Example sentences of "[adj] for [det] of [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Crow Wood was empty for most of this century , remote and forgotten between the roads to Easby and Ingleby . |
| 2 | In terms of the Government 's general strategy on economic policy matters , it would be appropriate for some of those issues to be raised in Wednesday 's debate . |
| 3 | A levels , then , though relied upon at present as a higher education aptitude test , and regarded by many schools and many parents as a test of the academic respectability of schools themselves , are not wholly satisfactory for either of these purposes . |
| 4 | The samples go back over 30 000 years , and they show that after being constant for most of that time the methane concentration began to increase in 1580 ( Geophysical Research Letters , vol 9. p 1221 ) At the end of the 16th century , the methane concentration began increasing at a rate of 0.114 ppmv per century ( parts per million by volume ) and around 1915 the rate accelerated to the present figure of 2.5 ppmv per century — if the data can be taken at face value . |
| 5 | The benefits received by the satraps were too great for any of these checks to be necessary . |
| 6 | I am indebted for most of this information to the Librarian of the Renfrew District Library Service in Paisley and the papers of their local history department . |
| 7 | Transport of bone before or after burial is probably responsible for much of this breakage , but this is a factor that is hard to evaluate for small mammal assemblages because of the difficulties in keeping track of the small bones . |
| 8 | It is a famous question whether the well-deserving historian Manetho was responsible for either of these theories . |
| 9 | However , because sulphur compounds are responsible for most of these effects it is very difficult to distinguish between the effects of pollution originating from local as opposed to distant sources ( refer to section 2.1 ) . |
| 10 | It has been estimated that these subsistence farmers are globally responsible for half of all rainforest destruction , as they march deeper and deeper into virgin forest . |
| 11 | The women are the vessels of a better spirit ; the injury to them is greater , and it is their own men who are responsible for some of that injury . |
| 12 | Immunisation is available for some of these infections , including rubella , although not every pregnant mother is vaccinated . |
| 13 | But the atmosphere then was too cool for much of that sort of talk . |
| 14 | Since his educational experience includes no work in anthropology or sociology his entry to Stage II is conditional on passing the 3 basic modules compulsory for each of those fields . |
| 15 | Athletico are eligible for both of these tournaments and alternate between the two , one season the Vase , the next the Trophy . |
| 16 | It would also seem that the time before adoption for such children is quite long , that some for whom adoption was the plan will not be adopted even though they will stay with their new families , and that long-term support by specialist workers will be necessary for many of these children . |
| 17 | Both parents were present and absent for some of this time . |