Example sentences of "[noun pl] [prep] [noun pl] for [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They typically selected novel objects as referents for novel words , and appropriate referents for familiar words . |
| 2 | The French duties on wheat , for example , rose steadily from 1881 to 1897 and behind them French agriculture improved its methods and cultivated new products as specialities for urban and foreign markets . |
| 3 | Despite this view of the dependence of writing on speech , some linguists and educators have , apparently paradoxically , used written forms as models for spoken forms . |
| 4 | ‘ Last month you were given access to highly confidential details regarding our plans for designs for 1956–7 . |
| 5 | Furthermore , there were no differences in observed lipid values between tumours for each Astler Coller stage . |
| 6 | We have just heard from the hon. Gentleman that all our proposals for discounts for single people and alleviation of the top rates of the tax are anathema to the Labour party , which wants to return to the full rigours of the rates . |
| 7 | There are three erm , categories to er the requests for allocations for this meeting , erm , the balance of the contingency currently , is one point seven two nine million pounds . |
| 8 | There is no provision in the rules as there was in the 1952 Rules for searches for prior petitions in county courts to see if the debt has been paid , but the Practice Direction refers to carrying out these searches and the certificates to be endorsed on the petition of their result . |
| 9 | Accordingly , futures contracts will not be investments of the same kind as debt securities or even contracts for differences , although SFA may perhaps agree that they are of the same kind as contracts for differences for this purpose ; in practice , however , any dealer who normally deals in futures contracts is usually likely to deal in contracts for differences in any event . |
| 10 | Both the Bank of England and the Audit Commission had blessed swaps as tools for managing interest-rate risk . |
| 11 | As a capital city whose population includes , among students and more generally , a wide variety of religious , national and ethnic groups , Edinburgh can offer ethnically-based social facilities and opportunities for meetings for several forms of non-Christian religious observance . |
| 12 | As a capital city whose population includes among students and more generally , a wide variety of religious , national and ethnic groups , Edinburgh can offer ethnically-based social facilities and opportunities for meetings for several forms of non-christian religious observance . |
| 13 | This pattern should afford innumerable opportunities for detectorists for many of the places are situated on virgin , unsearched territory . |
| 14 | Low-voltage lighting has all sorts of advantages for outdoor use , the main one being its safety — you wo n't get a shock if you stick your garden fork through the cable , for example . |
| 15 | There are all sorts of opportunities for this . |
| 16 | Even more usefully , from a film-maker 's point of view , untimely celebrity death precludes the risk of libel , thus opening up all sorts of opportunities for dramatic license . |
| 17 | Some bishops , notably those who owed their promotions to James ( such as Thomas Cartwright of Chester and Samuel Parker of Oxford ) , supported the Indulgence , and encouraged their clergy to deliver addresses of thanks for that part of Declaration in which James promised he would continue to protect the Church of England . |
| 18 | The kind of help that museums can give to adults can equally well be given to schoolchildren , and to teachers who bring parties of schoolchildren for specific purposes . |
| 19 | In this way much of the movement of exotic items which can be traced archaeologically , can be seen as part of a system of ceremonial exchange in the formation of alliances , that is used by the heads of lineages for important political and social transactions . |
| 20 | If the law is to be changed by the reversal of West 's case , it should be done not judicially but legislatively within the context of a comprehensive enactment dealing with all aspects of damages for personal injury . |
| 21 | This role will involve the development of the scientific and mathematical aspects of programs for theoretical simulation of x-ray diffraction and topographic imaging , and statistical and other data analysis . |
| 22 | He made his living as a lithographer and by painting pictures of ships for naval officers , and had an arrangement with Griffin 's Bookshop in Portsmouth to take orders for his work , and the firm printed two volumes of The Royal Navy in a Series of Illustrations . |
| 23 | These figures show the different elution times and different shapes of curves for specific mRNA and oligonucleotide . |
| 24 | You can tailor lists of events for different parts of your life , or for different people , but it 's a long-winded way of jotting stuff down . |
| 25 | Prepare lists of words for each position in which the sound you want to practise occurs . |
| 26 | Ajdabiyans expected to go to the polls in the winter of 1978–9 , and in anticipation their political activists had drawn up two lists of candidates for each of the fifteen popular committees . |
| 27 | Lists of candidates for 547 of the 551 constituencies have been drawn up , of which 278 will be fought by Les Verts and 269 by GE . |
| 28 | Roses were well represented in the lists of plants for varying situations to be found at the end of the Dictionary . |
| 29 | Factory workers threatened strikes and voiced solidarity with the striking students , while leading actors and actresses read out lists of demands for greater democracy . |
| 30 | Factory workers threatened industrial strikes and voiced solidarity with the striking students , while leading actors and actresses read out lists of demands for greater democracy . |