Example sentences of "that [noun sg] for [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | While we 're on the U S , could you say on the oil services er , how much of the er , good performances do you pumps turning round and again what are the prospects of that division for the current year ? |
| 2 | Masked by the cold war , it has in practice fulfilled that function for a long time . |
| 3 | The Secretary of State is not required to entertain an appeal if it appears to him that permission for the proposed development could not have been granted by the local planning authority , or could not have been so granted otherwise than subject to the conditions imposed by them , having regard to the statutory requirements to the provisions of the development order , and to any directions given under the order . |
| 4 | Throughout England there are projects nationwide , they need practical support , counselling , and specialist treatment , but above all there are sixteen thousand children a year that hope for a better future . |
| 5 | there 's been a lot of people that have been on that level for a long while . |
| 6 | Planting in 1988 came within 15 per cent of the national target , but has fallen now to one-third of that level for the same cost to the taxpayer as in 1988 . |
| 7 | At this time , some ozone-depleted air may drift out from the hole , passing over Australia and New Zealand and exposing that continent for a short period to increased ultraviolet radiation penetrating through the thinned ozone layer . |
| 8 | I stood in front of that fence for a long time , trying to reconstruct the presence of that massive Victorian red sandstone building in which I had spent nearly five sevenths of my life for thirty years . |
| 9 | Compagnie des Machines Bull SA , facing probably the biggest crisis in its history now that it is confronted with an administration not prepared to pour ever more good taxpayers ' money after bad ( CI No 2,166 ) , yesterday reported that turnover for the first quarter of the year crashed by 10.6% , to the equivalent of $943m ; sales slumped 16.5% to $422m and rentals and services fell 5.1% to $521m . |
| 10 | And now facing probably the biggest crisis in its history , Bull last week reported that turnover for the first quarter of the year crashed by 10.6% , to the equivalent of $943m . |
| 11 | He saved that humiliation for the third round , when he knocked Tommy out with an uppercut that the lad from Poplar never saw . |
| 12 | So we 've had that law for a long time . |
| 13 | In April of the same year it was clear from the interim report of the committee that recommendations would be proposed whereby building development would be controlled throughout the country and that compensation for the public acquisition of land would be set at the standard of 31 March 1939 . |
| 14 | For , by definition , the systematic element in aggregate demand can be predicted at the end of period t - 1 and will be reflected purely in the prices firms set at the end of that period for the next period . |
| 15 | She remembered shopping with her father in that shop for a twenty-first birthday present . |
| 16 | I had been preparing myself for that moment for a long time , he typed , as Harsnet had written . |
| 17 | That is why , wrote Harsnet , I have been preparing myself for that moment for a long time , that is why I have cleared the decks and prepared the ground , because unless the decks are cleared and the g round prepared there is little hope of succeeding in what one has planned to do , little hope of achieving anything of lasting value , though lasting is a relative term and so is value and whatever it is one has planned to do is certain to be altered in the process , which does not of course mean , he wrote , that one can start anywhere at any time . |
| 18 | Some hardline elements , particularly in the army , were openly critical of the Soviet stance , and as the air war continued to inflict massive damage indignant calls were heard from that quarter for the Soviet Union to support Iraq under the terms of a 1972 treaty pledging co-operation in fighting " imperialism and Zionism " . |
| 19 | Having listened to most of that stuff for the first time in seven years yesterday , most of it is pretty embarrassing . |
| 20 | The theory is that development for a Third World country is not possible within the orbit of capitalist imperialism , a dependency theory of the type discussed in Chapter 2 ; while the experience is that FDI has often led to some ‘ development ’ , apparently for the benefit of all . |
| 21 | Members of the World Sephardi foundation were arriving in Ankara on that day for a two-day visit in commemoration of the 500th anniversary of the Jews ' arrival in Istanbul [ see p. 38823 for commemoration of expulsion of Jews from Spain ] . |
| 22 | On Dec. 23 two Palestinians were shot dead and more than 40 injured during fresh unrest in the Gaza Strip , the borders of which had been opened that day for the first time since the abduction of Toledano . |
| 23 | And the massive Independent Television outside broadcast unit ensemble helped to make it a busy day at Horsted Keynes with the Bluebell already geared up that day for the official launch of the Southern Q1 they have restored on behalf of the National Railway Museum . |
| 24 | Mac , who gained her fourth win of the week with Everest Gringo on Saturday afternoon , was chosen earlier that day for the British team that will compete on the American Fall Circuit which begins later this month . |
| 25 | Perhaps that role for the Scottish TUCC is being rejected because on many occasions it has been reactive rather than taking the initiative . |
| 26 | However much he refuses to shy away from the hopeless , endless horror of what he sees , he can not give up that quest for the perfect paradise . |
| 27 | By the spring of 1940 , the Communists had tacitly accepted that agitation for an immediate peace with Hitler was out of the question . |
| 28 | The house was insured for £64,000 , although it transpired that insurance for a completed house and contents had been issued , and the house was not in fact covered . |
| 29 | It is believed , as already mentioned , that one of the greatest pleasures for a child comes from the security it feels when it knows that it is loved , and it is the ability to withhold manifestations of that love for a little while , or threaten so to do , that provides a non-violent means of securing acquiescence when it is required . |
| 30 | At the same election the Republicans gained twelve seats in the Senate and won control of that chamber for the first time in twenty-five years . |