Example sentences of "in [adj] [noun] for [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Results of surveys taken in recent years in AIB have indicated that staff morale is low — as it is in all banks — and this can certainly be said for those in Britain where members have had to endure in the past five years a two year period of unreal thinking , the additional pressures brought on by the recession , the pressures brought on by short staffing and on top of all that the lack of recognition in monetary terms for their efforts in ‘ keeping the ship afloat ’ . |
| 2 | He was elected MP for Malmesbury in 1529 , and again in 1547 , and may well have served in intervening Parliaments for which the names of the members for Malmesbury are unknown . |
| 3 | The shift we commend — from a stance which teachers view as authoritarian and bureaucratic to one founded on professional partnership — is not only preferable in terms of the quality of relationships within the Authority , but is also far more likely to deliver the very improvements in professional practice for which the Primary Needs Programme was established . |
| 4 | It has been playing for more than a year at the group 's Palace Theatre in Manchester , and the Playhouse has taken more than £1 million in advance bookings for it since the box office opened last week . |
| 5 | The Special Commissioner ruled in this dispute that , for the purpose of valuing shares in private companies for which there was no market , under s 38 , FA 1975 only arm 's length sales for cash in shares in the same companies were admissible as evidence . |
| 6 | Or he may try to trade in that idea for something he might think would be almost as valuable , the withdrawal of all foreign troops from Germany . |
| 7 | Well that 's why I said to you , and , and Laura , er to James , no way would we get ourselves in that position for you you have your lives to lead |
| 8 | It is worth noting , however , that Richards 's concept of poetry is similar to that which we have encountered in the previous two chapters , in that poetry for him is simply shorthand for literature that has aesthetic value ; his belief was that the value of literature as a whole lay entirely in its use of the emotive function of language . |
| 9 | Maitrey , too , offered Gooch consolation , saying : ‘ The ball was turning in that net for anyone who bowled . |
| 10 | He does n't want to know anything about you , and what he 's , and it 's got age , sex , erm , it 's acc , A C C , he 's after your accent , could you just put the county that you , you were from please , in that column for him . |
| 11 | Well it seems to me that there was obviously enough information in that plan for you to be able to understand very very clearly what , what was wanted and what was going to be done . |
| 12 | ‘ I 'll drop in that baccy for you tonight , Mr Miller . |
| 13 | This sets up Charge Code 0001 as the directory pointed to by the system-wide logical name LSTRAIN_CC0001 , and all material whose name is reserved under that Charge Code will reside in that directory for it 's life cycle . |
| 14 | And there is nowhere in that area for them to go . |
| 15 | Once modifications are complete and the approver registers his approval of the package , LIFESPAN then automatically confers approval on every module in that package for which approval is sought . |
| 16 | The end result might only be a slight scratch , but the potential might have been in that situation for something a lot worse . |
| 17 | Politicians and administrators were ill-equipped to handle the problems of working men caught up in bloody enterprise for which they were not responsible . |
| 18 | It appeared that the expedient solution proposed by the District in 1930 for the Bedfordshire scheme had led to a further concession in Cambridgeshire in 1932 and by 1937 had been developed into a strategy for the development of adult education in rural areas for which the Board ‘ … visualised the Rural Areas Scheme as an eight counties one ’ . |
| 19 | Condoned truancy applied to some parents in disadvantaged areas for whom their children 's regular attendance at school came as a low priority as against other concerns . |
| 20 | The year 1890 was also a very significant year in deaf history for it saw the birth of the British Deaf and Dumb Association . |
| 21 | It has an important place in European history for it was here that the peace treaty was signed that finally brought an end to the War of the Spanish Succession . |
| 22 | Mr Profumo was in top gear for his final paragraphs : ‘ With its mutilations , voyeurism , in-jokes , phantasmagoric idiolect and cruel humour , this is a harrowing and quite extraordinary book . |
| 23 | My second 's in BROWN COAT for which I 'm renowned . |
| 24 | Although Smith 's contemporaries held him in high regard for his remarkable administrative skill and consummate powers of conciliation , few had any understanding of his real scientific achievement until the Academy 's prize brought him posthumous international recognition . |
| 25 | Under the Finsinger and Vogelsang scheme , the manager is able to capture virtually all the increase in social benefits for him or herself in the form of a bonus in other words the social return is very narrowly distributed . |
| 26 | It has been market practice in asset-backed transactions for there to be a mechanism whereby transactions can be mopped up when the balance of performing assets falls below a given level , usually 10% of initial principal . |
| 27 | It was in direct reprisal for their raid on British ships in Scapa Flow a few nights before when bombs had been dropped on land and killed one civilian . |
| 28 | In substance and spirit there is much in her portrayal that coincides with the stereotype of woman found in medieval antifeminist literature : lascivious and insatiable , alluring to men , drawing them to a fall — e.g. tempting the monk to sin , and befooling her husband ( or , more seriously , tempting him to indulge in sexual intercourse for its own pleasure and indeed for its cash value ) . |
| 29 | This can then be used to estimate demand for the product in another country for which statistics are not available . |
| 30 | As the final notes quivered into silence and he left the stage to tumultuous applause , she rose to her feet in spontaneous acclaim for his effort . |