Example sentences of "[prep] [noun pl] for [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | John Daubney is no fool and has sought the solution because he , like many others , looks for reasons for unexpected noises occurring at 3 a. m. in the morning . |
| 2 | Professional attitudes and perceptions need to change , and professional knowledge and understanding about societal and cultural matters , as well as about strategies for multicultural education , need to be increased . |
| 3 | They typically selected novel objects as referents for novel words , and appropriate referents for familiar words . |
| 4 | In classical literature , certain fairies acted as guardians for different gods . |
| 5 | Much of what was said above about contacts for clinical services also applies to GPs operating their own budgets . |
| 6 | Erm , I 'm not in a position to add anything very much to the article for next year , I spent most of Friday afternoon with the Tech last week , erm , but there 's still obviously a good deal of uncertainty about programmes for next year , erm , what I think has been very positive is that we have now er , this year for the first time since the Tech 's formation , they 've started to discuss some of the issues about the programmes with a group of providers . |
| 7 | Railway employees , or ‘ Nepo-idols ’ as they were called , queued for hours for scarce tickets for the Nepmen who tipped them for their service . |
| 8 | In the notes at the back of the book Gordon explains how he waited for hours for that one photo . |
| 9 | More to the point , they vote as proxies for private shareholders who typically deposit their shares in the bank 's custody . |
| 10 | Solar irradiance fluctuations have been proposed as a possible explanation for these discrepancies , and various solar properties ( for example , radius , smoothed sunspot number or cycle length ) have been suggested as proxies for solar irradiance variations in the absence of direct data . |
| 11 | The monkeys had to be deprived of their regular food and accustomed to the peanuts for weeks before they would take them with any readiness , let alone treat the nuts as rewards for appropriate behaviour . |
| 12 | It could be asked what is disappointing about Harlow , and I suppose that the first thing that strikes one is the design fault so far is the road work , the road network is concerned and er , and the inadequacy of the road , for roads for modern traffic . |
| 13 | We have received a request from the N.E.B. for copies for all the examiners , and we were delighted to agree , and in turn asked the executive to consider financing this , or getting the office to supply copies . |
| 14 | Adjust your times so that your ETA at the holding point coincides with a time based on your last acknowledged position report , and flight plan for times for each section of the route . |
| 15 | The mergers agreement , and progress on a range of other single market issues such as rules for public procurement , the harmonisation for testing and market veterinary medicines and the labelling of irradiated food , were seen as a triumph for the French presidency of the EC Council of Ministers which has ensured that the legislative timetable for the 1992 single market remains on course . |
| 16 | Castles were also frequently designed as houses for great lords or to be administrative and judicial centres . |
| 17 | As a capital city whose population includes , among students and more generally , a wide variety of religious , national and ethnic groups , Edinburgh can offer ethnically-based social facilities and opportunities for meetings for several forms of non-Christian religious observance . |
| 18 | As a capital city whose population includes among students and more generally , a wide variety of religious , national and ethnic groups , Edinburgh can offer ethnically-based social facilities and opportunities for meetings for several forms of non-christian religious observance . |
| 19 | Right , so the answer to my question , of I may just th th clarify this , the answer to my question is , yes that is it now , we have finished with the modernizing of the Party itself , lets forget about policies for one moment , we 'll come back to that , but we have finished with the modernizing of the Party . |
| 20 | The novel does to structuralist theories of meaning what Irigaray does to Freud 's theory of feminine sexuality : it mimics them , draws out their implications and ultimately demonstrates their limitations , using the structures they propose as metaphors for personal relations . |
| 21 | In both models , the conodonts could be interpreted as teeth For grasping prey — in fact certain conodonts are very similar to the grasping spines of living chaetognaths . |
| 22 | There is also uncertainty about proposals for easier connections at King 's Cross between Scottish trains and services in the London area . |
| 23 | David Kerslake has signed for Spurs for 1/2 Million . |
| 24 | This explanation of urban poverty in terms of ‘ perverse incentives ’ is being picked up by the right wing in Britain and used as the basis for proposals for new policies and regulations regarding unemployment benefit , income support , and housing entitlement as they apply to lone mothers . |
| 25 | The Greek minority , he said , could nominate independent candidates to stand in individual constituencies , and Greeks could also stand and be elected as deputies for other parties . |
| 26 | Bicarbonate concentration was reduced and urea , creatinine , phosphate , and urate were increased in all groups , but there were no significant differences between groups for these values . |
| 27 | On 6 December , I announced a further £7.5 million capital allocation for projects for 1992-93 . |
| 28 | It was not until 1986 , when the Helen Hamlyn Foundation staged an exhibition called ‘ New Design for Old ’ in the Boiler House at the Victoria and Albert Museum , that any major co-ordinated attempt was made to encourage designers to think about products for older people . |
| 29 | They featured ( i ) the reinstatement of the Ministry of Justice ( abolished in 1966 ) , the minister having the right to overturn court rulings ; ( ii ) the guaranteeing to defendants of the assistance on demand of a defence lawyer , including at the investigation stage ; ( iii ) a reduction in the number of capital offences from 34 to 11 ( retaining as capital offences treason , espionage , terrorism , murder and " economic crime " such as sabotage and theft of state property ) , and the exclusion of women from capital punishment ; ( iv ) clearer definition of the crime of agitation and propaganda against the state ( which was no longer to be a capital offence ) , in order to prevent its abuse by the authorities ; ( v ) the redefinition of internment and deportation as penal rather than administrative sanctions ( i.e. requiring a court ruling rather than merely a local authority order ) ; and ( vi ) the introduction of remission for prisoners for good behaviour . |
| 30 | Despite the above , the market 's view of the company remains positive : ‘ the high 5.5% dividend yield , continued commitment by top management to global leadership and … a solid backlog of consignments for 1993 ’ are all cited as reasons for inspiring confidence on the New York stock market . |