Example sentences of "[prep] [det] for the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I mean the street I lived once and er the police came to the party , it did get switched down a little bit , but er th the falling out after that for the next week , who rang the police and you |
| 2 | I was never out of that for the first few years I was saved , I was always getting in there , confessing my sins . |
| 3 | It will be over a quarter of that for the entire EC , more than twice West Germany 's and equivalent to those of France , Belgium , Denmark , Luxembourg , Greece , Ireland and Portugal added together . |
| 4 | Labour disputes declined during 1990 ; the number of strikes was only 25 per cent of that for the previous year . |
| 5 | One can only speculate on the implications of that for the last years of life and , in particular , for the acceptance of tending roles . |
| 6 | British firms have been struggling with the first of these for the past 18 months , and for the past six or so have also suffered from the second . |
| 7 | Most threatening of these for the marine ecosystem is the exposure to increased ultra-violet radiation through the depletion of the ozone layer . |
| 8 | We 're doing a hundred and seventy nine of these for the British Army . |
| 9 | Nevertheless , the study we propose will give a good foundation for exploration , and is certainly the most essential and important investigation of all for the young composer who wants to find his way ahead . |
| 10 | Most essential of all for the future assessment of public finance , we must establish a truly independent source of economic statistics to ensure that judgments are not distorted — as they have been under this Government , by political interference in their collection or presentation . |
| 11 | This has long been one of my favourite Schnittke pieces , for its Russian-accented dodecaphony-on-stilts , for the post-Holocaust numbness of its third movement , and most of all for the unholy alliances of its finale , where Webern seems to be jiving to West Side Story and Shostakovich meets Vivaldi for a deadly serious jam session . |
| 12 | Through the centuries about twenty-five houses had been built in Ploughman 's Lane , first of all for the minor gentry , the widows and kinsmen , for instance , of the lord of the manor ; in more recent times , equally large and widely spaced dwellings had been put up for the professional class . |
| 13 | Yet the Post Office failed to select him , albeit from over 300 candidates , as one of those for the nine sets of special stamps it plans to issue for 1994 . ’ |
| 14 | The results for this question were almost a mirror image of those for the preceding question , with the negative response to the proposition from the majority of sole practitioners easily cancelling out the positive answer given by the bulk of the remaining respondents . |
| 15 | ‘ Here are the dishes for the entremet courses , some of those for the roast course , those for the cheese , the savouries and the desserts , the glasses and the coffee cups . |
| 16 | It must be emphasised that the results for an interim period do not necessarily provide a reliable indication of those for the full year . |
| 17 | It must be emphasised that the results for an interim period do not usually provide a reliable indication of those for the full year . |
| 18 | Arguments such as these for the functional necessity of a category of ‘ crime ’ are quite different from arguments that particular activities defined as criminal may in fact be beneficial to society . |
| 19 | Asked if he had been tempted to quit at any time during the past eight days , he raised a smile and a quip : ‘ I 've felt like that for the last two years ! |
| 20 | Norman , 47 , was to stay like that for the next two-and-a-half years . |
| 21 | Breathe like this for the next two minutes . |
| 22 | This is it , Middle Age , and it will go on like this for the next thirty-six years until , without any big deal , without even noticing probably , it will be Old Age and we 'll still be sitting here . |
| 23 | Riven wondered if it would be like this for the next six weeks , and wiped his nose , thinking of the dark girl barefoot in the snows . |
| 24 | ‘ Are you going to treat me like this for the next ten years ? ’ |
| 25 | This is demonstrated , on the one hand , by Enterprise Zones , the enlargement of exemptions in the GDO and talk of further relaxations of control , and on the other , by inquiries , like those for the Third London Airport and Sizewell , breaking the records for length of time taken . |
| 26 | However , the gradient in this high reflectance section is comparable with that for the Carboniferous of northwest Germany described by Teichmüller and Teichmüller ( 1981 ) . |
| 27 | They compared the average mispricing in the near contract during the stock exchange account which included the delivery date , with that in the next near contract for the same period , and with that for the near contract in previous stock exchange accounts . |
| 28 | Overall both Namurian and Visean gradients are comparable with that for the Westphalian minimum uplift composite trend . |
| 29 | Before realising that the rent should be paid under deduction of tax , PT Ltd made four payments including that for the initial period of occupation without deducting tax . |
| 30 | This is because the students will be dealing with this for the first time and this is thought to be a clearer presentation . |