Example sentences of "the [noun] [verb] for the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nonetheless , once in recovery , the opportunity remains for the recovering person to extend his or her range of physical abstinence and , by doing this , the relapse rate may in time come to be less than at present . |
| 2 | ‘ All I wanted on behalf of the team was the opportunity to qualify for the European Cup final off the back of our last two Champions League matches , ’ said the manager . |
| 3 | One has transferred to the communications department and all were offered the opportunity to work for the new contract firm . |
| 4 | Two pupils from Macmillan College in Middlesbrough showed Mr Fallon how they used the CDRom to search for the latest information about the fall of the Berlin Wall , the construction of the Channel Tunnel , and pollution in Teesside for their school projects . |
| 5 | Canary set out to purchase the base airframes for the planned conversions and marginally flyable Texans and Vibrators were collected from across North America and ferried to the modification headquarters at Long Beach , California . |
| 6 | Here is the chance to see the direction alternating for the first time . |
| 7 | But when they cast off Penry seemed reassuringly unconcerned , and sang under his breath as the Angharad headed for the turbulent stretch of sea separating Gullholm from the coast . |
| 8 | Section 9 of the UCTA provides for the partial abolition of the doctrine of fundamental breach in relation to contract terms which have to satisfy the element of reasonableness under the UCTA , such as exclusion clauses governed by s 3 . |
| 9 | Suppose , father being impoverished and son having come into money , the father had required the creditor to sue for the whole sum ? |
| 10 | He regressed the change in the spot price on the change in the futures price for the previous five-minute period and found a positive and highly significant relationship . |
| 11 | A second all-night session was not expected as the line-by-line examination of the measure resumed for the 18th day of its committee stage . |
| 12 | Editors invented elaborate textual corruptions to explain this , claiming for instance that Shakespeare had written two different versions of Brutus 's reactions and that the text used for the 1623 Folio ( where the play first appeared ) had mistakenly copied them both . |
| 13 | Worried managers made the decision after the computer crashed for the second time in 10 days . |
| 14 | Only later , on the negative or the print , would the photographer notice for the first time , say , a sundial on a distant lawn . |
| 15 | This week The Economist appears for the first time in its own new type-face — known as Ecotype . |
| 16 | Steady pressure , however , persuaded the National Heritage Memorial Fund to provide the endowment needed for the National Trust to take it on . |
| 17 | Quite what the taxpayer got for the extra money is not readily apparent . |
| 18 | However , serum triglyceride levels did not prove to be a significant factor for coronary heart disease in this multivariate analysis and this is probably because of the correction made for the inverse relationship between triglycerides and HDL . |
| 19 | The bulletins used for the Zambian languages were prepared in the early morning , because ZBS staff required time for translation . |
| 20 | A similar haze lies over the woods used for the two different models . |
| 21 | Phosphorylation of the unspliced neural version results in a decrease in sensitivity , whereas the opposite occurs for the spliced version found in the periphery . |
| 22 | Comparison of the times taken for the three exercises and discussion of the accuracies found will generate further insights into the subject of communication . |
| 23 | The groups exist for the whole age range , from pre-school upwards . |
| 24 | Reduction of the hours worked for the full-time employees and not for the part-time employees would result in a financial advantage for the full-time employees . |
| 25 | Summaries of the kitchen accounts for the last ten years , for instance . ’ |
| 26 | The predominant key of the opera is D minor , a sombre key with overtones of night and death ; while the dramatic scenes in the graveyard and at Giovanni 's last supper-party , when the statue appears for the last time , are reinforced with funereal-sounding trombones . |
| 27 | In lively talk with friends we all continually break the rules appropriate for the written form , and Mr Baker on the radio was no exception . |
| 28 | ‘ One ’ was a word of the Chelsea set for the first person singular , and one might perhaps venture the thought of a pun in the words of the inscription . |
| 29 | Finally , in this small sample , a note might be made of the £520 paid for the Descriptive Bibliography of the Books Printed at the Ashendene Press 1895–1935 , published in an edition of 390 copies signed by C. H. St. J. Hornby . |
| 30 | 15 faculty members and 280 staff have signed documents objecting to a research proposal from the University of California and from two laboratories that the university administers for the federal government . |