Example sentences of "[adj] for the [noun pl] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | The North Sea is obviously so shaped that very strong northerly winds can cause a piling up of water in the southern part of the sea , either because the escape route through the Straits of Dover is narrow , or because it is quite possible for the winds in the North Sea to be predominantly northerly while the winds in the English Channel are predominantly westerly . |
| 2 | A text frequently has a much wider variety of interpretations imposed upon it by analysts studying it at their leisure , than would ever have been possible for the participants in the communicative interaction which gives rise to the ‘ text ’ . |
| 3 | Hughes ' cityscape is as exciting for the children in her books as the bluebell woods and dingle dells of 50 years ago , and this optimism may be the greatest gift a modern writer can give young readers . |
| 4 | The test is a series of movements in walk , trot and canter and you get marked for the movements in the test . |
| 5 | The nineteenth century witnessed too a growing Asian presence in Britain , developing from earlier groups of servants , sailors and traders , and several Asians were also prominent in British politics , the most famous being Bombay-born Dadabhai Naoroji who , apart from championing the Indian cause in London , also entered the House of Commons after winning Finsbury Central for the Liberals in 1892 and supported women 's suffrage , trade union rights and Home Rule for Ireland ( Visram , 1986 , pp. 78–92 ) . |
| 6 | If , over the years , the balance of probabilities has shifted so that balances previously included as creditors now seem unlikely ever to be paid , it would be appropriate for the balances in question to be removed from creditors , with the corresponding credit in either profit and loss account or , if the sums are material and the adjustment arises from a fundamental error , the profit and loss reserves in the balance sheet . |
| 7 | It is for a local authority to decide the mix of family centres which is appropriate for the children in its area . |
| 8 | He also remembered times when he himself was so hungry that he could n't stand straight for the cramps in his stomach . |
| 9 | She had never heard the whole story , but apparently some of his ideas were considered a little too daring for the traditionalists in Tokyo , and he found the rug pulled from under him . |
| 10 | The contradiction was less dramatic for the revolutionaries in Cuba , where the Church 's influence was not great , partly because of the presence of vestiges of African religion from the slave culture and partly because of the comparatively developed state of Cuba 's economy and educational system . |
| 11 | The direction of the seif dunes shows the direction of the prevailing wind , which is also responsible for the barchans in the troughs , where the effects of strong winds from another quarter are not felt . |
| 12 | This house believes that the British Govt. was solely responsible for the improvements in the quality of life of the British working class in the 19th Century . |
| 13 | There are probably other factors also responsible for the differences in permeability observed between patients with and without active disease . |
| 14 | The Grand Almoner was the Archbishop of Paris , who was assisted by a vicar-general and five chaplains who were responsible for the services in the chapels of the Imperial residences . |
| 15 | Clearly the trace-element enrichment process responsible for the offsets in Pb isotopic composition in Fig. 2 c is largely independent of the exact precursor material and the longer-term heterogeneity of the mantle . |
| 16 | We must , in , be constantly aware that correlation , a systematic relationship between two variables X and Y , does not imply causation ; it may be that a change in a characteristic or variable X causes a change in another variable Y , it might be that a change in Y causes a change in X , it might be that they both affect each other , or it might be that neither affects the other , but that a change in a further variable , Z , is responsible for the changes in both X and Y. |
| 17 | Moreover , if such an increase in chlorophyll-specific production had occurred and was responsible for the changes in zooplankton biomass , the hypothesized increase in primary productivity would have to reflect an increase in new production which , in turn , must be fuelled by a systematic increase in nutrient supply to the region . |
| 18 | Indeed , the fact that performance varied between the two logical items suggests that factors other than the physical/psychological/logical distinction may be responsible for the variations in performance . |
| 19 | The only DP deputy present , Neritan Ceka , read out a statement on behalf of the party demanding that the Assembly be suspended until those responsible for the killings in Shkodër had been identified . |
| 20 | The principal demands were for a 50 per cent increase in wages and pensions , a six-hour working day ( and no night-shifts ) for women , and the bringing to justice of those responsible for the deaths in Shkodër in April [ see p. 38160 ] . |
| 21 | It is therefore unlikely that microsporidia were responsible for the symptoms in a relevant proportion of the patients reported here , especially thse at early disease stages and those without detectable secondary infection , as intestinlam microsporidiosis is apparently associated with low CD4 counts in the peripheral blood . |
| 22 | The complexity of this issue lies in the fact that the TNCs are themselves directly and explicitly responsible for the ways in which such processes work out in most societies , but they are also often indirectly and implicitly responsible in ways that are hidden from view . |
| 23 | Several processes may be considered potentially responsible for the fractionations in U/Pb , Ce/Pb and K/U at the time of lithospheric growth . |
| 24 | Departments , being responsible for the subjects in which modules are taught , have information needs at the subject committee level . |
| 25 | This suggests the work of the same mosaicist : a craftsman who , if not solely responsible for the mosaics in Gloucester and London , was part of a group which had a very specific repertory . |
| 26 | This is one explanation for why there are still many tickets available for the matches in England 's group . |
| 27 | Sequential data were not available for the patients in the control group who were intubated and ventilated , nor for the NIPPV patients who could not be treated with nasal ventilation . |
| 28 | We are therefore at liberty to choose unc and then unc Elimination of p , 1 from these three equations yields unc Note that , since unc this is precisely the same as Equation ( 3 ) ; however , in the iteration case , it is only true when the iterations have proceeded sufficiently far for the terms in 3 , 4 to disappear , when cs consists only of p . |
| 29 | Templates are not essential for the recipes in this book , but are a useful way of transferring more complicated designs and outlines from paper to icing or cake . |
| 30 | I believe that the out-half position will prove troublesome for the Lions in New Zealand as I would have serious reservations about Stuart Barnes being the right player under the type of physical pressure he is likely to be subjected to in the important matches . |