Example sentences of "to the [noun pl] for [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Hoppy 's platoon consisted entirely of ex-NCOs , who had been reduced to the ranks for various offences and were reputed to be extremely difficult . |
| 2 | Carla would have taken him to the cleaners for that . |
| 3 | ‘ All people of quality have eunuchs in their service and all the other officials , servants and slaves are bound to account to the eunuchs for all they do . ’ |
| 4 | In the final minutes available to me , I turn to the proposals for political union . |
| 5 | Of modern poets , I had of course spoken to the boys — and to the masters for that matter , for most had ventured no further than Hardy and Houseman , like the Brasenose dons — of Eliot , Pound and the later Yeats ; and I discovered that they lapped this up as if slaking a mental thirst . |
| 6 | We were then both at a very comfortable period of life , and I do n't know why no one has ever prayed to the gods for perpetual middle age . |
| 7 | Chamberlain fitted the following regression equation separately to the observations for each futures contract : where Vol t represents the volume for day t , and M t is the maturity on day t . |
| 8 | The Chairman then turned his attention to the accounts for 1990 , which showed that the Institution had fared extremely well , in spite of inflation . |
| 9 | Britain is second from bottom of the league according to the figures for 16 to 18-year-olds published by the Secretary of State 's own Department . |
| 10 | This was obviously untrue since Blake's-arrest had been known to the Russians for several weeks . |
| 11 | Man U were absolutely crap , made all the funnier by the fact that the ref gave free-kicks to the Turks for all their play-acting , booked 3 or four of the red twats , and sent Cuntona off after the match . |
| 12 | In April they decided to devote no more than £10 , in addition to the income from bequests , for prizes , and to make a " direct and formal " application to the Goldsmiths for some assistance . |
| 13 | It was n't good enough for Mr Lamont alone to apologise to the Germans for recent attacks . |
| 14 | Gustason ( 1983 ) reports progress in reading performance , as measured in a test of syntactic abilities after a period in a programme using Signing Exact English , as compared to the norms for deaf children . |
| 15 | Returning to the criteria for appropriate technology listed at the beginning of Chapter 4 , the following points are apparent : |
| 16 | The incident was not reported to the authorities for three days because , according to a company spokesman , its size had not been immediately appreciated . |
| 17 | The transcriptional regulatory sequences of carcinoembryonic antigen ( implicated in colorectal cancer ) , tyrosinase ( melanoma ) , c-erb B2 ( breast , pancreatic , and gastric cancer ) , and α fetoprotein ( hepatoma ) have been coupled to the genes for several drug activating enzymes . |
| 18 | During the reign of Charles I there was a great flood of emigrants to North America and the West Indies , and a third type of colony appeared in addition to the colonies for English settlement and the trading posts which needed political power to function effectively : the colonies which were emerging in the West Indies were beginning to turn into plantations in the modern sense in which Englishmen directed the labour of other people . |
| 19 | The latter relate to the mailings for Christian Aid News . |
| 20 | People went to the movies for many reasons but not least because they wanted to see stories which starred very real and very attractive Americans . |
| 21 | Secondly , since the clearinghouses are essentially agencies for co-operation and most enquirers want the names of contacts who are currently working on the same problem , it is advisable to refer the enquirer to the contacts for first-hand information . |
| 22 | ‘ He would have to apply to the courts for any access . |
| 23 | And when a ratepayer challenged a local authority 's conduct of its policy to sell council houses and invoked his statutory right to complain to the District Auditor , he was debarred from at the same time pursuing the alternative remedy of applying to the courts for judicial review . |
| 24 | There is speculation as to the reasons for this trend . |
| 25 | In principle , the idea of holding Open Days is a good one , but these events need to be planned at least two years in advance , so that funding , manpower , and equipment resources can be built in to the estimates for all those Garden Departments which will be involved . |
| 26 | The main exception to the procedures for statutory and common law assignments is where the benefit to be assigned relates to a personal contract ( see above ) . |
| 27 | Space the wires about 230mm ( 9in ) apart , and either tie the plants directly to these , or tie canes to the wires for additional support . |
| 28 | Look to the skies for stunning accessories . |
| 29 | Moreover , the constitutional authorities tend to adopt a " legalistic " approach to constitutional change and are pessimistic as to the prospects for democratic politics . |
| 30 | By way of contrast , the Liberals and Social Democrats adopt a more " political " approach to constitutional change and they are rather more optimistic as to the prospects for democratic politics in Britain . |