Example sentences of "[prep] the [adj] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | NGOS governments and humanitarian assistance for the uprooted in Southern Africa |
| 2 | The Palestinians do , however , acknowledge signs of change for the better in US Jewry , Congress and the Administration , and that it is up to themselves to push them forward in much more effective ways than they have managed hitherto . |
| 3 | In the normal way , there should be some change for the better in the patient 's condition , so if weeks pass and the patient seems static , you need to know why . |
| 4 | One trusts that the desert winds blowing through Vegas this week represent the winds of change for the better in boxing . |
| 5 | Unionists of the time would scarcely have recognized the terms of the debate , for in 1922 the party was still embroiled with Ireland and the House of Lords , held a smaller share of the popular vote than ever before , and was still split as it had been since 1902 ; few Unionists would have seen the war as a turning-point for the better in the party fortunes . |
| 6 | His fortune took a turn for the better in 1968 , however , when he teamed up with Tyrell again who had entered the world of Formula One with the Matra MS10 . |
| 7 | Whilst the latest CBI survey reports a turn for the better in future business confidence amongst UK industry and commerce , this merely indicates that the rate at which businesses are failing has slowed . |
| 8 | Some felt the present arrangements to be satisfactory , believing that ‘ there had been a marked change for the better in the CNAA system over the years and felt that subject boards fulfilled a useful role ’ . |
| 9 | Given this background , the minister of posts , telecommunications and space , Paul Quiles , was treading on eggshells when he met the unions this week for the second in a series of talks concerning the reform of the country 's post office , the PTT . |
| 10 | Yesterday , the Home Secretary and I saw representatives of car manufacturers and car importers in the United Kingdom for the second in a series of meetings . |
| 11 | Now for the second in our series of reports on the RAF 's parachute display team from Brize Norton in Oxfordshire . |
| 12 | Now for the second in our series looking at life in rural England just after the Second World War . |
| 13 | Father Kleinsorge went to fetch water for the wounded in a bottle and a teapot he had borrowed . |
| 14 | Times have changed dramatically for the worse in Wales , a condition brought on as much as anything by the masochistic fixture-making which has brought about so much contact between the countries since the Welsh were blacked out in the 1987 World Cup semi-final . |
| 15 | The discussion groups ( Appendix II , section 5 ) show how easily a change for the worse in someone 's circumstances can lead to debt troubles : the man in hospital after an accident at work , who then had a breakdown , while overdue credit instalments mounted up to over £100 and led to a court summons ; the family who owed £30 a week on furniture and carpet instalments for their new flat — eventually taken to court after a series of lost jobs ; or ( Appendix III ) the previously secure young widow whose money troubles started when her husband died — although an understanding bank wrote off the outstanding balance on a car loan , a furniture firm refused to accept the reduced instalments which were all that she could afford . |
| 16 | First-time buyers — especially in the South-east — frequently borrow to the very limit of their capacity to repay , and if there is a change for the worse in their circumstances , or if interest rates rise steeply , then they may find themselves in great difficulty . |
| 17 | Archibald Geikie somehow learnt the manual alphabet , and there being no school for the deaf in Edinburgh at that time ( Braidwood 's Academy had moved to Hackney in 1783 ) , undertook the teaching of his son himself . |
| 18 | Monsignore de Haerne had previously already founded Catholic institutions for the deaf in Belgium , France and Portugal and was later to found one in India . |
| 19 | The founding , and the success , of the first five adult organisations for the deaf in Britain at Glasgow , Edinburgh , London ( St. Saviours ) , Manchester and Leeds prompted many deaf people in other parts of the country to seek the same sort of opportunities for themselves . |
| 20 | Hitherto , provision of adult deaf organisations had largely been confined to church services and other pastoral services , but in 1871 , a most important step was taken with the founding of Glasgow Deaf and Dumb Football Club , the first sports dub for the deaf in this country . |
| 21 | Momentous things were also happening socially in the North-West of England following the highly successful venture by the local society in the opening of the first social club for the deaf in the country in 1878 at Manchester . |
| 22 | In 1879 Pearce , the Owen cousins , and the Rev. Samuel Smith of St. Saviour 's Church for the Deaf in London got together and established the Winchester Diocesan Adult Deaf and Dumb Mission . |
| 23 | On occasion , however , Alexandra would sometimes get her way and drag the Prince to services at the church she favoured , St. Saviour 's Church for the Deaf in Oxford Street , where she could enjoy being in the company of other deaf people , and be able to follow the services , as she was a fluent fingerspeller . |
| 24 | He lived for most of the time at his family seat at Laxton Hall , Northamptonshire , with his wife and only daughter , and frequented St. Saviour 's Church for the Deaf in London . |
| 25 | Bromhead had been educated at the private school for the deaf in Rugby and was a fluent writer and reader of German , French and Latin . |
| 26 | On 9th June 1911 , Leo Bonn founded the National Bureau for Promoting the General Welfare of the Deaf , a cumbersome title which was quite sensibly reconstructed as the National Institute for the Deaf in 1924 . |
| 27 | Some schools , like the Northern Counties School for the Deaf in Newcastle , had a Cadet Corps movement before they changed to scouting . |
| 28 | Using a series of specially devised tests of production and comprehension it was possible to identify a pattern of sign language learning among social workers for the deaf in the UK which is different from that for second language learning . |
| 29 | Simultaneous combination of signs and speech usually confirms the dominance of the spoken language and its predominance as the target for the deaf in hearing society . |
| 30 | For example , the Abbe de l'Epee , founder of the first public school for the deaf in Paris in 1755 , was a manualist , while Samuel Heinicke , founder in 1778 of the first school in Germany of a similar type , was an oralist . |