Example sentences of "for the [adj] in the " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the normal way , there should be some change for the better in the patient 's condition , so if weeks pass and the patient seems static , you need to know why . |
| 2 | Unionists of the time would scarcely have recognized the terms of the debate , for in 1922 the party was still embroiled with Ireland and the House of Lords , held a smaller share of the popular vote than ever before , and was still split as it had been since 1902 ; few Unionists would have seen the war as a turning-point for the better in the party fortunes . |
| 3 | Some felt the present arrangements to be satisfactory , believing that ‘ there had been a marked change for the better in the CNAA system over the years and felt that subject boards fulfilled a useful role ’ . |
| 4 | Momentous things were also happening socially in the North-West of England following the highly successful venture by the local society in the opening of the first social club for the deaf in the country in 1878 at Manchester . |
| 5 | Using a series of specially devised tests of production and comprehension it was possible to identify a pattern of sign language learning among social workers for the deaf in the UK which is different from that for second language learning . |
| 6 | Ten years later , in 1935 , the year of McDougall 's retirement another attempt at explanation was made in that year 's annual report : In view of the fact that there appears to be a feeling in some quarters that the British Deaf and Dumb Association has outlived its usefulness the executive committee desires to make the position clear by the following statement : The British Deaf and Dumb Association is the oldest National Organisation for the Deaf in the country . |
| 7 | I REFER to the report about Darlington Town Council banning parking for the disabled in the town centre ( Echo , February 1 ) . |
| 8 | This looks a fairly chaotic sort of table and one indicative of the problems posed for the uninitiated in the matter of editions and the like . |
| 9 | When a group have lost their old territory in which their traditions were established , football provides a symbolic substitute for the young in the heart of the old community . |
| 10 | Holt is not surprised that many football hooligans come , not from lower-working-class housing estates , but from the affluent suburbs and new towns away from the major conurbations : ‘ When a group have lost their old territory in which their traditions were established , football provides a symbolic substitute for the young in the heart of the old community ’ ( ibid.:339 ) . |
| 11 | Near Goodge Street tube station was the Shamrock Club , a venue for the Irish in the centre of London . |
| 12 | It was a clean up for the Irish in the Junior Drum Majors competition , with Darren McBride once again dominating the top placing , and J Elvin in third , A McKeown in fourth and R Elvin in fifth places . |
| 13 | Then we declare row t and column u unavailable and search for the smallest in the remaining available rows and columns , say , and set , declaring row v and column w unavailable . |
| 14 | When the 27-hour non-stop TV spectacular was last staged in 1990 , the Hampshire people proved as dotty as anyone in the bizarre ways they raised cash for the needy in the local community . |
| 15 | For the inexperienced in the team — ‘ Patten 's Puppies ’ or the ‘ Brat Pack ’ — the campaign has been a baptism of fire . |
| 16 | Mining near Selby has started and there are plans for three new large pits for the 1990s in the Vale of Belvoir ( see also page 148 ) . |
| 17 | I knew that these paintings were produced for the Spanish in the decades after their conquest of Latin America , and represented the christianising of the old centres of Inca culture , in Peru and Bolivia especially . |
| 18 | The demand for places continued to grow : in 1952 there were 200 applicants for the 29 Senior places , 55 for the 10 in the Junior School ; in the following year 310 for 44 Senior places ( every so often , three forms were admitted instead of the usual two ) , 70 for the 10 Junior . |
| 19 | For the first in the series , seventy paintings from the Museum of Modern Art in New York have been loaned to form a survey of the key movements and artists of the twentieth century . |
| 20 | Unlike the back-to-backs and the tenements built for the poor in the nineteenth century , which treated the poor like prostitutes — they 'll always be with us , but at least keep them off the streets — their function was to take the streetwise communities off the streets and clean up the gregarious clamour of the slum-dwellers . |
| 21 | If there are substantial doubts as to whether the provision of charity schools was ever sufficiently widespread , directed or differentiated from earlier , or later , efforts to have constituted a special movement , there is none that school provision for the poor in the middle and later years of the century remained uneven and spasmodic . |
| 22 | If there is commitment to doing theological reflection with and for the poor in the North , then the experience of overseas people is only sometimes relevant . |
| 23 | Raising money to support CAFOD 's work for the poorest in the world is one way in which schools are involved . |
| 24 | contribution rule for the poorest in the community and , thirdly , for devising and implementing the wretched tax in the first place ? |
| 25 | It also offers a limited number of places for the elderly in the community to attend as day clients . |
| 26 | Tonight in the last of his special series , Stephen Jardine looks at caring for the elderly in the years ahead . |
| 27 | The debts arose out of a ten million pound plan to build a village to care for the elderly in the grounds of the convent . |
| 28 | The debts arose out of a ten million pound plan to build a village to care for the elderly in the grounds of the convent . |
| 29 | The National Council for the Aged in the Republic of Ireland reports that in a sample of schoolchildren 62 per cent felt they had a friendly relationship with older people in general . |
| 30 | Dad did n't speak to Mum on the phone , and he did n't see her , knowing that this was for the best in the long run . |