Example sentences of "[noun pl] of [noun pl] for [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | There are all sorts of opportunities for this . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | These figures show the different elution times and different shapes of curves for specific mRNA and oligonucleotide . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Prepare lists of words for each position in which the sound you want to practise occurs . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Roses were well represented in the lists of plants for varying situations to be found at the end of the Dictionary . |
| 16 | Factory workers threatened strikes and voiced solidarity with the striking students , while leading actors and actresses read out lists of demands for greater democracy . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | The principles for establishing lists of goals for fat reduction are similar to those for sugar reduction , namely , do the things that are easiest first ; use lots of small , easy steps ; spend about a week trying to behave according to that week 's goal ( and with all preceding ones being maintained ) before going on to add the next goal to your repertoire . |
| 19 | Either way , when you see how we establish lists of goals for this person you can learn some simple principles for establishing your own goals . |
| 20 | One view is that rural manufacturing growth stems from the preferences of employers for rural environments . |
| 21 | The ‘ small halls ’ put on weekly programmes of fights for small purses . |
| 22 | ( 1 ) A licensing board shall not at any meeting hear the cases of applicants for new licences until all the other cases have been disposed of : |
| 23 | In Rumelhart and McClelland 's Interactive Activation Model , perception results from excitatory and inhibitory interactions of detectors for visual features , letters , and words . |
| 24 | As this example suggests the use of the courts is highly controversial : the 1981 decision led to accusations that an ‘ undemocratic ’ court ruling had substituted the views of judges for those of councillors whose policies had been endorsed by the local electorate . |
| 25 | As a result these bodies are not yet in a position to influence the preparation of individual groups of students for higher education . |
| 26 | Other patients whose studies were part of a research protocol have been included in the subsequent analysis as these requests for gastric emptying studies were intended to establish diagnoses , albeit to define groups of patients for further evaluation . |
| 27 | Many people were buying it for silly uses like bonding plastics — there are loads of alternatives for that ’ . |
| 28 | People would want to give up their jobs and there 'll be loads of jobs for those who want them . |
| 29 | The society 's earlier style of spelling reform was certainly difficult , cumbersome and ludicrous in appearance ; but at least it provided consistent digraphs ( that is , pairs of letters for single sounds ) to replace the traditional ambiguous digraphs sh , th , aw , oo . |
| 30 | A plan which creates a continuous supply of pairs of hands for each patient area is an impossibility and the sooner managers accept this , the better . |