Example sentences of "for [adj] [noun pl] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | They abandoned as unrealistic the " 50 per cent gap reduction " formula for eleven zones with the most damaged soils , forest and lakes . |
| 2 | This year , in prize money alone , there is well over $100m available for professional players round the world , including team events such as The David Cup and The Federation Cup . |
| 3 | Hospitality is the magazine for professional managers in the hotel and catering industry and now reaching all of its senior executives . |
| 4 | Determined not to let herself be beaten by such obstacles , Prue came up with the idea of a luncheon club for professional women in the Exeter area . |
| 5 | Service Sector — For professional firms in the service sector a typical resource constraint is the lack of the necessary professionally qualified staff needed to meet client demand . |
| 6 | This promised to be a difficult task ; hence the need for professional economists in the cabinet . |
| 7 | Escalating projected deficits in collection targets will also generate pressure for harsher penalties as the effects on services begin to be spelled out . |
| 8 | This disenfranchising policy will be taken a stage further in the political domain , with the linking for the first time for fifty years of the right to vote with the payment of contributions to local government exchequers . |
| 9 | The proponents of the law had proposed a fee of 5% of the sale price of the object to be paid to artists or their survivors for fifty years after the artist 's death . |
| 10 | As a rule the right is first vested in the author , and continues for fifty years after his death ; but in the case of photographs and gramophone records the original owner of the negative or plate is treated as the author , and the right lasts for fifty years from the time when the negative or plate was made . |
| 11 | Copyright in a work lasts for fifty years from the end of the calendar year in which its author or composer dies . |
| 12 | The other discovery we are making is of that world cut off from us for fifty years by the Iron Curtain ; Simon Jervis 's otherwise excellent Penguin Dictionary of Design and Designers published in 1984 does not include a single one of the leading names in Czech Cubist design : Josef Gocar , Pavel Janak , Vlastislav Hofman , Josef Chochol and Otakar Novotny . |
| 13 | The waterfall , however , is a hundred yards downriver and is best reached by walking back along the road for fifty yards to the end of a wall , where a step down in the undergrowth discloses a good path high on the river bank above a deep gorge , the waterfall soon being seen through a canopy of foliage . |
| 14 | He was on the other side of the road , saw me watching him , stopped , turned and walked slowly for fifty yards in the direction he had come . |
| 15 | Last week , Mr Badran ordered the return of confiscated passports to their owners and promised further amnesties for political prisoners after the recent release of 48 political detainees . |
| 16 | President Blaise Compaore on April 18 dropped his second-in-command , Clément Oumarou Ouedraogo , from the influential post of secretary for political affairs in the ruling Popular Front 's executive committee . |
| 17 | Convenient scapegoats perhaps , but the K G B was open about today 's activities too ; Major General Alexander Karbalnov of the K G B revealed for the first time that seven hundred thousand people have been executed for political crimes since the revolution and that three-and-a-half million have been repressed . |
| 18 | In a letter published in the Bogotá daily El Tiempo on Nov. 22 , some 50 prominent academics , artists and journalists , including the famous writer Gabriel García Márquez , called on the CNGSB to search for political solutions to the country 's problems . |
| 19 | For political purposes to the Conservative Party : £2,000 ( 1984 £2,000 ) |
| 20 | Once you have selected a possible field , move towards it , checking its size , slope and colour , and look out for possible wires on the approach . |
| 21 | Finally she returns to her original distinction between female , feminine and feminist , and suggests how the relation between them might have implications for possible developments in the practice of philosophy . |
| 22 | He lay awake for a long time looking for possible connections between the incidents and listening to Rain breathing . |
| 23 | To control for possible differences in the brain RNA levels , a 5' end-labelled mouse NF-H ( m-NF-H ) probe was used which gives a protected fragment of 160nt . |
| 24 | 40 µg of RNA was hybridised with a mixture of two probes:i ) a 350bp RsaI end-labelled 5' human NF-L ( HNF-L ) to detect the transgene and ii ) a 270bp XmaI end-labelled 5' mouse NF-H ( MNF-H ) probe to correct for possible differences in the mRNA levels . |
| 25 | That said , the drinks sector seemed relieved that the Chancellor has paid some attention to the risk of driving business across the Channel to the Calais supermarkets , the building sector was prepared to look for possible beneficiaries from the approval the Chancellor has given to rail links in South-east England , oil benefited from the abolition of PRT on new North Sea fields , the motor trade seemed to take the threat of fuel taxes in excess of inflation in its stride , and WH Smith reflected a sense of relief that VAT has not been extended to books and newspapers . |
| 26 | West Mercia police are checking for possible links between the Telford incident and another close by a few weeks ago when a horse was slashed . |
| 27 | Avoiding the copyright-protected names of bears that have been British National newspaper features for decades was quite easy for innovative owners of the new skydiving brood . |
| 28 | My reason for being there was that this particular bit of coast happens to be the northern end of the Offa 's Dyke footpath , which winds for 168 miles along the English/Welsh border to Chepstow . |
| 29 | Centre manager Malcolm Powton said he hoped for 500 visitors for the party day , including Durham County Council 's director of social services , Peter Kemp . |
| 30 | The original memorandum of understanding worked out after the Gulf war [ see p. 38598 ] had provided for 500 guards in the north and 600 relief workers . |