Example sentences of "of [noun] for the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The animals are packed with sufficient food and a source of moisture for the complete journey allowing for possible delays . |
| 2 | The normal means of assessment for the taught courses is written essay and in some cases an oral examination as well . |
| 3 | The Munn Report examined the structure of the curriculum in the last two years of compulsory schooling in Scotland , and carried out its work almost at the same time as the Dunning Committee considered the aims , purposes and forms of assessment for the whole ability range . |
| 4 | Architects for the conversion were Cecil Denny Highton and Partners and the work was carried out in two phases , the contractors for the first being Newman and Kerry of Aldershot , and J. Edwards and Sons of Waterlooville for the second . |
| 5 | By abandoning any logic of progress for the negative synthesis of anti-labour which produces deviation , Sartre is , on the other hand , able to account for the major detour that provides the context for his whole debate with Merleau-Ponty , and indeed for all post-war Marxism : the spectre of Stalinism . |
| 6 | Such sparse coverage necessitates the estimation of values for the missing transitions . |
| 7 | And which is natural because you know , the very early motor cars were only a sort of toy for the rich as it were and er when it came to you see er grocer 's vans or , or er laundry vans made out of old pr private cars . |
| 8 | A loss of support for the federal government was indicated by an unexpected victory of the ruling Parti Bersatu Sabah ( PBS ) over the People 's Justice Party ( Angkatan Keadilan Rakyat — Akar ) formed in September 1989 by breakaway members of the PBS , in the Ranau by-election to the Sabah State Assembly on Dec. 9 . |
| 9 | For a time Soviet rule appeared to collapse in the face of support for the nationalist Azerbaijan Popular Front . |
| 10 | Polling Day Weather : Dry , sunny and warm THE RESULT of the general election was thrown wide open last night , with three polls suggesting a last-minute rallying of support for the embattled Conservatives . |
| 11 | There is a large amount of evidence ( summarized by Grundy , 1986 ) that it continues to be the major source of support for the elderly . |
| 12 | Two million voted in the six republics that had formally declined to participate , among whom the level of support for the continued existence of the USSR was predictably very high . |
| 13 | It is not intended as a source of support for the committed student . |
| 14 | A resolution was passed condemning direct action as a means of bringing about the Social Democratic Commonwealth , while the importance of support for the cooperative movement was recognised in spite of doubts on the advisability of its political involvement . |
| 15 | Nevertheless , it was the British Labour movement which was the backbone of support for the Spanish Republican government . |
| 16 | Yesterday 's mass picket had been fuelled by last week 's decision at the Court of Session to allow meetings at the gates , and by the wave of support for the sacked workers at a rally in Dundee on Saturday . |
| 17 | In Teheran 's poor southern suburbs , which supposedly form the bedrock of support for the Islamic revolution , many young people said they would not be voting . |
| 18 | It is pleasing that there is a large degree of support for the Southern fire station as I said it was music to my ears . |
| 19 | On Saturday 4th September 1993 we make our annual gesture of support for the Central Wales Line . |
| 20 | The talks , inevitably , were overshadowed by public demonstrations of support for the Soviet leader which in turn contributed to a wave of public resistance to the policies of the Chinese government itself . |
| 21 | Coffee makes up over half of El Salvador 's exports , and a boycott is advocated by US opponents of the Bush Administration 's policy of support for the Salvadorean government . |
| 22 | There was no Soviet declaration of support for the new government , and Soviet press articles underplayed the revolutionary potential of the Cuban situation . |
| 23 | From his investigations into the divisions that the fighting produced within the village communities of Wiltshire , Somerset , and Devon , David Underdown concluded that ‘ the distribution of support for the two sides in the western counties shows how strongly Church and King were associated with the old festive culture ’ . |
| 24 | The final section will then examine the socio-economic configuration of support for the two parties . |
| 25 | The operation of the electoral system has changed as a result of alterations in the level and distribution of support for the political parties , so that the value of a vote is far less for the supporters of some parties than others and in some constituencies than in others . |
| 26 | At a stroke , this would neutralize the long experience of rural discontent between tenants and landlords , it would remove the over-bearing power of landlords in village communities and in the process eliminate one source of support for the ultra-nationalist movement . |
| 27 | Meanwhile the degree of support for the Communist Refoundation Party ( PRC ) , which secured 5.6 per cent of the vote , suggested that in spite of events in eastern Europe loyalty to Communist theory persisted . |
| 28 | One high point was when I telephoned the historian , Roy Medvedev , to record on tape his message of support for the second European Nuclear Disarmament Convention , held in Berlin in 1983 . |
| 29 | In England , as elsewhere , ‘ even though their help could not be counted upon ’ , children and kin were providing the greatest share of support for the older generation of their families . |
| 30 | As many observed at the time , the question could have similarly been asked nearly fifty years earlier with regard to the relative lack of support for the 1926 General Strike in the same county : as Sunley ( 1990 ) describes the two geographies , they have ‘ striking parallels ’ . |