Example sentences of "[adj] [noun pl] [verb] for [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mr Karel Van Miert , the Transport Commissioner , is asking member governments to approve a plan which would leave passenger services largely in the hands of state-owned monopolies but open up freight services to competition by permitting private operators to pay for the use of publicly-owned tracks . |
| 2 | PAKISTANI authorities have for the first time begun arresting farmers in the North West Frontier Province who have been found planting opium for next year 's harvest . |
| 3 | The five CODESA working groups met for the first time on Jan. 20 in Johannesburg . |
| 4 | One of the possible reasons suggested for the relationship between risk and recall in Study 1 was that performing risk-related judgment tasks while driving had made that information particularly memorable . |
| 5 | The hubbub outside comes not from the picturesque traders of the bazaar but from some 500 fans pleading for a glimpse of their idol . |
| 6 | Emily lifted her head and breathed in the sweet March air , it was good to stand in the garden of Summer Lodge looking out over a tranquil sea with timid waves reaching for the shore . |
| 7 | Only six solo roles call for a male soprano , on the basis of which it is possible to make a few observations . |
| 8 | Three youths armed with Armalite pen-knives waited for the band to unload their gear before threatening them and attempting to drive away with their van . |
| 9 | For democratic elitists the state is directed by legitimately elected political leaders ; it is a driverless car which political parties compete for the right to manage . |
| 10 | On the grounds that James IV 's will had nominated her for the regency only if she remained a widow , the Scottish Estates sent for the Duke of Albany , descendant of that Stewart who had plagued James III . |
| 11 | In northern India , Brahmins and other high castes accounted for a relatively large proportion of the population . |
| 12 | On-shore activities make for a lively and exhilarating festival . |
| 13 | They do n't congeal round any unifying principles beyond a vague commitment to an idealised model of the intellectual free market in which different discourses vie for the reader 's attention — like a basket of competing currencies battling for prominence against the deutschmark or the yen . |
| 14 | CLUB AND RESORT FACILITIES — some Clubs charge for the use of certain facilities , e.g. mini-golf , tennis courts , saunas , sun loungers , parasols , and nightclubs etc . |
| 15 | So , for high taxes vote for the Labour party , and for low taxes vote Conservative . |
| 16 | Relationships are dynamic … the status system is a kind of social front , a temporary balance of forces , behind which individuals develop the social skills needed for the … resolution of intergenerational competition ’ ( Crook 1975 ) . |
| 17 | The fact that human beings do not always perceive the correct ( rigid ) structure when presented with a mathematically adequate though impoverished stimulus , may be due not ( as Ullman suggests ) to their failing to pick up all of the mathematically necessary information in the stimulus , but rather to their using computational strategies evolved for the perception of non-rigid objects which — even when directed at rigid objects — need more information than is present in the experimental stimulus concerned . |
| 18 | Some solicitors acting for the husband may take a robust view to save their clients costs and , following the court order , may merely dispatch the title deeds to the wife 's solicitors on the basis that the husband has no further interest in them and that they will receive a conveyance for execution by the husband in due course . |
| 19 | One of the first top riders to sign for the 1993 British League season , Rickardsson has no sympathy with riders who are refusing to sign this year because of the promoters ' strict pay policy . |
| 20 | The need to differentiate between different types of riot and the contrasting meanings involved for the participants is recognised by Smith ( 1983 ) . |
| 21 | The code in fact incorporates a degree of redundancy , so that in some cases as many as six different triplets code for the same amino acid . |
| 22 | The generally optimistic tenor of this debate provides a revealing comparison with those public views examined for the earlier period . |
| 23 | Utilities were among the more buoyant sectors , helped by the search by pensions funds for higher-income investments to compensate for the five-point drop in their investment returns as a result of the Budget changes . |
| 24 | There is little comfort for foreign creditors hoping for an end to the six-month moratorium on debt payments . |
| 25 | He was born at a time when the great majority of musicians were employed by patrons — wealthy aristocrats , monarchs , or prelates — or as civic musicians working for a town council . |
| 26 | Frankie backed away as the animal 's snarling head and powerful front legs hooked themselves over the top of the gate and her back legs struggled for a foot-hold on the curves of wrought iron . |
| 27 | THE English schools team for the 21st annual home countries schools international at Hull on Saturday includes three Newcastle swimmers . |
| 28 | Thus , playing to the Germans ' appeal for order , these two brave Frenchmen secured for the trade a buffer in the form of the CIVC which took on the day-to-day unpleasantries of dealing with an alien administration . |
| 29 | Some journalists work for the paper read by the people who run the country ( The Times ) . |
| 30 | Some journalists work for the paper read by the people who think they run the country ( The Telegraph ) . |