Example sentences of "for the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One fascinating piece of information given in E. R. Wickham 's historical study of the Church in nineteenth-century Sheffield shows the pattern of pew rentals in the parish church ( now the Cathedral ) , and the point is made very forcibly that very few seats were available for the non-renting poor . |
| 2 | It is quite possible and not unusual for the transsexual man or woman to marry and have children . |
| 3 | Her solutions to the most common pest and disease problems are ICI Benlate for mildew , grease bands for the leaf-eating loopers ( winter moth caterpillars ) , tar oil winter wash to deal with woolly aphids and pbi Malathion Greenfly Killer for other aphids . |
| 4 | The painting Competition was won by Eric Gavin and Christopher Houston for the 7–11 year olds . |
| 5 | There is also a keyboard port , communications port for cellular and wireless connection and PCMCIA II slot — two slots for the 880 . |
| 6 | This seemed a great victory for the undefeated Britons and since those living within the Province also now had cause to hate Rome , this gave them a real hope of a military success . |
| 7 | He has received a card with drawings of gangsters on it and threats of a ‘ warm welcome ’ if he turns up for the second-round tie . |
| 8 | The in vitro transcription reactions were performed as described previously for classical pol III genes ( 19 ) and for the U6-RNA gene ( 5 ) . |
| 9 | But getting into RADA was quite a searching process and I remember doing four one-hour work sessions with some of the tutors there , including the Principal , before finally being accepted for the three-year course there . |
| 10 | The Wellcome Foundation Trust , a charitable arm of the Wellcome drug company set up to fund medical research , has agreed in principle to a request to pay for the three-year investigation . |
| 11 | They compared the actual returns on 60 US mutual funds for the three-year period 1982–4 with returns that would have been made if a specified strategy for investing in S&P500 futures had been followed . |
| 12 | The deadline for the three-year reorganisation ended on November 1 , 1992 . |
| 13 | The changes that were made for the Oval game took the number of England players used in the series to twenty-three and , as Cowdrey had to withdraw with a bruised foot , Graham Gooch was appointed the fourth captain of the series . |
| 14 | ROBERT Brooke 's comments in May issue 's Milestones about the ‘ recall ’ of J.W. Hearne for the Oval Test match against South Africa make more sense if it is appreciated that , with the rubber already won , the England side for the Fourth Test at Manchester was an ‘ experimental team ’ . |
| 15 | He was not the clear favourite for the Oval Office , for there were other men whose achievements were more palpable than George Crowninshield 's , but he looked good , sounded better and no journalist had ever discovered him with his fingers in the till or his legs in the wrong bed . |
| 16 | One shoulder operation and a season of water-treading later , this determined , self-assured competitor is once again strutting his stuff to destructive effect ; quite why he was overlooked for the Oval Test escapes me . |
| 17 | Despite the availability of hardware for the automated conversion of geographic data from paper maps to digital form ( e.g. optical scanners ) much data input to GIS is still done by hand using a digitizing table . |
| 18 | The first product offered by Phonelink was DataCare , a bureau service for the automated bulk retrieval of telephone numbers . |
| 19 | In general , hotels cater for the medium-sized business conference , as shown by the following table : |
| 20 | King Kong plunging to his death from a great height and the real death of a bird in the sky , events dramatic enough for the whirring imagination of a seven year old to cope with . |
| 21 | The detailed arrangements for the non-metropolitan districts were not included in the 1972 Act but determined subsequently by the LGBC . |
| 22 | However , the worst may not be over for the embattled Chancellor . |
| 23 | Polling Day Weather : Dry , sunny and warm THE RESULT of the general election was thrown wide open last night , with three polls suggesting a last-minute rallying of support for the embattled Conservatives . |
| 24 | WASHINGTON , D.C. The new acting chairman of the National Endowment for the Arts , Republican Anne-Imelda Radice , has articulated a non-confrontational course for the embattled federal agency . |
| 25 | But miners in Russia 's biggest coalfield , Kuzbass in western Siberia , declared their support for the embattled president and threatened to strike . |
| 26 | TCCB , known in the past to have administered punishment for long-past ‘ sins ’ , or at least for the disreputable later exposure of them , will have to decide whether Beefy 's tale of being ‘ extremely inebriated ’ in Perth five years ago , when he forgot his bat and had to go back for it before smashing 48 off Western Australia , is an indictable offence . |
| 27 | While at Howard University he had taken up a position as a consultant on Caribbean affairs , this led him into full-time work for the Anglo-American Caribbean Commission , where in 1948 , he became its Deputy Chairman based in Port of Spain . |
| 28 | Look for the hooded sweater in a startling colour . |
| 29 | In every production there comes an awkward jerky stage when the cast abandon their books for the first time , but for The Hooded Owl it seemed to be going on longer than usual . |
| 30 | There 's nothing like a long Technical Run to dissipate any euphoria attached to a theatrical production , and that was the effect of the one held for The Hooded Owl on the evening of Sunday , 26th October , 1980 . |