Example sentences of "[adj] for the [noun sg] of [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Progressive Socialist Party ( PSP ) of the Druze leader Walid Jumblatt had likewise said that it would participate in the elections , although Jumblatt on July 17 expressed reservations about the new electoral law , reiterating that he did not think that conditions were yet right for the holding of elections . |
| 2 | Both these countries indicate that the spoken language base is unnecessary for the specification of places and people ( a particular use which hearing users make of fingerspelling ) , since fingerspelled names are not used . |
| 3 | The Data Protection Registrar , in publicising a closing date of May 1986 for the receipt of registrations , had no idea how many data users ought to be registering ; in the event the flow of registrations was far slower than had been hoped , but by the end of 1986 it was clear that the higher guesses were more likely to be right . |
| 4 | The reason : The provincial government paid Mount Providence , operated by Roman Catholic nuns , 75 Canadian cents a day each for the care of orphans — for mentally retarded children it paid 2.75 dollars . |
| 5 | The frequent attention given to the management of river banks has made many unsuitable for the nesting of Kingfishers , and the frequent clearance of marginal vegetation has been to the detriment of species such as the Reed Bunting , Sedge and Reed Warbler . |
| 6 | The latter effectively reduces the amount of sunlight falling directly into the water and generally makes conditions inhospitable for the growth of algae . |
| 7 | For our purposes , it is sufficient to note that for the majority of economists , the use of these concepts of surplus is a legitimate way of analysing the benefits ( and losses ) that arise under differing competitive conditions . |
| 8 | The procedure is much less public than that for the passage of Acts of Parliament . |
| 9 | On the other hand , a pension fund was established in 1895 for the payment of pensions not exceeding 6s 10d pa. to the old and poor . |
| 10 | The costs of using a market , therefore , will be high for the organization of transactions that involve highly specific assets . |
| 11 | Or are laces adequate for the majority of runners ? |
| 12 | The term ‘ precept ’ means a demand by one body upon another for the cost of services administered by the body making the demand in the area of the body required to meet the demand . |
| 13 | Readership or audience numbers are no longer as crucial for the profitability of newspapers , TV channels , or radio stations as in earlier periods . |
| 14 | Some reviews of aspects of urban intervention indicated that Urban Programme funding often proved crucial for the implementation of projects as diverse as business-development initiatives ( DoE , 1988b ) environmental improvements ( JURUE , 1986b ) and some employment-creation projects ( DoE , 1986 ) . |
| 15 | The obituary in the Journal of the London Association of foremen , engineers , and draughtsmen recalled that ‘ she was a remarkable personage with a great knowledge of engineering matters and considerable versatility of talent ’ , and ‘ how cheery and thoughtful for the happiness of others she was … she was the only lady , it is believed , who ever wrote and read a scientific paper , illustrated by diagrams and drawings made by herself , before the members of a Scientific Institution . ’ |
| 16 | With all that said of course the transition period is going to be very dangerous for the kind of reasons we 've been talking about already and I think is right too when he says that er , the so called nationalist in the non Russian Republics , if you 're a Democrat in a empire , then you are inevitably a nationalist as well because you want your nation to have its natural human rights . |
| 17 | Our Executive Programmes are therefore appropriate for the range of challenges which different levels of managers are currently facing . |
| 18 | These criteria make the concept flexible and appropriate for the study of LDCs , as well as being operational . |
| 19 | Animal droppings , rotting cabbage or steak and chips , it 's all okay for the Diet of worms . |
| 20 | An early fourth-century BC silver rhyton from the Black Sea , partially gilt , in the form of a stag 's head , is one of the most beautiful examples of its kind , and unique for the frieze of warriors in relief around its neck . |
| 21 | My career since 1982 has been remarkable for the number of men who have harboured exactly those prejudices that Smith speaks of — that is , that you ca n't do science and medicine and have children . |
| 22 | The residents say the application by Paul and Linda Wilson , of Middlesbrough , is inappropriate for the row of shops which already includes a fish and chip shop . |
| 23 | The trust can then acquire shares in Newco and hold these for the benefit of employees of Newco and Target . |
| 24 | Therefore , although the RPI is a widely followed and widely understood index , it is not entirely satisfactory for the indexation of pensions . |
| 25 | Moreover , many actual nationalizations were indeed objectively functional for the restructuring of parts of the economy ‘ no longer organised as capital ’ as Fine and O'Donnell ( 1981 ) put it ; and the British Conservatives only attempted to reverse the post-war Labour government 's efforts ‘ where we believed that a measure of nationalisation was a real hindrance to our island life ( Winston Churchill , cited in Weiner 1960 : 80 ) . |
| 26 | Modern technology is also valuable for the reinforcement of instruments and voices . |
| 27 | That street was wide , long ( leading up to the famous suspension foot-bridge ) and ideal for the playing of games such as football and rounders , and the chasing of girls into the mouths of tenements ( called ‘ closes ’ ) wherein we played at Mammies and Daddies . |
| 28 | Although they may be regarded as suitable accommodation by some people , especially retired couples able to afford good-quality mobile homes , relatively poor facilities and frequently isolated locations make them less than ideal for the majority of inhabitants . |
| 29 | An index would be prepared for a very large report but is somewhat unusual for the majority of reports . |
| 30 | Both these boards allow for movement of the display ; they are therefore very good for the rearrangement of sequences , e.g. planning patient care , ward management , functions of the body , heart valves or types of joints . |