Example sentences of "in [adj] [noun] for the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Tories have been living in cloud-cuckoo land for the past 12 years . |
| 2 | Henry dialled the number of Charing Cross Hospital and asked in low tones for the poisons Unit . |
| 3 | These theories can account in broad terms for the compositional differences between the Earth and the Moon , but only by making a number of fairly detailed assumptions about the conditions in the PFM in the region where the Earth and the Moon formed . |
| 4 | ‘ We have taken £5,000 in advance bookings for the movie up to the end of the December . ’ |
| 5 | Another plant to reach Chelsea from Stanwick was the North American Ascyrum crux-andrae , St Andrews Cross — a plant of little beauty , Miller said , and seldom cultivated , but one grown in botanical gardens for the sake of variety . |
| 6 | In certain cases declarations and injunctions can also be sought under Order 53 ; and a claim for damages can be joined to an AJR if it arises out of a matter to which the AJR relates and provided the court is satisfied that the applicant has a case in private law for the award of damages . |
| 7 | It is hard to exaggerate the importance of this development , which , for reasons purely of financial accountability , involved the Colonial Office intimately in economic planning for the empire and thus helped to bring to an end the old imperial system in which colonies had puttered along as virtually independent satrapies , with the Colonial Office exercising only a watching brief . |
| 8 | Ken Russell in rocky landscape for The Devils ( 1970 ) |
| 9 | His early lack of success as a poet ended in triumph as a novelist , polemicist and literary historian — careers he continued in triple tandem for the rest of his life , in Oxford and after 1954 in Cambridge . |
| 10 | Terms of the letter call for Helionetics to provide $750,000 in working capital for the rest of this year , and to pay up to 1.4m in new Helionetics shares , issue of these being tied to Sentinel achieving pre-set performance goals between now and the end of next year . |
| 11 | Judge Leo Clark told Dawtrey it was a bad case , with a number of aggravating features which included running away from the scene in complete disregard for the lorry and its driver' . ’ |
| 12 | He hovered a moment in complete contempt for the law of gravity and then he left the cell . |
| 13 | Will he consider allowing local authorities to build houses in rural areas for the people who live there and who need the houses now ? |
| 14 | As there is never enough money to do all the BDA wants to do the Association was fortunate during the years 1982–1988 to be able to take advantage of the Manpower Services Commission 's scheme of placing unemployed people in short-term work for the benefit of the community . |
| 15 | However , as I told the right hon. Member for Chesterfield ( Mr. Benn ) , there will be an opportunity in due course for the legislation that enacts the agreement to be considered in detail by the House . |
| 16 | I travelled back to London in high spirits for the big meeting in Hungary . |
| 17 | More Scots than ever before are now living in residential accomodation for the elderly . |
| 18 | For example , knowing how may people aged between fifty and sixty are alive today , together with knowledge about the death-rate of this age group and their state of health , enables the state to plan the number of places that may be needed in residential homes for the elderly in twenty years ' time , as well as the level of home help provision that will be necessary . |
| 19 | There was so much poverty during the 1920s that there was grave concern for the general health of children in residential schools for the deaf . |
| 20 | If you know of others in the same situation you might find it helpful to team up , especially if you are not in direct competition for the same jobs . |
| 21 | There is no doubt that there is a huge gap between Labour 's spending proposals and its capacity to fund those proposals without huge increases in direct tax for the vast majority of people . |
| 22 | Only in Britain has the fall in popular support for the left been substantial . |
| 23 | The collapse of the Meech Lake Accord had been widely interpreted in Quebec as an rebuff by English-speaking Canada , and there had been an upsurge in popular support for the concept of outright independence for Quebec . |
| 24 | NOW WITHOUT Hugh Cornwell , the withered-looking Stranglers are not the successful eccentrics they once were , having traded in commercial respectability for the kind of cultish irrelevance pioneered by the likes of Gary Numan . |
| 25 | When Bukharin , in his speech to the Sixth Congress , emphasised that the Latin American Communist parties ‘ had an important role to play in the development of national and agrarian revolutions ’ , Brazilian delegate Fernando Lacerna somewhat tartly pointed out that a Communist movement had existed in Latin America since 1920 but it was only in 1928 that ’ the Communist International [ had ] shown its interest in Latin America for the first time ’ ( La Correspondance Internationale ( organ of the Communist International ) , 1928 , in Alba : 1964 , p. 188 ) . |
| 26 | Although the number of species may have been at least approximately the same in marine environments for the last 300 million years or so the kinds of fossils have changed repeatedly , so that , for example , in marine limestones of Silurian age the shelled brachiopods may number dozens of species , whereas in similar looking limestones of Eocene age no brachiopods at all can be found , but there may be as many species of gastropods of kinds unknown in Silurian rocks . |
| 27 | A clash of values between north and south should not be allowed to result in second-class rights for the poor |
| 28 | However , during the late 1960s a dramatic and unprecedented increase in public concern for the environment occurred . |
| 29 | The restored thirty-seater coach is expected to be back in public service for the bank holiday and will be made available for private party hire . |
| 30 | Recent opinion polls had shown a dramatic decline in public support for the union , as it had become identified with government policy . |