9 | Although there was no official statement concerning the content of the agenda , it was widely believed that the two sides would begin detailed discussions for the first time since the negotiations began in July 1990 . |
| 10 | Volume users should pay 30% to 40% less than on analogue cellular , lower-volume users will get three times as many minutes for the same price as cellular . |
| 11 | Wonderful Wang WORLD champion Wang Junxia fulfilled her ambition to become the first woman to run under 30 minutes for the 10,000 metres when she today slashed an astonishing 42 seconds off the world record . |
| 12 | The rapid expansion of fish farming , which has taken place predominately in Scottish waters , presents serious risks for the marine environment unless it is brought under strict control by the government , according to a report from the Worldwide Fund for Nature ( WWF ) . |
| 13 | When they went through the first gate at the bottom of the hill they were out of people 's eyes for the first time since they had met . |
| 14 | Jacko looked him in the eyes for the first time since they 'd met . |
| 15 | Its aim is to promote a reunion of Czech Jews for the first time since the war . |
| 16 | Even with such a drastic cut , we estimated our losses for the first year as being in the region of £148,000 . |
| 17 | Achieving high standards is something Eleanor is conscious of , ‘ A number of our customers are Hotel Inspectors for the Scottish Board so we are doubly aware that our standards have to be of the highest and we work very hard to achieve this . ’ |
| 18 | Several companies , such as Citroen , have started to offer diesel models for the same price as petrol-powered ones . |
| 19 | Supporters who buy season tickets before August 15 will be handed free passes for the following season if the Seasiders fail to make the play-offs or gain automatic promotion . |
| 20 | Written between 1599 and 1605 , it describes the religious exercises and prayers for the whole household as well as the private prayers and readings which occupied a large part of each day , and in which Lady Hoby was guided by her chaplain , Richard Rhodes . |
| 21 | She 's been reported missing and we 're checking her movements for the two weeks before she vanished . ’ |
| 22 | It should be kept in shoals for the best effect as it is a mid-water swimmer . |
| 23 | They are part of the Empire in name , and provide troops for the Imperial army when required . |
| 24 | It has been an exhausting three days for the Labour Whips as they trawled the corridors of the Palace to try to find people who they could wheel in to speak in this debate . |
| 25 | This wider context of the developments at university and LEA levels is necessary for an adequate understanding of the difficulties which arose in the years immediately prior to the 1939–45 war between the Cambridge Board and the District as there were serious implications for the National WEA if the District 's problems had not been resolved through protracted , patient and complex negotiations . |
| 26 | Clearly the very notion that responsibility for child development is best shared among a range of people , with stimuli for education and play , attention for health matters and so on deliberately shared between parents and professionals , has immediate implications for the public response when families encounter difficulties in child care . |
| 27 | Management offered to pay the workers for the lost days if they returned to work by Wednesday morning , but at a mass meeting on Tuesday 10 June workers voted 48 to 10 against resuming work and rejecting settlement proposals worked out between management and the union until they had seen a report from the Department of Labour Factory Inspectorate . |
| 28 | STAFF FROM P&O Shopping Centres ' Voyagers Foodcourt netted over £100 for the Guide Dogs for the Blind charity when they challenged British Aerospace to a netball match . |
| 29 | To Sara , more hard-pressed than ever at Lime Street , the intellectual and emotional sympathy binding Coleridge and Dorothy must have been both apparent and distressing , even if Dorothy , in De Quincey 's words , was a woman possessing ‘ no personal charms ’ : on only the second day of the visit Coleridge and Dorothy were occupied together correcting his poems for the new edition while Sara was left to carry the domestic burdens of the teeming cottage . |
| 30 | Another country which has weapons for the same reason as Iraq is the Arab state of Libya . |