Example sentences of "[prep] [adj] [noun pl] for the " in BNC.

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1 They were also , however , profoundly suspicious of proposals for state welfare , which they identified as a means of diminishing working-class control over their own lives and as palliative substitutes for the workers ' just demands for control over the means of production , high wages and full employment .
2 Patrilocal residence , where women join the households of their husbands rather than vice versa , and the continued strength of the system of domestic production , where families consume most of what they produce rather than buy and sell in the market , have always been seen as obstacles to capitalist development in the Third World and as strong reinforcements for the maintenance of feudal-patriarchal relations .
3 It is difficult to interpret this without further purpose-designed experimentation , but it is still possible to speculate about possible reasons for the observed pattern .
4 Mr. Lightheart will be consulted about possible uses for the annual grant .
5 Mr. Lightheart will be consulted about possible uses for the annual grant .
6 Railway employees , or ‘ Nepo-idols ’ as they were called , queued for hours for scarce tickets for the Nepmen who tipped them for their service .
7 They gave licences for religious foundations in their dioceses , for private chapels for the nobility and for clergy from elsewhere to preach .
8 Most of these customers represent traditional nuclear business but their requirements are in decline , so AEA is actively developing new business such as technical services for the oil industry , safety consultancy for the transport industry , environmental research for the water industry and process engineering for the pharmaceutical industry .
9 For instance , the mean value for complete humeri for the kestrel assemblages is 44 per cent , and the range of values over three samples is 33–47 per cent .
10 The Ministry 's circular suggested the following as possible roles for the committees :
11 Even in the same sample , however , other modes whose frequencies are insensitive to the local environment may well give quite narrow bands , and glasses ( best formed by condensation from the gas phase onto a cold surface ) should not be ignored as possible samples for the study of vibrational spectra .
12 Expert private customers who are individuals are nonetheless treated as private investors for the purposes of the cold calling rules , and cold calls on them which are permitted by the SIB 's 1991 Common Unsolicited Calls Regulations are therefore subject to the SFA 's Unsolicited Calls Rules ( COB Rules 5 – 17 and 5 – 18 ) .
13 They are also treated as private investors for the purposes of s 62 of the FSA , although the rules whose contravention may allow claims if the contravention causes loss are the non-private customer rules .
14 The process of transition to multiparty democracy had been initiated in February 1990 [ see pp. 37239 ; 37802 ] and formally sealed with the adoption in September 1990 of amendments to the constitution providing for direct elections for the presidency , the abolition of the position of the PAICV as the sole ruling party , the separation of party and state , and the formation of other political parties .
15 Groups of bed-sitters with communal lounge facilities have been tried , and in some places the shared lounge has been available for social facilities for the old people of the neighbourhood .
16 We do not see why we should pay the environmental price for manifest improvements for the people of north-west England .
17 The successive re-organizations have brought the Lord Chancellor 's Department , with a total staff of close on 12,000 , and the Crown Prosecution Service , with about 2,000 lawyers and 4,000 administrative staff , alongside the Home Office as public instruments for the administration of justice .
18 Though neither NTV nor FRCN can be regarded as unqualified spokesmen for the Federal Government , the state radios are certainly partisan spokesmen for their respective state governments and are seen as such by their political opponents .
19 Chan , Chan and Karolyi ( 1991 ) used a bivariate GARCH model to study the relationship between five-minute returns for the S&P500 between 1984 and 1989 .
20 Stockbrokers , politicians and company chairmen hanker after retail investors for the same , simple reason : they think they are chumps .
21 Another resident , Williamine Dyson , 65 , who looked after spare keys for the holiday home , said yesterday she saw a man lingering near the base at the end of August and then walking up Campbell Road .
22 Several of the loops in domain 1 are flexible ; r.m.s. deviations between main-chain atoms for the two copies of sCD2 exceed 1.0Å for residues 20–26 , 34–37 , 44–47 , 70–71 and 85–86 .
23 This does not allow sufficiently for annual variations for the figures to permit strict statistical analysis , but even with these the changes are too striking to be totally ignored .
24 The ironical and fundamental point is that during these post-war years , when international demand for tropical commodities for the first time since 1921 really justified vast investments in the Colonies ; when the Colonies had a huge back-log of demand for essential equipment ; when at last the British government was equipped with power to give or lend considerable sums to top up what the Colonies could afford to invest from their own accumulating surplus ; and when .
25 The Government can not pretend to be concerned with security at army barracks and then , without regard for the soldiers , put them on the streets of London as easy targets for the terrorists . ’
26 The Government can not pretend to be concerned with security at army barracks and then , without regard for the soldiers , put them on the streets of London as easy targets for the terrorists . ’
27 In studying an elaborate sequence of events within a task the designer will systematically consider the need for appropriate triggers for the memory at specific points in the task .
28 Dave Morris , the Ramblers ' Scottish officer , said the Government had already accepted that it needed to look to Europe for future ideas for the countryside .
29 If the Home Secretary meant what he says about keeping public sympathy for genuine refugees , he would address the need for extra resources for the Home Office and Lunar house to speed up the procedures for asylum seeking .
30 The implementation of this policy was the work in part of the new Roman episcopal appointees , from Cullen onwards , though the growing hatred of the ascendancy because of the famine and their continued landownership must have provided ample cause for separate schools for the majority of Roman catholic clergy .
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