Example sentences of "[adj] [noun pl] [verb] for [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Because scientific needs often overlap the sharp boundaries drawn for good commercial reasons , such combined resources are not necessarily confined to C&P. thus , a further 500 researchers work for ICI Films and ICI Advanced Materials alongside C&P personnel at the Wilton Technical Centre , which is mainly concerned with materials . |
| 2 | Five of eight houses offered for sale at Sanquhar Den in Forres , near Inverness , were snapped up within days of being placed on the market . |
| 3 | They travel in large concentrated groups to search for food , particularly when herding shoaling pelagic ( open sea ) fish . |
| 4 | Despite the annual influx of tourists , it has managed to keep its character with medieval , Tudor , Stuart and Georgian houses jostling for space along the cobbled streets . |
| 5 | The list of oral skills required for business is long , but for the purposes of illustration some of the more important are listed below : |
| 6 | ( c ) The motor is unable to reach its maximum speed if the number of steps to be executed is less than the total steps required for acceleration and deceleration , i.e. the initial value of COUNT is less than ACCVAL + DECVAL . |
| 7 | The party announced its adherence to the Madrid Pact of Guinean and Spanish parties calling for democracy in Equatorial Guinea [ see p. 36923 ] . |
| 8 | regulations concerning the licence for third persons or private homes to care for children . |
| 9 | President Bush laid down his ‘ if it flies , it dies ’ ultimatum last night as Allied fighters prepared for combat missions over southern Iraq . |
| 10 | As the debate goes on and the political parties bid for votes and support , Leila , Fatima and Samira are still confined to the library . |
| 11 | The knowledge that a general election was imminent saw all political parties jockeying for position during 1990 . |
| 12 | There was certainly plenty of anti-Athenian feeling , for some Thessalians fighting for Athens at the battle of Tanagra in 457 ( p. 42 ) changed sides ( Thuc. i. 107 ; Diod. xi.79 ) . |
| 13 | He was one of several noted British artists approached for work by John M. Gates , Director of Design to the American firm , Steuben Glass , and who visited London in the early 1950s . |
| 14 | Such social researchers work for survey research agencies , in central and local government research divisions , commercial market research companies , and academic research posts . |
| 15 | Sacha Craddock visits Liliane Lijn and Judith Cowan in their studio : two artists of different generations preparing for exhibitions |
| 16 | The same is true of the Marques de Pombal , who for over a quarter of a century ( 1750–77 ) was virtual ruler of Portugal as all-powerful chief minister of King Joseph I. His efforts to revive the country 's economic life and challenge the dominance which British merchants had for decades wielded over its foreign trade , his ferocious repression of noble opposition , his brutal expulsion of the Jesuits in 1767 ( see p. 454 ) , show a far more truly radical attitude to tradition and established interests than Frederick II displayed . |
| 17 | To all this , Wilson believed , was added the swamping of the industry with cheap foreign labour which had also lowered the quality of British seamen applying for jobs , thereby providing the shipowners with an excuse to prefer the foreigner . |
| 18 | Soon after the verdict , lawyers confident of a similar outcome in the British courts advertised for people willing to be test cases here . |
| 19 | At present , few opportunities exist for citizens to act as participants in public life . |
| 20 | Is it not the pride of the industry that although sales in Britain account for only 8% of the world total , British recordings account for 22% ? |
| 21 | Fresh figures from the Commons library show that 348,000 people worked in manufacturing in December 1992 and there were 342,092 unemployed Scots looking for work in February 1993 . |
| 22 | Resorts : star spotters head for Aspen , Colorado , which has all grades of skiing — at a price ; Vail is smart too ; neighbouring Copper Mountain and Breckenridge are less awesomely large and more youth oriented ; experts on and off the piste love Jackson Hole , Wyoming ; Utah 's powder paradises are Park City , Snowbird and Alta , with Robert Redford 's Sundance as a family alternative ; mogul maniacs bash the hell out of their knees in Taos , New Mexico and the old silver mining town of Telluride . |
| 23 | Perhaps many of those from broken homes search for surrogate fathers , but only those with the physical assets necessary for sporting success , such as strength and speed , are able to foster attachments in the sporting fraternity . |
| 24 | War between Talabecland and Stirland as rival would-be Emperors vie for power . |
| 25 | The quayside had as many ferries lined up as a Greek port , big-snouted vessels bound for Orkney or the Shetland islands , and perhaps distant Ophir . |
| 26 | A Darlington couple have made an anonymous offer to buy Hollyhurst , one of the eight county council-owned residential homes scheduled for closure . |
| 27 | INTEREST FREE CREDIT 12 MONTHS ASK FOR DETAILS |
| 28 | From the priority date , the patentee normally has up to 12 months to apply for patents in other countries . |
| 29 | In the 1980's , competitive pressures have led many British companies to look for ways of using their employees more flexibly . |
| 30 | He could sing of lizard-clad nobles hunting for trophies , and of body-heat orgies and mutations of the eye , and of a lone white-haired woman whose senses had been scarified , locked in a sanctum forever , her mind reaching to the stars ; and out among all those stars and worlds that she spoke to in her mind , no fellow spirit yearned towards her or was able to express any such feeling — ’ |