Example sentences of "[adj] [adj] [art] [noun sg] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Stephen Ross phoned in from Cardiff , he says can Labour lower the consent for gay people if they get in ; Mike Collins from Chesterfield says he 's not had a job for 11 years , has to pay for all sorts of things , he wants some action from Labour on long-term unemployment … ’ |
| 2 | In March 1941 the Lend Lease scheme made this ideal a reality for America 's allies . |
| 3 | This concerned an application for planning permission to use premises in Eton High Street as a fish and chip restaurant . |
| 4 | Bill , I have been receiving home help , for which I 'm very grateful , a good service , but I paid four pound forty five a week for somebody to come in and just wash and dress my wife in the morning . |
| 5 | What gives what persuasiveness it has to the probabilistic idea about causation is neither such an argument for it nor the earlier diagnosis of the appeal of the opposed view about necessitation . |
| 6 | His unspoken premise was that such a space for freedom would always continue to exist ; he saw Parliament and the courts as guardians of liberty . |
| 7 | By early 1963 the stage for Doctor Who was set . |
| 8 | There is provision for overtime to cope with periods of peak demand , but with demand generally static or declining during the early 1980s the need for this has only arisen during periods of particularly hot weather ( beer sales are notoriously weather sensitive ) . |
| 9 | Initial impressions are of a heavy tool ( 5.2kg ) , thanks to the motor size , with a very solid , compact feel , although the Skil is actually not that large a machine for its capacity . |
| 10 | But it was , it was cheaper to by the artex like that cos it 's only three pound a bag look , three fifty a bag for a bag of it . |
| 11 | The husband Malcolm Humble fixed the appointment for his day off , imagining it would last half an hour . |
| 12 | Right because we 've picked that three sixty a penny for each degree makes it easy then no problem none of this messing about with fractions and all the cancelling and ooh dear , which is where all the hard part is that 's where all the hard work is this doing the fractions . |
| 13 | This left open the date for unification . |
| 14 | I do n't have that great an affection for this place but at least it 's a world I know . ’ |
| 15 | And they allowances , I think , up to another ten or eleven thousand a year for accommodation in London . |
| 16 | So all I 'm arguing is that all such a gene for penis envy would have to do would be to promote the reproductive success of the little girls who 've had it to that gene eventually to become established throughout the entire female population , just as the gene for oedipal behaviour , or phallic behaviour , would become selective in males . |
| 17 | Make clear to all concerned the penalty for breaking the contract . |
| 18 | In nineteen seventy nine the grant for trade union education stood at one point six million . |
| 19 | In the late 1960s the case for Congressional reform had gathered strength . |
| 20 | What with the new game of Guess the Election Date ( a thrill-packed pastime with no prizes ) and at long last the opportunity for change , we reflect on the last 12 years . |
| 21 | An I such a glutton for punishment that I would take on romantic love rather than follow Germaine Greer 's example and embrace ‘ hagdom ’ , as she recommends in her new book The Change ( Hamish Hamilton , £16.99 ) , and with it , a loveless old age ? |
| 22 | The princess could receive income from the Duchy of Cornwall which make about Pounds 3 million a year for Prince Charles , who voluntarily surrenders 25 per cent in tax . |
| 23 | The Greens want regional self-reliance , in agriculture as well as in other things ; a land tax applied so that ‘ in general terms , the nearer the land is to its natural state , the lower the land tax would be ’ ; energy efficiency ; population reduction through encouragement and education ( with 15–20 million the target for Britain ) ; and a sharing of ‘ the abundance which nature can provide for us all if the greedy do not take more than their fair share ’ . |
| 24 | But but when initially presented to you , here 's twenty thousand a year for doing nothing my friend . |
| 25 | It is n't working out for me , I 've been told I 've got ta increase my payments to a hundred and one pounds fifty two a week for my two children from my previous marriage , and I 've been told by Social Security that the hundred and one pound fifty two a week will take my ex-wife and her husband off income support , so I will be keeping her family and their child . |
| 26 | Resolution 44/224 stressed the need for both countries and UN bodies to strengthen international co-operation in the monitoring and anticipation of environmental emergencies and disasters . |
| 27 | ‘ I 'll pay you two fifty an hour for as many hours as you can put in these holidays . |
| 28 | The relief organisations are now preparing to house and feed a constant population of well over a hundred thousand every day for at least the next three months . |