Example sentences of "[adj] [noun pl] [vb base] for [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If junior creditors account for more than a third of the creditors , they can force concessions from their senior partners . |
| 2 | In most African countries , government involvement in , and even supervision of , the press may not rest on such ideological precepts : sound pragmatic and economic reasons exist for that involvement . |
| 3 | The final and longest chapter describes the potential applications of LB films and stresses those areas in which the author feels the greatest opportunities exist for industrial and commercial exploitation . |
| 4 | In Alpine shops look for wooden cooking utensils , walking sticks and Loden capes . |
| 5 | British industry , the City of London , most of what used to be called Fleet Street , and the economic spokesmen for all the political parties have for many years spoken with one voice on this matter : what Britain required , they all said , was a large , secure home market in which it was possible to benefit from economies of scale comparable to those enjoyed by the Japanese and the Americans . |
| 6 | During the First World War the little colony of gifted foreigners in Montparnasse and French artists unfit for military service was increasingly shunned by the rest of society at a time when xenophobia was rife and contempt for any man out of uniform was universal . |
| 7 | Some employers pay for this . |
| 8 | Two contrasting reasons exist for these importations . |
| 9 | Such an enhanced investigations service for private companies would be similar to the take-over target review discussed here . |
| 10 | Moreover , according to a report by consultancy Price Waterhouse , in 1990 finance and retail companies slowed computer spending more than firms in any other sector ; the vast majority of Softwright 's business comes from these two areas , and long-established clients account for two-thirds of its turnover . |
| 11 | Some designs tuck for four rows on the same needle and the colours then need to be changed every four rows following the sequence of the design . |
| 12 | British equities account for more than half of the assets of British funds ; foreign equities are a further 20% . |
| 13 | When choosing several varieties , remember that cross-pollination may be important and that some fruits store for longer than others . |
| 14 | In services and distribution especially , very small firms with less than 30 workers account for three-quarters of employment . |
| 15 | Bakalov said Huron version 1.18 , expected in Q2 1993 , will support Motif for the first time as well as the RS/6000 , improved buffers support for larger numbers of terminals , Oracle server ( Unix ) and DB server(MVS) . |
| 16 | That most attractive bird , the heron can be observed more easily now in the reed beds and overhead some geese search for new feeding grounds . |
| 17 | The Fire Brigade Union has requested one and a half weeks pay for each year of service , plus the annual bounty payment . |
| 18 | Some organisations stand for total deregulation while others emphasise the consumer . |
| 19 | Users of Information Resources ' FCRS product include Laura Ashley , Reed International and the BOC Group , the 1991 winner of the Stock Exchange and Chartered Accountants award for published accounts . |
| 20 | Few things come for free , not even party support for a Prime Minister . |
| 21 | The English monks seem for some years to have been able to resist the discipline of Lanfranc . |
| 22 | Different treatments work for different people , so Bethan 's doctor prescribed her a topical antibiotic instead — a cream to apply to her face . |
| 23 | We must feel that the existing social arrangements allow for equal , or justifiably unequal , satisfaction of our other needs , if we are to believe in conformity . |
| 24 | E German clerics strive for peaceful change : Patricia Clough in Bonn examines the intermediary role played by the Protestant Church during the exodus to the West |
| 25 | ‘ Some girls go for older men . ’ |
| 26 | Non-flying mammals have for some time been suspected to be pollinators in a number of vegetation types outside the tropics and , in recent years , this has been proved to be so in both South Africa and Australia . |
| 27 | The words which different societies use for any object also indicate the way that they see it . |
| 28 | Nine out of 10 people now listen to the radio for about three hours every day , despite having more TV stations than ever to choose from , according to the Cultural Trends report for 1993 . |
| 29 | In effect , BSL ( like ASL ) has a colossal range of ‘ present tenses ’ and while very few verbs inflect for tense as do SEE : SAW or GO : WENT : GONE , there is an immense range of tense and aspect information available in the inflected forms . |
| 30 | The most provincial press pundits in the world have been busy reassuring their readers that fickle Europeans have voted for ungovernability , fascism , loony greens and other denizens of the Continent 's political funny farm , while sturdy British yeopersons opt for sensible majorities in the mother of parliaments . |