Example sentences of "[subord] [noun pl] for [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | More complicated was the situation at Queen 's , where designs for the front quad were prepared by Hawksmoor , but the scheme executed by Townesend ( 1710–21 ) appears to have been almost entirely the joint work of himself and Clarke ; while for the new building at Magdalen , the original design by Edward Holdsworth [ q.v. ] was revised by Townesend in 1731 under Clarke 's direction . |
| 2 | Small investors will pay less than institutions for the first instalment though how much less will not be known until June 29 after the international offer closes . |
| 3 | Small investors will pay less than institutions for the first instalment , although how much less will not be known until June 29 after the international offer closes . |
| 4 | The connections between these three issues need to be kept in mind , although opportunities for the internal reformer to make them effectively will greatly vary . |
| 5 | - Housing allocation policies have no place for men once a family has broken up , so hostels for the homeless become their place of first and last resort . |
| 6 | In general , women develop higher blood alcohol levels and suffer greater ill effects than men for a given number of drinks |
| 7 | More than 80 jobs could be created if plans for a new private hospital at Lingfield Way , on the Yarm Road industrial estate are realised . |
| 8 | I hope that my visit provided opportunities for the British oil industry to take part in the development of oil and gas fields in that region . |
| 9 | Such soil treatments , therefore , as ploughing in straw or green crops can only prove successful if conditions for the subsequent breakdown of the cellulose are present . |
| 10 | It is wise for the historian to be suspicious if claims for a special relationship are superimposed upon such alleged correlations . |
| 11 | If facilities for the elderly and disabled are poor , the fear of walking may lead many to become house-bound or institutionalised and , once so dependent , the cost of public service provision to the individual rises very sharply . |
| 12 | Because claims for the conversation-like attributes of chimpanzee gesturing have been exaggerated , it is sometimes suggested that , on the contrary , their gestures have no meaning at all . |
| 13 | At the Centre Pompidou 's Galeries Contemporaines , just over 30,000 attended an exhibition of the German artist Ruscha , while figures for the joint Weigman-Lavier and Toroni-Vilmouth events were 32,000 and 42,000 respectively . |
| 14 | The product still has not reached the market and , while spokespersons for the Australian companies avoid saying that the project has been shelved , there appears to be no clear launch plan or marketing strategy . |
| 15 | To use the army as strike-breakers for the first time since Franco ( and Spain 's universally detested military service would have caused some intersting tests of loyalty ) would have provoked a confrontation with an unclear outcome for both sides . |
| 16 | It is , in fact , his original watercolours , including studies of Easington , Ormesby and Upleatham churches , and the 12 smaller companion pen and ink drawings that go with them as illustrations for the 12 months of 1992 , which form the central core of this present show . |
| 17 | However , when calls for a compulsory call-up which would share the burden became stronger , the government passed a Military Service Act which came into force in August 1916 , six months after similar United Kingdom legislation . |
| 18 | These arise , it seems , from basic rational considerations and may be formulated as guidelines for the efficient and effective use of language in conversation to further cooperative ends . |
| 19 | Magnificent as it is , Somerset House was designed not as an arts centre , of course , but as offices for the civil servants whom Mr Heseltine now proposes to eject . |
| 20 | It is not simply that the former communist societies in Eastern Europe were characterized , to a greater or lesser extent , by relative economic backwardness and political authoritarianism , and consequently had little appeal as models for the future development of any advanced industrial society , but that the democratic socialism of social democratic and labour parties in the capitalist world , despite its real achievements in improving the conditions of life of the working class , has come to be more critically judged as tending to promote an excessive centralization of decision making , growth of bureaucracy and regulation of the lives of individuals , and has lost something of the persuasive character it once had as a movement aiming to create a new civilization . |
| 21 | Japan 's Ministry of International Trade and Industry ( MITI ) will start spending in 1983 $70 million on a seven year project to develop ‘ learning robots ’ for sea-bed and space exploration , nuclear research and power-plant maintenance as well as aids for the old and handicapped . |
| 22 | I have never shared the wild enthusiasm for anything ‘ single-bit ’ with which its arrival was greeted in some quarters ; indeed there are still only a handful of players of that ilk which I would contemplate as replacements for a good multi-bit machine , but this is one of them . |
| 23 | Members of the foreign press were allowed as observers for the first time and ‘ dialogue ’ was the stated aim of the congress and also of the CPPCC to follow . |
| 24 | In the case of the socially similar Japanese macaques such individuals may live as solitaries for a long time , growing in size and strength . |
| 25 | Few historians today place much trust in the sagas ( which apparently included a lost work on Cnut written c.1200 ) as sources for the eleventh century , but the verses which they quote are another matter . |
| 26 | Now the loss will be converted to a profit of around £65,000 — money which would have gone to Tblisi as qualifiers for the European Cup first round proper . |
| 27 | ACTORS dressed up as Vikings for a Welsh S4C documentary were challenged by local people in Swansea and accused of being New Age travellers . |
| 28 | The department offers an MA honours degree in Social Policy and joint honours degrees with Economic and Social History , Economics , Geography , Law , Politics , Social Anthropology and Sociology or with Gender Studies , as well as courses for the BSc(SocSci) degree . |
| 29 | Certain functions are administered by local authorities as agents for the Central Government when the cost is wholly reimbursed , e.g. the cost of Rent Officers . |
| 30 | But at the same time , it increased risks for national governments , both as helmsmen for the national economy and as the ultimate authority responsible for maintaining or improving the creditworthiness of the state as a debtor seeking finance from the system . |