Example sentences of "for [adj] service " in BNC.

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1 Too often it has been used as a reward for political service .
2 She 's given an OBE for political service .
3 Little electricity , less newsprint , its operations confined to the basement : Susan Nickalls profiles the Sarajevo newspaper that won an award for outstanding service yesterday
4 THE NEXT morning Erika helped Omi dress in black , the only colour she considered suitable for Divine Service .
5 Whatever might his Frome ancestors have thought of a Titford playing for Divine Service in an Anglican place of worship !
6 I was 22 in 1934 and the Hon Mrs Bower , wife of the Tory MP for the area , and her friends on the council of social services organised a scheme whereby any lad on the dole ( and most of us were ) would be trained for private service and find jobs in London and the South .
7 The private columns are thick with them , but buyers should look out for complete service histories as many are clocked .
8 Alongside the CCPR there was the National Playing Fields Association formed in 1925 to increase urban playing space ; there was also some limited provision of physical training facilities for the unemployed in the 1930s by the National Council for Social Service .
9 Thus support for families who are helping to care for an elderly frail relative was built into the activities planned for social service departments from the beginning .
10 Challis and Davies ( 1985 , p. 578 ) identified two groups of clients particularly suitable for life at home with social care planning as a cost effective answer for social service departments :
11 However , the practices and procedures which the team has adopted seem to have been shaped more directly by a -latent agenda of issues : a preference amongst the team 's management for a " hands on service ; the maintenance , until recently , of a strong health authority orientation to the team ( a hospital base , the dominance of the psychiatrist 's authority , the hospital itself as a central feature of the Borough 's service pattern ) ; a separatism which has been maintained between the social workers and the CMHNs over the team 's access to health and social service resources , so that social workers may refer clients for social service resources , and nurses for health authority resources , but not vice versa ; These features have tended to rule out for the team any sustained attention to the developmental role — a role which is certainly a part of its official brief , but which is clearly not a priority in terms of its current practice .
12 The CAB service has its origins in the combined operation set up in 1938 by the Ministry of Health , the National Council for Social Service and the Family Welfare Association to provide advice and information in an emergency .
13 ‘ The aim of this inquiry into the order relating to case no. 596 , in the charge of Miss P. Sulkins , home visitor in the employ of the Bamborough Area Council for Social Service until last year — the pink file , sir — and transferred from the list covered by the South Midlands ( Eastern Section ) Administrative Area — the papers in the yellow folder , sir — is to try and establish an order of events that stretch over no little period in time , so that responsibility for the unfortunate outcome of these actions , or as some have chosen to prejudge this enquiry , lack of action , may be apportioned justly between the various bodies responsible under the Act .
14 Other payments on top can include premiums for foreign service ( often termed inducement payments ) , hardship allowances , cost of living allowances , housing allowances , tax equalisation payments and bonuses .
15 Early in January 1758 , however , Lieutenant Home 's brother , David Home of Wedderburn , complained that the promise had not been kept and that the lieutenant had been ordered to join a fireship at Spithead which was being prepared for foreign service .
16 The UCC 's Office of Communication , which has been an active member of WACC for over 20 years , will be the first religious organisation to receive the award — the Missouri Honor Medal for Distinguished Service in Journalism .
17 They presented the principal with a big badge marked " Order of the Founder " , one of the honours for distinguished service in Salvation Army circles .
18 THE AWARD for meritorious service under adverse conditions at a scientific conference goes to Charles Weissman of the University of Zurich who gave a keynote address at the recent recombinant DNA congress in Philadelphia .
19 Eileen Sessions , former head teacher at Smestow School , Stafford , whose introduction of Golf Foundation lessons to her school curriculum 1971 led to the establishment of a Staffordshire County Schools ' Association which now incorporates 60 schools , is the first winner of the Sir Henry Cotton Award for Meritorious Service to Junior Golf .
20 In return for premium service , such retailers charge premium prices .
21 Except for a Japanese joint venture , Russell 's group does not manufacture in the Far East , and sales there can come from either US or European production , but generally Morton prefers to manufacture close to the customer for improved service and to reduce tariff costs .
22 He thought it was easy for a newcomer to acquire school and institutional business because there was always someone on the lookout for improved service .
23 Opposition councillors supported the so-called Option 3 which earmarked Finchlea and Oakfield for closure as presently constituted but left the door open for the working party to propose further use in the search for improved service for post-19 year olds .
24 I had also been taking up quite a lot of time for public service , chairing the National Gas Consumers ' Council , and also , more relevantly , working under Richard Hoggart who was chairing the Advisory Council for Adult and Continuing Education , which had a remit to develop national policies for education as a process continuing throughout life .
25 These elements of the wider system are in turn influenced by factors of the surrounding environment , for example the liability for income tax imposed by the Inland Revenue , trade union agreements , market trading conditions , and , for public service organisations in particular , the policies of central government , and initiatives such as the introduction of the community charge and the subsequent effect on local authority revenue .
26 The Colonel pronounced the route fit for public service on 13 February .
27 any motor vehicle standing on a part of a road specially set aside for the parking of vehicles , or as a stand for hackney carriages , or as a stand for public service vehicles , or as a place at which such vehicles may stop for a longer time than is necessary for the taking up and setting down of passengers where compliance with this regulation would conflict with the provisions of any order , regulations or byelaws governing the use of such part of a road for that purpose ;
28 Former West Indies captain Clive Lloyd was appointed CBE for services to cricket and for public service in Lancashire .
29 In Leeds meanwhile he interested himself in educational ventures and became widely known for public service .
30 Three whites were appointed : Dennis Norman , who had been Minister of Agriculture in 1980-85 ; Chris Anderson , the outgoing Minister of State for Public Service ; and Timothy Stamps , one of five ministers new to the government .
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