Example sentences of "of [noun sg] for the [adj -er] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | The Palestinians do , however , acknowledge signs of change for the better in US Jewry , Congress and the Administration , and that it is up to themselves to push them forward in much more effective ways than they have managed hitherto . |
| 3 | One trusts that the desert winds blowing through Vegas this week represent the winds of change for the better in boxing . |
| 4 | And the cost of admission for the better seats in the house — £30 and £23 . |
| 5 | The school was aware of this and specifically created a post of responsibility for the brighter child and gave this to a senior member of the staff , and that member of the staff was responsible for looking at the effects of mixed ability teaching on specifically identified brighter pupils , and I do n't think the school would say that erm they totally solve the problem of what to do with the brighter children , but I think it 's a problem which exists even in streamed classes because the sort of pupil we 're talking about are pupils who are exceptional in their own right . |
| 6 | The school was aware of this and specifically created a post of responsibility for the brighter child and gave this to a senior member of the staff , and that member of the staff was responsible for looking at the effects of mixed ability teaching on specifically identified brighter pupils , and I do n't think the school would say that they totally solved the problem of what to do with the brighter child , but I think it 's a problem which exists even in streamed classes , because the sort of pupils we 're talking about are pupils who are exceptions in their own right — we 're not talking about whole groups of pupils who previously have been in top streams , we 're talking about half a dozen/ten individuals in any one year group and they are equally as difficult to deal with in a streamed situation . |
| 7 | The state is the most important single source of income for the older age groups . |
| 8 | The advent of the fixed penalty system for all drivers , whether commercial or not , on 1 October 1986 is yet another example of the changing nature of law for the haulier which has had to be notified to employee drivers . |
| 9 | Since provision of education for the lower orders was largely dependent on local initiative and attendance was usually a matter of parental inclination , both were haphazard . |
| 10 | Eisenhower himself feared that a permanently mobilized nation must in time change its way of life for the worse . |
| 11 | Having admitted that the lower duty on unleaded petrol has helped to promote its use , has the Minister had any discussions with the Treasury about introducing such a lower level of duty for the cleaner diesel fuels which are now available , especially as BP is one of the pioneers in that respect ? |
| 12 | While such a policy may relieve the short-term burden of unemployment for the older men nearest retirement age , unfortunately our study showed that the majority of those in their mid- and late fifties , who did not have the option of becoming early retired , faced the prospect of very long-term unemployment , and found the experience very distressing ( Walker et al. |
| 13 | Donald McCulloch grinned with pleasure and then turned it into a look of complicity for the younger men . |
| 14 | The reading attainment target contains statements of attainment for the earlier levels which relate to information retrieval . |
| 15 | The recent Royal Commission on Incomes and Wealth analysed the sources of finance for the larger quoted industrial and financial companies in the U K and found that between 1950–72 internally generated funds accounted for an average 70 per cent of total finance over this period . |
| 16 | The significance of language for the later development of the ego can hardly be underestimated ; indeed , there is little doubt that , had articulate speech not evolved , modern ego-functions would not have developed as they did and self-awareness , rational thought and social evolution would all have been greatly inhibited in their development in our species . |