Example sentences of "[adj] [prep] [noun pl] for " in BNC.

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1 Analyst Patrick Kirkby of Nikko Europe anticipates ‘ mild recovery ’ in UK and US beer consumption in 1993 and 1994 but is gloomier about prospects for European beer sales .
2 Six directors of a fund management company in the City of London , Mercury Asset Management received more than one million pounds ( $1,600,000 ) each as wages for their last year 's work .
3 He started afresh on this work which appeared privately in 1893 as Rules for Compositors and Readers at the University Press , Oxford .
4 The Shamir administration refrained , however , from challenging for the time being the apparent PLO involvement with the Jordanian-Palestinian delegation , nor did it decide to use this as grounds for withdrawing from the conference .
5 ‘ I just do n't hear about it at all from the sales force , ’ he said , adding that he 's heard it referred to by some as Windows for Warehouses — ‘ because it sits on shelves . ’
6 The legislature concluded that it was inconvenient for leases for the duration of the war to be void and therefore by the Validation of War-time Leases Act 1944 Parliament provided , by section 1(1) , that any agreement entered into before or after the passing of the Act which purported to grant a tenancy for the duration of the war :
7 Thereafter Hooley steered clear of companies for some time , concentrating on land deals .
8 But your ground , I imagine you 've kept it fairly cre , free of weeds for quite a
9 There was only the slightest of pauses for communal reflection before twenty-nine pairs of shoes were duly launched at the teacher in charge .
10 Widespread criticism from across the political spectrum greeted President Fernando Collor de Mello 's announcement on Aug. 22 of proposals for 44 changes to the 1988 constitution , intended to allow for measures to increase federal revenues while simultaneously cutting public spending .
11 Officials in Bucharest laugh at such a figure , but ordinary Romanians are so afraid of reprisals for even talking to foreigners that verification is impossible .
12 Lang has also played a part in the admission of rock and graffiti to the cultural fold and given a helping hand to the young unemployed with subsidies for their participation on archaeological digs .
13 That was certainly the prevalent mood when England , confident of again sorting out the beleaguered Irish , and at least making the French work for the Five Nations Cup , took the field at Lansdowne Road with a side apparently brimful with Lions for New Zealand .
14 The user image is the implementation of the user interface ; its purpose is to collect information from users and construct this into transactions for processing by the main image .
15 The butcher , who was gentle and warmhearted in spite of the cruel bloodstains on his boater , loaded her basket free with bones for the dog and offered to show her the mysteries of his store room where , shaggy with frost , the sides of meat hung in refrigerated darkness .
16 Full details of the results for the three months to 31st March 1993 with comparisons for the first quarter of 1992 are included in the Statistical Information attached to this press release .
17 By this time the families staying there for summer quarters were out for a forenoon walk : mothers , nurses , playful youngsters — some with towels for the bathing , others with picnic baskets , making for the cliffs or the shore .
18 Furthermore , the collection of the payments may itself have provided some with opportunities for profit which they were loth to abandon , and which prejudiced them against fighting .
19 In this respect contracts of sale of goods are different from contracts for the sale of land .
20 For instance , a manufacturer of fitted furniture may be interested in trends for housebuilding starts , mortgage interest rates , house price movements and localised levels of employment , since these factors will have an impact on sales of its products .
21 We are interested in tools for the classroom in five years ' time , rather than those which can be run now .
22 Yet curiously enough , he was not particularly interested in animals for their own sake , either .
23 But the FOBs have , in the past , liked their man not just because he was interested in ideas for their own sake , but because he wanted to apply them to government .
24 Eisenhower , who had become US President in January 1953 , was interested in ideas for atomic arms control but his Secretary of State , John Foster Dulles , was an uncompromising anti-Soviet .
25 Meanwhile my interest in the film industry through Hellen Semmens was not the only reason for becoming an active member of the Vancouver Film Society — I have always been interested in films for their own sake .
26 It comes and goes , and many men are free from symptoms for much of the time .
27 It is worth remembering that many contemporary historians using conventional paper archives are already very much dependent upon archivists for access to material , and for guidance in identifying and selecting sources .
28 Some Health Authorities are dependent upon agencies for providing their regular staffing requirements .
29 Answer guide : The main differences between the models is that the engineer 's model is a physical model which generates automatic responses whilst the accountant 's model is dependent upon humans for corrective responses .
30 The deaths had also recently occurred of Mrs. R.B. Heathcote , a Governor from 1949 to 1974 , who left a legacy of £500 to the School , with instructions to spend the annual income from this on books for the Library , and of Professor Sir Frederick Williams , Old Stopfordian .
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