Example sentences of "[noun] of [noun sg] for [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Studies assessing the value of various risk factors and scoring systems in patients with acute variceal haemorrhage are important as they may offer a useful mean of selection for entry into clinica trials or they may identify a group of patients with a very high mortality . |
| 2 | It shows that the relative risks of mortality for children in social classes IV and V were higher than for those in classes I and II for all age groups , although the difference was not statistically significant at ages 10–15 . |
| 3 | There may be the most practical methods of purchase for people in remote rural areas , but avoid any mail order or catalogue offer unless there is a free home trial period or bona fide money-back guarantee . |
| 4 | As such , care programming can be seen as an attempt to standardize mental health service delivery and to set norms for the administration of care for people with a certain level of dependency . |
| 5 | A number of respondents suggested a similar switch of responsibility for redemption of the mortgage — in effect the property would be sold subject to the existing mortgage , and the buyer would ensure that the previous mortgage was redeemed . |
| 6 | Through the offices of Action for Bosnia in London , the main news stories are translated to provide a regular information service to the British press . |
| 7 | The application of the Government 's national bands will mean a loss of grant for London of about £300 million a year , which works out in terms of people 's bills at about £60 per adult per year and £100 in some constituencies . |
| 8 | Phillipa Burrow told Northern members at the dinner : ‘ You have under-promised and over-delivered a varied and interesting programme of activity for members in your area . |
| 9 | Services should also affirm their policies on equal opportunities by ensuring that they monitor the use of their services by specific ethnic groups , test that the information they make available for the public is comprehensible and accessible , canvass users ' views of the current services , recruit staff of different ethnic backgrounds , at all levels in the organization ( although , in the case of Afro-Caribbeans in particular , this can be difficult due to the lower educational opportunities of this group and , in consequence , a paucity of suitable candidates for posts ) , and institute a programme of training for staff of all grades and backgrounds to understand their own conscious and unconscious prejudices about race and culture . |
| 10 | A refugee is ‘ a person who , owing to a well-founded fear of persecution for reasons of race , religion , membership of a particular social group or political opinion , is outside the country of his nationality and is unable or , owing to such fear , unwilling to avail himself of the protection of that country ’ , according to the United Nations 1951 Convention and 1967 Protocol Relating to the Status of Refugees . |
| 11 | Yet , despite the difference , the attractions of marriage for women in both groups comes through clearly ; it both symbolizes and constitutes the movement from adolescence to full adulthood ; it means independence from the family of origin ; and it is hoped that it will be financially advantageous . |
| 12 | HEADS OF AGREEMENT FOR ACQUISITION OF THE WHOLE OF THE ISSUED SHARE CAPITAL OF ABC HOLDINGS LIMITED ( ‘ ABC ’ ) |
| 13 | Whereas a firm offers units of output for sale at a price , a bureau offers a total output in exchange for a budget . |
| 14 | What is true of academic life for a teacher of jurisprudence is no doubt equally true in other walks of life for people in business , industry , the civil service , legal practice , farming and indeed fishing . |
| 15 | But the training that had been such a part of his life , the long hours of studying the Twelve Books of Honour for entry into the Fiana at the age of eleven ; the days and the weeks spent schooling his mind so that all situations could be calmly appraised , came to his aid and , at length , exhausted and drained , Fergus began to look about him and assess this strange , out-of-the-world fortress . |
| 16 | Patients may be admitted to the ward for investigations that need to be carried out under local or general anaesthetic , e.g. the removal of a small piece of tissue for examination under a microscope ( a biopsy ) or the internal inspection of an organ such as the bladder ( a cystoscopy ) . |
| 17 | There was also a promising coastal site at Druridge Bay in Northumberland , where the CEGB had bought 300 acres of land for £700,000 in 1985 . |
| 18 | All local authority auditors are expected to review aspects of value for money as part of their annual audit programme . |
| 19 | Setting of date for abolition of Temporary Provisions — Timetable for constitutional reform |
| 20 | He also pointed out the amendment in section 26 of the Criminal Justice Act 1991 ( effective from 1 October 1992 ) reducing the maximum term of imprisonment for theft from ten to seven years , thereby distinguishing theft from obtaining by deception , the maximum term for which remains at ten years . |
| 21 | Ragusa became an important entrepôt , which , in the words of Sir Paul Rycant , a shrewd English observer , writing in 1668 , was ‘ the port for transmitting the manufactures of Venice , and all Italy , into Turkey ’ , and in return received the necessities of life for distribution to the rest of Europe , often in its own ships . |
| 22 | Unlike the Harter Act , however , unseaworthiness did not deprive the carrier of immunity for liability for the consequences of errors of navigation and management because COGSA required that the alleged unseaworthiness be the cause of the loss . |
| 23 | Venous blood samples ( 5 ml ) were taken at 10 , 20 , 30 , 60 , and 90 minutes after the start of injection of isotope for measurement of the isotopic enrichment of plasma free leucine . |
| 24 | DOWN 1 Do one in for equal wages ( 6 ) 2 Sprint up with lace undone in typical family ( 7 ) 3 Request he received from the British Empire ? ( 5 ) 4 Concentrating so in form for plans ( 10 ) 5 Queen that is raised for the country ( 4 ) 6 Peg holds this original drier ( 4–5 ) 7 Solvent with less substance ? ( 7 ) 8 Relative amount needed to be filthy , he said ( 6 ) 13 High fashion involving exercise with English lords ( 3,7 ) 15 Common sense about riot disorder and love of ill fame ( 9 ) 17 He went up to the city which went with the flow ( 7 ) 18 Fail to keep appointment with his comedy ? ( 5–2 ) 19 Prevents injection of energy for champion of prevention ( 6 ) 20 Keep alien in bad weather ( 6 ) 23 Make ten to five when you do it ( 5 ) 24 Strike one for chastity which he went Up the second time |
| 25 | Department of English for Speakers of Other Languages |
| 26 | Meanwhile , I had joined the Home Civil Service in the Department of Agriculture for Scotland at St Andrew 's House . |
| 27 | The Department of the Environment ( DoE ) had foreseen difficulties with the Directive , and now asked the Department of Health for advice on nitrate levels , most probably so that the UK could argue for laxer standards . |
| 28 | This was an action of assumpsit for breach of warranty of the soundness of a horse . |
| 29 | The unthinking equation of widowhood for women with retirement for men has been challenged . |
| 30 | His widow became a pioneer of education for women in Ireland as principal of Alexandra College , Dublin . |