Example sentences of "in the [noun pl] for [adj] " in BNC.

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1 One slightly frustrating aspect of this book is the lack of a bibliography , meaning that one has to go hunting in the footnotes for first references .
2 Essentially based on war , too , were the martial associations , the orders of chivalry , election to which was itself an honour and a sign of good military reputation , whose members vied with one another in the stakes for further recognition born out of daring and courage shown in war .
3 The profit and loss account should bear only the net movement in the provisions for unrealised profit .
4 In addition , the USA was insisting on a " dollar for dollar " reduction in the guarantees for all money spent over the pre-1967 Green Line for settlement construction .
5 They achieved even wider publicity and discussion when the ending of the war left time and space in the newspapers for such matters .
6 And Darren from Stoke on Trent was in the forces for three years and he did n't see any bullying at all .
7 Miller provided a wealth of elegant ornamental plants in the Figures for those appreciating beauty in botany and included many others on account of their usefulness or rarity .
8 The delegation continued to be the subject of a heated correspondence in the journals for some weeks after the event .
9 Since the accent in this study lies on 1922 , a report in The Times for 6 January may suffice as an eye-witness account of conditions in Saratov and Samara gubernii .
10 Cloth exports for 1374–75 can not be measured , as the custom on cloth for that year was farmed for all ports except London , and there are considerable gaps in the accounts for adjacent years .
11 Is a provision required in the accounts for this year and if so , how much should be provided ?
12 Moreover , the global index of either victimization or recorded offences can be misleading , in that it conceals quite large variations in the trends for specific offences .
13 Cook the onion , garlic and petits pois in the tomatoes for 10 minutes .
14 Peter Noonan has been patiently waiting in the wings for six years , and finally , whether it was seeing Terry so happy , realising that she was n't getting any younger , or the fact that I told her I was thinking of getting married , sh — ’
15 So how do you you know , you lived in the flats for fifteen years .
16 So do you know when you do you know when you erm I mean lived in the flats in the flats for fifteen years , have you managed to make many friends ?
17 Browne 's polyphony is dense ( particularly in the compositions for five and six men 's voices ) and endlessly resourceful .
18 Subsidiarity was designed to operate under forms of government exercising undivided power , and the pretensions and ambitions to exercise this power are already clear for all to see in the plans for European integration .
19 Finally , it was very much hoped that financial provision in the Groups for this proven and valuable programme would not be reduced .
20 Nor do the wages from the plantations compensate the families left in the villages for this loss of labour .
21 Rotemberg ( 1987 ) and Blanchard ( 1987 ) provide useful surveys of recent developments in the foundations for Keynesian macroeconomics and Gray ( 1976 ) analyses certain conditions under which ‘ sticky ’ wages might be optimal .
22 ‘ Best set ’ means several things , especially : absence of clashing hours , and balanced numbers in the sets for each module .
23 Swollen plant tissues , so-called galls , located at the tree trunk would be genetically programmed to use the solar energy captured in the leaves for generating hydrogen gas as a by-product of photosynthesis .
24 Following a small change in the rules for supplementary benefit provision elderly people claiming a supplementary pension were allowed to enter private residential care with the full cost being met by the state .
25 All the stories are drawn and there are none of the photo stories which are to be found in the magazines for older girls of the time .
26 Of course there is one job specification that would n't appear in the ads for these particular vacancies .
27 He did apply at the Academy for a place , but although his name is there in the archives for 1880 , whether he actually attended is a matter for conjecture .
28 I once worked in the shopfloor in a factory , putting cream on to cream cakes , when I finished college , and they took me out and put me in the lab even though I did n't have any science degree , and I was in the labs for three months .
29 The war was all but over , although bitter fighting was to rumble on in the islands for many decades .
30 Does he recognise that his proposals are a kick in the teeth for that devoted service and an invitation not to services that are democratically accountable to the local community , but to the spivs of the free enterprise service sector such as Mr. J. G. L.
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