Example sentences of "the [noun pl] for [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The disciplines for Educational Studies and that area of it concerned with teacher education ( Tibble , 1966 ) . |
| 2 | The acquisition of Templar estates and of alien priories likewise enlarged the openings for royal clerks . |
| 3 | Rational planning was to be achieved by unifying health services , which were at that time split between local authorities , the boards of governors of teaching hospitals , a regional and local administration responsible for other hospitals and the executive councils who administered the contracts for general practitioners ( see Figure 1.1 ) . |
| 4 | If your church is one which succeeds in attracting the crowds for special occasions , these people should constitute your prime target for deeper Christian commitment and church membership . |
| 5 | While it is helpful for family members to gain a basic understanding of the illness of the primary sufferer , by going to occasional " open " meetings of a Fellowship for primary sufferers , so as to under-stand the disease concept and help to heal the blame and resentment that characterise active addictive family relationships , it is not helpful for family members to become regular attenders at the Fellowships for primary sufferers unless they themselves are " double winners " and have that primary addictive disease as well as the family disease . |
| 6 | Everyone was invited to use the chapel , the prayer room and the lounges for quiet prayer and meditation . |
| 7 | The latter relate to the mailings for Christian Aid News . |
| 8 | Cloth exports for 1374–75 can not be measured , as the custom on cloth for that year was farmed for all ports except London , and there are considerable gaps in the accounts for adjacent years . |
| 9 | The programmes for positive discrimination in favour of ‘ sub-species ’ such as women or blacks and the demand for legislation to ban smoking are mirror-images of the eugenics movement . |
| 10 | Through it , government addressed for the first time the issue of the long-stay population in all the institutions for elderly , mentally handicapped and mentally ill people . |
| 11 | Do a bit of youth work , take the tots for junior church , you know the sort of thing . ’ |
| 12 | Hoppy 's platoon consisted entirely of ex-NCOs , who had been reduced to the ranks for various offences and were reputed to be extremely difficult . |
| 13 | And when a ratepayer challenged a local authority 's conduct of its policy to sell council houses and invoked his statutory right to complain to the District Auditor , he was debarred from at the same time pursuing the alternative remedy of applying to the courts for judicial review . |
| 14 | ‘ Hooligans ’ and ‘ Hooliganism ’ were thrust into the headlines in the wake of a turbulent August Bank Holiday celebration in London which had resulted in unusually large numbers of people being brought before the courts for disorderly behaviour , drunkenness , assaults on police , street robberies and fighting . |
| 15 | It was n't good enough for Mr Lamont alone to apologise to the Germans for recent attacks . |
| 16 | Secondly , since the clearinghouses are essentially agencies for co-operation and most enquirers want the names of contacts who are currently working on the same problem , it is advisable to refer the enquirer to the contacts for first-hand information . |
| 17 | Leading a protest outside the Scottish Office , Campbell Christie , the Scottish Trades Union Congress general secretary , said : ‘ It 's time the Government took a lead in addressing the unemployment crisis and laid the foundations for long-term sustainable economic growth . ’ |
| 18 | It is time the Government took a lead in addressing the unemployment crisis and laying the foundations for long-term sustainable economic development for Scotland . ’ |
| 19 | During the meetings , described by the ITAR-TASS news agency as " extremely positive " , both sides agreed to " continue discussing the GDS with other states , in order to lay the foundations for extensive international participation in it " . |
| 20 | He wished the administration of Japan under his direction to be seen as positive , challenging and above all successful in laying the foundations for political and economic achievement in Japan . |
| 21 | We will ensure that all 14–19 year olds have a personal tutor and careers advice , helping them build the foundations for personal fulfilment and success . |
| 22 | This system is finely attuned to new ventures in marketing and distribution , and is probably quite similar to the major South Asian forms of production which had previously established the foundations for large-scale international trade , in the absence of industrial machinery ; although , in that case , divisions in the production process , which allowed for control by merchants and middlemen , were more closely articulated by social divisions such as caste and purdah . |
| 23 | They accumulated capital , laid the foundations for industrial manufacture , factory production and the system of wage labour , all of which were essential components of capitalism . |
| 24 | RSPB chief executive Barbara Young , says that the Government now has a fixed deadline for action and must lay the foundations for lasting reform . |
| 25 | Keynes was influential in persuading King 's to make him a fellow , despite his criticisms of Keynes 's A Treatise on Probability ( 1921 ) culminating in his ‘ Truth and Probability ’ ( 1926 ) , the classic paper that laid the foundations for modern subjective interpretations of probability and related theories of games and decision making . |
| 26 | Similarly the sharp collapse of factory production in 1980 was a real crisis which could be interpreted as laying the foundations for new industries in Britain and a new set of international trading and investment relations for the UK in the 1980s . |
| 27 | The fiscal and institutional roots of stability might be traced back to the 1690s , with the financial revolution ( which meant that England 's ruling elite finally worked how to finance government effectively ) and the growth of bureaucracy ( which laid the foundations for firm executive control by the central government which emerged in the eighteenth century ) . |
| 28 | Churchill 's Iron Curtain speech in March 1946 at Fulton , Missouri , and Montgomery 's discussions in September with the American Joint Chiefs of Staff , on the Potomac river in the yacht Sequoia , articulated the threat and laid the foundations for Anglo-American cooperation in the defence of Western Europe . |
| 29 | The Medium-Term Financial Strategy ( MTFS ) introduced in 1980 aimed to set out a medium-term financial framework for the monetary and fiscal policies consistent with the government 's overall strategy for reducing inflation and laying the foundations for sustainable economic growth . |
| 30 | Crystal Palace1 ARSENAL , back to the form which earned them two championships in three years , will use the rest of what has been a disappointing season for them to lay the foundations for future challenges . |