Example sentences of "[noun sg] and [noun sg] for [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The immediate benefit of discarding established regulars was an accumulated perception and zest for attack that Durham were unable to match . |
| 2 | I know every blade of grass , fern , broom , every tree , pond and lane for miles around . |
| 3 | It is a sound maxim that you do not ask the barber whether you need a haircut , and if Prof Paulos is not a wholly disinterested party in matters of numeracy , you will certainly not expect Arno Penzias , a distinguished physicist and vice-president for research at the Bell Telephone Laboratories of AT&T , to be less than sanguine about the remorseless advance of information technology . |
| 4 | The speaking invitation to Gerry Adams , the Sinn Fein president and MP for West Belfast , and vague expectations that a Tory Party branch may be recognised in North Down , have provided little encouragement of a parallel shift by Labour . |
| 5 | On Dec. 3 , 1991 , the Supreme Court ruled that there was insufficient evidence to bring the former President and senator for life , Alan García Pérez , to trial on charges of illegal enrichment during his 1985-90 period in office . |
| 6 | When , in the late 1920s , a critical backlash developed against films that made themselves vacuous in an attempt to match Hollywood styles , the only way people could think of doing it was to define British cinema as the opposite of Hollywood — abandoning melodrama and flamboyance for realism , restraint and understatement . |
| 7 | Revenue and expenditure for year showing : |
| 8 | AT common law a person might be liable for damage caused by an animal on one or more of three distinct grounds , namely , ordinary liability in tort , liability under the scienter rule and liability for cattle trespass . |
| 9 | Anderson 's restorations at Iona Abbey ( 1874–6 ) , Dunblane Cathedral ( 1889–93 ) , Paisley Abbey ( 1898–1907 ) , and Sweetheart Abbey ( 1911–14 ) set standards of scholarliness and restraint for generations to come . |
| 10 | Like the clerical writer of 1357 , he saw the English victory as a sign of divine displeasure and punishment for divisions within France . |
| 11 | Two sections of the thesis are to be submitted to Mind and Language for publication as separate papers at the end of March and the whole to be published by the Harvester Press as The Philosophy of First Language Acquisition . |
| 12 | His monks had a grange at Widcombe , and at the Dissolution of the Monasteries the lands were divided , the Prior 's Park being sold separately to Humphrey Colles while the Manor House and its estate went to the rich clothier , Richard Chapman , who was mayor and MP for Bath . |
| 13 | And although , now , twenty years later , she could understand his hurt and confusion and desire for revenge , then it had hit her squarely in all the areas she was most vulnerable . |
| 14 | James Loch , Edinburgh lawyer and Commissioner for Stafford 's Sutherland estates , reassured his master that : ‘ The adoption of the new system , by which the mountainous districts are converted into sheep pastures , even if it should unfortunately occasion the emigration of some individuals , is , upon the whole , advantageous to the nation at large . ’ |
| 15 | Indeed , I had always , since living in the red-light district of Leeds , Brunswick Place , had a fondness and respect for prostitutes . |
| 16 | This is Canto 78 , another of those composed in the Pisan prison-stockade while their author awaited transportation and trial for treason . |
| 17 | But if the private world of family life is a world fraught with tension and danger for parents and children , it is far more frightening for the elderly : they may very well find themselves excluded from it . |
| 18 | Q-analysis was introduced into the social sciences about a decade ago , as a new research methodology and framework for thought . |
| 19 | A preliminary study by Research and Development for Psychiatry found that a quarter of health authorities had not implemented the care programme approach . |
| 20 | to advise the Secretary of State on , and if so requested by him , assist him to carry out , programmes of research and development for purposes connected with the curriculum for schools |
| 21 | to advise the Secretary of State on , and if so requested by him , assist him to carry out , programmes of research and development for purposes conflicted with examinations and assessment |
| 22 | Factor analysis indicates a structure of attitudes similar to that reported earlier ( Turner and Clift , 1985 , op. cit. ) for Solihull teachers : that attitudes might be classified under five headings , towards the professionalism , potency and enthusiasm for SSE , about all of which Oxfordshire teachers are moderately positive and towards the efficiency and collegiality of SSE about which they are moderately negative . |
| 23 | Working for Patients aims to further introduce market forces into the NHS in an attempt to achieve its stated objectives of better healthcare and choice for patients and greater satisfaction and rewards for those who successfully respond to local needs and preferences . |
| 24 | Preliminary information on business practice and correspondence for adult learners with basis of English . |
| 25 | It is recognised that the levels of understanding , practice and responsibility for risk issues vary widely . |
| 26 | He said , ‘ Now what I have in mind is a stroll to the end of the valley just to see what goes on there , then back to the car and home for tea , how about that ? ’ |
| 27 | In the succeeding weeks Bush on several occasions telephoned Japanese Prime Minister Toshiki Kaifu , seeking Japanese financial contributions to the multinational force and assistance for countries unable to sustain the impact of imposing sanctions . |
| 28 | But it must not be thought that papal conciliar decrees which seem so clear-cut to the modern scholar , who sees them in all the clarity of the printed page , had a similar force and clarity for contemporaries . |
| 29 | From a survey of cytokines , we found that one , MIP-1 β , was unique in mediating both chemotaxis and adhesion-induction for T cells ( Fig. 1 ) . |
| 30 | Then , through a loudspeaker , the mother told cheering neighbours in Palermo , Sicily : ‘ An eye for an eye , a tooth for a tooth and nudity for nudity . ’ |