Example sentences of "[adj] [prep] [noun pl] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 : |
| 2 | Thereafter Hooley steered clear of companies for some time , concentrating on land deals . |
| 3 | But your ground , I imagine you 've kept it fairly cre , free of weeds for quite a |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | In this respect contracts of sale of goods are different from contracts for the sale of land . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | We are interested in tools for the classroom in five years ' time , rather than those which can be run now . |
| 11 | Yet curiously enough , he was not particularly interested in animals for their own sake , either . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | It comes and goes , and many men are free from symptoms for much of the time . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Some Health Authorities are dependent upon agencies for providing their regular staffing requirements . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | Germany is at last waking up to the what has been clear to outsiders for the past year or so , that there is going to be no quick fix to the recession it is facing and that it will be long and grinding : this week the BDI industrial federation admitted that the downturn could develop into Germany 's worst recession since the end of World War II , saying that the western German economy will continue to decline , and the fall will be deeper than previously thought , so that in important sectors such as the capital goods industry the downturn will represent a new post-war record ; the body blames weak foreign demand for German goods , the now over-valued mark and rising costs for German industry and now admits it is the result of structural problems that will have long-term economic effects . |
| 20 | Salmond has since shown himself responsive to calls for cross-party unity among the opposition , but Brian Wilson ( ‘ The Union strikes back ’ , 24 April ) seems still to be revelling in partisan spite . |
| 21 | One original assumption here was that legislators are more responsive to demands for expenditure than to public concern for tax levels . |
| 22 | He failed always to understand that there was a large area of common ground in British public opinion on India which consisted in the belief that , with a few adjustments , British rule could be made , and remain , acceptable to Indians for ever , and that differences of opinion were to a considerable extent about how this was to be done . |
| 23 | During prenatal existence , a safe environment is provided by the mother 's uterus but , from the moment of birth , a baby becomes instantly exposed to all the hazards in the external environment and is totally dependent on adults for the provision of a safe environment in which to thrive and survive . |
| 24 | Young children are also to a very great extent dependent on adults for their safety . |
| 25 | AN IDEOLOGUE dependent on others for ideas and a power broker with no real authority of his own , Chen Boda became one of China 's most feared and then reviled political hatchet men thanks to one all-important trait — his unflinching loyalty to Mao Tse-tung . |
| 26 | Without question , babies are totally dependent on others for the maintenance of a safe environment and require to be protected from accidents , fire , infection and pollution . |
| 27 | The young are certainly dependent on others for the AL of communicating and likewise , sometimes , the elderly . |
| 28 | You must avoid being manipulated by other people or letting yourself become too dependent on others for your financial security . |
| 29 | Children are dependent on others for their very survival , and the quality of the care they receive , physically and emotionally , will go far to determine the sort of adults they will grow up into . |
| 30 | It would , therefore , be instructive to classify the nations of the world in terms of their oil and cereal resources , as measured by the degree to which they are self-sufficient or seriously dependent on others for their supplies . |