Example sentences of "for [noun pl] [to-vb] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Protocols specified the level of " economic convergence " required for states to embark on the third and final stage of EMU . |
| 2 | Ethnographic research has special qualities suited to dealing with controversial topics in sensitive locations , for it entails a gradual and progressive contact with respondents , which is sustained over a long period , allowing a rapport to be established slowly with respondents over time , and for researchers to participate in the full range of experiences involved in the topic . |
| 3 | Last year 's activities included explanatory talks , simple construction projects , radio fox hunting , Morse instruction , radio operating with contacts as far away as Australia , USA and Japan , including opportunities for attendees to chat to the overseas operators , and experiments with a kite antenna . |
| 4 | The bill 's most contentious provision , which has polarised the profession 's two branches , sets up a framework for solicitors to appear in the higher courts , now the barrister 's preserve . |
| 5 | The bill 's most contentious provision , which has polarised the profession 's two branches , sets up a framework for solicitors to appear in the higher courts , now the preserve of barristers . |
| 6 | Figure 6.6b shows us the possible routes for trajectories to pass through the four shaded areas . |
| 7 | He knew all about gossip and calumny , having tried for months to cope with the shifty Hoornik family . |
| 8 | The novels enjoyed a limited success , but because most novelists were concerned at the time to redefine the relation of the individual to society in terms of changing values , it was all too easy for readers to focus on the social dimension of Brooke-Rose 's fiction and to overlook those aspects which can in retrospect be seen to prefigure the problems and techniques of her later work . |
| 9 | Detectives seized eight kilos of coca leaves , the base for cocaine , which were to have been handed out for visitors to chew at the Bolivian Pavilion . |
| 10 | Also , before the 1991 Budget , the tax benefit was simply not a big enough incentive , and it has taken time for companies to respond to the new , more generous tax environment . |
| 11 | The binary policy was perhaps a product of the search for power by the DES and the LEAs , but partly also a result ‘ of mistaken conceptions of what is appropriate for universities to do in the modern age ’ . |
| 12 | Japan risks remaining saddled for years to come with the primitive financial sector that created the domestic boom and bust of the late-1980s . |
| 13 | In a world of perfect competition it would not be possible for managers to deviate from the profit-maximization norm for any length of time even if they were tempted to pursue their own rather than the shareholders ' interests . |
| 14 | With massive organisational changes in health and social services , came the consultants armed with games and simulations for managers to play to the new ground rules of collaboration . |
| 15 | Its significance for social policies , however , was that it created a platform for changes to occur in the 1940s , changes that secured very widespread social and political acceptance . |
| 16 | There is a further incentive for firms to break into the robust French economy , which has a GDP 15 per cent greater than the UK 's despite a slightly smaller population , since it still enjoys a substantial trade surplus . |
| 17 | This total was boosted to almost £200 by staff at the town 's Asda store where teachers shopped for goods to send to the Russian town . |
| 18 | A study 's to be carried out to see whether it 's feasible for trains to travel along the Great Western line at a hundred and fifty miles an hour . |
| 19 | It was possible for yeniçeri to rise to the highest offices in the state . |
| 20 | We are particularly grateful to members of the undergraduate years 1965 , who responded to the Librarian 's appeal for items to display at the Gaudy in June , and to Nina Bawden ( Mabey , 1943 ) who has supplied us with a complete set of her novels . |
| 21 | The prognosis was for Rangers to qualify for the European Cup , Celtic for the Cup-Winners ' Cup ( having beaten Rangers in the semi-final , of course , then prevailed in the final ) , Hearts for a place in the UEFA Cup for finishing second in their Premier Division and Hibs as Skol League Cup winners , joining them . |
| 22 | This , in turn , will make it harder for diggers to profit from the crude — and illegal — looting of ancient sites . |
| 23 | The important point to note about the current approach is that the existence of the substantive law , and the penalties imposed in the event of breach and detection , provide an important incentive for players to abide by the self-regulatory and quasi-statutory controls , which generally carry lighter penalties . |
| 24 | It is a sign that Leapor 's reputation has reached something of a plateau , that it is possible for scholars to disagree about the correct reading of her work . |
| 25 | In the case of an inflected language or one with many and various verb-forms , it has been almost impossible for teachers to adapt to the new methods . |
| 26 | erm the west bank option for widen worsen road to be abandoned , that I quite agree with and design on , and then follow that , I 'd like erm do environmental report for members to be or for members to look at the environmental report before it comes here . |
| 27 | But there will be an opportunity for members to look at the present programme which will need pruning to get it down to those guidelines , and they can obviously make any comments they wish to , or any advice they wish to give the P A G in terms of individual schemes or the detail . |
| 28 | In view of this , it should be perequisite for users to decide on the social/human and technical objectives before approaching the information centre . |
| 29 | It is too easy then for children to put off the evil day when they have to get down to work . |
| 30 | This was whether they should present themselves to the voters as a continuation of the Thatcher governments ; or claim that the election of John Major represented such a fundamental break with what had gone before that there was no need for voters to respond to the classical call of opposition on such occasions : ‘ Time for a change . ’ |