Example sentences of "in [noun] [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 | In Palermo , Sicily , an absolute majority was won by the DC list headed by the former mayor Leoluca Orlando ( representing the left-oriented faction of the DC ) , who until his resignation in February had for the previous 2@1/2 years headed an " anti-Mafia " coalition of the DC and the PCI . |
| 5 | The Central Statistical Office said outstanding credit in February rose for the first time in six months . |
| 6 | Classmates in Dymock voted for the three 11 year olds to represent them at the Telegraph ceremony . |
| 7 | The world champions , having wiped Ireland off their pitch , today settle down in Swansea preparing for the second leg of their tour which culminates in the 16th international between the nations at Cardiff Arms Park on November 21 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Now , is it any wonder why American businesses in Singapore have for the last 5 years registered a remarkable 25% average rate of return . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | A decree signed in October allowed for the gradual deregulation of the oil industry , whereby the exploration and exploitation of oil reserves , hitherto the sole province of Yacimientos Petrolíferos Fiscales ( YPF ) , would be open to foreign companies and all YPF oil wells would be privatized within six months . |
| 12 | He 'll be spending Winter in Australia playing for the third team of a little club called Ranwick . |
| 13 | Er and they 've now got it stashed away in in Australia waiting for the next exhibition . |
| 14 | Corporate bankruptcies in Japan fell for the second month , but were still up 7.5% in the first four months of 1993 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | She said : ‘ I think Darlington council could make some extra money by wheel-clamping cars which park illegally in spaces reserved for the disabled . ’ |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | Further withdrawals by Maronite and other candidates standing in the second round were reported , and Assad Shaftari , deputy leader of the Al-Waad party , withdrew his candidature for the seat in Beirut reserved for the Orthodox Christians . |
| 20 | Mr Frank Taylor wants Durham county police committee to agree a £259,000 increase in police spending for the financial year 1993/94 , to pay for the salaries of 20 administrative staff . |
| 21 | 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% ) . |
| 22 | Not even The Smiths , it seems , could surpass the admiration the man in shorts has for the Fab Four … |
| 23 | So , while we heartily approve of such examples as money management ( including credit use ) as an O-level subject , and encouragement to include money management and credit use in liberal-studies teaching for the over-16s , this will hardly help those who leave school early and who would profit most from wiser choice of credit . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | The experiments were performed in order to test for the following experimental hypotheses . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | 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 ) . |
| 29 | The higher the w ratio , the greater will be the demand for money in order to compensate for the limited marketability of human wealth . |
| 30 | 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 . |