Example sentences of "the [noun] [noun pl] for [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Science what steps he is taking to assure himself of the adequacy of the funding arrangements for local management of smaller primary schools ; and if he will make a statement . |
| 2 | The reasons for this are a political philosophy of increasing private provision coupled with changes in the funding arrangements for those entering residential care , specifically the introduction of supplementary benefit payments to those unable to afford the fees at private homes . |
| 3 | Finally , when picking the base categories for several variables whose interrelationships are to be examined , an attempt should be made to keep negative relationships between variables to a minimum : double negatives are as confusing in data analysis as they are in prose . |
| 4 | If the futures prices for both commodities fall by 10% , the first strategy will result in Lois losing [ 10 × ( 50 000 × 0.10 - 10 000 × 0.10 ) ] = £40 000 , while the latter strategy will produce zero profit because it is unaffected by changes in the general level of prices , ( 10 × 50 000 × 0.10 - ( 50 × 10 000 × 0.10 ) = 0 ) . |
| 5 | The alignment points for each frame are identified and , if desired , are copied to an adjoining layer . |
| 6 | Another area in need of standardisation is the description standards for archival data exchange , and some of these problems are summarised by Cook ( 1992 ) . |
| 7 | Locally elected municipalities may modify those guidelines , but ‘ The vast majority of the municipalities adopt the Ministry guidelines for all or almost all subjects ’ . |
| 8 | If it 's not First Aid it 's the Knitting Socks for Icelandic Seamen Club . ’ |
| 9 | As Cyprus is a Commonwealth country and we are one of the guarantor powers for that island , how does the Prime Minister justify the ongoing occupation of much of that island by the Turkish army ? |
| 10 | Allow this to work on the cooking residues for 20 minutes and then switch the combi-steamer onto the steam mode for 10-–15 minutes . |
| 11 | Even the research listed by the ‘ independent ’ Police Foundation or undertaken at the University Centres for Criminological Research ( and largely dependent on government grants and funding by such bodies as the Economic and Social Research Council ) often comes up against the anti — intellectual bias which permeates all levels in police thinking ( Lewis 1976 ) . |
| 12 | The market for intermediates — the building blocks for pure isomer products — was worth about £300 million and due to increase to £1.7 billion by the year 2000 . |
| 13 | Although the most successful county in the District in demonstrating the effectiveness of a resident tutor through the considerable talents of Harold Shearman who had provided the building blocks for co-operative endeavour between the Cambridge Board and the WEA during the early thirties , the position began to change when he was succeeded by Harold Plaskitt as the university 's resident tutor in 1936 . |
| 14 | There are training days at teachers ' centres for new teachers , LEATGS courses for in-service development , management courses for deputies and new headteachers , and of course the Baker days for whole-staff development . |
| 15 | Speaking from the society 's headquarters in Edinburgh , superintendent Ron Grant — a former shepherd — summed the situation up : ‘ It 's been one of the worst winters in the west Highlands for many years and for once it 's not been snow but rather rain which has caused the problems . |
| 16 | The Phnom Penh government has been fighting the Khmers Rouges for more than a decade , but now it needs its old enemy . |
| 17 | She silently called him all the names she could think of , then repeated the choicer ones for good measure , as she sluiced her face in cold water . |
| 18 | Alf , a well-known all-round sportsman , who still plays socially , was Secretary to the Henley Artisans for some 10 years and had the lucky chance as a man in domestic service , of learning golf on a small private course at Chalkhouse Green . |
| 19 | Before Mr McNeill 's remarks last week , it was announced that the Commission for Relation Equality has begun a formal investigation into the assessment procedures for bilingual children in Strathclyde . |
| 20 | Before Mr McNeill 's remarks last week , it was announced that the Commission for Relation Equality has begun a formal investigation into the assessment procedures for bilingual children in Strathclyde . |
| 21 | Erm so erm I suppose the business of victims as survivors is a conflict , a controversy , which you might see in reading about this topic , and some people do n't use the term victims for that reason . |
| 22 | As long as the total of the balancing figures for each fund equals the balance on the cash book , then the accounts as a whole are in balance . |
| 23 | We summed the ET-1-IR grades for all epithelial cell types ( ie , airway epithelium and type II pneumocytes ) , and found higher values in groups A ( 3.09 [ 0.4 ] ) and B ( 4.0 [ 0.3 ] ) than in group C ( 0.9 [ 0.5 ] ) ( p < 0.01 ) . |
| 24 | His one-night stands and his expansive appetite for fun in the night clubs of Los Angeles , New York and London have been charted in the gossip columns for two decades . |
| 25 | You know , if we were in Malaysia , we 'd be hanging from the light fittings for this . ’ |
| 26 | Our job was to write the military communiques , the leaflets explaining our political programme and what we were fighting for when we moved into a new municipality , prepare tapes for the occasions we occupied the local radio stations in San Vicente and Zacatecoluca , monitor the international and national radio stations we could reach , and produce the mural newspapers for all the sub-zones of the region . |
| 27 | The carriage settings for all models are the same . |
| 28 | There is no information on the carriage rates for this organism but the apparent increase is of concern , as is its potential to cause invasive disease in some patients . |
| 29 | It was a common thing to find people searching the garbage heaps for orange peel , old bones or other refuse , and eating them greedily when found . |
| 30 | So these are the side tables for high table , the hearth , central hearth , central fire place , waiting to get the fire dogs for it . |