Example sentences of "for a [noun sg] [prep] [noun pl] with " in BNC.
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| 1 | UN aid officials said yesterday they were prepared for a battle of wills with rebel Serbs in an attempt to get trucks loaded with emergency supplies through to starving Muslims in eastern Bosnia . |
| 2 | On the other hand , if we were to take our sample from those families with above-average measured incomes , we would expect to find that many of them had only temporarily high incomes so that average transitory income would be positive and Y p < Y. Similarly , for a sample of families with below-average measured incomes , we should expect to find that Y T < 0 and Y p > Y. |
| 3 | I watched tv for a couple of hours with this steak on my tummy and nothing happened . |
| 4 | On Friday we 're playing for a couple of hours with a few suprise guests one had considerably more hair than the rest of the band put together . |
| 5 | We were in Bath to stay for a couple of weeks with my parents , in time for Christmas and ‘ New Year 's ’ . |
| 6 | ‘ The world has become very graphical , ’ says Mr Ingram. ‘ 1-2-3 has had graphical capabilities for a couple of years with the WYSIWYG capabilities . |
| 7 | Well erm I think so , I mean they had a great side under Bill Beaumont 's leadership and it 's been promising for a couple of years with England , and today they actually came through with the goods erm a bit of an anti-climax last year at erm at Murrayfield . |
| 8 | In Britain , the ‘ drag-down ’ factor operates ; graduates make up for a shortage of technicians with intermediate skills . |
| 9 | The chairman of both Hachette and of Matra , and now of the combined group , Jean-Luc Lagardère , called for a normalisation of relations with Havas in the face of intensified foreign competition from Bertelsmann and other non-French rivals . |
| 10 | The Confederation of Caucasian Mountain Peoples ( a forum for Caucasus ethnic groups ) met in Tskhinvali on April 26 and called for a reassessment of relations with Russia . |
| 11 | The coupon yield curve is a plot of the yield to maturity against term to maturity for a group of bonds with the same coupon . |
| 12 | If it is found that a particular form of therapy is effective for a group of individuals with a particular pattern of language difficulties , or for those who share a common aetiology ( that is , they have the same diagnosis ) , it may be that others with similar difficulties may be helped by the same form of therapy . |
| 13 | Several states felt the need for a supply of men with a knowledge of Turkish to ease the conduct of diplomatic , and still more commercial and consular , relations with the Ottoman empire . |
| 14 | The new National Front government 's foreign policy objectives , as outlined in the President 's address on Dec. 20 , 1989 , were for a strengthening of links with India 's neighbours and co-operation through the medium of the South Asian Association for Regional Co-operation ( SAARC ) , continued dialogue with China leading to a resolution of the two countries ' border dispute , development of the traditional friendship with the Soviet Union and of a new relationship with the United States , and economic co-operation with Japan and the European Communities ( EC ) . |
| 15 | AS part of the Midland Railway Centre 's development the Narrow Gauge Railway Project has been underway for a number of years with volunteers working to re-create a length of line to both carry passengers into the Country Park and demonstrate the uses of this track gauge . |
| 16 | Noble Metals have been supplying Ford for a number of years with high specification platinum/ iridium wire , used in the manufacture of high performance spark plugs . |
| 17 | ‘ Rail services in the North-East have been deteriorating for a number of years with reduced frequencies , later first trains and earlier last trains , ’ he said . |
| 18 | Clayton 's film cleared the way for a cycle of films with proletarian heroes who , for all their bluster , see their dreams shrivel in melancholy and their little rebellions crash to the ground . |
| 19 | Valentin Falin , head of the international department of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union ( CPSU ) central committee , arrived in Beijing on Dec. 23 , 1989 , for a week of talks with senior Chinese leaders . |
| 20 | At the end of May Primakov and Vladimir Shcherbakov , Soviet First Deputy Prime Minister , arrived in Washington for a week of meetings with IMF , World Bank and senior US administration officials ( including Secretary of State James Baker and President Bush ) on Soviet economic plans and the prospects for Western aid . |
| 21 | The natural communications of the region , the navigable Po and the Alpine passes , made this a suitable area for an exchange of ideas with Germany , France and Spain ; architecturally a movement was established here which led the way for other regions . |
| 22 | Over the years Mr Slade , from his home at Weekfield Farm , Exton , Dulverton , Somerset , has accounted for an array of wins with Dutch Texel-sired entries in carcass competitions at national primestock shows . |