Example sentences of "of the [noun sg] for [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | No restriction would be placed on the amount in lei being taken out of the country for visits to other COMECON countries . |
| 2 | Melba Maggay has left her position as director of the Institute for Studies in Asian Church and Culture in Manila , Philippines , in order to dedicate more time to writing . |
| 3 | Although the chances of a complaint being made or a prosecution being brought in these circumstances seem remote , it is conceivable that a prosecutor with censorious views could make use of the legislation for purposes for which it was not intended . |
| 4 | They made contact with Waksman and with Merck , and obtained supplies of the drug for trials in infected guinea pigs , and , when these were successful , in man . |
| 5 | A relatively static subject like this is best shot from off a tripod which would enable you to keep well back and work the zoom towards the telephoto end of the range for close-ups without risking spoiling your shots through camera-shake . |
| 6 | But in view of the outlook for prices of both oil and gas , the company decided to write down the carrying value of its production , development and exploration assets in an exceptional depletion charge totalling £24½m . |
| 7 | Mr J Emslie asked if he might have the use of the hall for meetings in connection with the 1991 census . |
| 8 | Some local authorities also receive direct government grants from the Department of the Environment under the Urban Programme , which provides 75% of the funding for projects in deprived areas . |
| 9 | The ‘ realistic scope ’ for saving in 2005 and 2020 is put at ‘ 20 per cent of the energy bill of the day for investments with short payback periods ’ . |
| 10 | The search of the trackside for clues to the Chiltern line bombers will resume at first light tomorrow . |
| 11 | Sam and Paul Bradley , who worked behind the scenes , attended a special screening of the film for critics in Oxford . |
| 12 | She sat in the dishevelled shabby glamour of her bedroom and stared out of the window for hours at a time . |
| 13 | A defence is provided in section 4(1) of the Act for cases in which ‘ it is proved that publication … is justified as being for the public good on the ground that it is in the interests of science , literature , art or learning , or other objects of general concern ’ . |
| 14 | ( 8 ) The holder of the licence for premises to which this section applies shall keep posted in some conspicuous place in the premises a notice stating that this section applies thereto and setting out the effect of its application , and if any person contravenes this subsection he shall be guilty of an offence . |
| 15 | ( 8 ) The holder of the licence for premises to which this section applies shall keep posted in some conspicuous place in the premises a notice stating that this section applies thereto and setting out the effect of its application , and if any person contravenes this subsection he shall be guilty of an offence . |
| 16 | ( 7 ) The holder of the licence for premises to which this section applies shall keep posted in some conspicuous place in the premises a notice stating that this section applies thereto and setting out the effect of its application , and if any licence-holder contravenes this subsection he shall be guilty of an offence . |
| 17 | The extra cash help will come from the Bellwin scheme , under which the Government automatically picks up 85 per cent of the bill for disasters over and above initial spending by councils . |
| 18 | The effect of diabetes on the eye is usually monitored by measurement of visual acuity and examination of the retina for signs of the disease . |
| 19 | There was also a minor reorganization of ministries including the merger of the Ministry for Relations with Parliament and with that for Relations with Political Parties . |
| 20 | This resentment was strengthened still further in 1898 when as part of the struggle for slices of the Chinese ‘ melon ’ Russia herself took out a twenty-five year lease on the southern tip of the Liaodong Peninsula . |
| 21 | The chemist P. Keune who teaches Science of Materials at two Dutch art academies asked the American manufacturers of the paint used by Daniel Goldreyer in the recent restoration of the painting for details concerning its chemical composition . |
| 22 | report on the reliability and validity of the scale for samples of speech collected both naturalistically , as in the original project and in a variety of more structured situations . |
| 23 | This research will study the economics of the market for teachers in the UK . |
| 24 | The manufacturer of taps would probably obtain better projections of the market for taps in each country by taking into consideration not just income per capita and population size , but also house characteristics . |
| 25 | By providing around a third of total export value , re-exporting to Europe helped to offset the saturation of the market for woollens in northern and western Europe . |
| 26 | There were two problems back then : first , collectors tend to have an inflated idea of the value of their work , and second , since they feared the IRS ( Inland Revenue Service ) would question any evaluation they gave , they overvalued everything , The IRS got to the point where , because of the abuses , it was prepared to recommend to Congress the abolition of the deduction for donations of works of art . |
| 27 | The part of the form for particulars of the judge 's finding was left blank . |
| 28 | On checking artists , names appended it appears that up to 1756 Jeffreys did most of the engraving for Figures of Plants but thereafter his name disappears except for the odd plate , which may well have been made earlier . |
| 29 | When he finally decided to publish it in 1678 , he defended its form by comparing the tactics of the hunt for souls with the way in which a fowler must whistle to attract birds , and a fisherman must tickle trout before he can clasp them . |
| 30 | Jane Waterson , a member of the Association for Improvements in Maternity Services , asked for information from seven hospitals across the province . |