Example sentences of "in [pron] [adj] [noun sg] for [art] " 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 | In their joint call for an end to violence in Ireland , Cardinals Daly and Hume said the IRA 's actions were totally incompatible with the teachings of the Catholic Church . |
3 | 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 . |
4 | All partners are unlimited in their personal liability for the debts and obligations of the firm incurred whilst a partner . |
5 | 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 . |
6 | If payable it will be assessed on the difference between the purchase price of the new house if this is of an appropriate category and the estimated ( lower ) price they would have paid in their existing location for a broadly equivalent house . |
7 | I 'M normally very cautious about participating in moral crusades , especially when they are orchestrated by newspapers in their eternal quest for a good story that will run and run . |
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 | 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 . |
10 | 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 . |
11 | I fret often for the days when I lived and worked in the countryside , but one sad sight used to be that of herds of demented idiots vandalising the scenery and terrorising nature in their delirious lust for an innocent animal 's life . |
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 | ‘ I promise you that we will have a long talk — and sort out everything between us , once and for all , ’ he murmured , burying his face in her blonde hair for a moment , before raising himself up on an elbow to gaze down at her lovely face . |
19 | She was in great good health and has traded in her Persian lamb for an ermine and almost pirouetted in it when admired . |
20 | He was also largely responsible for rewriting Davis 's Handbook of Chemical Engineering in its two-volume format for a second edition . |
21 | Quality improvement , as a concept and as a reality , has been around in its present form for a number of decades . |
22 | 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 . |
23 | 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 . |
24 | 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 . |
25 | 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 . |
26 | 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 ) . |
27 | 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 . |
28 | 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 . |
29 | 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 . |
30 | 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 . |