Example sentences of "of [noun prp] [verb] for [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although the growth of Brighton accounted for some of this expansion , most of the burden fell on an economic base too narrow to cope adequately , there being few alternatives to agriculture . |
| 2 | Tours of Czechoslovakia planned for 1992 . |
| 3 | All but a handful of LEAs bid for these grants ( HM Treasury , 1990 , Table 11.1 ; CIPFA , 1989 , p. 18 ) . |
| 4 | The University of Warwick has for some time provided the possibility of studying both English and foreign texts in a comparative way at undergraduate level . |
| 5 | At 39 Castle Street , the author of Waverley lived for twenty-four years and wrote many of his famous novels . |
| 6 | The WRU has ruled that none of its players will be given permission to take part in the centenary tour of Natal planned for next summer . |
| 7 | The development costs of Ariane accounted for 30 per cent of French space spending between 1974 and 1979 . |
| 8 | The south east of England accounted for 58 per cent of all voluntary liquidations with 8,115 up from 7,715 in 1991 . |
| 9 | The matrix unc is called the adjugate of A. If A is singular , so that unc vanishes , then unc In this case , if A is simply degenerate , unc is of rank 1 ; but if A is multiply degenerate , so that all the cofactors of Aij vanish for all i , j , then unc is null . |
| 10 | Planned for this year are centres in Bratislava , Bucharest , Moscow , Riga , Sofia , Talinn , Vilnius and Zagreb , with one in the Albanian capital of Tirana scheduled for 1994 . |
| 11 | Word was also sent to the Superintendent of Newbury to arrange for Shorter 's body to be moved . |
| 12 | At that time he travelled on a little inter-island plane to the northerly island of Westray to teach for two days a week ; for a while he taught for two days on the island of Sanday as well . |
| 13 | We agreed on the use of Gordon Ingles for another commercial film and Leon suggested I could make any necessary further contact on such matters directly with Hellen who was apparently designing film sets , writing scripts and sometimes directing Shelly productions . |
| 14 | Ecolo-J , a branch of Les Verts for young people , has barred around 20 members in Normandy , Nantes , Angers and Grenoble . |
| 15 | PRICE OF SPARCSTATIONS TUMBLES FOR RUSSIAN CUSTOMERS |
| 16 | But Mr Jones said there was little likelihood of Airtours returning for another tilt at a takeover in a year 's time , which it is entitled to do , given the Cook stake . |
| 17 | In October 1685 Louis XIV of France revoked the Edict of Nantes , under which the protestants of France had for ninety years enjoyed freedom of worship and full civil rights . |
| 18 | Through creative expression they aim to educate , inspire and entertain which is exactly why Daughters of Oshun chose For Coloured Girls … as it shows positively how far Black women have come . |
| 19 | Law codes are a major source for the Anglo-Saxon period , and those which Archbishop Wulfstan of York wrote for Æthelred and Cnut are among the most extensive . |
| 20 | The city of Balboa looks for all the world like a suburban Texas town — it has green lawns of tough-leaved grass , cyclone fences , large split-level houses , young housewives in sunglasses and hair-curlers driving Camaros on their way to the Safeway , American flags — and American troops . |
| 21 | ‘ Grimm , ’ he said , ‘ I want you to go deep into the ruptured entrails of Vasilariov to search for another hydra . |
| 22 | The good people of Maine opted for another candidate . |
| 23 | The accounting policies note states that certain US subsidiaries of Tomkins provide for post-retirement benefits other than pensions . |
| 24 | The sensitivities of fitness to changes in survival and fertility at different ages are explained in Box 1 , and illustrated by Fig. 1 , which is based on data from lines of Drosophila selected for early or late reproduction . |
| 25 | Leaders of the Serbian province of Kosovo pressed for independent membership of the Conference on Security and Co-operation in Europe ( CSCE ) and for recognition by the international community . |
| 26 | The Treaty of Brètigny provided for this , and a treaty which the French appeared for the moment willing to accept was a much more substantial victory for Edward than one which gave him a vast area on paper but which the French would be bound to resist . |