Example sentences of "[noun] [noun sg] for the [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | President Reagan found it difficult to reduce the US budget deficit for the same reasons . |
| 2 | The journey by train from Cambridge to Lincoln was tedious , involving several changes , and on arrival I was met by the usual RAF truck for the half hour 's run into Binbrook village and from there up the steep hill to the RAF Station on its plateau above the low lying plains . |
| 3 | He thought : He has acquired the mystique of the story-teller and , glancing at the ring of fire-lit and intent faces , he was suddenly reminded of his first village school , of the children clustered round Miss Douglas at three o'clock on a Friday afternoon for the half hour of story-time , and felt a pang of pain and regret for those lost days of innocence and love . |
| 4 | Organisers of Wirral 's Initiative for Needy Children ( Winch ) are also lining up a celebrity spot-kick contest for the same day at Prenton Park . |
| 5 | It is a welcome return from the golfing wilderness for the former Durham County champion who carried hopes of a highly successful professional career when he moved to the paid ranks after gaining international honours some five years ago . |
| 6 | He uses the term reference for the latter , but as the term has become decidedly unusual for that notion ( see Lyons , 1977 , or other standard texts ) , we shall , with deference , decline to adopt his " reference-qualification " and " reference-qualifiers " , and , in general , substitute the word sense wherever he uses reference . |
| 7 | Only Ocean Spray offer you the rich , fruity Original Cranberry Sauce or Jellied Cranberry Sauce for the same delicious taste in a smooth , light jelly . |
| 8 | While Miller was preparing the Kalendar , he was told of the ‘ ungenerous intention ’ of others to use Dictionary information for the same purpose , ‘ upon which I was the more intent to have it published before such a design could be accomplished by any other hand , which was not very difficult for me to do , having a complete Diary of my own , so that I had little more to do than to transcribe my loose papers and dispose them into the method wherein they are here presented to the world . ’ |
| 9 | I was very surprised when a bloke in 1990 was asking £250 ono for the same guitar . |
| 10 | Stimuli were presented either to the right or left of a fixation point which had a digit presentation for the same duration as the sign or word stimuli . |
| 11 | With these reductions BT and Mercury are hoping to make ISDN a viable alternative to an analogue business exchange line for the many small to medium sized companies who have previously found connection charges prohibitive . |
| 12 | The overall picture which has emerged from the analyses is of more or less consistent use of the same marble quarry for the same elements of the monument , but that a variety of marble types were selected for different purposes . |
| 13 | The moves were the first steps in a longer-term support package for the former Soviet republics , estimated at US$24,000 million , which had been mapped out by the Group of Seven ( G-7 ) industrialized countries [ see p. 38888 ] . |
| 14 | Unless this provision is satisfied , any yearly interest paid by a company must be paid subject to deduction of basic rate income tax , and Target will need to comply with paras 2 to 4 of Sch 16 to the Taxes Act 1988 and account to the Revenue for the tax it is liable to withhold ; the lender will suffer the cash-flow disadvantage of receiving interest payments with tax withheld at source ( although it would be entitled to offset the withholding tax suffered against its corporation tax liability for the same accounting period under s7(2) TA 1988 ) . |
| 15 | Specifiedly general objects , such as forms and universals , by their very nature stand for the many things which are instances of them : a single particular may be in a variety of relations — most obviously causal , spatial or temporal - to others , but the nature of a ‘ standing for ’ relation is obscure . |
| 16 | As a meeting point for the many cultures that make up modern Spain , Madrid is a bustling city in the middle of the central plain known as the Meseta . |
| 17 | ASUNCION ( Efe ) — Paraguayan judges signed an extradition request for the former French information minister , Jacques Soustelle , accused of swindling £62.5m from the state-owned cement industry during the regime of the former dictator , Alfredo Stroessner . |
| 18 | Ardiles twice tried to capture the 28-year-old Northern Ireland international but has finally refused to meet County 's £200,000 valuation for the former Chelsea forward . |
| 19 | Michael Coward has become trade marketing manager for the same divisions and will eventually be responsible for Johnson Brothers ' similar activities . |
| 20 | We therefore have got to oppose rule amendment one one one A as well as oppose the Sectional and Industrial Conference Report for the same reason . |
| 21 | Since previous to the revolution the majority of women had very low levels of education and , therefore , few opportunities open to them , the FMC embarked on an educational program and a rehabilitation scheme for the many women who found themselves in degrading and unrewarding situations . |
| 22 | The 15,000 crowd at Limerick 's famed Thomond Park for the All Ireland League key match between Shannon and Garryowen was it own testimony to the grip the competition has gained on the Irish game . |
| 23 | I would recommend , nevertheless , to improve the efficiency of this part of the filter that Siporax filter material is substituted for the Hexnodes as Siporax provides a much greater surface area for the same volume . |
| 24 | He exhibits a number of adjectives which differ in precisely the way required while maintaining the same or essentially the same lexical value ( we modify his examples slightly where it is possible to do so without damage to his case , so as to make the distinction sharper ) : ( 19 ) visible stars vs stars visible the only navigable rivers vs the only rivers navigable a handy tool vs are your tools handy ? guilty people vs people guilty As it happens , the examples which Bolinger uses employ words which can make the distinction a rather subtle one , with perhaps the exception of visible stars ( a group recognized astronomically ) beside stars visible ; but it is quite easy to produce further instances which seem to confirm his view : ( 20 ) a complaining visitor vs a visitor complaining the eligible bachelor vs the bachelor eligible In other cases , the divergence of lexical value between the two positions may be greater but still with the characteristic value for the former , and the occasion value for the latter : ( 21 ) the responsible man vs the man responsible a sorry sight vs the girl is sorry He notes that the acceptability of an adjective in pre-adjunct position may apparently depend on whether or not it can be regarded as indicating a relatively enduring characteristic of what is expressed by the noun , as in : ( 22 ) the faint girl vs the girl is faint an asleep man vs a man asleep This possibility of course depends not only on the adjective itself but also on the nature of the noun being qualified , so that " when one scratches one 's head the result is not *a scratched head but when one scores a glass surface the result is a scratched surface " . |
| 25 | We can make a pretty fair guess as to how much the ship 's crew were paid on such a trip as this : a surviving Schedule ‘ A ’ Crew Agreement for the same ship four years later reveals that a seaman could expect to earn £2 per month , the cook and steward slightly more , the carpenter £5 10s. , and the first and second mates £6 and £4 10s. respectively . |
| 26 | The markets , while not identical with fields , provide a skeleton framework for the latter . |
| 27 | If you already pay your employee any money while she receives SMP , for example , occupational maternity pay , this will count towards your SMP payment for the same week . |
| 28 | For instance , in 1858 , Philpotts Mill nearby , was being run by Grist and Tabram for the manufacture of flock and shoddy , and William Grist was running Merrets Mill for the same purpose in 1863 . |
| 29 | I take the same two-hour bus and tram ride for the same old peck on the cheek . |
| 30 | Defence spending for the same years was 12.7 per cent , 24.2 per cent and 28.2 per cent respectively . |