Example sentences of "[noun pl] is [verb] for [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A more satisfactory way of delimiting lexical units is to look for grammatical differences which correlate with differences of meaning . |
| 2 | The tenure of rural housing is of considerable interest to social geographers , since access to specific sectors is restricted for many persons and the variation in security of tenure has social implications relating to quality of life , welfare , accessibility and expenditure on housing . |
| 3 | However , we find that phosphorylation of c-Jun by the DNA-PK does not interfere with DNA binding , indicating that phosphorylation at other sites is required for this effect . |
| 4 | The Federation of European Wholesale and International Trade Associations is calling for all references to traders ' responsibility to be removed . |
| 5 | Taking all such extraneous factors into account , Ms Blackman says her recommendation to first-time buyers is to look for capped rates , noting the five-year cap at 10.65% offered by the Leeds Permanent ( 0532 438181 ) . |
| 6 | Guidance on the circumspection required in the day-to-day exercise of administrative powers is provided for civil servants in a booklet ominously entitled The Judge Over Your Shoulder . |
| 7 | r and K symbolize contrasted extremes of course ; many conditions lie in intermediate positions so that the terms are used in a purely comparative sense to indicate the extent to which a set of r or K habitat conditions is reached for comparable situations . |
| 8 | The difference between the two figures is calculated for each region . |
| 9 | A reward of five pounds is offered for any information leading to the discovery of a young boy , Oliver Twist , who was kidnapped from his home in Pentonville last Thursday evening . |
| 10 | Controlling on such long-term forces as the strength of partisanship in the electorate and regional differences in turnout and voting patterns , the influence of these categories of forces is examined for each type of parliamentary election separately and for the change between them . |
| 11 | One unit is like a mini-qualification and an NVQ credit in the form of a Record of Achievements is awarded for each unit completed . |
| 12 | Coun John Elders is calling for tougher action after drunken teenage vandals rampaged along the promenade at Seaton Carew , near Hartlepool , wrecking seafront chalets . |
| 13 | Cleveland Refuge and Aid for Women and Children is appealing for large play equipment . |
| 14 | The British Trust for Conservation Volunteers is going for another plant-in on land adjacent to Port Meadow in Oxford . |
| 15 | A minimum of 50 complete sentences from the total corpus of 100 utterances is needed for Developmental Sentence Scoring . |
| 16 | When a complex piece of avionic equipment is introduced into service a suite of automatic test equipment programmes is written for each circuit board . |
| 17 | The company said : ‘ A similar programme of new store openings is planned for future years . ’ |
| 18 | The firm , which will do boards for a whole range of products including computers , telecommunications and satellite receiver and industrial control system products is looking for further partnerships in Taiwan , Japan and the US and is three months away from announcing its next deal . |
| 19 | The cumulative distance in kilometres is given for each town from Funchal . |
| 20 | Also , when words are syntactically ambiguous ( i.e. they can have more than one grammatical tag ) the corpus can provide information about how often each of the possible tags is used for that word . |
| 21 | This set of theses is intended for departmental use only , but evidence of use for inter-institutional loans was found on some of the declaration forms , as in the case of the Edinburgh University departmental collection . |
| 22 | The Foundation for the Study of Infant Deaths is calling for all ads featuring sleeping babies to be shown lying on their backs , following its new safety guidelines , issued in October last year . |
| 23 | Nonetheless the situation is almost one of a ‘ dual labour market ’ ( see chapter 4 , section 4.2 , p. 15 ) : one set of jobs is reserved for one category of the population ( blacks ) and another for the other ( whites ) . |