Example sentences of "the [noun pl] for the [adj] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So much so that , although it had not been mentioned at all in the advance publicity , it was given no fewer than 87 times that season and remained in the programmes for the next six seasons , by which time the company had danced it more often than any other work in their repertory except Les Sylphides and two of Ashton 's ballets , Façade and Les Rendezvous . |
| 2 | They helped to bring about a severe crisis of authority at the end of Alexander 's reign , they laid the foundations for the major radical parties of the twentieth century , including the Bolshevik Party , and they provided the country 's leadership in the early Soviet period . |
| 3 | It was with this in mind that a unanimous Parliament supported not a conspiracy of Tory landowners , but Attlee 's postwar Labour Government in passing the 1947 Agriculture Act , which laid the foundations for the great agricultural revolution of our times . |
| 4 | The principal fears engendered by what has been called the revolution in reproduction are created by ignorance ; and as George Corner , who helped to lay the foundations for the new reproductive technology , foresaw , lack of understanding leads to fears , inhibitions and blind taboos . |
| 5 | ROBERT BRUCE RONALD ( 1831–1907 ) went to Australia in 1852 as a clerk in a woolbroker 's office and , later , laid the foundations for the Australian Mercantile Land and Finance Company , still one of the country 's leading financial institutions . |
| 6 | The Miseroni were called to Prague to set up a workshop for crystal carving and gem cutting , and they laid the foundations for the Bohemian cut-glass industry . |
| 7 | Under the proposals for the new General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade ( GATT ) , genetically-engineered plant varieties are to be protected by patents or similar legislation . |
| 8 | Yet the proposals for the 12 major development opportunities still include large numbers of parking spaces , and one wonders how this can be compatible with the strategic aims . |
| 9 | What could be the rules for the necessary associative learning processes ? |
| 10 | Furthermore , could not the very reproduction of the species itself be regarded as depending on a form of memory — genetic memory , the apparent capacity of the DNA , transmitted between parent and offspring , to carry the rules for the future accurate development of the new organism ? |
| 11 | We are currently investigating the reasons for the apparent localized , enhanced Fe(III) reduction by Desulfovibrio in the zone of the concretions . |
| 12 | You know I mean we , we look , I mean it 's inter one of the reasons for the nineteen seventy two reform you know one of , one of the er factors in it was to attempt to raise levels of participation in local government by making it more understandable . |
| 13 | There have been several attempts to explain the reasons for the strong seismic reflections from such zones . |
| 14 | Coopers & Lybrand 's insolvency team has analysed the reasons for the many unnecessary corporate failures it has recently dealt with . |
| 15 | The optimist would point out that the aggregate attendance for the two Tests so far — 31,310 — compares very favourably with the aggregates for the first two Tests of 1980 ( 17,977 ) , and 1985 ( 28,097 ) . |
| 16 | The agendas for the above 3 meetings will be issued in due course , but it is not intended that the reports should be circulated again ; spare copies of the reports are available for members , by telephoning me at the undernoted extension . |
| 17 | For the range of subjects available , please see the entries for the four other degree courses of the Faculty — Design , Fine Art , Fine Craft Design , and Textiles and Fashion Design . |
| 18 | Austin McHale , Fisher 's main challenger for the Tarmac crown until he was forced out of the Ulster Rally , hinted that he might not appear again this season and , of course , is not listed among the entries for the Manx International in 10 days time . |
| 19 | It looks as if he tore out the entries for the last two months and burned those pages separately , then chucked the book open on the flames . |
| 20 | But it was part of a performance by one of the contenders for the Ninth National Review of Live Art . |
| 21 | The finalists for the enormous 10-year facilities management contract on offer from the UK Inland Revenue tax-gathering authority are Computer Sciences Corp with IBM UK Ltd and Electronic Data Systems Corp with its UK subsidiary Scicon Ltd : final award is expected to be made in October , and work on the contract will begin in January 1994 . |
| 22 | They 're only in the shops for the next few weeks , so do try one now . |
| 23 | TO RAISE THE FUNDS FOR THE NEXT MILLION TREES TO BE PLANTED AT SHONE . |
| 24 | A week after Chapman 's resignation George Cripps also left the club , after handing over the books for the previous two years to Mr J. W. Bromley , a former director . |
| 25 | THE film made me laugh and I really loved it when Kevin set the traps for the two bad men . |
| 26 | That brand of it is an offshoot of the United States v Europe confrontation which has been fuelled by the Ryder Cup and spilled over now into major championships , potentially the more so at the Masters where the winners for the past four years have been British . |
| 27 | These convergences will thus provide the sites for the divergent longshore currents required to initiate the cell circulation pattern . |
| 28 | I 've been bowling in the nets for the last two weeks . |
| 29 | I had run in the trials for the European Junior Championships and finished fifth in the 100 metres in 10.6 seconds , wind assisted . |
| 30 | Helped by eminent scientists , Bate worked continually to improve the hydrometers and his skills were acknowledged when he was asked to make the models for the new standard weights and measures of capacity enacted by Parliament in 1825 to replace existing ancient local measures . |