Example sentences of "[adj] [adj] [noun] [vb mod] [be] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | An undeniable attraction of an auction is the possibility that some undervalued item may be for sale . |
| 2 | ‘ The worst possible scenario would be for the civilian government to remain in a weak and powerless state , forcing us to maintain a military occupation in the city , ’ said Mr Roberts , who is dean of the law school at DePaul University in Chicago . |
| 3 | Will he consider conducting an inquiry into what the optimum pupil-teacher ratio should be for each age of children , because that ratio will differ ? |
| 4 | As the likelihood of restricting drivers to eight km/h for all but the shortest distances appears remote , the implication is that all shared-space areas must be for small groups of houses only or short culs-de-sac . |
| 5 | Much everyday reasoning about causes , however , seems to demand perfect relationships : ‘ Smoking does n't cause lung cancer ; the man next door to us got lung cancer and he had never smoked a cigarette in his life ’ , implying that the only cast-iron proof would be for all smokers to get lung cancer and for no non-smokers to get |
| 6 | The only other alternative would be for the court to disregard one of the clauses and hold that one party had , by conduct , accepted the other party 's terms and waived its own , including the provision providing that it should not be taken as accepting any other terms . |
| 7 | Moreover , the ability of state enterprises to maximize business objectives depends on the nature of the political pressures on them , and indeed , a greater ‘ business ’ rather than ‘ political ’ orientation ( Zif 1981 ) may flow from clear directives of the political authorities ; in other words the dominant political objective may be for the enterprise to behave in a ‘ commercial ’ manner , so that the maximization of business objectives may be a reflection of greater dependence on political authorities . |
| 8 | The best preliminary plan may be for the reader to open the book upright at ( the illustration ) and then go to the other side of the room , to be imposed on from a distance : it is the nearest the book can offer to the proper first encounter with the figure . |
| 9 | Another potential future LAN would be for Public Services and Publications , in view of the close functional links which have developed between some of their activities , and the need to minimise cost increases by sharing expensive hardware . |
| 10 | As made clear in s. 205(1) ( xxvii ) ( above ) this means that a valid legal lease must be for a fixed and certain period of time . |