Example sentences of "[prep] [noun pl] for [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | John Daubney is no fool and has sought the solution because he , like many others , looks for reasons for unexpected noises occurring at 3 a. m. in the morning . |
| 2 | They typically selected novel objects as referents for novel words , and appropriate referents for familiar words . |
| 3 | In classical literature , certain fairies acted as guardians for different gods . |
| 4 | Much of what was said above about contacts for clinical services also applies to GPs operating their own budgets . |
| 5 | Railway employees , or ‘ Nepo-idols ’ as they were called , queued for hours for scarce tickets for the Nepmen who tipped them for their service . |
| 6 | More to the point , they vote as proxies for private shareholders who typically deposit their shares in the bank 's custody . |
| 7 | Castles were also frequently designed as houses for great lords or to be administrative and judicial centres . |
| 8 | As a capital city whose population includes , among students and more generally , a wide variety of religious , national and ethnic groups , Edinburgh can offer ethnically-based social facilities and opportunities for meetings for several forms of non-Christian religious observance . |
| 9 | As a capital city whose population includes among students and more generally , a wide variety of religious , national and ethnic groups , Edinburgh can offer ethnically-based social facilities and opportunities for meetings for several forms of non-christian religious observance . |
| 10 | The novel does to structuralist theories of meaning what Irigaray does to Freud 's theory of feminine sexuality : it mimics them , draws out their implications and ultimately demonstrates their limitations , using the structures they propose as metaphors for personal relations . |
| 11 | There is also uncertainty about proposals for easier connections at King 's Cross between Scottish trains and services in the London area . |
| 12 | This explanation of urban poverty in terms of ‘ perverse incentives ’ is being picked up by the right wing in Britain and used as the basis for proposals for new policies and regulations regarding unemployment benefit , income support , and housing entitlement as they apply to lone mothers . |
| 13 | The Greek minority , he said , could nominate independent candidates to stand in individual constituencies , and Greeks could also stand and be elected as deputies for other parties . |
| 14 | Bicarbonate concentration was reduced and urea , creatinine , phosphate , and urate were increased in all groups , but there were no significant differences between groups for these values . |
| 15 | If the competing investments are similar , say a choice has to be made between proposals for new products in the same product range , the complexity of DCF methods may not be justified . |
| 16 | If the competing investments are similar , say a choice has to be made between proposals for new products in the same product range , the complexity of DCF methods may not be justified . |
| 17 | Often the material was about plans for future changes in some aspect of domestic policy . |
| 18 | Anybody wanting for kids for little kids or something . |
| 19 | My husband went to er a meeting of the English Speaking Union , whatever that is , and they said there was going to be need for homes for English children . |
| 20 | As in the Congress of People 's Deputies elections in March 1989 [ see p. 36513 ] , practices reminiscent of elections held before the introduction of the democratic reforms under Gorbachev continued to prevail , including artificially high turnouts , a lack of choice between candidates for many seats , and overwhelming communist majorities . |
| 21 | The centres might have to go cap in hand to the Croydon college and the two sixth-form colleges in the borough asking their governing bodies to apply to the funding council for funds for vocational courses , in the hope that funds would be obtained on behalf of the adult education centres . |
| 22 | Obliged to ask parliament for funds for these expeditions and for his other expenses , the King found that , instead of voting him the customs duties for life , as was normal on the monarch s accession , it attempted to impeach Buckingham for corruption and incompetence . |
| 23 | It is potentially important both with regard to making the compilation of thesauri for specific applications easier , and also with regard to enhancing the similarities between lists for different applications . |
| 24 | Micro Focus Plc yesterday stepped up its presence in the Unix market with launch of Micro Focus Transaction System , a distributed , client-server transaction processing system that runs under Unix , AIX OS/2 and Windows NT , which can act as servers for other copies of Transaction System and for CICS OS/2 , CICS/6000 and Transaction System thin clients . |
| 25 | The new Transaction System from Micro Focus Plc ( UX No 435 ) , runs under Unix , AIX OS/2 and Windows NT , which can act as servers for other copies of Transaction System and for CICS OS/2 , CICS/6000 and Transaction System thin clients . |
| 26 | The NEWS workstations running NetWare for NEWS will be offered as servers for personal computers . |
| 27 | That , however , is to ignore the reality of Arab politics , where governments are unrepresentative of popular will , and many have long functioned as clients for Western interests in the region . |
| 28 | However , you should pause after jokes for two reasons . |
| 29 | Despite this view of the dependence of writing on speech , some linguists and educators have , apparently paradoxically , used written forms as models for spoken forms . |
| 30 | The cubeoctahedron , dodecahedron , icosahedron and various other semi and demi-regular solids have been used as models for geodesic domes . |