Example sentences of "in [noun pl] [adv] [verb] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mr Smith said : ‘ However well intentioned the reform may have been and however well it may work in schools sufficiently funded for it to work , the fact is too many of its side-effects are visible , malign and damaging and John Patten must have at the very top of his agenda an urgent review . ’ |
| 2 | For example , the deregulation of brokers ' commissions on Wall Street in 1975 started a revolution in other financial capitals — the ‘ big bang ’ in London — and made possible the rise in international competition in sectors previously reserved for nationals . |
| 3 | In a broad reform , foreign investment restrictions were lifted in January 1990 , eliminating controls on profit remittances , profit reinvestment , and foreign investment in sectors hitherto reserved for nationals , and removing restraints on the transfer of technology . |
| 4 | In Bohemia under Joseph II opposition to the burial of Protestants in cemeteries hitherto reserved for Catholics was so great that it required the presence of a considerable force of cavalry to ensure that one such burial took place ; while the disastrous flooding of 1785 , when the Danube broke its banks , was widely regarded as a divine punishment for the emperor 's impious attacks on the Church . |
| 5 | After the murder female employees who had previously used Castlemeads were allowed to park directly outside their office in places normally reserved for senior members of staff . |
| 6 | Socially , the males are dependent on the whereabouts of the breeding females , themselves located in places well suited for the nourishment and protection of their young . |
| 7 | The introduction of smoke into a gas flow without unduly disturbing it is rather difficult except in wind-tunnels specially designed for the purpose . |
| 8 | Transposons found in prokaryotes usually code for one or more proteins that ensure their own replication . |
| 9 | Whole communities were being , so to speak , lifted out of the mother country and planted down in villages already prepared for them , even down to food in the larder . |
| 10 | Lawyers acting for the 14 nuns are due to see a judge in chambers today to ask for a judicial review which would effectively prevent ministry officials carrying out the slaughter at Our Lady of the Passion Monastery near Daventry . |
| 11 | Romania would import Iranian oil via its port of Constanza and then process it in refineries specially built for the purpose . |
| 12 | Migration and fertility decline are alternative escapes from population pressure in societies sufficiently developed for mortality to be declining ( as in eighteenth century France ) and can to some extent substitute for each other ( Davis 1963 , Friedlander 1983 ) to relieve population pressure ( Woods and Smith 1983 ) . |