Example sentences of "the [det] [noun pl] for [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One of the few occasions for sharp words between them , in public at any rate , occurred when Elena disagreed about internal decorations with him . |
| 2 | It is not appropriate here to analyse , nor even to state , the many reasons for this difficulty , but after scrutinising the research findings I have to say that LEAs have on the whole not seen the implications of the 1981 Act for social services departments or district health authorities . |
| 3 | Among the many reasons for this are , first , a belief that the spread of the secondary comprehensive school has led to a fall in standards or has failed to lead to the heralded improvement in quality ; and secondly , a raising of expectations , among politicians , parents , employers and young people , about what young people , in the light of growing youth unemployment , should be expected to achieve by the end of the period of compulsory education , especially in preparation for life , work and further/higher education . |
| 4 | For 12 months , BP and Unipart worked together on a basis of trust , getting together the right people from both sides , brainstorming and exploring the many opportunities for collaborative activity — not just in Eastern Europe . |
| 5 | In the early eighteenth century poverty was partially responsible for the many applications for military rank , for in the first half of the century even a commission in a new regiment , and the near certainty of half-pay at the conclusion of the war emergency , was attractive . |
| 6 | The former necessarily put the experts above the masses , while the latter calls for popular control of the bureaucrats through election ; the former espouses elitism while the latter egalitarianism ; the former restricts opportunities while the latter opens them . |
| 7 | A shopkeeper who refused to sell constables cigarettes at a discount and complained of the illegal sale of similar goods to the public from their own trading organization , the Police Guild , could find himself summonsed by the same officers for employing children under age ( which in turn gave rise to the banning of the Police Guild by the Watch Committee ) . |
| 8 | DESPITE a disappointing tour of Pakistan , where they went down 1–4 in the one-day series , Sri Lanka have stuck by the same players for this competition . |
| 9 | The corresponding component oscillations of the wave would be , as the physicists say , " in phase " , that is the crests and troughs would occur at the same instants for both components . |
| 10 | You ca n't , you ca n't , you ca n't have one rule for the forward and one rule for the backward , it 's got to be the same rules for all , so you restrict the input for the forward function . |
| 11 | the same rules for that . |
| 12 | The same holds for divorced men . |
| 13 | Since transmission is largely on a foal-to-foal basis it is good policy to avoid using the same paddocks for nursing mares and their foals in successive years . |
| 14 | How could a policy be devised that satisfied the aspirations of the local majority , but which provided the same rights for other nationalities ? |
| 15 | We can other things however though , because we can do the same things for actual . |
| 16 | Other clubs did much the same things for provincial leaders ; it was to the Constitutional Club that Salvidge went when in London and it was there that he stayed . |
| 17 | Although there is considerable value in the notion that Paisley 's political movement always consisted of two elements in tension — rural evangelicals and urban ‘ secular ’ Protestants — it is also the case that many evangelicals could be quite pragmatic and recognize that the preservation of things which they valued because of their religious beliefs required them to work in alliance with others who wanted the same things for different reasons . |
| 18 | The most suitable are those which tuck on the same needles for two or four rows . |
| 19 | It is possible to have a pattern that tucks on the same needles for 12 rows , providing the needles are not adjacent to each other and providing the yarn used is fairly thin . |
| 20 | Mr Harrison said : ‘ Following the closure of the Swan Hunter yard the Government has finally agreed to talk to the EC about getting the same subsidies for all British shipyards that we 've been giving to our competitors in the EC for years . |
| 21 | He added : ‘ Following the closure of Swan Hunter 's , the government has finally agreed to talk to the EC about getting the same subsidies for all British shipyards that we have been giving to our competitors in the EC for years . |
| 22 | We went round in the same circles for half an hour and I left feeling a mind-numbing frustration , far worse than anything induced by meetings with the Foreign Office . |
| 23 | Nor did it prevent the preservation of this category in the language of special education many years after its legal obliteration , in the acronym MLD ( moderate learning difficulties ) , used in many of the same contexts for many of the same purposes , but without , as yet , the abusive tone that came to be associated with its predecessor . |
| 24 | After he had slept in the same sheets for six months Nails had taken them to the launderette , and now he had discovered a few things like that , which helped , which was more than his dad ever had . |
| 25 | At least it does so in regions of ancient written culture like Europe , where the same names for ethnic groups persist over long periods , even though they may describe quite different and changing social realities . |
| 26 | Today 's big two have kept the same names for 19 years , and the right-of-centre one has unprecedentedly changed leaders without breaking up . |
| 27 | While much of the competition charged more for ‘ new skills ’ , for example in distributed computing , MMT 's policy , he said , was to charge the same rates for all types of expertise . |
| 28 | They achieved this by combining two different methods : a longitudinal study , following the same children for four years from before they were able in read until they had been at school for two or three years ; and a training programme that looked at the effect of giving pre-school children specific training in categorising sounds . |