Example sentences of "[det] the [noun pl] [verb] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Over half the severely disabled elderly are living only with the spouse and exactly half the spouses caring for an elderly disabled partner are men . |
| 2 | Finding that a third of the track and half the stations accounted for only 2% of traffic , he began a drastic programme of closures . |
| 3 | The other is to add together all the personnel costs for each kind of worker from the original job advertisement through to the retirement or redundancy payments . |
| 4 | She had taken them out so that she could read the labels on the other bottles — and for super-safe keeping she had locked them in my drawer while she went through all the tablets looking for the ones she wanted . |
| 5 | While all the studies used for this paper do not attain this ideal , the effort to articulate material that is not readily available through more conventional studies of workers ' images of society , for instance , may serve to make some point in the social landscape between the ‘ centres ’ of workers ' and managers ' worlds and that of social scientists . |
| 6 | ‘ It is easier to close exits from there areas than to safeguard all the areas intended for their bombs , ’ he said . |
| 7 | Would the right hon. Gentleman therefore care to suggest what I should say to those 420 workers in Rolls-Royce who have been ejected from their jobs with scant courtesy and with no idea why it has happened , who have all the skills required for building motor cars and are not to be given the chance to do so ? |
| 8 | No man is an island ; no smallholder can possibly find the time or produce all the skills needed for complete self-sufficiency . |
| 9 | You 'll practise all the skills needed for anchoring and mooring under engine in a small cruiser . |
| 10 | ‘ When the King came recently , blood flowed in the streets from all the camels killed for him . |
| 11 | At one point she 'd given a talk on Sky TV about all the signs to look for in a youngster abusing solvents . |
| 12 | In effect it gave the UK all the frequencies needed for a nationwide Carfax service on a dedicated lattice . |
| 13 | Er it would have been better had he perhaps said , well there 's the time for the job , there 's your card , there 's all the operations listed for you , from one to sixteen or whatever it might be , and each one itemized you know , as to how long it might take . |
| 14 | Imagine civil servants working in a capital city and trying to make all the decisions required for running a large country . |
| 15 | But in the two weeks , as they moved slowly north into the forested hills and grassy uplands close to the hill station of Dalat , they had killed between them prime specimens of almost all the groups required for the museum . |
| 16 | All the activities suggested for video recording are activities with a language learning purpose which could of course be done without the presence of the camera . |
| 17 | All the pylons go for their guns |
| 18 | aha and he says I 've been to the nice wee man he says he remembers ah going round all the houses looking for somebody to do in Apple Street and he went and told what 's his name ? |
| 19 | In another area he did actually get a market research firm 's fieldworkers to go round all the houses asking for young men and women in the age group , and while this appeared to give a reasonably accurate sample frame it was also very expensive . |
| 20 | All the mothers raced for their Volvos as the players struggled over to another part of the field . |
| 21 | ‘ Since I had all the arrangements made for the trip , I thought it would be a good opportunity to get some sponsorship to help replace the missing equipment . ’ |
| 22 | The principal aim of the Juvenile ‘ Rules ’ was to continue ‘ the supervision of the boy or girl , when placed , with a view to his or her further education , both technical and humanistic ’ and to bring to bear on the life of the adolescents ‘ all the influences making for industrial efficiency , for enlightened citizenship and self-realisation ’ . |
| 23 | After many years in India , all the troops longed for the boat from Bombay , the troopship back to England . |
| 24 | The project is working to identify all the terms required for recording medical records and for other uses , such as medical audit . |
| 25 | When the committee voted , the measure was carried by nine votes to eight , with all the Tories voting for and all the Opposition voting against . |
| 26 | They were huge ; there was a high ceiling , vaulted with cut slate on iron pillars , and standing where Quiss was , all the walls save for that immediately behind him were invisible , concealed by the rising steams , smokes and vapours from hundreds of pots , pans , vats , stoves , kettles , skillets , grills , tubs and cauldrons . |
| 27 | Next week we spell out what they mean for you as well as providing a full list of all the candidates standing for election . |
| 28 | All the Rainbows run for home when the ‘ witch ’ is called . |
| 29 | My conclusion is , though I have not reviewed here all the examples adduced for the phenomenon of " automatism " , that the phenomenon does not exist in the Hebrew Bible , and that some supposed examples of it really exhibit the parallelism of greater precision , while other examples contain other types of parallelistic relationships . |
| 30 | All the subjects volunteered for the study . |