Example sentences of "in [noun sg] [verb] for the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I asked at the meeting of the city board and I asked on more than one occasion , and did n't get a proper answer , what the labour group intended to do with the three point two million pounds that will build up in reserve say for the next three years . |
| 2 | Equally depression of prostaglandin synthesis , by diminishing pain perception , could at least in part account for the high proportion of NSAID associated ulcers that are silent . |
| 3 | Italian maritime aircraft were soon out in force searching for the British Fleet , but not until after midday was it at last spotted . |
| 4 | To avoid some of the problems associated with such a broad range of responses it was decided to limit the potential variance in accident estimates for the following study . |
| 5 | Babies were not the only people whose rights were being demanded at the end of the Second World War ; other groups , too , submerged in anonymous poverty through years of unemployment , had in wartime received for the first time their fair share both of work and of food , and were now making it clear that neither malnutrition nor the grinding degradation of worklessness could any longer be tolerated by the ‘ lower classes ’ of the victorious nations . |
| 6 | Higher wage claims led to unit labour costs in manufacturing increasing for the first time since 1987 , while consumer price inflation increased from an annual rate of 2.1 per cent in 1989 to one of 2.5 per cent in 1990 . |
| 7 | When the NAAFI ran out of cups , the old dear was at her wits end and sent for the orderly corporal , who in turn sent for the orderly sergeant . |
| 8 | Each player in turn aims for the highlighted number — hit it and the ‘ ball ’ moves towards the opponent 's goal , one , two or three places depending on whether a single , double or treble was hit . |
| 9 | We have a steady flow of new developments in hand to compensate for the declining production from our older North Sea fields , notably Forties ( BP : 83.1% ) and Clyde ( BP : 51% ) . |
| 10 | They cover mainly the period since 1950 in order to allow for the full return to peacetime economic conditions which occurred largely during the reconstruction period after 1945 . |
| 11 | The experiments were performed in order to test for the following experimental hypotheses . |
| 12 | It is less immediately evident that such an understanding should be necessary in order to account for the formal properties of code switching , although I would argue strongly that it is , inasmuch as the extent to which switching may take place is in part a function of the extent to which the codes involved have " fused " within a community , i.e. how interchangeable they are for the different purposes of everyday interaction . |
| 13 | In the second place , some choice theorists , working within the traditions of the common law , feel compelled to acknowledge the existence of a limitation upon the enforcement of promises and agreements in order to account for the common law 's doctrine of consideration . |
| 14 | Each binding step could cause a partial opening of the channel in order to account for the different conducting states observed in patch recordings of purified IP 3 Rs ( ref. 49 ) . |
| 15 | The higher the w ratio , the greater will be the demand for money in order to compensate for the limited marketability of human wealth . |
| 16 | In order to qualify for the basic pension , men and women must either be full contributors or be credited with contributions for all of their working lives subject to a minimum of full contributions paid for twenty years . |
| 17 | In this tradition the state is perceived as the vehicle by which the unity of the nation should be achieved in order to work for the common good . |
| 18 | The notice can in fact be contained in a market counterparty terms of business letter or agreement ; this may be used in order to provide for the various commercial protections the firm may want and the material interest disclosures that may still be needed at law as a result of fiduciary obligations even if ( exactly because the market counterparty is not a customer ) they are not required by the COB Rules . |
| 19 | This , however , has been felt to be rather ironical since , although he is critical of idealism and maintains a formal commitment to empirical rationalism , it is Hobhouse who in fact calls for the greater degree of state intervention . |
| 20 | The two rooms in question can be and are still in fact used for the same purpose for which they were used prior to the erection of the staircase . |
| 21 | There has to be a substantial increase either in income tax or in VAT to pay for the Labour party 's spending plans . |
| 22 | So the new lines would each need only two workers , the increase in productivity paying for the new control system within a couple of years . |