Example sentences of "[coord] [noun sg] [verb] for the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Due to the fact that the sub-contractor when paid on a piecework basis achieves a relatively high hourly rate , most sub-contractors either negotiate an equivalent daywork rate per hour or resist working on daywork and agree rates or lump sums for the particular work involved . |
| 2 | There would then be no minority interest figure in the profit and loss account for the current year , since the minority interest will also have been a debit balance last year end . |
| 3 | The monks of Battle usually ate the poorest meat from their own estates ; the best was sold to pay the recurrent costs of the abbey buildings and staff , and to run the hospital and almonry maintained for the local poor . |
| 4 | The Faverolles factory responded to this challenge and continued to break production records , while played their part with large increases in muesli , crunchy and pillow tonnages for the continental market . |
| 5 | Residential institutions lost favour and became associated with , if not blamed for , the lack of professional vision and determination to plan for the long term future of children . |
| 6 | Titanic pay increases and tax cuts for the wealthy and prosperous are of material benefit to the poor . |
| 7 | Such equipment must be capable of automatic function in the very critical period between the outbreak of fire and the arrival of the fire brigade and in the extreme case under discussion should consist of a zoned in-rack sprinkler system and a zoned system of roof ventilation , both operating on sensitive detection devices and tailor made for the individual risk they protect . |
| 8 | Hungary drops the ‘ workers ’ : Imre Karacs in Budapest looks at what a change of name and newspaper means for the Hungarian Socialist Workers Party |
| 9 | Disenfranchisement would mean upheavals for staff , start-up costs and teething troubles for the new contractor , and a danger that the service would indeed turn out to be demonstrably less popular than the old contractor 's or different from what was promised . |
| 10 | ‘ We discussed a range of topics including the under-usage of Teesside Airport , British Rail , traffic problems in Richmond and bus passes for the elderly . |
| 11 | But the depth of respect and affection felt for the late leader of the Islamic revolution does not extend to his successors , who have broken into two loose camps of so-called ‘ radicals ’ and ‘ pragmatists ’ . |