Example sentences of "the [noun prp] for the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | In general , we have to thank the Orient for the early breeds and North America for the late ones . |
2 | Soon Vickers at Barrow was building the Hercules for the Argentinian navy and then , under licence , helping it to build the Santisima Trinidad at Rio Santiago . |
3 | Assistant Dean of the Modular Course ( new post from 1 September 1987 ) The Assistant Dean is responsible through the Dean for the day-to-day management of the Course . |
4 | No candidates were proposed by the advisory committee of the SCS for the forthcoming election . |
5 | This time , there is a break with tradition , an England A XI providing the opposition instead of the MCC for the four-day game . |
6 | To be more accurate , I had gained dispensation from the CAA to carry out test-flights for the renewal of a C of A and from the PFA for the test-flight programme of a new homebuilt aircraft . |
7 | The SSA for the social services is £68 million but the total spend is £86 million . |
8 | On 10 April it was announced that a ‘ task force ’ of 10,000 men would be assembled under the command of Rear-Admiral ‘ Sandy ’ Woodward , to sail into the South Atlantic , whatever the hazards , and recapture the Falklands for the British Commonwealth . |
9 | As requested , please find below the ISBNs for the above materials : |
10 | The SDOs for the urban development areas do likewise for urban development corporations . |
11 | The UGT on May 1 held parades and demonstrations jointly with the CCOO for the first time in many years . |
12 | But now that the human misery of the transition is over and forgotten , and now that we see modern Peterborough , we may perhaps be grateful to the Cecils for the feudal obstinacy which kept their town from growing , and preserved it for our pleasure today . |
13 | Relations between the two countries had been severely strained because of persistent allegations of support by the Solomons for the secessionist rebellion on the island of Bougainville which , although formally a part of Papua New Guinea , was geographically and ethnically closer to the Solomon Islands . |
14 | In the interests of maintaining " fair competition " between public and private providers and the efficient use of capital , a system of capital charges was introduced into the NHS for the first time , and all hospitals were made responsible for meeting the interest and depreciation costs of their existing assets and new investment . |
15 | • If you and your spouse are both being treated as in-patients by the NHS for the same road accident , this payment will be tripled to £78 for each night , again free of tax . |
16 | On Saturday lunchtime people will be standing six and seven deep here as the crews from Oxford and Cambridge take to the Thames for the 135th University Boat Race . |
17 | Strolling down the Strand towards the Savoy for the election-night bash thrown by Conrad Black , right-wing Canadian owner of the two Telegraph s and the Spectator , I meet the dark , unfathomable eyes of a woman over the top of her sleeping bag . |
18 | He had brought with him the completed manuscript of ‘ The Ancient Mariner ’ , and read it to the Wordsworths for the first time , so tradition says , in one of the Alfoxden parlours . |
19 | In fact the Eliots travelled across the Atlantic for the second time in October ; when he stopped at Chicago to give a reading on his way to St Louis , a reporter noted that he " looked rather tired and smiled in a vague , undirected way " . |
20 | The town of Cerska , near the Serbian border , has been methodically shelled by the Serbs for the past year and has , at the same time , been denied food . |
21 | Pallister will play against the Boro for the first time , on February 26 , since his headline-hitting move three years ago . |
22 | The need to tackle the budget deficit and to reduce inflation was expected to lead to tight fiscal policies , especially if the government wanted to avoid asking the IMF for the estimated requirement of $2,000 million to boost foreign exchange reserves , and instead to raise the money in the commercial market [ for March 1990 budget see pp. 37315-16 ] . |
23 | Then , if we get lucky we drive over the Luxembourg frontier into Germany , head south down the Rhine for the Black Forest . |
24 | Nature : Mondays at 8pm. 2nd , Greenpeace : Has ‘ green fatigue ’ set in , and is this the fault of the message or the messenger ? 9th , Down All the Way : More than one billion dollars is being spent developing the Alps for the coming Winter Olympics , but at what cost to the environment ? 16th , ( last in series ) : In Bangladesh , the lives of thousands of children are blighted by iodine deficiency . |
25 | Only 2,222 turned up at the Vic for the 3–1 win against Exeter on Tuesday well below the average attendance for the season , 3,500 . |
26 | Five new channels offering Digital Stereo Sound and , with the new D-Mac transmission system , improved picture quality will be available in the UK for the first time . |
27 | Unikix , the 18-month-old CICS-for-Unix product pioneered by Unicorn Systems Inc and now owned by Groupe Bull SA , is now being launched into the UK for the first time by Brentford , Middlesex-based Bull Information Systems Ltd . |
28 | We are immensely proud to be bringing it to the UK for the first time . |
29 | But if you are still in the UK for the four days from July 15–18 , put a note in your dairy to come and see us at this year 's Art in Action at Waterperry House , Wheatley in Oxfordshire . |
30 | In the UK for the same period £1,600 million was spent on drugs , 50 per cent more than was spent in 1980 . |