Example sentences of "for [adj] [noun pl] ['s] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Many industrialists concede that a large part of the responsibility for British companies ' lame performance must lie with management . |
| 2 | From 1913 to 1918 she was secretary of the Women 's Labour League , and strongly defended the need for separate women 's political organizations , at least until women had acquired political experience and maturity comparable with that of men . |
| 3 | A European Central Bank would operate a lender of last resort facility for individual nations ' central banks , and would aim at stability of the European economy through interlocking economic policies within the EEC . |
| 4 | He also scrapped what he called the complex existing arrangements for taxing employees ' private use of company vans , introducing a simple scale charge of £500 covering both the van and any fuel provided . |
| 5 | There is no outside view of any sort and the only time they leave the cell is for weekend visits from relatives , bi-daily showers or for 45 minutes ' daily exercise . |
| 6 | ‘ The Adventists have an agreement with the Town Hall to give each woman 100 pounds weight of donated US foods monthly , in exchange for three days ' municipal work a week . ’ |
| 7 | The Economy and Tourism Minister , Georgios Souflias , left the government for three months ' sick leave on Sept. 15 and the post was assumed on Oct. 1 by the Prime Minister , Konstantinos Mitsotakis , who appointed Efthymios Christodoulou , previously the Deputy Foreign Minister for European Community affairs , as Deputy Economy Minister . |
| 8 | A Highland pony could carry the average six foot man easily , but he would still look long legged on him even allowing for these ponies ' generous girths . |
| 9 | In time , beach reconnaissance would become a scientific study of landing areas and their immediate hinterland — the littoral across which Nigel Clogstoun-Willmott 's men would lead raiders and the van of invasions , guiding the landing craft crews with marker canoes and other devices that in part at least made up for these flotillas ' limited experience of coastal navigation . |
| 10 | Although the standards will not come into force until next year , most Japanese banks are either in breach of the Bank for International Settlements ' capital-adequecy ratios , or about to be . |
| 11 | Left-wing O'Leary , just 19 , was the surprise package when the 30-strong party was announced this week for five days ' warm weather training starting on New Year 's Eve . |
| 12 | But a major difficulty remains : SSDs will be reluctant to commit themselves to picking up the bill for several months ' residential rehabilitation for someone who may have arrived in the area the previous week . |
| 13 | The court found as a fact that a reasonable person would interpret the advertisement as offering the folding door gear as a separate item for 14 days ' free approval carriage free . |
| 14 | Every able-bodied male was liable for conscription , from the age of 17 , for two years ' full-time training in the infantry , three in the cavalry or horse artillery . |
| 15 | I liked to find my own stories — and I was just beginning to place the best of them in national papers when I was whisked off for two years ' National Service . |
| 16 | When it meets a Tit for Two Tats player , on the other hand , Tit for Two Tats 's greater forgivingness nips this recrimination in the bud . |
| 17 | ACRI and Cray will convert applications for both companies ' parallel computer systems — Cray is also designing parallel machines around the Alpha RISC . |
| 18 | Until the report was published , the question of the balance of Meehan 's compensation for seven years ' wrongful imprisonment was to remain in abeyance . |