Example sentences of "the [noun sg] of [noun] for " in BNC.

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1 Other Cabinet changes prompted by Keating 's resignation were : the appointment of Simon Crean in place of Kerin ; the appointment of Ross Free to replace Crean as junior Minister for Science and Technology ; and the addition of responsibility for Housing to the portfolio of Brian Howe .
2 This grew naturally from the edge and surface description modellers by the addition of procedures for ensuring that the object is fully defined by surfaces , and by giving these surfaces an " inner " and " outer " side .
3 In two of the teams the majority of requests for residential care came from health centre staff , while in the third ( the individual specialist ) self and family referrals accounted for most of these .
4 Directors , although often members themselves , are answerable to the majority of shareholders for their actions .
5 In summary , the Plan identifies three core areas for the majority of land for new housing and businesses .
6 Despite having the majority of play for three quarters of the game the home side squandered numerous chances .
7 The House will be aware that the majority of contracts for the development of this aircraft have already been let , including the radar selection which my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State announced on 8 May 1990 .
8 This has been generated , perhaps , more by past failures than by any great desire on the part of the majority of people for more participatory forms of decision making .
9 It is difficult , therefore , to conceptualize in any rigorous way the embedding of junctions for if we define the continuum using the topological neighbours of the origin junction then an equally valid interpenetrating continuum may be defined by using the spatial neighbours and their topological neighbours .
10 Washington 's fear of devaluation is reflected in Johnson 's decision to set up a Special Study Group in the middle of 1965 to examine the implications of the weakness of sterling for the dollar and the Bretton Woods international monetary system .
11 This result could have been anticipated on the basis of aspirin 's non-selective inhibition of the synthesis of both pro-aggregatory and anti-aggregatory prostaglandins , and of the ineffectiveness of heparin for the inhibition of clot-associated thrombin .
12 We have looked at the attachment of motorists for their cars , the increasing use of heavy lorries , and the reasons why governments are reluctant to impose taxes which push up inflation and weaken an important manufacturing industry .
13 The University none the less is carefully reviewing this matter , given the possibility of financial penalties by HEFCE in respect of recently lengthened courses and the proposals in the White Paper on the funding of science for the establishment of one-year taught graduate courses as the common precursor to the undertaking of the D.Phil .
14 By 1987 , the Home Office Research and Planning Unit Programme was indicating , ‘ now that resources are more constrained , more stringent criteria of relevance must be applied to the funding of research for the Home Office ’ .
15 I have been working on this book about the Prince of Palatine for over 25 years ; I 'll never finish it , but who cares , it 's interesting , especially since I can read seventeenth-century German which very few people can . ’
16 Pleas from the Prince of Wales for corporate help to rebuild the inner cities has not fallen on deaf ears .
17 ‘ I always pop into the Prince of Wales for a few bevvies when I leave here , so does Fred .
18 ‘ Non , Inspector , everyone had the same — oh , save for the Prince of Wales for whom I made a special soup . ’
19 ‘ Per venit ad aures nostras — It has reached our ears , most beloved Son in Christ … ‘ , followed by the usual sanctimonious phrases , then the allegations of sodomy , murder , the unsuitability of the Prince of Wales for an innocent French princess , the dissolution of the treaty , all culminating in bloody war .
20 He tried to broaden the base of support for the government , relying as far as possible on legal processes in restraining the press and arresting suspects , sacking the hated Minister of Education , Tolstoy , and planning steps to alleviate the burden of redemption payments on the hardest-pressed peasants .
21 Instead , the state was organised by the political ‘ families ’ that provided the base of support for Francoism : the Falangists , the military , the monarchists , and later the lay Catholic ‘ Opus Dei ’ technocrats ( Carr and Fusi 1981 : ch. 2 ) .
22 Apple is said not to have made a final commitment to release the software , and the big question is where Apple sees the base of applications for it , but word is that if the go-ahead is given , the product could come to market before the end of the year .
23 Apple is said not to have made a final commitment to release the software , and the big question is where Apple sees the base of applications for it , but word is that if the go-ahead is given , the product could come to market before the end of the year .
24 In this kind of office the variety of requests for service is probably such that it would be necessary to provide a set of categories of the main kinds of activities or functions .
25 The variety of careers for mechanical engineers is enormous .
26 In the direction of things for the escape of which an occupier of land is subjected to strict liability .
27 The only systematic disentanglement from corporatist theorizing and policy analysis of the administrative component was by R. E. Pahl and J. T. Winkler , writing at a time when it seemed that Britain had been developing in the direction of corporatism for the previous fifteen years and was experiencing sectoral planning , planning agreements and statutory or voluntary controls over prices , profit margins , dividends , wages , rents and the movement of capital .
28 In her view the provision of resources for the public services depends largely on the efforts of the ‘ doers ’ and wealth-creators .
29 They included the cost of a pond in St James 's Park , the provision of ordnance for St Mawes Castle , the state of fortresses in Kent , the expenses of Sir Francis Drake 's recent and final voyage to the Caribbean , the debts of the late Earl of Huntingdon and Sir Thomas Heneage , the answers of the Earl of Pembroke and Sir Richard Bingham to charges made against them , complaints of decays in the Bishopric of Durham , the dispute in the College of Arms between Garter King-at-Arms and Clarencieux , a claim on the barony of Dacre , the voyage of the Earl of Essex and the Lord Admiral to Cadiz , and , rather obscurely , ‘ order to be taken with Matthew Goodman for the cosener ’ .
30 the provision of equipment for teaching and research ;
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