Example sentences of "[noun sg] for the [adj] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'm grateful , that 's for today , erm my Lord it may sound slightly more erm contentious , but I 'd also ask for certificate for counsel for the thirteenth of August hearing , may I say the reason for that , it 's a matter that has n't come before you , you wo n't know about , it 's this , this reason , because at that period it was n't just the application under twenty eighty or twenty eight , four for delay there was another application er , which was unsuccessful which has n't been proceed today , but cost were also disallowed with more serious reason , I submit that said showed er negligent or that improper conduct , there was a substantial attack mounted , and I can use no other words fairly describe it on the professional conduct of and for that reason my Lord er both cos the seriousness of the allegations , but of course also because of the potential conflict that they acted for themselves and it would of been in situation for us solicitor hence to turn up , er they instructed counsel and my self , and so for that double reason in my believe we should be entitled to at , at first stage , ordinarily I would n't of had a very good run for argument but I , it 's my suspicion my clue recollection , be backed up by those behind me , and indeed by the documents that a substantial attack was mounted and it was in , I have to say in full flight terms , and much hence could n't be said to be unreasonable to deem if necessarily , unusually to send counsel in front of a taxing master , well I wo n't say any more on the point , but that is my suspicion |
| 2 | The Wesleyan mission had been started in 1886 by the old boys of The Leys School as a settlement for the poor of Finsbury and it had the usual assortment of activities such as clubs , bands , and concerts . |
| 3 | The master , A. D. Lindsay ( later first Baron Lindsay of Birker , q.v. ) , encouraged him to work for a spell ( 1927–8 ) at a Quaker settlement for the unemployed in the Rhondda Valley — an experience which made a deep impression . |
| 4 | As they were both due in London in connection with the case , and as Coleman was also there seeing Salinger , Buhler suggested that it might be a good opportunity for the three of them to get together . |
| 5 | Here , within three minutes , Mark Bailey had rounded their defence for the first of his side 's dozen tries . |
| 6 | It 's filled with supersafe play equipment that 's paradise for the bravest of young adventurers ( 12 years and under ) and it stays open every weekend through the winter . |
| 7 | The contract for the first of these smaller cutters was given to Brooke Marine Shipyard at Lowestoft . |
| 8 | At half past four the morose office messenger would slink in with his brief case for the last of the week 's mail , ducking the cheerful insults the girls would fling at him . |
| 9 | Difficulties in defining disability , together with powerful limits on society 's generosity towards handicapped groups , seems likely to continue to restrict the scope of financial provision for the disabled for many years to come . |
| 10 | Date Number of homes Number of beds 1987 169 5000 1988 200 7000 Approximately half of those homes say they offer some provision for the elderly with mental impairment . |
| 11 | Despite attempts to glamorise those who died fulfilling their ‘ internationalist duty ’ in Afghanistan , there were many letters in the Soviet press complaining of the one-sided treatment of the war that had been provided in the Soviet media and of the failure to make proper provision for the wounded on their return to the USSR . |
| 12 | Statutory youth service provision for the 16 to 18 age group in Northern Ireland |
| 13 | If there are substantial doubts as to whether the provision of charity schools was ever sufficiently widespread , directed or differentiated from earlier , or later , efforts to have constituted a special movement , there is none that school provision for the poor in the middle and later years of the century remained uneven and spasmodic . |
| 14 | This did not automatically lead all in influential circles to conclude that there was a need for provision for the poor by the state . |
| 15 | The children were split into two age groups , Youth Allyah for the fourteen to seventeen-year-olds and Hechalutz , the adult movement , for the rest . |
| 16 | Rosslyn realised that the horse was asking for help , and that his manners had n't just experienced a mysterious and miraculous change for the better during the course of the day ! |
| 17 | The Palestinians do , however , acknowledge signs of change for the better in US Jewry , Congress and the Administration , and that it is up to themselves to push them forward in much more effective ways than they have managed hitherto . |
| 18 | In the normal way , there should be some change for the better in the patient 's condition , so if weeks pass and the patient seems static , you need to know why . |
| 19 | One trusts that the desert winds blowing through Vegas this week represent the winds of change for the better in boxing . |
| 20 | Some felt the present arrangements to be satisfactory , believing that ‘ there had been a marked change for the better in the CNAA system over the years and felt that subject boards fulfilled a useful role ’ . |
| 21 | He quotes Hennock who wrote , ‘ It seemed to many observers that there had been a change for the worse since 1835 ! ’ |
| 22 | The discussion groups ( Appendix II , section 5 ) show how easily a change for the worse in someone 's circumstances can lead to debt troubles : the man in hospital after an accident at work , who then had a breakdown , while overdue credit instalments mounted up to over £100 and led to a court summons ; the family who owed £30 a week on furniture and carpet instalments for their new flat — eventually taken to court after a series of lost jobs ; or ( Appendix III ) the previously secure young widow whose money troubles started when her husband died — although an understanding bank wrote off the outstanding balance on a car loan , a furniture firm refused to accept the reduced instalments which were all that she could afford . |
| 23 | First-time buyers — especially in the South-east — frequently borrow to the very limit of their capacity to repay , and if there is a change for the worse in their circumstances , or if interest rates rise steeply , then they may find themselves in great difficulty . |
| 24 | Rourke , who has been making films since Spielberg 's 1941 in 1979 , earned his reputation in 1987 after slamming the producers of A Prayer For the Dying for turning his part into ‘ an Irish Rambo ’ . |
| 25 | By drawing a rectangle round ‘ it 's a chronicle ’ Dostoevsky suggests a framed narrative for The Possessed like the story found by the frame narrator among a deceased ex-convict 's effects in The House of the Dead ; and by declaring ‘ I am a character ’ ( kharakter : a person , not a literary personazh ) he puts himself inside that frame . |
| 26 | Casey had been one of the most prominent Irish bishops for 23 years and was a well-known campaigner for the poor in Ireland and the Third World . |
| 27 | HOSPICE VISITOR : but is our Princess turning a sanctuary for the dying into a sanctuary for DI ? |
| 28 | Wartime expansion of milk consumption took place for a third reason that related more to specific practical problems than to a new attitude on the part of policy-makers : simply , the disruptions of wartime made it virtually impossible to implement the pre-war means test criteria , such as the definition of a ‘ necessitous ’ child eligible for free milk , or the distinguishing of those children receiving cheap milk for the under-fives under section 2 of the 1939 Milk Industry Act . |
| 29 | Marc Overmars made a dream debut for the Dutch by putting them ahead after just four minutes but Feyyaz equalised with a 36th-minute penalty . |
| 30 | Indeed , Thomson suggests that , in relative terms , today 's pensions are lower in value than support for the elderly through the mid-nineteenth century Poor Law . |