Example sentences of "[noun prp] for [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | More generally , governments in Japan , the US , and Europe have promoted and lavishly funded a number of large-scale pre-competitive research consortia ( such as the VSLI consortium , SEMATECH , MCC , ESPRIT , and others ) , and antitrust law and practice in both the US and Europe have become noticeably more lenient with the passage of the National Co-operative Research Act in 1984 and the announcement of the block exemption from Article 85 in the EEC for certain categories of R&D agreements in 1985 . |
| 2 | The English LEAs spending the most on transport were Norfolk for primary children ( 30 ) and Cornwall for secondary ( 103 ) . |
| 3 | Maybe the specific association behind each of these works , generally commissioned from Arnold for particular events or celebrations , has got in the way of their wider circulation . |
| 4 | Nor can it come from easier monetary policy because of the commitment to the existing exchange rate , combined with the fact that interest rates are being determined in Germany for German reasons . |
| 5 | The Mill was sited next to the Avon for good reasons . |
| 6 | ‘ It turned out to be extremely good for me because within twenty-four hours of leaving I was asked to go to Hollywood and prepare Scrooge for Paramount Pictures . |
| 7 | Born and bred a Land Rover , but crossed with the might and muscle of a Range Rover , it 's just the machine for enterprising City types who at the end of the week want to swap Hampstead and Fulham for ambitious adventures to the ends of Britain 's motorways . |
| 8 | Left panel : Nuclei from K562 cells were isolated and treated with 20µg/ml of DNaseI for increasing lengths of time ( t ) from 0 to 20 minutes at 37 ( indicated by a gradient above each panel ) . |
| 9 | It is of a rock type not common to the immediate area , the nearest appears to be found at Cayton and Cornelian Bays , ten miles distant , and is believed to have been brought to Rudston for religious reasons , since it was there long before the church . |
| 10 | In the face of continued violence by armed bands the Army commander , Lt.-Col. Desi Bouterse , agreed to requests from Brunswijk for direct talks and a meeting between the two was held in Paramaribo on Dec. 19 . |
| 11 | ‘ You and I are going to Los Alamos for medical tests . |
| 12 | In addition to the mobility required of them as deputies in battle for the king , they were also kept in attendance at their father 's court at Aachen for long periods of time . |
| 13 | A UK investment company sought to transfer its central management and control to offices in the Netherlands for fiscal reasons , without the consent of the Treasury , which was required under the tax legislation of the UK . |
| 14 | The children took Ben for long walks , again crossing the rape fields . |
| 15 | Embracing the traumatic years of Vietnam , Kennedy , the Beatles and Watergate , Same Time , Next Year , by Bernard Slade , is a well-crafted comedy of social change and personal discovery that I predict will take root in the West End for long months to come . |
| 16 | Messrs K. and P. Lucas for various articles . |
| 17 | He was educated at New College , Oxford , as one of a small band of mature students sponsored in 1937 by the Oxford Delegacy for Extra-mural Studies , got a soccer Blue , and became a lifelong worker for the WEA . |
| 18 | In a letter to Archbishop Aethelheard and Ceolwulf , bishop of Lindsey , written 793–6 , Charlemagne asked them to intercede with Offa for certain individuals who had gone into exile with their lord , Hringstan , who had now died . |
| 19 | ( ii ) If , as in 1.7.1 S is closed under ρ it follows that ρ\S x S is a binary operation on S. For psychological reasons and to stop pedantry getting out of hand , we replace ρ\S x S by the technically incorrect but intuitively more palatable symbol ρ and speak accordingly of ρ as being a binary operation on S. Thus for s and t in S we write sρt whether s and t are regarded as being in S or in A. |
| 20 | Do n't base long term decisions on how you feel Tuesday for passing fads and fancies give you a false impression of what you want to achieve in times to come . |
| 21 | Say , for example , they choose Friday , Saturday , Sunday , Monday and Tuesday for successive weeks and ringed them on the calendar . |
| 22 | We watched from our window as Mick Jagger gave his free concert in Hyde Park , stood on our seats at the Albert Hall for Janis Joplin 's last performance , and traipsed to Avebury and Stonehenge for equinoctial celebrations . |
| 23 | THE European Commission gave the green light yesterday in Brussels for British Airways ' takeover of Dan-Air , dismissing objections by rival carriers and the Belgian government . |
| 24 | I 'm glad you asked that erm yes we did , we did give it consideration er er we decided against it , because it would have meant er to declaring the dividend on Friday for technical reasons and announcing our results erm today and this could have been in danger of misleading er the market er because this lower results and we have an increased dividend and that was erm probably the main reason why we decided that we would n't do it er the slight increase in net dividend in fact should compensate erm and this is coincidence er er f fo for the increased A C T on the |
| 25 | After Beatrix Potter 's Mrs Tiggwinkle and er the St Bartholomew 's and St Thomas 's hospitals for humans , why not St Tiggwinkles for old hedgehogs . |
| 26 | On a visit to the USA Kohl met President Bush on Feb. 24-25 at Camp David for informal talks . |
| 27 | The Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species ( CITES ) has recommended action , possibly including trade sanctions , against China and Taiwan for illegal dealings in rhino horn and tiger products . |
| 28 | In December 1985 the long-awaited Fowler review of the State Earnings Related Pension Scheme ( SERPS ) produced only a reduction in the pension benefits rather than an abolition of the scheme ( it is worth noting , however , that the encouragement to leave SERPS for private schemes has had some success ; by mid-1989 over one million people had left ) . |
| 29 | What does seem certain is that SERPs will as a result of these changes become more of a marginal scheme , whilst the government has offered several ‘ sweeteners ’ to individuals choosing to leave SERPs for APP-type plans . |
| 30 | Green Parties in the North-East have organised a simulation exercise on Saturday for individual groups concerned with development and the global environment . |