Example sentences of "[adj] [vb pp] for [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Her colleagues came and went ; they had got younger and younger , it seemed , as time went by ; those who were career-minded departed for lusher pastures , more Susies and Karens took their places , giggling in the cloakroom , muddling up the reservation cards . |
| 2 | Under the 1980 Constitution legislative power is held by the unicameral National Assembly , comprising 65 members ( 53 elected for five years by universal adult suffrage , on the basis of proportional representation , and 12 regional representatives ) while executive power is held by the President . |
| 3 | As Mitcham Road and Penge depôts were each built for 25 cars , the South Metropolitan company spaciously provided accommodation for double the number of cars its fleet ever reached , presumably with other extensions still in mind . |
| 4 | For example we could have used a simple computer such as the DEC PDP-8 , or a suitable hypothetical computer such as that presented for didactic purposes by Knuth ( 1968 ) . |
| 5 | Following amendment , the legislation as approved on May 21 allowed for former owners to get back " fixed assets " , and a share ownership stake in co-operative farms established on their land . |
| 6 | Like Shawell school , St Peter 's was built in the 1860s and so preceded the Elementary Education Act of 1870 that called for large numbers of schools , mainly in crowded urban areas , to be built with public rather than private money . |
| 7 | The materials , whether wool or silk , are second to none , and it is not uncommon for a mixture of wools from different regions — each noted for specific qualities of softness , springiness of durability — to be employed in better quality items to ensure a perfect blend of all the characteristics necessary to produce the best rug-making material . |
| 8 | I mean , Cover Master , it 's very simple , say you want , yeah , it 's a hundred thousand arranged for twenty years , and then later on . |
| 9 | Last month Amnesty International called for all charges against him to be withdrawn and concluded : ‘ At every stage the behaviour of the authorities has been in open defiance of the authority of the courts and the rule of law . ’ |
| 10 | It is also worth while examining the Table for differences between the two time points ; one might have expected that those sustained at home for 12 months would possess fewer ‘ home care disadvantages ’ at referral than those sustained for six months . |
| 11 | The expectation of finding carbonaceous chondrites in Antarctica prompted the American teams , beginning in the 1977 season , to use sterile collecting procedures patterned on those developed for lunar samples returned by the Apollo missions . |
| 12 | A number of engineering firms had redundancy pay schemes granting compensation considerably in excess of that required by law and available to all those dismissed for economic reasons regardless of their length of service . |
| 13 | Those enrolled for complete areas of study will be required to undertake the full assessment schedule for those areas of study . |
| 14 | We were interested to examine the adhesive properties of E coli which we had isolated in studies of the flora closely associated with the rectal mucosa , a flora in which the expression of adhesins and other adhesion associated characteristics might be expected to be favoured or prerequisite , and to compare our results with those reported for faecal isolates . |
| 15 | The measures will be even tighter than those instituted for all flights from French airports a week ago — which include the X-raying of all hold baggage , new controls on hand baggage , and body searches — that have added up to an hour to flight checks-ins . |
| 16 | However , in the 1988 Budget the Chancellor abolished the tax relief on all inter-personal covenants except those made for charitable purposes . |
| 17 | These herbs would have been among those grown for medicinal purposes by the monks in days gone by and they may well have been planted by ponds stocked with carp in the grounds of the monastery . |
| 18 | It appears that highly productive authors will not necessarily publish in those journals which have the highest circulation , and which hence are presumed to be those used for those papers which an author wishes to reach the largest possible readership . |
| 19 | Some employ seasonal workers on indefinite contracts identical to those used for permanent workers . |
| 20 | If all these measures fail , it may be necessary to use a pole with a rag securely tied on to it or clearing rods similar to those used for clearing drains . |
| 21 | She must therefore establish with the client whether those later accounts contain similar items to those challenged for previous years . |
| 22 | The South African Institute of Race Relations on Aug. 25 called for special measures to contain the township violence , and for the emergency powers to be given " in an impartial manner and without the excessive use of force " . |
| 23 | critical questions are asked about the volume and quality of health services for older people compared with those provided for younger groups ; |
| 24 | At the rally Singh announced the rehabilitation of Sikh soldiers who had deserted after the 1984 Army assault on the Golden Temple and a review of those detained for minor offences . |
| 25 | Such services should be based on the same broad principles as those outlined for other adults . |
| 26 | Structures akin to those required for dry goods stores are most appropriate without necessarily the same provision for ‘ cleanability ’ . |
| 27 | The documents that are sent to the Companies Registration Office for the registration of a single-member company are the same as those required for multi-member companies . |
| 28 | This begs the question : do producers respond only to perceived changes in the prices paid for their products in comparison to those paid for other products irrespective of what is happening to their costs of production ? |
| 29 | For manipulations on 9th day or older embryos , which have to be done in a Petri dish it is necessary to introduce two bends over a microburner , similar to those described for solid needles ( Table 13 ) , although the exact angle of the bends will depend on how the micromanipulator is set up ( Figure 8 ) . |
| 30 | Heat and smoke release rates in the Kuwait situation were far less than those predicted for urban firestorms after a nuclear exchange . |