Example sentences of "[noun pl] [vb base] [adj] for [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Local authorities remain responsible for the basic costs and the task of collecting household waste . |
| 2 | The snow is so deep — three metres outside the door here — that after big storms , potentially dangerous ski areas remain inaccessible for a few days . |
| 3 | The eyelid headlights slide open for the road . |
| 4 | In practice many targets remain unchanged for the following year and alterations are normally within the range of 10 per cent up or down . |
| 5 | The problems appear critical for the 20 per cent of the Merseyside population living in the poorest council housing and especially in the district of Knowsley where 48 per cent of the population ( six times the national average ) live in such areas . |
| 6 | Things look black for the portfolio matrix . |
| 7 | If Blatnik 's analysis is correct , then things look bleak for the smaller vendors , all trying to gain a significant share of the action . |
| 8 | Things look grim for the Dons — languishing third from the bottom of the Premier League — and now out of the Cup . |
| 9 | The police come along and things go quiet for a couple of months but then they come back again . ’ |
| 10 | Also , premium bonds stay valid for every draw instead of the stake being lost . |
| 11 | This point was made by one commentator during the first review of the ‘ Probation System ’ at the beginning of this century : his comments remain pertinent for the Home Office in their current review at the end of the century . |
| 12 | Their bodies lay crushed for an hour before they were dug out and it was too late to save them , rescuers said last night . |
| 13 | Some Denchworth villagers feel sorry for the Lord of the Manor . |
| 14 | When wireless communications become available for a wider range of portables , the prevalence of Notes and applications like it will go a long way towards tying into networks PCs that are being under-utilised as little more than personal information managers . |
| 15 | But I 'll be far too busy organising Roman 's public relations campaign ready for the business fair ! |
| 16 | In most media there are premiums charged by the owners for ‘ fixing ’ ads in particular positions , and individual positions carry premium prices : TV is divided into peak , pre-peak , off-peak , etc. , time , and into as many as seven categories by some stations , quite apart from special ‘ packages ’ ; magazines charge extra for the covers , for certain key editorial spots , sometimes for righthand pages ; and so on . |
| 17 | The procedures look fine for the purchase of one-off and novel items , but it occurs to me that it would save time and effort if we established ‘ preferred suppliers ’ for standard PCs , printers , and peripherals , so that we do n't have to obtain multiple quotes and give reasons for supplier choice each time we order an off-the-shelf system . |
| 18 | Pointing to the way in which poverty structured the lives of the majority of her respondents , she concluded that ‘ young Black women and young white women become pregnant for the same sorts of reasons , and this is because they share the same socio-economic contexts ’ ( Phoenix , 1988a , p. 154 ) . |
| 19 | Cessation of growth is most likely to result from starvation , which may arise because : the whelks eat out their food supply , or the supply fails for some other reason ( perhaps as a result of pollution Bryan ( 1969 ) ; wave action dislodges the whelks and transports them away from their food supply , or prevents them from feeding in some other way ( Cowell and Crothers , 1970 ) ; the temperature drops so low that the whelks become inactive for a long period ( Feare , 1970a ) . |
| 20 | At Sun Life Assurance Society professionally qualified staff such as chartered accountants and investment analysts become eligible for a staff mortgage at a preferential interest rate on completing a six-month probationary period . |