Example sentences of "[det] [noun] for the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | While we 're on the U S , could you say on the oil services er , how much of the er , good performances do you pumps turning round and again what are the prospects of that division for the current year ? |
| 2 | That is , ’ he added morosely , ‘ until the ravens start pecking them , though they usually leave that bit for the last . |
| 3 | Most of its 1,033 members have little sympathy for the democratic , capitalist Russia that Boris Yeltsin is trying to create . |
| 4 | He has little sympathy for the Arab nationalism that destroyed the Jews of Baghdad and the Christian Assyrians , and he quotes at length from Stephen Bloom 's ‘ almost lyrical ’ account of a Romanian childhood where Germans , Slovaks , Russians , Greeks , Turks , Armenians and Jews provided harmonious diversity . |
| 5 | The doctor had little sympathy for the Imperial . |
| 6 | His busyness in seeking profitable office suggests little sympathy for the austere ideals of ‘ Thorough ’ : a privy councillor throughout the decade , he had no scruples in gathering a clutch of reversions for his young sons Thomas and Henry ( later first Earl of St Albans , q.v. ) , which inhibited the king 's freedom of appointment in legal , financial , and administrative offices . |
| 7 | The available reserves of its accumulated profit were reduced by workers ' demands , and by high taxation too , so that there was little money for the much-needed capital investment in new plant and machinery or for research and development . |
| 8 | You should be told how to keep that look for the next eight weeks . ’ |
| 9 | The Secretary of State is not required to entertain an appeal if it appears to him that permission for the proposed development could not have been granted by the local planning authority , or could not have been so granted otherwise than subject to the conditions imposed by them , having regard to the statutory requirements to the provisions of the development order , and to any directions given under the order . |
| 10 | Yes I pick up on the comment from the , Notts are n't as in control as they were , after first Tony and then Paul got their names on the score sheet in each case for the first time this season , both with bristling finishing efforts and you 'd be a harsh critic indeed who did n't agree that Pisa deserved to pull one back because they played some fine attacking football , and it was the player who 's caused most danger , who 's wearing the number eleven that moved across to the right hand side , got clear of the defence , pulled back an absolutely brilliant clot cross and in the middle who 'd missed an earlier header on fifteen minutes to make it one one , did n't miss on this occasion . |
| 11 | As was customary in North Korea the authorities reported that 99.73 per cent of the electorate had voted , in each instance for the sole candidate of the ruling KWP . |
| 12 | ‘ It was a fantastic feeling to be out on that field for the last 10 or 15 minutes , ’ he recalled . |
| 13 | There was little support for the white captain among the black players and the series was disaster . |
| 14 | Is it right that liability for the second most heinous crime in English law , which carries a maximum penalty of life imprisonment , should be satisfied by this relatively low grade of fault ? |
| 15 | Planting in 1988 came within 15 per cent of the national target , but has fallen now to one-third of that level for the same cost to the taxpayer as in 1988 . |
| 16 | State employees will trap and shoot up to 75 per cent of the wolves in a region southwest of Fairbanks and keep numbers to that level for the next few years . |
| 17 | But that Saturday for the first time in his life , he invited his youngest son Patsy to attend the ball-game along with himself and his other three sons . |
| 18 | Aeschylus 's tragedy represents a loss of faith in the prophetic voice of women and the consequence of that loss for the Western discursive tradition . |
| 19 | Compagnie des Machines Bull SA , facing probably the biggest crisis in its history now that it is confronted with an administration not prepared to pour ever more good taxpayers ' money after bad ( CI No 2,166 ) , yesterday reported that turnover for the first quarter of the year crashed by 10.6% , to the equivalent of $943m ; sales slumped 16.5% to $422m and rentals and services fell 5.1% to $521m . |
| 20 | And now facing probably the biggest crisis in its history , Bull last week reported that turnover for the first quarter of the year crashed by 10.6% , to the equivalent of $943m . |
| 21 | First the figures , furniture retailing continues to be highly competitive so I am pleased to report that turnover for the twenty eight weeks was through to the twenty million five point five percent better than the same period in the previous year . |
| 22 | He saved that humiliation for the third round , when he knocked Tommy out with an uppercut that the lad from Poplar never saw . |
| 23 | This finding provides some support for the logarithmic approximation made in ( 3 ) where higher order terms in a number of variables were dropped from the original specification . |
| 24 | This is n't some game show where you barter with another contestant for the big prize . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | Without a grid covering the shape , success rates for area or for counting squares fell to between 35–65 per cent for the bottom band , and there was generally some reduction for the remaining pupils . |
| 27 | My initial impression , on seeing this guitar for the first time , was that Rockwood have tried very hard to steer away from total Strat clone , whilst keeping all the essential ingredients pretty much to the fore . |
| 28 | Later in 1974 , however , Eyre uncovered another masterpiece for the Royal Shakespeare Company with Frank Wedeking 's The Marquis of Keith , the tale of a cynical racketeer who exploits the German passion for kultur by projecting a ‘ Multi-Dome Art Palace ’ , for which various dupes are only too eager to put their hands into their pockets . |
| 29 | In response to Air Ministry Specification R14/24 calling for a large , long-range flying-boat , Blackburn Aircraft ventured into this field for the first time in 1924 with their RB.1 Iris ( Blackburn 's previous flying-boat experience had been with the diminutive N.1B and Pellet single-seat designs ) . |
| 30 | I 'm trying to get hold of you this afternoon for the following reasons ( listed in case we do n't manage to talk ) : |