Example sentences of "[noun] for the [noun sg] [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Conservative government of the early 1980s was committed to the replacement of domestic rates by a system of local taxation that improved the accountability to the local tax-payer for the spending decisions of the local authority . |
| 2 | Lloyd George spent large sums of his private fortune ( acquired in rather dubious circumstances as a treasure chest for the Coalition Liberals between 1917 and 1922 ) , in research activity which recommended radical policies for the Liberals in areas such as land reform and unemployment policy in the 1920s . |
| 3 | They were desert-dwellers , so Moses could scarcely have had better preparation for the wilderness journeys with Israel than these years of nomadic life . |
| 4 | September 1990 also saw the prescribed ATs and PS for the core subjects in the first year of key stage 2 and for English in the first year of key stage 3 brought into effect . |
| 5 | The contract , which runs for a five-year period from 1 November 1992 , covers the provision of maintenance personnel for the production facilities on Amoco 's NW Hutton , Montrose Alpha , Arbroath , Everest and Lomond platforms . |
| 6 | WITHIN the next week the Scotland squad for the forthcoming tour of Fiji , Tonga and Western Samoa will be chosen , which provides a shop-window opportunity for the home players in today 's A international against France at Rubislaw , Aberdeen . |
| 7 | WITHIN the next week the Scotland squad for the forthcoming tour of Fiji , Tonga and Western Samoa will be chosen , which provides a shop-window opportunity for the home players in today 's A international against France at Rubislaw , Aberdeen . |
| 8 | In the end the company , under huge pressure from the local community , refused permission for the NIREX surveyors to even make an initial survey of the mine galleries . |
| 9 | Essentially this is part of the process of absorbing the Advisory Board for the Research Councils under the auspices of the OST . |
| 10 | Public provision for the research councils in support of the science budget has already increased by 23 per cent. , and will have increased by more than 25 per cent . |
| 11 | Ironically , the best hope for the pilot whales of the North Atlantic is that they are becoming unsafe for humans to eat . |
| 12 | Jean Parmiter apologised on behalf of the Training Committee for the number of changes which had had to be made in the advertised programmes for the training days in 1981–82 . |
| 13 | Coutts had been informed that a cheque for $6m was expected at any moment from MGM films in America — payment for the distribution rights of Electric Dreams . |
| 14 | Some colleges already undertake their own training of senior management staff and the Further Education Staff College at Coombe Lodge has for years been catering at the national level for the management needs of senior staff by providing residential conferences and workshops , most of which are over-subscribed . |
| 15 | ( First Edition ) KEVIN DRINKELL , Coventry City 's record signing from Rangers , is set to make his debut for the Sky Blues in the Littlewoods Cup tonight , against Grimsby Town , the club where he spent the first nine years of his career . |
| 16 | Government support for the computer industries of the two Germanies and Hungary |
| 17 | Palestinian negotiators asserted that the Israelis were at last beginning to appreciate the damage their punitive measures had done to popular support for the peace talks in the occupied West Bank and Gaza Strip . |
| 18 | ON APRIL 26 , Qin Benli , the editor of the Shanghai-based Shijie Jingjie Dao Bao ( World Economic Herald ) was sacked for publishing notes of a forum calling for the rehabilitation of Hu Yaobang , the former disgraced Communist Party 's general secretary who died in April this year , and expressing support for the student demonstrations in Tiananmen Square . |
| 19 | Help Eastern European countries embracing democracy , and declare support for the reform policies of President Mikhail Gorbachev ; |
| 20 | The Government must encourage the people of Northern Ireland to give their support for the security forces by giving the correct political leadership . |
| 21 | The worsening crisis in Poland during 1980 and 1981 , and what was believed to be a Soviet role in the imposition of martial law in December 1981 , made matters worse ; so too did Cuban intervention in Angola , and US support for the Contra guerrillas in Nicaragua . |
| 22 | Values for the absorption coefficients of several different gases in water at s.t.p. are shown in table 6.1 . |
| 23 | Many different patterns of foggy and clear days could produce the same numerical values for the transition probabilities in the example . |
| 24 | ( 6 ) In accordance with the constitution of the Labour Party the General Committee of this party or the executive committee of a nationally affiliated organisation shall by resolution formally accept responsibility for the election expenses of the prospective candidate selected and a copy of such resolution shall be attached to the application of the constituency party to the National Executive Committee for endorsement . |
| 25 | He said : ‘ If the Labour group had followed our recommendations they would have gained a prestigious shopping development and made some money for the poll taxpayers into the bargain . ’ |
| 26 | The materials go to raise money for the Guide Dogs For The Blind Association , Breast Cancer Research and PTA funds . |
| 27 | In northern Ontario , railways that had originally been designed as ‘ colonization roads ’ to link any pioneering agricultural communities and to increase settlement in the ‘ clay belt ’ had become instead ‘ prospecting roads ’ in the remarkable scramble for the mineral riches of the area which developed in Edwardian times . |
| 28 | The campaign of Benson & Hedges has evolved remarkably over the past dozen years and has now reached a point at which the motifs chosen to dissemble the product are themselves classic symbols of dissembling — pretty fans for the summer months in 1988 , attractive fishing lures for the autumn . |
| 29 | He criticised the way the selection of referees for the knock-out stages of the World Cup had been made , conveniently ignoring the fact that René Hourquet had been selected , only to turn down the appointment . |
| 30 | Azaña a finally resigned in September 1933 , following defeat for the government parties in elections for the Republic 's supreme court . |