Example sentences of "[adj] [noun pl] [verb] for the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mr Karel Van Miert , the Transport Commissioner , is asking member governments to approve a plan which would leave passenger services largely in the hands of state-owned monopolies but open up freight services to competition by permitting private operators to pay for the use of publicly-owned tracks . |
| 2 | PAKISTANI authorities have for the first time begun arresting farmers in the North West Frontier Province who have been found planting opium for next year 's harvest . |
| 3 | The five CODESA working groups met for the first time on Jan. 20 in Johannesburg . |
| 4 | One of the possible reasons suggested for the relationship between risk and recall in Study 1 was that performing risk-related judgment tasks while driving had made that information particularly memorable . |
| 5 | Emily lifted her head and breathed in the sweet March air , it was good to stand in the garden of Summer Lodge looking out over a tranquil sea with timid waves reaching for the shore . |
| 6 | Three youths armed with Armalite pen-knives waited for the band to unload their gear before threatening them and attempting to drive away with their van . |
| 7 | For democratic elitists the state is directed by legitimately elected political leaders ; it is a driverless car which political parties compete for the right to manage . |
| 8 | On the grounds that James IV 's will had nominated her for the regency only if she remained a widow , the Scottish Estates sent for the Duke of Albany , descendant of that Stewart who had plagued James III . |
| 9 | They do n't congeal round any unifying principles beyond a vague commitment to an idealised model of the intellectual free market in which different discourses vie for the reader 's attention — like a basket of competing currencies battling for prominence against the deutschmark or the yen . |
| 10 | So , for high taxes vote for the Labour party , and for low taxes vote Conservative . |
| 11 | Relationships are dynamic … the status system is a kind of social front , a temporary balance of forces , behind which individuals develop the social skills needed for the … resolution of intergenerational competition ’ ( Crook 1975 ) . |
| 12 | The fact that human beings do not always perceive the correct ( rigid ) structure when presented with a mathematically adequate though impoverished stimulus , may be due not ( as Ullman suggests ) to their failing to pick up all of the mathematically necessary information in the stimulus , but rather to their using computational strategies evolved for the perception of non-rigid objects which — even when directed at rigid objects — need more information than is present in the experimental stimulus concerned . |
| 13 | One of the first top riders to sign for the 1993 British League season , Rickardsson has no sympathy with riders who are refusing to sign this year because of the promoters ' strict pay policy . |
| 14 | The need to differentiate between different types of riot and the contrasting meanings involved for the participants is recognised by Smith ( 1983 ) . |
| 15 | The code in fact incorporates a degree of redundancy , so that in some cases as many as six different triplets code for the same amino acid . |
| 16 | The generally optimistic tenor of this debate provides a revealing comparison with those public views examined for the earlier period . |
| 17 | Utilities were among the more buoyant sectors , helped by the search by pensions funds for higher-income investments to compensate for the five-point drop in their investment returns as a result of the Budget changes . |
| 18 | THE English schools team for the 21st annual home countries schools international at Hull on Saturday includes three Newcastle swimmers . |
| 19 | Thus , playing to the Germans ' appeal for order , these two brave Frenchmen secured for the trade a buffer in the form of the CIVC which took on the day-to-day unpleasantries of dealing with an alien administration . |
| 20 | Phase ( III ) will be a series of interviews to obtain more detailed information on the strategic and tactical considerations involved for the contracting parties . |
| 21 | Very broadly residential homes cater for the physically frail whereas nursing homes/long-stay hospital care is more likely to cater for the mentally frail . |
| 22 | On the night of Wednesday 4 July 1759 Rear-Admiral George [ later Admiral Lord ] Rodney in the 60-gun Achilles , led four 50-gun ships of the line , five frigates and six bomb-ketches , described earlier , into Le Havre and , impudently anchoring in the main channel , began next morning a heavy bombardment of the docks , the warehouses storing timber , the construction yards , and , most important of all , the completed flat-boats intended for the coming invasion . |
| 23 | Michael and Minna O'Reilly Both of us run a unit in the Scottish Borders catering for the behaviourally disturbed , confused elderly . |
| 24 | The buccaneer impulse revealed in these artless words accounts for the vigorous campaigns against other villains in other castles , though the immediate object is almost always the traditional one of help for a distressed damsel . |
| 25 | The teenage PODs lived for the moment and their songs , all crash-bang-wallop-bang-crash , reflected this . |
| 26 | Pawson has pointed out that in building the canals , British engineers had for the first time " to grapple with large scale civil engineering problems " . |
| 27 | Michael Kissane ( I think … attack of the ol' spidery handwriting ) from Co Kerry would like infinite lives pokes for the cartridge version of Rick Dangerous , plus the tape versions of Secret Agent : Sly Spy and Altered Beast . |
| 28 | It blended in beautifully with the rubbish bags and empty bottles waiting for the refuse men , but with my luck they 'd probably arrive before I could collect it . |
| 29 | If enough of the synthetic peptide molecules are supplied then there might be very few free receptors left for the viruses to bind to . |
| 30 | They maintain that these factors require markets to be backed by a set of institutional and cultural frameworks to correct for the inadequacies of the market , in particular the need for non-market based contracts and arrangements between economic agents . |