Example sentences of "in [pron] [adj] [noun] for the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Judging by the amount of Kodak film expended by watching tourists in the seconds it took the train to cross the viaduct , I was alone in my seething contempt for the caviar wagon . |
| 2 | That is the kind of consequence to which Labour Members are characteristically blind , as they are blind in their continued support for the national statutory minimum wage . |
| 3 | All partners are unlimited in their personal liability for the debts and obligations of the firm incurred whilst a partner . |
| 4 | The towers of the cathedral did not crumble and fall , the choir in the precinct outside did not falter in their fund-raising performance for the Conservation of Rural England . |
| 5 | The infantry went to church in their new uniforms for the first time on 9 September , and had the singular honour , a month later , of joining their fellows in the cavalry who were escorting the funeral cortège of the late Earl of Cork ‘ in slow and decorous movement suitable to the solemnity of the occasion ’ . |
| 6 | I have heard many other definitions ( not all of them polite ) , but most people agree that advancement of some sort features in their long-term plans for the future . |
| 7 | Groups of morris dancers from as far afield as the Cotswolds and the Borders took to the streets in their colourful costumes for the festival procession through the town centre . |
| 8 | This will coincide with the completion of intensive redecoration of the Primate 's Palace , thus enabling the complete sequence of all six tapestries to be seen in their original setting for the first time in thirty years . |
| 9 | ‘ It 's remarkable that , in addition to playing 11 cities around the country , the educational programme played to over 5,000 kids and brought many of them to the main theatre in their local cities for the first time in their lives , on subsidised tickets . |
| 10 | In their excessive respect for the text they may fail to bring their own ideas and their own critical attention to what they are reading . |
| 11 | If they differed substantially in their subsequent support for the candidates , then we could be almost certain that the phoney poll information they were fed contributed to which candidate they supported . |
| 12 | In their enthusiastic welcome for the referendum result , Lithuanian leaders pointed out that many ethnic Poles and Russians ( who made up 20 per cent of Lithuania 's population ) must have voted for independence , contradicting Soviet allegations that Lithuania 's minorities felt persecuted and needed to be defended by Soviet troops . |
| 13 | Tumin concludes that in their enthusiastic search for the positive functions of stratification , the functionalists have tended to ignore or play down its many dysfunctions . |
| 14 | An exhausted Miranda found that instead of having more time , she had almost a full-time job keeping present and future shareholders informed and happy : she prepared official reports , gave institutional and pension-fund presentations , attended city lunches , and made time in her overfilled schedule for the financial press . |
| 15 | We may , however , dispute any implication that serious unresolved moral uncertainty is shared with the audience by the fabliau writer , without necessarily following Boutet in her ultimate respect for the authority of the conventional moral closure . |
| 16 | And of course the dreadful thought gnawing at him like a rat , that he refused to allow into his conscious mind , was the fear that she might already be complete in herself , and because of her love for her dead husband have no time for his helpless need , just as his mother had once been complete , in her sorrowful love for the stillborn Vincent who had preceded him . |
| 17 | Sylvia was an intelligent woman , quite sensible enough to realize that there was probably some reason in her early life for the current problem . |
| 18 | In its Annual Report for the year ended 31 March 1985 , the CDA recorded that whereas , in August 1980 , 305 industrial co-operatives had been identified , the number was now about 1,200 . |
| 19 | Deaf and dumb people were bitterly disappointed , and the BDDA 's reaction is summed up in its annual report for the year 1932 : No aid from the State was considered even in the most pressing of all problems , the vocational training of school leavers . |
| 20 | In its internal history for the Joint Chiefs of Staff , their secretariat give them the credit ( or blame ) for taking the first step in shifting the battle for Asia from China to Southeast Asia . |
| 21 | Betterware , which describes itself as ‘ UK 's leading housewares retailer in direct home shopping' , has included an accountant 's review report from Robson Rhodes in its interim report for the 28 weeks ended 12 September 1992 . |
| 22 | The leisure group , which has a significant holding in Rank Xerox , has included a summary unaudited balance sheet in its interim report for the first time ( the report covers the 28 weeks ended 16 May 1992 ) . |
| 23 | Transworld Communications ( operator of independent radio stations ) devotes a page to an unaudited half year summary in its interim report for the first half of 1992 . |
| 24 | Laporte ( speciality chemicals ) has incorporated a restated group p&l account plus notes in its interim report for the six months ended 3 July 1992 , on the basis that the Interox restructuring had been completed on 1 January 1992 . |
| 25 | In its interim report for the first half of 1992 , the insurance group has changed its accounting policy to reflect the total investment return — including realised and unrealised gains arising on its shareholder and general insurance funds — in its consolidated p&l account . |
| 26 | In its interim report for the first half of 1992 , the European packaging manufacturer has included the gross preference share dividends on the UK redeemable preference shares in finance charges , rather than as a distribution out of the net profits after tax and minority interests . |
| 27 | The work of his modern American successor in this field , George Peter Murdock , covers a wider range of kinship data and is generally more ambitious in scope in its systematic search for the determinants of different systems of kinship terminology . |
| 28 | In its original thinking for the clearing house scheme , announced last July , the Exchange intended that a management agreement will exist between the clearing house and itself for the use of the Exchange 's existing and projected settlement services . |
| 29 | They conclude : ‘ On the basis of our review , we are not aware of any material modifications that should be made to the interim financial information as presented , and in our opinion it has been prepared using accounting policies consistent with those adopted by the group in its statutory accounts for the year ended 31 December 1991 . ’ |
| 30 | But what we are now faced with more clearly than in his other claims for the consequences of literacy is an argument based on socially relative judgement and ideology . |