Example sentences of "[verb] the [noun sg] for [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Forecasting the Demand for Higher Education |
| 2 | This causes a build up of pressure in the solution compartment until , at equilibrium , the pressure exactly counteracts the tendency for further solvent flow . |
| 3 | The Prime Minister , Aníbal Cavaço Silva , had been under pressure to reorganize the government for some time , and the Cabinet sworn in on Jan. 5 contained five new ministers . |
| 4 | The plebiscitary acclamation which could always be mobilized by Hitler provided him with an unassailable base of popularity , and as such offered the regime legitimation both within Germany and in the eyes of foreign powers , allowing the scope for further mobilization and a gathering momentum of Nazi policy . |
| 5 | Until humans lose the need for social bonding — not to mention their animal instinct for alcohol — you 'll always have a local . |
| 6 | She should now aim to be 1 lb ( 0.5 kg ) below her starting weight on most days ; she should reduce sugar on cereal to just one teaspoon ; she should use less meat when making up meat meals like stews , using more vegetables instead ( this is as well , of course , as maintaining the goal for fat reduction from Week 1 ) ; she should have salted meat or salted fish only three times a week in total ( you will remember that salt goals last for two weeks each ) ; she should have one or two pieces of fresh fruit each day ( this is as well as the goal for Week 1 , having pulses with one meal each day ) ; she should have a brisk twenty-minute walk each day . |
| 7 | But we are determined to play our part in maintaining the momentum for closer co-operation to build a stronger European economy , to extend social justice , to preserve the environment , and to deepen our democracy . |
| 8 | The social transformation brought about by the enfranchisement , economic as well as political , of working populations has not impaired the regard for precious substances as symbols of excellence in every field of endeavour , any more than it lessened the hunger for personal jewellery remarked in our opening chapter . |
| 9 | ‘ We 've never closed a store , but if we ever did close that one , we would be happy to restore the land for industrial use . ’ |
| 10 | Shakhrai had criticized the Council for conservative bias , and his appointment strengthened reformist representation on this powerful body [ see also p. 39019 ] . |
| 11 | Now the formula one grand prix circus is getting ready to hit the road for another season … first race is in South Africa in five weeks time … what 's new … is it going to be a head to head between Mansell and Senna … |
| 12 | They spouted the need for hard line , no compromise , battle tactics and urged for the medium of roack/pop music to be used for propaganda purposes . |
| 13 | With respect to the embalming [ of ] Bodies , the methods that were commonly practised could , I know , have no effect ; at that time I read a good many Books upon ‘ Balsamation ’ but got very little instruction from reading these : according to my own Idea the best way would be to preserve the Body for some time that putrefaction should hardly be able to take place , & that it should gradually get rid of its moisture , & that , when it dried , it should have such imbalming juices in it , that it should resist putrefaction , & the insects at the same time be either kept off or destroyed : I set out with this Opinion & thought that something must be thrown thro' the whole Body : the when the Body was preserved , my Idea of getting rid of moisture was , to place the Body in some strong absorbent substance , & that substance which proved best I thought was Paris Plaister & I thought I could lay in a common Coffin such a quantity of Paris Plaister as would take out all the moisture & then I thought the Body should be rather in a wooden case than a leaden one because the Wood would assist the Absorption . |
| 14 | The research aims to show how the requirements of mass social and economic mobilisation associated with the Five Year Plan and the epoch of socialist construction made the need for political control more urgent . |
| 15 | More precisely , their nominal faith in God was supported and accredited by a closed system of mutual human honouring which made the need for any honour from God superfluous . |
| 16 | The threefold character of the German Bürgertum — strong state , strong Bildungsbürgertum , statist Bildungsbürgertum — made the situation for cultural modernism and for civil society trebly difficult . |
| 17 | The refugees , who had been staying in camps in Croatia , were accompanied by Jean Kahn , president of the European Jewish Congress , which made the appeal for more action from European countries and Israel to provide a refuge for Bosnians . |
| 18 | Quota filmmaking also made the argument for narrative simplicity that sometimes escaped the more prolix mainstream filmmakers . |
| 19 | In these six we have proof that not all inhabitants of Jamaica , Sweden and Spain lack the temperament for this country 's robust style of play . |
| 20 | All the societies stress the need for good communication and PR and argue the importance of their role as a conduit between the Institute and the membership . |
| 21 | What really drives the case for co-operative R&D ventures is the existence of technological spillovers , and it is , therefore , worth looking at the empirical literature on different methods of appropriation , the determinants of imitation costs and imitation times , and estimates of the size of spillovers . |
| 22 | Of course , what really drives the case for co-operative R&D ventures is technological spillovers , and , as we saw in our survey of the empirical literature on technological spillovers in section III , these can be easy to exaggerate . |
| 23 | The company is busily registering Digivision as a trade name around the world , but has found that a small British firm is already using the name for electronic equipment . |
| 24 | The present concern for sport as polling day approaches is typical of how politicians are adept at using the subject for short-term gain while ignoring its long-term problems . |
| 25 | Moscow 's last remaining forest , in the Losinskii Ostrov National Park , is being cut down by the city 's hungry , who are using the land for illegal potato growing . |
| 26 | The smugglers were taking a chance in using the Dunlin for this type of passage in mid-winter as she was hardly built for open sea work although she was sound enough . |
| 27 | The librarian had to carefully plan aspects of the project , in which the students would create their own information database on local pubs and clubs using the MICROVIEWDATA software , to cover aspects such as the involvement of other staff , the amount of supervision needed by students , the appropriateness of using the software for this kind of information i.e. was the project information-led or technology-led ? |
| 28 | This has been attempted with some success using the gene for human factor IX , though synthesis continues for only a short time , and immune response in the mouse receipients proved a problem . |
| 29 | Using the formula for linear interpolation , our linear approximation for rm is rm= 12.58 per cent , the same as the exact solution . |
| 30 | Using the quotation for British Petroleum in the same issue of the r m S we observe a market model estimate of beta of 1.05 , an R2 of 19 per cent and a standard deviation of 35 per cent , and using this data a beta of 1.0897 is estimated , a small difference and well within the standard error limits of + - 0.2 . |