Example sentences of "for the [adj] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yeah and that 's about wordsmith , choosing the right words for the for the appropriate to the audience and of course jargon the industry jargon erm is the thing you 've got to watch . |
| 2 | Rosslyn realised that the horse was asking for help , and that his manners had n't just experienced a mysterious and miraculous change for the better during the course of the day ! |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 ’ . |
| 6 | He kept saying how their fortunes had taken a turn for the better from the moment Alice began playing with the group . |
| 7 | Barbara Craig as well as Daphne Park returned for the Gaudy for the years 1960–5 . |
| 8 | He compared the cut in taxes for the rich to the bottom 20 per cent which had seen its tax burden rise form 30.7 per cent in 1979 to the present 39.7 per cent . |
| 9 | He applied for the first chair and then thought better of it and withdrew the application ; refused to apply for the second despite the supplications of Cambridge friends ; and finally applied for the third , the chair of primacy , the regius chair made vacant by the retirement of Charles Raven . |
| 10 | For the second of the historical periods mentioned ( 1538–1801 ) the following books ( all available in paperback ) are most useful background texts : Sixteenth Century England by Joyce Youings ( London 1984 ) , English Society in the Seventeenth Century by Margaret Spufford ( 1985 ) , and English Society in the Eighteenth Century by Roy Porter ( London 1982 ) . |
| 11 | We suggest an alternative wording for the second of the proposals : ‘ - to recycle valuable coastal land which has become redundant , e.g. the regeneration of rundown coastal towns and ports ; and … ’ |
| 12 | For the second of the TV series , About Face . |
| 13 | Now for the second of the two posters , which Guinness Today is producing with kind permission of the Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents . |
| 14 | Financial exigency as well as domestic security dictated a peace policy , for the second of the two early wars and the suppression of the Polish rebellion inflated the national debt from 652 million paper rubles in 1828 to 823 million in 1832 . |
| 15 | Macbean 's move comes as the deadline for the second of the quarterly awards draws near . |
| 16 | Franklin , USA : Porter Paints ' products have been used in the restoration of historic homes used as a command post and refuge for the wounded during the Battle of Franklin in the American Civil War . |
| 17 | Mistinguett was drawing huge crowds at the FoliesBergeres ; the great Bernhardt , though aged and ailing , was still as seductive as ever , dividing her time between the theatre and her hospital for the wounded at the Odéon ; at the Opéra Comique Manon was all the rage , and in May , when the Germans were hammering their way on to Côte 304 , there was a glittering film premiere of Salammbô and once again the Spring Flower Show was reinstated in all its pre-war glory . |
| 18 | It took a turn for the worse with the reduction in numbers of personnel here at site and was taken from us suddenly in March when the outcome of a company-wide vote [ on what should have been agreed locally ] was announced . |
| 19 | We 're all painfully aware of our individual employment situations have changed for the worse over the past fourteen years of Tory government . |
| 20 | In addition it has been suggested that bureaux make contact with the social worker for the deaf at the local Social Services Department to ensure that the bureau has all the up-to-date information relevant to the deaf . |
| 21 | Lowe continued his career until 1871 when he fell victim to a pulmonary disease which prevented him from joining the services for the deaf at the new St. Saviour 's Church . |
| 22 | The report on the dedication of this memorial in the Loughborough Church for the Deaf by the Bishop of Leicester is printed in the first number of The British Deaf News , which made its debut as the BDDA 's official organ in January 1955 . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | James Paul saw the National Deaf and Dumb Society as the principal backers of establishing a network of missions for the deaf throughout the country , and the Society did indeed succeed in establishing the Ayrshire Mission to the Deaf at Kilmarnock in 1881 , with Paul himself as missioner , and the Stockton-on-Tees Mission in 1882 . |
| 27 | MIDDLESBROUGH , which is at the forefront of efforts to encourage the country 's disabled to take up sport , hosted regional table tennis championships organised by the British Sports Association for the Disabled at the weekend . |
| 28 | Her other interests include classical music , the care of the elderly and the handicapped particularly with British Polio Fellowship and helping with riding for the disabled at the Diamond Riding Centre , Carshalton . |
| 29 | There 's still deadlock between British Rail Managers and Oxford City councillors over access for the disabled at the city 's station . |
| 30 | DARLINGTON 'S Mayor Rita Fishwick and Tory councillor Paul Geldart passed on the thanks of the Scottish Sports Association for the Disabled to the town 's Dolphin Centre yesterday . |