Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] for the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I am optimistic now that we 've got a stable base for the next year , and I 'm always optimistic for the year after ! |
| 2 | Reports continued of tacit Iranian support for the Soviet Moslem republics [ see p. 38409 ] . |
| 3 | It is clear that in both Australia and New Zealand there is a continuing ferment arising from conflicting support for the old or the new . |
| 4 | The fact that several provincial towns reported pope-burnings in November 1714 and 1715 should make us question how extensive support for the Jacobite position was at this time . |
| 5 | On Feb. 27 the EC Commission agreed on its proposals for agricultural support for the 1991/92 EC agricultural year starting on April 1 . |
| 6 | While we 're on the U S , could you say on the oil services er , how much of the er , good performances do you pumps turning round and again what are the prospects of that division for the current year ? |
| 7 | Sixty-two MPs , equally divided between Christians and Muslims , have been in this Saudi resort for the past two weeks examining a ‘ National Reconciliation Charter ’ drafted by Arab League mediators as the basis for a permanent peace . |
| 8 | If payments are to be certified the builder 's surveyor may delay the issue of the documentation until the interim certificate for the main contract is received from the architect . |
| 9 | In March 1986 a BBC monitor report told of demonstrations in Tehran by students and others , ostensibly Gulf Arab nationals , protesting against Kuwaiti and Saudi support for the Iraqi war effort . |
| 10 | Dwyer , however , disagrees : ‘ Sure we have experienced an extremely demanding schedule , particularly over the past year which took in the World Cup , but this provides terrific experience for the younger players . ’ |
| 11 | Mr Cooney said the reason Northern Ireland had received only £1.04bn European funding for the next seven years , while the Republic got £7.8bn , was because the province did not have its own negotiators in Brussels . |
| 12 | They , therefore , form a smaller share of total income for the highest income group . |
| 13 | The total income for the average quarter was £50 , rising to £60 or £70 in 1939 . |
| 14 | Do you make distinct sounds for each of the vowels , or do you use pretty well one indeterminate noise for the whole lot ? |
| 15 | This has yet to receive a name and will depart from Waterloo again about lighting up time , 18.00 ish , heading for Southampton but via Andover , the Laverstock avoiding line and Romsey so that the locomotive is facing the right direction for the homeward journey . |
| 16 | That is , ’ he added morosely , ‘ until the ravens start pecking them , though they usually leave that bit for the last . |
| 17 | The Official Report will show that I said that the Government should take advice from an official of Barclays Bank because , I said , if Barclays Bank was successful with regional reorganisation , the Government should not resist regional reorganisation for the English regions . |
| 18 | Split-half reliability for the expressive scales is reported as being between 0.84 and 0.96 , while for the comprehension scales it varies between 0.60 and 0.96 on Scale A , and between 0.46 and 0.95 on Scale B |
| 19 | Bolyai University for the Hungarian minority has not been reopened . |
| 20 | Most of its 1,033 members have little sympathy for the democratic , capitalist Russia that Boris Yeltsin is trying to create . |
| 21 | He has little sympathy for the Arab nationalism that destroyed the Jews of Baghdad and the Christian Assyrians , and he quotes at length from Stephen Bloom 's ‘ almost lyrical ’ account of a Romanian childhood where Germans , Slovaks , Russians , Greeks , Turks , Armenians and Jews provided harmonious diversity . |
| 22 | The doctor had little sympathy for the Imperial . |
| 23 | His busyness in seeking profitable office suggests little sympathy for the austere ideals of ‘ Thorough ’ : a privy councillor throughout the decade , he had no scruples in gathering a clutch of reversions for his young sons Thomas and Henry ( later first Earl of St Albans , q.v. ) , which inhibited the king 's freedom of appointment in legal , financial , and administrative offices . |
| 24 | ‘ But then it was the right decision for the longer term , to bring down inflation . |
| 25 | There was another sound , too , a strange noise for the bright time of noonday . |
| 26 | He knew that a conspiracy ( exposed with the maximum publicity ) to murder the king and Parliament in one horrific holocaust would cause public opinion to recoil into solid support for the less than popular James I and himself . |
| 27 | This course is very widely available and it is pitched at the right level for the medical teacher . |
| 28 | The available reserves of its accumulated profit were reduced by workers ' demands , and by high taxation too , so that there was little money for the much-needed capital investment in new plant and machinery or for research and development . |
| 29 | In Germany , workplace representatives in this industry see themselves as part of the administrative framework for the smooth conduct of industrial relations and work within given administrative and legal constraints . |
| 30 | The research examines the relationships between objective consumer conditions , mass perceptions of the economy and levels of political support for the major political parties |