Example sentences of "and [adj] [noun] for " in BNC.

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1 This two-track approach was seen by the press in member countries as reflecting continued manoeuvring over the role of the United States in the alliance , against a background of US troop reductions in Europe and Franco-German proposals for a European military force .
2 The trend in social security benefits is uncertain because of the introduction of several new benefits , the modification of others , and the replacement of flat rate contributions , and , to a lesser extent , flat rate benefits , with earnings-related contributions and earnings-related benefits for retirement and widowhood .
3 In recent years it has been possible to study the mechanisms involved in the regulation postprandial gall bladder motility in detail because of the development of sensitive and specific radioimmunoassays for measurement of CCK and the availability of ultrasonography and cholescintigraphy as non-invasive methods to measure human gall bladder motility .
4 ‘ But we hope to make things a little easier in respect of health authority capital and specific grants for social care . ’
5 Thus the Far Western technique provides a sensitive and specific assay for detection of proteins that can complex with CREB .
6 Most of the text comes from the proceedings of the 1989 Bioanalytical forum at Guildford , and is divided into three main sections — producing valid analytical results ; the analysis of anti-infectives , and specific approaches for various drugs and metabolites .
7 This was followed by a series of seminars and briefings which focused on the policy issues raised by the research , and specific lessons for the improvement of urban policy and practice .
8 We , therefore , provide an outline of the Queen 's Bench Division procedure , indicating the changes that have taken place and specific recommendations for change made by the Review .
9 knowing the acceptable upper and lower limits for a settlement : before starting any negotiations set the maximum and minimum limits which are acceptable .
10 and lower threshold for onset of shivering .
11 Upper records show measurements for the caecum and lower records for the trachea of the same animal .
12 The forces that permit , and even promote , smaller corporate entities are the same forces that permit , and even promote , smaller national entities : flexibility , accountability , motivation of the individual , innovation , freer world trade in both the physical and capital markets , and lower thresholds for economies of scale .
13 The tail was deep with enlarged ridge scales along the upper and lower edges for stiffening , and the fan was strengthened by special radiating rows of enlarged scales ( Fig. 1 e ) .
14 Waste management group Attwoods is increasing business despite less waste from the recession-stricken UK construction industry and lower demand for its quarry products , according to figures out yesterday .
15 In 1093 Pope Urban II approached the bishops and abbots of Aquitaine , Gascony and Lower Burgundy for financial aid and ejecting an anti-pope from the Lateran .
16 A committee of partisans is not , however , necessarily the best forum for an objective inquiry into a matter which may have political overtones and an alternative and preferable procedure for this purpose was established by the Tribunals of Inquiry ( Evidence ) Act 1921 .
17 The advent of professionally trained full-time librarians is still awaited , but a number of project schools were well served by head teachers who resolved to designate and remunerate teachers for library responsibilities .
18 Controversial QC Helena Kennedy makes an impassioned and cogent plea for judicial change in Eve Was Framed ( Chatto & Windus , £16.99 ) .
19 We retreated to the house , with confessions of lost-bottle and do-better vows for the morrow .
20 It would have been an unnecessary and cruel blow for her to see her old home in its state of decay .
21 Mountbatten was to go out to India , announce an early and definite date for British departure , hand over the administrative machine in working order to a unitary government , and secure an alliance with that government in the form of membership of the Commonwealth , preferably with a military treaty .
22 We expect Jesus to be in the right place at the right time , therefore his choosing of male apostles was quite deliberate , which must have theological significance and definite implications for the ministry today .
23 In fact , the only thing me and that apology for a wench that I 'm forced to share this column with can agree on is that the Sega games are just too flamin' easy .
24 But when the article was reprinted in French by Le Figaro on June 6 1985 , Mr Mohamed Al Fayed sued me and that newspaper for defamation .
25 And that question for me is never adequately answered by Kurt Diemberger 's text .
26 Bob Ashby , the chairman , said that international football was considered to be of paramount importance to the status of Rugby League and that selection for Great Britain must not be devalued .
27 Bob Ashby , the chairman , said that international football was considered to be of paramount importance to the status of Rugby League and that selection for Great Britain must not be devalued .
28 It recommends that all planning permissions for quarrying in national parks should expire in 10 years and that permission for dormant sites be removed , or at least reviewed — even though this would require compensation for the owners .
29 Furthermore , the government ( Minister of Land , 1966 , 3 ) has not only sanctioned this growth when , as long ago as 1966 , they stated ‘ that townspeople ought to be able to spend their leisure in the countryside if they want to ’ but following a report of the House of Lords ( HL Select Committee 1973 ) has also endorsed and encouraged recreational uses when they accepted ( Secretary of State for the Environment , 1975 , 1 ) that ‘ recreation should be regarded as one of the community 's everyday needs and that provision for it is part of the social services ’ .
30 Common-sense observers have long noted this ‘ mellowing ’ , yet it is only recently that empirical data have demonstrated that concern for relationships does on average increase , that concern for stability and structure also increases , and that enthusiasm for the radical or the different is replaced by conservative views of the world .
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