Example sentences of "[pron] [art] [adj] [noun] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Give me the right details for contacting your radio people at this end and I 'll be in touch before you know it . ’ |
| 2 | And they 'll have my old one in and give me the extra bread for it . |
| 3 | Quite unwittingly you played right into my hands that night , Aurora — I knew you had n't been taking drugs , but it gave me the perfect excuse for sticking around . |
| 4 | ‘ I enjoy using the Schut paper because the variety of weights and textures gives me the perfect surface for my work , from very detailed illustrations to the more spontaneous watercolours . ’ |
| 5 | could somebody send me the current squad for this season & also the fixture list . |
| 6 | He 'd tried , the first year , rooming with the others , and had found they still came up to him all the time with their queries — ‘ They 've sent me the wrong costume for Gypsy Baron . |
| 7 | Now you 've given me the same answer for two different inputs , but that 's okay . |
| 8 | Thank you for sending me the closing statement for the above account . |
| 9 | ‘ Well ’ , said Mr Murray , ‘ about this broadcast ; will you get me the Indian name for this city ? |
| 10 | You could have a family of maybe erm an older carer with a mentally handicapped son or daughter who receives various allowances , but whom the total income for that family is such that it is so low because of special circumstances , maybe the mother has to have special heating , or special diets , or whatever , as to be logical that we waive some or all of the charge . |
| 11 | Second , the cause of the problem has been clearly identified as nomads and graziers who are politically very weak , and who have had much of their livelihood taken away and upon whom the heaviest penalties for ‘ trespassing ’ on forest schemes fall — in the same way as in the days of the Emergency , when aggressive family planning ‘ drives ’ herded vagrants , petty thieves and other vulnerable groups into camps for more or less forcible vasectomy . |
| 12 | All my young ferrets get a similar introduction to give them the necessary experience for bigger operations within major burrow systems . |
| 13 | In the seminary library he came across the works of the medieval Franciscan theologian Duns Scotus [ q.v. ] , and almost instantly recognized in them the philosophical backing for his own instinctive perception of the uniqueness of each being and created thing . |
| 14 | we 'll phone Chris and Keith and ask them the best time for us to go when the kids are not there , and she 'll tell us |
| 15 | But perhaps I shall be able to show them the best places for picnics and things like that . ’ |
| 16 | But a draw against Midlands on Saturday would hand them the Divisional Championship for the first time . |
| 17 | And over the past eighteen months several agencies , among them the International Fund for Ireland and LEDU , have begun to have a presence in the most economically underdeveloped areas and to make claims about how they are targeting resources on places like West Belfast . |
| 18 | Such altered viruses can transduce non-replicating cells , including differentiated epithelial cells of the respiratory tract and elsewhere , and this has made them the chosen vectors for genetic therapy of cystic fibrosis . |
| 19 | He paid £2.39 for each share and sold 3.4 million of them the same day for £26 apiece , walking away with £82.5 million in cash and two million shares still in his possesion . |
| 20 | The chief executive or clerk of a local authority is always anxious to assist members by giving and obtaining for them the fullest information for their work . |
| 21 | Of all the vegetables available , potatoes are , without doubt , the most versatile and this , coupled with their nutritional value , makes them the obvious choice for inclusion in a range of appetising dishes . |
| 22 | When Italo started making big fish fingers in the chip shop he called them ‘ fingeronis ’ — giving them the Italian ending for ‘ big ’ . |
| 23 | ‘ We set ourselves the 30,000 target for our 21st birthday — March 1992 , ’ John said . |
| 24 | The more fully we have developed ourselves the more cause for such gratitude we will have , and the more we understand the cosmos , particularly by grasping the true nature of detailed parts of it and their place in the total scheme , the more we will appreciate the sheer wonderfulness of it , and arrive at a kind of mystical adoration of it . |
| 25 | The need for compromise is illustrated by the way in which the present criterion for appointment to the duty solicitor rota is operated . |
| 26 | The Society has for over a year objected strongly to the plan under which the current arrangements for remunerating solicitors on the basis of work actually done are to be replaced by a standard fee scheme from April . |
| 27 | ‘ A system owned by the Area Organiser ( O ) — ( ie the Social Services officer responsible for the area , using the ownership hierarchy theory explained in Chapter 5 ) , operated by officers and staff of the EPH , other designated Social Services officers , associated staff of the District Health Authority , relatives and friends of clients ( A ) , which uses given resources to provide a congenial dwelling place for referred elderly people ( C ) , within which the individual needs for physical and emotional support are determined and met ( T ) . |
| 28 | But on the other hand , our large houses , our separate bedrooms , our greater education , make us … more particular in our ways than you — make us feel the importance of little things , little decent ways , little safeguards , and the little constant watchfulnesses in bringing up our children , which the terrible struggle for existence and the pressure of space but too often make you forget and grow careless about . |
| 29 | Paul Girouard in The Return to Camelot pointed out that the chivalric code of conduct ‘ never recovered from the Great War partly because the War itself was such a shattering of illusions , partly because it helped to produce a world in which the necessary conditions for chivalry were increasingly absent ’ and that the absence of so many men at the Front ‘ had put women in a position of responsibility which made many of them distrust chivalry as a form of concealed slavery ’ . |
| 30 | If , however , there was any way in which the necessary conditions for cumulative selection could have been set up by the blind forces of nature , strange and wonderful might have been the consequences . |