Example sentences of "the [adj] [noun pl] [verb] for [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The total innovations counted for each country were 257 in the USA , 45 in the UK , 23 in West Germany and 17 in France . |
| 2 | British industry , the City of London , most of what used to be called Fleet Street , and the economic spokesmen for all the political parties have for many years spoken with one voice on this matter : what Britain required , they all said , was a large , secure home market in which it was possible to benefit from economies of scale comparable to those enjoyed by the Japanese and the Americans . |
| 3 | Indeed the political parties preparing for those elections are in the process of selecting the candidates er there will in fact be an extra constituency in the East Midlands as a result of this particular order in council er and indeed the political parties at some stage will have to select new candidates for the six extra seats across the united kingdom . |
| 4 | Because of popular music 's ubiquitousness and vast scale of production , it has been possible to establish in the collective mind a set of conventional musical ‘ colours ’ — ‘ Spanish ’ , ‘ pastoral ’ , ‘ cowboy ’ , ‘ blue ’ , ‘ hip pie ’ , ‘ punk ’ , and so on — and arrangers and producers can simply lift the technical devices needed for these ready-made veneers off the shelf when needed . |
| 5 | This article is written with some knowledge , experience and appreciation of the commitment , the personal costs and the professional risks involved for those engaged in the struggle to reform school curricula , teacher education and other spheres and practices . |
| 6 | The Cash Collection/Enquiry Service follows the same philosophy of experienced and capable staff dealing with enquiries at the counter and so there has been an increase in the Administrative Assistants required for this service with a compensating reduction in clerical staff . |
| 7 | The English monks seem for some years to have been able to resist the discipline of Lanfranc . |
| 8 | Suchlike suspicions did not deter prospective travellers from paying the high prices asked for such authentic delicacies ; maybe even encouraged brisker sales . |
| 9 | The interesting points to note for both papers are that they emerged at a time when the SDP , a party of the middle-ground , was in the ascendant , and that neither moved to the ‘ left ’ , not even the social democratic ‘ left ’ , in the 1987 election . |
| 10 | Where a deposit is inserted the standard conditions provide for this to be 10% of the price . |
| 11 | This is perhaps less surprising when one considers that these definitions are derived by examining and grouping the actual collocations found for any particular word , and then working backwards to a definition from the separate contextual groupings [ Mackin , 1978 ] . |
| 12 | An attempt was made to reconcile the calculation of the average hours worked for all enterprises with the labour requirements of these enterprises . |
| 13 | I have , on more than one occasion , managed to entice a badger to within a few feet , simply by scratching my head , the inquisitive animals searching for this new ‘ badger ’ grooming in the shadows . |
| 14 | He is currently investigating the unusual claims made for this range of products . |
| 15 | He lost little or nothing by the concession and , as we have seen , the papal letters had for some time indicated the likelihood of such a solution being acceptable at Rome . |
| 16 | The alternative plans allow for each episode of the video to provide the basis for one , two or four lessons . |
| 17 | IT is stressed that the braking distances learned for that driving test many years back are not idle theory . |
| 18 | The findings suggest that , although there is an interacting effect between the two , many of the fundamental characteristics which are shared by all the cross-national systems investigated for that industry are the result of a common response to modern technological development and mechanised factory production . |
| 19 | By 1973 , the overseas offices accounted for more than half of the fee income , but the firm found itself poorly represented in the USA with only two of its nine branches established there . |
| 20 | It is likely that the methodological differences account for this . |
| 21 | The project aims to investigate the design of ‘ automatic ’ foreign-language dictionaries for visual look-up or for the purposes of machine aided translation ; to analyse the linguistic strategies needed for this and to study the operationalisation and computerisation of such methods . |
| 22 | We realise that there will need to be additions to the job description and profile to take account of the different judicial offices such as district judge or circuit judge , but overall the job description and personal profile describe the essential qualities needed for any judge . |
| 23 | In the early months of 1914 the Unionist leaders prepared for this desperate throw , and the plan was only abandoned when the " mutiny " at the Curragh showed that it was unnecessary , for the officers would not in any case agree to coerce Ulster . |
| 24 | Relations between the communist states had for some time been less amicable than a common dedication to working-class interests might have suggested . |
| 25 | The furore was increased by the ham-fisted police hunt for those responsible . |
| 26 | As already mentioned , the Irish bishops had for some time found the separation of church and state both a workable and desirable solution . |
| 27 | Last week , when he had left Joe Hyde in the bookshop , he had more or less made up his mind not to attend the meeting of the Irish sympathizers planned for this night . |
| 28 | The other factors account for that : home life , perception of limited opportunities , images of black successes . |
| 29 | Eventually it receded leaving the fertile marshlands stretching for more or less ten miles to the wolds , whose now gentle eastern slopes were once the exposed chalk cliffs . |
| 30 | The virtual machines used for this purpose will have low priority call on resources to minimise the impact on interactive work . |