Example sentences of "[noun pl] for a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | These 11 large folio books , designated ‘ The Lawrence Notebooks ’ , were compiled over 30 years from the 1890s and contain detailed notes for a comprehensive history of stage scenery and technical appliances , together with lives of the most prominent scenic artists . |
| 2 | These artistic predilections went hand in hand with a marked interest in aesthetic theory His notebooks of 1862-for instance , contain comments under the heading " On the Essence of Music " , which are probably notes for a two-part Germania essay on " The Demonic in Music " , and , again , a set of Emersonian reflection on Nature , beauty and art . |
| 3 | NOTES FOR A LITTLE PLAY |
| 4 | At first the spy thought he had stumbled on something worth investigating : Wordsworth carried a telescope , and Coleridge was surveying the river ( he was in fact making notes for a projected long poem , The Brook ) ; furthermore , Coleridge 's oft-repeated references to ‘ Spy Nosy ’ were assumed by the Home Office spy to be aimed at him personally — he had presumably never heard of Spinoza , the philosopher of the moment . |
| 5 | A teacher from an urban school , discussing the reasons for a recent teachers ' strike , said that not only were salaries low when the amount of time worked outside classroom hours was taken into account , but also teachers often had to pay for classroom materials out of their own pockets , if they wanted to have any . |
| 6 | Managers say that prudent lending and a close knowledge of local people are the reasons for a 34 per cent leap in net profits . |
| 7 | They consulted the archbishop or archbishops , took their advice , did not persist if the archbishop brought good reasons for a contrary opinion , and did not allow their ‘ patronage secretary ’ any ‘ independent ’ authority . |
| 8 | These are four reasons for a centrally-controlled curriculum given by officials of the textbook board in Islamabad ( Pakistan ) . |
| 9 | And this is one of the reasons for a fundamental element in the Benedictine tradition : the independence of each abbey from every other : an independence only mitigated in early days by the right of the bishop to visit — where the monastery had not asserted a right to be exempt from the bishop — and , from the thirteenth century on , by the formation of congregations of houses to establish some kind of common action , control and system of visitation . |
| 10 | The prosecutor wanted the trial to resume on October the thirtieth , but the magistrate accepted Mrs Mandela 's lawyer , Ishmael Eyob 's reasons for a later trial date . |
| 11 | The reasons for a Third American Revolution have not gone away . |
| 12 | There can be a number of reasons for a slow response . |
| 13 | Call for new inquiry into plane disaster : Marc Champion in Washington explains why some investigators suspect the US and Canadian governments hushed up the reasons for a 1985 plane crash |
| 14 | SWINGEING UK premium hikes were one of the major reasons for a dramatic profits turnround by insurance giant Commercial Union in the third quarter of 1992 . |
| 15 | But there are good reasons for a principled limitation to linguistic contexts : first , the relation between a lexical item and extralinguistic contexts is often crucially mediated by the purely linguistic contexts ( consider the possible relations between horse and the extra-linguistic situation in That 's a horse and There are no horses here ) ; second , any aspect of an extra-linguistic context can in principle be mirrored linguistically ; and , third , linguistic context is more easily controlled and manipulated . |
| 16 | Conversely , whilst there may in a few cases be valid reasons for a high quality paper not being submitted to such journals , it could be argued that in some cases publication outside the core represents a negative value judgement on the quality of that research . |
| 17 | Conversely , whilst there may in a few cases be valid reasons for a high quality paper not being submitted to such journals , it could be argued that in some cases publication outside the core represents a negative value judgement on the quality of that research . |
| 18 | The men were taken into a tent and allowed to look at a group of objects for a short period after which they had to recall every detail they had observed . |
| 19 | He was immediately seized and thrown into prison , where he remained in chains for a further seventeen years , finally falling sick and dying before a suddenly contrite Alfonso could order his chains removed . |
| 20 | In May the men of Devon agreed to pay the enormous fine of 5,000 marks for the disafforestment of their county outside the bounds of Dartmoor and Exmoor Forests , and the men of ‘ Hertfordlythe ’ ( Hartforth ) in North Yorkshire owed 100 marks and two palfreys for a similar charter in respect of their forest . |
| 21 | Consequently , in contrast to the single set of accounts for a profit-oriented organization , the non-profit organization needs a series of accounts for each service . |
| 22 | The Secretary-General is appointed by the Council by a two-thirds majority of the member states for a five-year term . |
| 23 | Passive nonlinear resonator theory , described by equations ( 7.5 ) with C> 0 and thus y 0 , was originally developed in the context of optical bistability ( OB ) : I x in the state equation ( 7.6 ) can clearly be a multivalued function of y , which corresponds to an optical device that can have two or more transmission states for a single-input field , and can thus act as an optical memory device ( Fig. 7.2 ) . |
| 24 | If not , the proposal would then be put to the Council of eleven member states for a qualified majority vote . |
| 25 | * Free of all personal taxes for a basic rate income taxpayer . |
| 26 | Even if indirect taxes do impose smaller administrative costs than direct taxes for a given revenue yield , not too much should be made of this . |
| 27 | Traders at Goldmans Sachs new London headquarters need no longer leave their desks for a minute thanks to a new system devised by CCG . |
| 28 | In Fontanellato , as in many other villages in Italy , there were professional embroiderers who made a living by embroidering sheets , tablecloths , and nightdresses for brides ' trousseaux , and also taught a few girls their skills for a small fee . |
| 29 | Training is seen as the acquisition of knowledge and skills for a specific purpose . |
| 30 | Hooper is both a gifted photographer , and a craftsman of the written word — not necessarily common skills for a former professional parachutist with more than 3,000 jumps under his belt . |