Example sentences of "the [adj] [adj] [verb] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | He would never set foot in Liberty 's , let alone Harrods — those haunts of the rich and the would-be rich represented for him the scornful laughter of the haves towards the have-nots . |
| 2 | Balanced growth requires that gross saving per worker just offsets depreciation and the capital-widening necessary to allow for the growth of the labour force . |
| 3 | Thus , in 1982 the top 100 quoted companies accounted for well over half the turnover , profit , and capital employed of the top 1000 companies , and within the top 100 , the top 10 accounted for over a quarter of turnover and capital . |
| 4 | The top 100 account for about four-fifths of sales and employment . |
| 5 | ‘ If you consider that out of the 1,800 listed companies the top 200 account for 85 per cent of the equity market by market capital , and that once you get to the next 100 companies like ourselves they already have comparatively few qualified people in the finance function , the addition of equally qualified internal audit people looks like overkill . ’ |
| 6 | Two-thirds of buyers choose saloon bodystyles with the remaining one-third opting for a hatchback . |
| 7 | Two further patients could not tolerate the high fibre diet and the remaining three defaulted for no apparent reason . |
| 8 | He was an explorer and naturalist — his lecture was to be about his expedition to an unexplored part of the Canadian Arctic looking for wild geese . |
| 9 | The question then arises , ‘ Would this fear be there if the individual concerned knew for absolute certainty that no-one will ever know that he is guilty ? ’ . |
| 10 | For thirty Belgian francs a month he lodged with a pedlar by the name of van der Haegen who lived at Paturages , not far from Mons ( the house was demolished in the early 1960s to allow for road widening ) . |
| 11 | For example , in the UK , Justice , published an influential report in the early seventies calling for prohibitions on insider dealing . |
| 12 | Secrecy was deemed politically wise because in the pacifist climate of the early 1930s planning for war could be misinterpreted as encouraging war . |
| 13 | Reviews in the early 1980s called for reactivation of research to establish the optimal positioning of the newborn infant and the optimal time for umbilical cord clamping at preterm deliveries . |
| 14 | The various White Papers of the early 1940s argued for the reorganisation of social services on ethical , egalitarian and humanitarian grounds . |
| 15 | One of the two pollution control agencies studied reported , for instance , that in a recent twelve month period the average fine levied for pollution offences was £49 ( unpubl. agency document ) . ’ |
| 16 | Young Charles is one of several up and coming teenagers in the Halkyn team along with Gareth Jacobs and Gareth Thomas , while there are a few others in the second eleven hoping for a first team chance . |
| 17 | round the ten every happens to everyone they work you know ten twelve is the obvious one to go for the go eight nine ten twelve fourteen and then once you do it you do n't realize you 've done it and you do n't stop . |
| 18 | His paradoxical logic is in many respects similar to the non-binary logical structures developed in France in the late 1960s to account for the peculiarities of literature and of narrative in particular ( see section 3.2 above ) . |
| 19 | Robert Harris established his name many years ago as a designer of sound blue water cruising yachts , so it was no surprise when a couple tackled him in the late 1960s to design for them a small yacht that would take them from Canada to New Zealand in both comfort and safety . |
| 20 | WHEN he was 28 , Dick Trafford went to work in Ormskirk as an ambulance driver in a workhouse , where the elderly poor worked for their keep . |
| 21 | Nonetheless , the unlucky 13 departed for Switzerland under the tutelage of manager Andy Beattie . |
| 22 | Halkopous , who had been in line with the first two turning for home , faded to finish third , with King Credo fourth . |
| 23 | Halkopous , who had been in line with the first two turning for home , faded to finish third , with King Credo fourth . |
| 24 | Boswell raised the topic of emigration : Johnson distinguished between its value to ‘ a man of mere animal life ’ and ‘ a man of any intellectual enjoyment ’ : the former content to wait for the earth to produce , the latter unlikely to wish barbarism upon himself and his descendants . |
| 25 | The necessary analytic underpinning for the consensus was the belief that the state could manipulate the economy to achieve these goals , most importantly that it could always change spending to ensure full employment . |
| 26 | This is in the range expected for similar-sized macromolecular complexes , but less than the 2,900 2 observed for the trp repressor-operator complex . |
| 27 | The next best prop for the economy is those pistachios . |