Example sentences of "[noun sg] [adj] for [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The threatened revolt fizzled out as Conservative critics decided to draw back from voting down the whole Budget , keeping their powder dry for future votes when the issue comes before the Commons in detail . |
| 2 | well I 'll switch off if I 'm being something rather good , so do n't I feel a bit sorry for those goldfish . |
| 3 | The imminence of the Olympic Games means that the top British fighters , having competed at the British Open last weekend , are back in training , leaving the field clear for emerging figures in both the men 's and women 's events . |
| 4 | ‘ I suppose he 's a bit old for that sort of thing , ’ said Lili , ‘ although with that ridiculous car he drives he does seem to be trying to give an impression of boyish insouciance . ’ |
| 5 | a right good'un it were , our Arthur give me torch and I had to buy a battery , I paid about three pound odd for this battery |
| 6 | UN force due for Central America |
| 7 | Largest Swiss Dubuffet retrospective for twenty years |
| 8 | The adviser responsible for multicultural education took this view . |
| 9 | On some of the whole-school matters , such as equal opportunities provision , the adviser provided feedback to the head only , although the adviser responsible for multicultural education spoke to all the senior staff . |
| 10 | A notable exception to this was the adviser responsible for multicultural education who argued that since the school did not seem to have developed an overall policy for multicultural education he could not conduct an appraisal of it . |
| 11 | In a continent notorious for appalling prison conditions , where brutality and corruption are the norm , Nicaragua 's penal system stands out as a genuine effort to find a more humane yet affordable alternative . |
| 12 | Rational planning was to be achieved by unifying health services , which were at that time split between local authorities , the boards of governors of teaching hospitals , a regional and local administration responsible for other hospitals and the executive councils who administered the contracts for general practitioners ( see Figure 1.1 ) . |
| 13 | One implementation problem here is that the main central department responsible for local government is the Department of the Environment . |
| 14 | Agents , who are responsible for the underwriting syndicates , will be compelled to inform investors specifically about the type of business being handled and underwriters will be obliged to join the market association responsible for any class of insurance written . |
| 15 | Agents , who are responsible for the underwriting syndicates , will be compelled to inform investors specifically about the type of business being handled and underwriters will be obliged to join the market association responsible for any class of insurance written . |
| 16 | Whether it was the wishes of the archdiocese ; or whether it was the inarticulate growls of air-marshals ; or whether it was the judgement that someone of 73 carries too many years to move to big new work ; or whether someone among Eden 's advisers thought scholarship important for some bishops — Eden rejected Fisher 's preference that Ramsey should go to London . |
| 17 | Recent studies have suggested that in vivo , at the time of partial hepatectomy , the ligand responsible for down regulation of the EGF is in fact TGFα , which is synthesised in the liver immediately after partial hepatectomy , and is a powerful hepatic mitogen via the EGF receptor . |
| 18 | Research by the Imperial Cancer Research Fund Laboratory in Oxford has traced the protein responsible for blocking treatment . |
| 19 | Three research groups recently announced — in the same issue of Nature — the discovery of the site of the genetic anomaly responsible for Myotonic Dystrophy , which is a major genetically transmitted disorder . |
| 20 | Furthermore , they have taken no part in the great debate in the Scottish Constitutional Convention , although there is still a seat available for that party . |
| 21 | Of all the treatments for obesity , none could be more physiological or less psychological than the operation known as jejeunoileostomy or ileal bypass , in which most of the small intestine is short circuited thus greatly reducing the amount of intestine available for absorbing food . |
| 22 | However , the absence of any immediate military threat enabled him to reduce naval expenditure in this and the succeeding Budget , thus leaving a small amount of revenue available for social expenditure . |
| 23 | This measure effectively makes competitive tendering compulsory for designated services , replacing the former ( largely discretionary ) powers which had been used by relatively few authorities in specific areas ( Ascher , 1987 , especially ch. 7 ; Stoker , 1988 ) . |
| 24 | A government strategy for the revival of British industry is that of making aid available for various aspects of business needs . |
| 25 | For example , in one bookshop , just before Christmas , I saw two women examining books on football suitable for young people . |
| 26 | With government-subsidized bread prices , it is very hard to make a rural bakery worthwhile for 15 members by making bread alone , even mixing local maize meal with the flour . |
| 27 | The heavy investment necessary for each title ( say £100,000 ) means that every book must satisfy the ‘ very strict criterion ’ of selling at least 100,000 copies ; ‘ If not , why are we bothering ? ’ |
| 28 | Age range makes their use more problematic ( a programme suitable for one age group will be unsuitable for another ) . |
| 29 | That he was able to summon the military force necessary for this invasion of southern Saxon territory , however , is surprising and a vivid demonstration of power by an exiled aetheling . |
| 30 | The buildings were subsidized by charitable donations but required rent-income for their upkeep , and the problem remained that the poorest could not afford the rent necessary for adequate housing . |