Example sentences of "[pron] [noun] [noun pl] for [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | During July and August I propagate my strawberry plants for next year 's crops . |
| 2 | I was away from my stage roots for six years because of work in films . ’ |
| 3 | On Feb. 13 the government agreed its budget proposals for 1992 , envisaging a budgetary deficit of 9,100 million leva ( about US$515 million ) , equivalent to 4.2 per cent of GDP . |
| 4 | Releasing on Nov. 15 its budget figures for 1991 , the government stated that it planned to increase spending by 22 per cent to the equivalent of US$499,000,000 and would face a fiscal deficit of $150,000,000 , only $91,000,000 of which could be expected to be covered by future loans . |
| 5 | The significance of encouraging consumers , including government departments and public bodies , to review their contract specifications for manufactured products and to give preference to those containing recycled materials . |
| 6 | In Nigeria , so I had heard , people gave their houses numbers for aesthetic reasons , because a certain number might have a distinguished ring to it . |
| 7 | South Korean electronics companies have revised upwards their export targets for this year , encouraged by a surge in their shipments during the first quarter of this year : Samsung Electronics Co Ltd said it had raised its export target to $6,200m from its original target of $5,800m , and from $4,700m last year ; Goldstar Co Ltd said it would be able to export $3,400m this year , up from its previous target of $3,200m and the $2,570m last year ; Daewoo Electronics Co Ltd says it sees a smaller increase . |
| 8 | The company has also updated Tivoli/Works , its core applications for primary resource and security management , introduced earlier this year , to Release 1.5 . |
| 9 | ‘ Their recall systems for cervical cytology to enable GPs to carry out smears , - a major new task under new contract — are notoriously inadequate . |
| 10 | The new directors will probably be pleased to sell their incentive shares for such a quick profit , so you should only lose ten per cent of your present holding . |
| 11 | For almost a decade , the pair have kept their romance alive — he with private phone calls telling her he loved her and she with intimate presents like the pair of cuff-links engraved with the initials of Fred and Gladys , their pet names for each other . |
| 12 | Those living in mid-water or along the shores have different problems and requirements , but for them too , the acquisition of a swim-bladder has had a potent effect on structure , for it has freed their body fins for all kinds of purposes . |
| 13 | The other site has showed a commendably restrained policy in its charge levels for many years , and has been rewarded by a regular and large climbing clientele . |
| 14 | ‘ There are Americans who 'd give their eye teeth for this sort of data , ’ says one ERS project scientist at the laboratory . |
| 15 | Unveiling its price proposals for 1990-91 on Dec. 20 , 1989 , the Commission announced that it was recommending a virtual freeze of agricultural support prices , in its efforts to secure a balance between prices and supplies . |
| 16 | This project examines current practices in the firms and their policy implications for human resource managers , technologists , strategic managers and trade unions . |
| 17 | The group 's UK bankers have agreed to extend its loan facilities for another year until June 1993 . |
| 18 | Few can be relied upon for any technical back-up or support services although they can draw upon the services of their manufacturing suppliers for this purpose . |
| 19 | PORTH Group , the Christmas decorations maker , has issued a statement saying it has completed talks with its bankers , National Westminster and Societe Generale , over its bank facilities for this year . |
| 20 | The organizing Committee on Food Aid Policies and Programmes ( CFA ) heard at its meeting in December 1989 that the WFP was likely to suffer a shortfall of 500,000 tonnes in its food supplies for 1990 , owing to increased commodity prices and reductions in the pledges made by donor countries . |
| 21 | Both countries had been over-producing against their OPEC quotas for some time , helping depress prices gradually and giving rise to familiar bouts of recrimination between them and other member states with higher absorptive capacities for revenues . |
| 22 | C&P has already completed its application forms for these , which has been received by Her Majesty 's Inspectorate of Pollution [ HMIP ] . |
| 23 | As a result of that financial position , the audit of the accounts of Ferromet Resources Inc and its non-UK subsidiaries for 1991 has been suspended . |
| 24 | Yes I put out an appeal to er my readers to search their attics and their er lofts and their garden sheds for all the things they might have left over from the second World War . |
| 25 | These materials are sometimes used in combination — aluminium doors may be set in a timber sub-frame , for example , and upvc doors usually have steel reinforcement inside their box sections for extra strength . |
| 26 | These materials are sometimes used in combination — aluminium windows may be set up in timber sub-frame , for example , and upvc windows usually have steel reinforcement inside their box sections for extra strength . |
| 27 | In Florida , Miami 's POSLogic Corp is soon to announce its first product , the POSLogic 5000 Point of Sale System , which is said to be the first Unix-based system to incorporate both hardware and software as a fully integrated product , although NCR Corp , which has been slipping Unix processors in under its point-of-sale systems for several years , while making Unix invisible to the retailer , might demur . |
| 28 | ‘ Dolphins rely on their oil channels for precise echolocation but sound still impinges on all parts of their bodies with the same high energy and turns every inch into a functional sound receptor . |
| 29 | They have been issuing equity instruments ( eg , convertible bonds and warrant bonds ) on the capital markets rather than going to their bank managers for costly old-fashioned loans . |
| 30 | Scottish clubs have been ordered to re-design their goal nets for next season . |