Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] [be] for [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There are naked kouroi from the region , some from Samos colossal , but the marked preference is for clothed figures : an occasional draped kouros ( something rare on the mainland or the Cyclades ) ; but female figures are far more frequent , and they show a concern with the rendering of stuff and its relation to the body , clinging or hanging free , quite different from anything we have yet seen . |
| 2 | Presidents , naturally , do not want to be seen to condone the taking of drugs ; the public temper is for stiff penalties and the locking up of offenders , not tender care . |
| 3 | Many still felt that the chief need was for full employment and adequate pay , which would enable the working class to provide for their own needs and to retain their independence of state control ; though they were prepared to accept immediate state help for those whose needs could not be met in this way , such as the aged . |
| 4 | My real preference is for Surrealist work , though watered down a bit . |
| 5 | Whether it 's AC/DC , Metallica or Kiss that are making guitar sounds you like , leave it ; it 's a favourite noise , like the hiss of a record needle on the vinyl before the song starts , which excites me with anticipation , even though the contemporary trend is for noise-free recording . |
| 6 | ‘ He just makes a mockery of those who write players off at 32 or say the Premier League is for young athletes . |
| 7 | It should be noted however , that the serial layout is for illustrative purposes only : the syntactic and semantic analysers can and have been run effectively in parallel . |
| 8 | Certainly there may be the odd chart or graph thrown in for luck but the basic requirement is for high quality text . |
| 9 | From the publication , in 1946 , of his book The Affairs of the Poles Osmanczyk 's constant call was for Polish-German reconciliation as one of the essential steps towards the creation of a new , permanently conflict-free Europe . |
| 10 | The usual procedure was for sympathetic teachers to provide branches in their areas with lists of school-leavers each of whom was then interviewed at home with his or her parents by a ‘ visitor ’ who discussed the general employment situation with them , urging the importance of continued education and inviting the parents to make a formal application to the committee for assistance . |
| 11 | The key recommendation is for new legislation , in the form of a fresh National Parks Act , stressing conservation and " quiet enjoyment " as the priorities in Park management . |
| 12 | The current plan is for single pricing , in place of offer and bid prices , with the initial charge added on for buyers . |
| 13 | said : ‘ Seventy-five per cent of our current output is for pharmaceutical companies and 90 per cent of the effort on new product development is for pharmaceuticals . ’ |
| 14 | We believe a reasonable target is for civil R&D to increase from the present 1.8 per cent to 2.5 per cent of GDP . |
| 15 | Roast beef was for literary lunches . |
| 16 | Briefly the requirements for short story are for fictional narrative based er narrative based scripts of two thousand one hundred to two thousand three hundred words do not use a factual accounts or anything longer or shorter on this , nor can we consider 60 Writers Monthly |
| 17 | A Pakistani Foreign Ministry spokesman on Dec. 2 denied the latest allegations , stressing that " Pakistan 's nuclear programme is for peaceful purposes " , but added that " in the evolution of this programme Pakistan has acquired some technical capabilities " . |
| 18 | The fundamental need is for statutory change involving protection by law . |
| 19 | The most pressing need is for close consultation on Germany . |
| 20 | With this view , the Conservatives in the inter-war period were for small-scale government and low taxes — the less done by government , the better and cheaper . |
| 21 | Independent Charter is for experienced yachtsmen who can navigate . |
| 22 | Initially much of the Unix-based software was for technical applications but more and more commercial packages are emerging . |
| 23 | The said partnership is for economic strategy planning and they have current consultancy projects in what was the USSR , and the one of the three I have known for years , as he shared a Lothian Regional council office with our former upstairs neighbour , lovely now in lake district is off to Moscow next Monday and then to another city ( ? sp ) six thousand miles east of Moscow ! |
| 24 | Many authors felt that the best way to structure diabetic care in general practice was for general practitioners to set up miniclinics in order to create the ‘ protected time ’ needed for assessment of a complex condition . |
| 25 | His immediate requirement is for financial stability and control of where the money is going , especially all the small sums spent on things which , on the face of it , all have perfectly laudable reasons . |
| 26 | One logical fix to this geographical mis-match is for inner-city blacks to commute out from the ghettos to the suburbs . |
| 27 | In due course there may be significant business opportunities in these countries , but the immediate need is for educational help . |
| 28 | Sent off no less than 20 times in his career , Johnson is a surprisingly quiet and tender man who lashed out at opponents , either on the spur of the moment or in the heart-felt belief that rational behaviour was for lesser talents . |
| 29 | Its numbers had increased by 1979 to 3,000 from only 800 a century ago , when it had been expected to disappear : its only use was for bloodless bull-fighting in which ribbons are snatched from the bull 's horns . |
| 30 | The only solution is for registered users to contact one of Corel 's UK distributors for an upgrade . |