Example sentences of "[noun pl] for the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The staircase and walls are of white marble , with the addition of lapis lazuli for the geometrical floor pattern . |
| 2 | Students turned against their universities and universities are the most important institutions for the professional-managerial class . |
| 3 | Smuts 's own notes for the great speech he made on the occasion of the dinner in the Royal Gallery ( see above ) of which over 1 , 000 , 000 copies were sold in the English language alone . |
| 4 | A joint money laundering steering group was convened to revise UK money laundering guidance notes for the financial sector and examine how a new statutory requirement for employers to train relevant staff in recognising and reporting suspect transactions will be met . |
| 5 | Most of the reading recommended in the notes for the previous chapter is relevant for this one too . |
| 6 | I should add that Decca are still using the notes for the original LP set . |
| 7 | Night , he wrote , work on the big glass and on the notes for the big glass , day , sleep and write this freewheeling commentary on the entire project , viz. on the big glass and on the notes for the big glass . |
| 8 | Night , he wrote , work on the big glass and on the notes for the big glass , day , sleep and write this freewheeling commentary on the entire project , viz. on the big glass and on the notes for the big glass . |
| 9 | The big glass and the notes for the big glass , he wrote , not the big glass by itself and the notes by themselves , the big glass and the notes for the big glass , the notes for the big glass and the big glass , he wrote , never the one alone or the other alone , for neither by itself has any meaning , neither by itself will have any force , but always both together , not as text and gloss , not as image and caption , but always as exchange and delay , mirror and reflection . |
| 10 | The big glass and the notes for the big glass , he wrote , not the big glass by itself and the notes by themselves , the big glass and the notes for the big glass , the notes for the big glass and the big glass , he wrote , never the one alone or the other alone , for neither by itself has any meaning , neither by itself will have any force , but always both together , not as text and gloss , not as image and caption , but always as exchange and delay , mirror and reflection . |
| 11 | The big glass and the notes for the big glass , he wrote , not the big glass by itself and the notes by themselves , the big glass and the notes for the big glass , the notes for the big glass and the big glass , he wrote , never the one alone or the other alone , for neither by itself has any meaning , neither by itself will have any force , but always both together , not as text and gloss , not as image and caption , but always as exchange and delay , mirror and reflection . |
| 12 | And it has led to the introduction of new technologies for the direct investigation of the relationships between brain , behaviour and external events , the subject of the present chapter . |
| 13 | The Policy Studies Institute preliminary report Credit and Debt in Britain ( February 1990 ) emphasized that mortgages did not result in problem debts for the vast majority of borrowers . |
| 14 | The process of preparing Jean-Baptiste Lully 's ballets for the new edition of his complete works has brought out a number of notational and textual questions that have direct relevance for future performances . |
| 15 | Those responsible for initial teacher training can not hope to find time or personnel for the additional input which would be required . |
| 16 | Well I went to , erm they would n't let me go to work on the aircraft so I left and I went to work and the Walsall Electric Company , it was within Walsall and I was there when V E day happened and er a pal of mine said he knew where I could get this job and oh it was travelling about which I enjoyed and er I , I went then to work for Elwells I was there until I went in the army , but they were very much heavy transport and in those days the opencast mining started happening as well and we were taking diggers about bulldozers and tractors , scrapers for the opencast mining and I remember , in the bad winter of forty-seven , they , they took up a big part of Park , trees and everything and they never found a bit of coal and yet when started levelling off at Darleston , for Bentley Garden Village as it was then called , er they were getting coal out and people were going up with prams , barrows and everything and fetching it all out it was only being levelled for building work , and fetching coal , natural coal off Bentley Common the erm I 've wandering off away from the airport a bit have n't I ? |
| 17 | And Her Majesty was in the parade ring to assess the runners and riders for the big race , the Queen Mother Champion Steeplechase . |
| 18 | Elvis+ — apparently a Russian acronym standing for Electronic Computer and Information Systems — is run as a private company 40 kilometres outside of Moscow , headed by Dr Alexander Galitsky , the chief designer of communications satellites for the Russian computer space programme and one of the top experts in wireless communications . |
| 19 | The report said close examination would be given to : — Possible reasons for the progressive descent into the sea ; — The helicopter 's performance under the prevailing conditions ; — Flight crew actions and procedures ; — Observance and applicability of any operational limitations and guidelines ; — Survival aspects including structural integrity , survival aids and search and rescue assets . |
| 20 | Reasons for the thematic ill-formedness of the above extract will become clear as we explore various aspects of thematic organization . |
| 21 | Whatever the reasons for the current state of affairs , selling overseas has been , and always will remain , one of the keystones of our national prosperity . |
| 22 | The reasons for the current gender imbalance are not fully understood . |
| 23 | There are several reasons for the current situation . |
| 24 | It is important therefore to understand the reasons for the current practice of non-disclosure . |
| 25 | In a papal register of 1322–3 an Avignonese clerk noted that there were two reasons for the disturbed state of Aquitaine at that time : the existence of laws and customs which were neither written down nor consistent with justice or reason ; and the maintenance of excessively large households and retinues by the nobility . |
| 26 | Nevertheless , the reasons for the striking decline in infant mortality in this period remain rather mysterious . |
| 27 | I propose three main reasons for the present bias against women in sociology ; the nature of its origins , the sex of its practitioners , and the ideology of gender roles , borrowed from the wider society , which is reproduced uncritically within it . |
| 28 | If one were looking for the reasons for the present situation , does my right hon. Friend agree that it has been the departure of the building societies and other lenders from the traditional concept of not lending more than 75 per cent . |
| 29 | The reasons for the present re-think about fluoridation are twofold . |
| 30 | The inadequacies of management in state enterprises have been described in dramatic terms by several Nigerian academic observers , one of whom wrote in 1974 that the reasons for the poor performance of the state-owned sector could be seen in the words of one observer ‘ in the over centralization of authority … inspired by sheer love of power ’ or by another : |