Example sentences of "[noun pl] for [art] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There are no rough notes for the succeeding weeks , and there is no explanation of his silence . |
| 2 | In the result , it was agreed between the Commissioners and the defendant that the amount charged upon him should be reduced , and that time should be given to pay it in three instalments ; he gave three promissory notes for the three instalments ; the first was duly honoured ; the others were not , and were the subject of the present action . |
| 3 | Florida , Spain , Paris and Amsterdam are other hot-spots for the 250,000 Britons heading abroad this Christmas , according to credit card company Access . |
| 4 | A teacher from an urban school , discussing the reasons for a recent teachers ' strike , said that not only were salaries low when the amount of time worked outside classroom hours was taken into account , but also teachers often had to pay for classroom materials out of their own pockets , if they wanted to have any . |
| 5 | SWINGEING UK premium hikes were one of the major reasons for a dramatic profits turnround by insurance giant Commercial Union in the third quarter of 1992 . |
| 6 | The same holds true when it comes to a consideration of the reasons for the individual grants made by the Romans . |
| 7 | The letter concluded with a request for a final session of the USSR Supreme Soviet in order to hand over power constitutionally , because " it is gross discontinuities , destructive revolutions and usurpations in the course of social development which are one of the reasons for the historic misfortunes of our peoples " . |
| 8 | The relationship of predictability to determinism will be discussed in Chapter 24 ; in particular reasons for the above assertions will be given in Section 24.6 . |
| 9 | There are two basic reasons for the apparent anomalies in what generally appears to be a steady expansion of the vineyard area : first , the uprooting of old , commercially non-productive vines ; and second , the decimation of large patches of vines due to natural causes like frost , hail , disease , pests , etc . |
| 10 | Historians have been divided as to the reasons for the political changes of these years . |
| 11 | I believe that the publication of these results will cause people to focus on the reasons for the low standards in some places , except for hon. Members representing Bradford and Newham — the two lowest scoring local authorities — whose reaction is that one should not have such testing and that it is merely a problem forced on the local authority . |
| 12 | More generally , there is no direct correlation between the reasons for the procedural restrictions of Ord. 53 and the criteria used to decide when Ord. 53 procedure must be used . |
| 13 | It is clear to me that as this only affects a small proportion of the membership and there are good strategic reasons for the larger firms to back the proposal ( eg the demise of the smaller practice ) , unless general practitioners take action now they will only have themselves to blame when their incomes fall and the value of their practices diminishes . |
| 14 | There is a wealth of empirical lore in this area , but the underlying physical reasons for the observed intensities are not well understood . |
| 15 | Comparative studies can lead to a greater understanding of the factors and processes which determine industrial relations phenomena since ‘ the comparative method leads to questions regarding the reasons for the observed comparisons and contrasts ’ ( Dunlop , 1958 , p. vi ) . |
| 16 | The reasons for the Special Forces not proving more effective in this desperate year of 1940 , lay as much in the political problems and strategy as in shortages of equipment . |
| 17 | The reasons for the different sensitivities between the populations ( between renal and antenatal clinics ) are not immediately obvious . |
| 18 | To explore possible reasons for the different kinds of error reported above the following calculations were made for each patient : total number of missing days , total number of retrospective completions , and total number of occasions on which a discrepancy occurred between written and electronic records . |
| 19 | A special feature is the commentary in non-technical language on reasons for the different types of transaction and on the commercial and legal relationships they create . |
| 20 | One of the reasons for the high prices was , according to the expert talk , that there was not much of the wine made . |
| 21 | A comparison of the cashflows for the two projects is given in Table 5.3 . |
| 22 | The auditors of the Company Ernst & Young , Chartered Accountants and Registered Auditors , of Becket House have made a report under what is now Section 235 of the Companies Act 1985 on each set of statutory consolidated accounts for the five years ended 31 December 1991 . |
| 23 | Enterprise Computer Holdings Plc said on Tuesday that when its accounts for the 15 months to end-March 1992 , were signed last year , the group 's accountants , KPMG Peat Marwick , had not signed the audit report of its principal subsidiary , Enterprise Computer Services , the Daily Telegraph reports : the subsidiary 's accounts for that period are now in the process of being filed and will be qualified by KPMG Peat Marwick on a going concern basis ; Louis Kemp , new finance director , wants to know how it happened . |
| 24 | During his campaign , he promised not to raise taxes for the middle classes ; he is now faced with the realisation that if he is to cut the deficit and fulfil his promises to improve social welfare , education and training and to overhaul health provisions , then tax increases which extend beyond the seriously wealthy are unavoidable . |
| 25 | The Khirgiz was choice pasture and , in the days before he had made submission to Daijin , the Merkuts had fought with other clans for the grazing rights . |
| 26 | Traders at Goldmans Sachs new London headquarters need no longer leave their desks for a minute thanks to a new system devised by CCG . |
| 27 | Reading Skills for the Social Sciences |
| 28 | Reading Skills for the Social Sciences tackles these problems and talks clearly to the learner . |
| 29 | Students who work with Reading Skills for the Social Sciences , are most likely to notice that they read with greater confidence and that they have a better command of academic/specialised vocabulary as a result of using the book . |
| 30 | ‘ Not to run errands for the powerful ones of this city . |