Example sentences of "[vb -s] for [adj] [noun sg] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And we 've got a list of people who have responded to telesales offers for ambient music compilation albums — about three thousand on that one … |
| 2 | CONNER PERIPHERALS SUES FOR ALLEGED PATENT INFRINGEMENT |
| 3 | They recommend the introduction of Management Grants for appropriate land management ( similar to NCC 's Section 15 Management Agreements ) which can combine payments to offset loss of income for not performing damaging operations and other payments to reflect the need for certain forms of positive management . |
| 4 | The European Commission 's approval of the programmes for RECHAR grants for British coalfield areas is overdue . |
| 5 | To put it another way , President Reagan 's plans are likely to attract the kind of remarks that another John — McEnroe not McElroy — normally reserves for bad line calls . |
| 6 | Brian Richards , vice president of UK preclinical R & D at Searle , which recently spent £15 million designing and building a genetic engineering pilot plant in High Wycombe , near London , argues that ‘ good manufacturing practice ’ may suffice for biotechnology factories — as it has for other fermentation industries such as the antibiotic industry . |
| 7 | ICMS stands for Integrated Crop Management Systems and , unless you are involved in produce growing , it is an expression you have probably never heard . |
| 8 | ‘ Adam & Eve ’ stands for Automated Document Analysis and Manipulation & Extensible Variety of Exercises . |
| 9 | SQL , which stands for structured query language , is a calculus-based language used on a number of database systems , for example , DB2 and Oracle . |
| 10 | CAT stands for cysteic acid treatment , a type of protein to help repair and protect damaged hair . |
| 11 | AIDS stands for Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome . |
| 12 | High on the agenda will be to achieve international agreements on dividing the transmission bands for high definition satellite television ( HDTV ) and on defining the introduction of satellite radio broadcasts . |
| 13 | Home responsibilities protection only counts for full tax years , which is a disadvantage , since most of us do not arrange our lives from April to April . |
| 14 | You can have the pick of any of the manor farm horses for breeding , to improve the standard of Handley Farm horses — providing you replace any Tom needs for general farm work . |
| 15 | United Distillers is totally committed to its central objective of delivering consistently superior performance and meeting worldwide consumer needs for high quality spirits beverages through its portfolio of outstanding brands . |
| 16 | The second working party , set up by the General Practitioner Board , is also looking at training but within the wider context of what the future holds for small accountancy practices . |
| 17 | Windows 3.1 users will no doubt be aware that their chosen environment allows for various sound inputs and outputs , including MIDI and sampled sounds ( MID and WAV files ) . |
| 18 | The student 's t-test is a recognised test for statistical significance of the difference between two means and allows for small sample sizes . |
| 19 | The costing of both staff is based on their salaries and allows for National Insurance contributions and superannuation . |
| 20 | This allows for linear power increments , depending on the number of CPU 's configured in the system , says the firm . |
| 21 | A series of holes allows for different window sizes . |
| 22 | Based on a set of built-in general-purpose database objects integrated with a GUI , another industry first , Vision is intended for mixed environments of Windows-based personal computers , Macs running X-server software and Motif-grounded X-Window systems , and allows for rapid application development of all standard GUI window styles . |
| 23 | At that time the Royal Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain will advocate that all dispensed liquid medicines should be supplied in a child resistant container , as now happens for solid dose preparations . |
| 24 | However , the widening of the margin of fluctuation either side of par to 2¼ per cent at the Smithsonian Conference in December 1971 posed a threat to EC plans for limited exchange rate fluctuations amongst member currencies . |
| 25 | Although the USSR has hinted at the possibility of cooperation with the GCC over issues of Gulf security , its attitude to this body , especially over GCC plans for coordinated security arrangements , remained negative in the early 1980s . |
| 26 | The booklet contains maximum exposure limits for hexavalent chromium compounds , nickel an d its inorganic compounds , crystalline silica and grain dust along with new or revised occupational exposure standards for acetone , chlorine , n-hexane and Sulfotep . |
| 27 | Nostalgia for the good old , bad old days gives much of what passes for working class culture in the 1980's , its peculiarly sentimental cast . |
| 28 | Aside from the chips from Sun , IBM and HP , IDC says that all other RISCs ‘ are facing serious challenges keeping their market shares in an environment with increasing development costs for new processor generations and shorter product cycles ’ . |
| 29 | The company has announced its first family of memory upgrades for Digital Equipment Corp 's new Alpha APX-based ( should n't that be Alpha AXP : when you 're busting someone 's embargo , it 's as well to get the name right ) DEC/3000 systems — now that is a name new to us , but is it right ? |
| 30 | Quad Systems Corp , Horsham , Pennsylvania maker of surface mounts for printed circuit boards , filed with the US Securities & Exchange Commission to go public with an initial offer of up to 2.0m shares at a target price of $7.00 to $8.50 a share . |