Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] [noun pl] [verb] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | The rest of the J type cars joined the four which had already been withdrawn , at Brixton Hill depôt , where they were scrapped , but the lower saloon seats retained for further use . |
| 2 | Or symbolically , if we let $ be the set of sentences in language L , C the set of possible contexts , P the set of propositions , and U the cartesian product of S x C — i.e. the set of possible combinations of members of S with members of C , and we let the corresponding lower case letters stand for elements or members of each of those sets ( i.e. s e S , c e C , p e P , u e U ) : ( 16 ) f(u) =p ( or:f ( s , c ) = p ) i.e. f is a function that assigns to utterances the propositions that express their full meaning in context Gazdar ( 1979a : 4-5 ) , on the other hand , wishes to capture the ways in which utterances change the context in which they are uttered ; he shows that Katz 's formulation is incompatible with that goal , and therefore suggests instead : ( 17 ) f(u) c ( or:f ( s , c ) c ) i.e. f is a function from utterances to contexts , namely the contexts brought about by each utterance ( or : f assigns to each sentence plus the context prior to its utterance , a second context caused by its utterance ) The idea here is that the shift from the context prior to an utterance to the context post utterance itself constitutes the communicational content of the utterance . |
| 3 | At P&G , where 25% of its 2,300 brand varieties account for only 2% of sales , old brands like Puritan cooking oil and White Cloud toilet paper are being scrapped . |
| 4 | In each case students registered for the module in the current or a future term must be counselled about and registered for viable alternative programmes . |
| 5 | The era of sealing wax and string was beginning to come to its end , although the end was far off ; in the Cavendish Laboratory under Rutherford in the 1930s the story was that research workers asking for string were made to say how many inches of it they needed . |
| 6 | The rules would normally specify that the completion accounts are to be prepared in accordance with : ( a ) generally accepted accounting practices or the statements of standard accounting practice ( SSAPs ) in order to give a true and fair view ; ( b ) the same accounting practices as used consistently in previous accounts of the business , normally over a period of several years ; ( c ) specific accounting rules legislated for in the sale agreement . |
| 7 | In the UK , progress was made on a number of transport projects including the Heston and ‘ Birmingham Box ’ schemes with further contract successes seen for 1993 . |
| 8 | British cinema licences have for most of this century prohibited the exhibition of films which are ‘ likely to encourage or incite to crime ’ , which anticipated the deprave-and-corrupt test of 1959 . |
| 9 | Measures passed in December include : a national drug company to buy from foreign companies and sell generic drugs without brand names ( at low prices ) ; a limit of three versions of any one drug to be on sale and a special tax on foreign drug firms to pay for the national company . |
| 10 | In the most serious corruption scandal to face the government of President Violeta Barrios de Chamorro , the Comptroller-General Guillermo Potoy made public on July 17 a report which accused a former deputy Minister of the Presidency , Antonio Ibarra , of misappropriating US$1,000,000 in foreign aid funds intended for the most disadvantaged sectors . |
| 11 | Daily Mail journalists voted for industrial action over plans not to recognise the National Union of Journalists in a postal ballot . |
| 12 | Milton Keynes made two more champions this week , as Britain 's top ice skaters competed for the National Title at the Bladerunner club . |
| 13 | As early as 1928 , Mary Parker Follett had suggested that different work situations called for different types of leadership . |
| 14 | They drew no distinction between what the industry needed and what it wanted , with the result that government policy was usually determined by what the foreign mining companies asked for ’ . |
| 15 | Member states were bound by article 1(1) of the Directive to ‘ grant all foreign exchange authorisations required for the conclusion or performance of transactions or for transfers between residents of member states in respect of ’ such capital movements . |
| 16 | Alan Jinkinson , the General Secretary of Britain 's biggest public services union , Nalgo , said : ‘ Singling out public sector workers to pay for his mistakes is discriminatory and unfair . |
| 17 | Farzad Bazoft , an Iranian-born freelance journalist with British residency rights working for the London-based Sunday newspaper the Observer , was hanged as a spy in Baghdad on March 15 . |
| 18 | The latest attraction , Universal Studios Florida , opened last year to rave reviews , and although it 's popular with kids it 's really one of the few theme parks built for adults . |
| 19 | In essence , practical security is concerned with preventive measures to guard against error , failure or attack , with damage limitation measures should these fail , and with adequate recovery capabilities to allow for business continuity . |
| 20 | In the light of these aims , this article attempts to cater for the interests of two types of mutually compatible readership . |
| 21 | We children gave no presents to one another or to our parents : we were content to send out a few picture cards paid for by our parents , to people who would send us cards . |
| 22 | In his third camp , Eichstatt , in spite of the crowded and stressful conditions , he managed with the help of the Red Cross and some accountant brother-officers to study for and sit his final accountancy examinations while actively preparing for his escape . |
| 23 | The Monarch , the Ensign II and the Sentinel , from Rodwell Scientific , are all space saving , top loading autoclaves designed for sterilising the wash-up area . |
| 24 | The first is that the donations that would be made would go to charitable social service agencies providing for the same groups as statutory agencies . |
| 25 | A government spokesman said that 426 of 444 Assembly deputies voted for Vo Van Kiet , 69 , a southerner with strong reformist credentials . |
| 26 | The difficulties associated with this approach include the assumption that comprehensive and detailed development plans exist for every property . |
| 27 | Books of patterns , representing the many items in each range of carpets are also compiles , along with the many different sample sizes required for display purposes . |
| 28 | International : German public service workers set for strike |
| 29 | Bargain basement Newry matched their high price rivals stride for stride . |
| 30 | Two old age pensioners waiting for a bus . |