Example sentences of "[vb pp] [art] [adv] [adj] [noun] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was fanatical about his job and had even designed the most appropriate clothes for searching : white shorts and a sweat shirt , a plastic swimming cap , tight fitting to prevent the spilling of hairs , latex gloves as fine as a surgeon 's and rubber bathing shoes over his bare feet . |
| 2 | She has designed the most wonderful costumes for me and she 's been a good friend . |
| 3 | To these logistical difficulties of recording each child 's progress is added the initially difficult task for primary and secondary schools , of mapping their own curriculum against the National Curriculum , the detail of which is emerging only piecemeal . |
| 4 | Indeed , a draw had looked the most likely result for much of the match . |
| 5 | At home , Marks & Spencer is considered the most sensible place for the middle class to shop . |
| 6 | Manufacturing , non-diamond mining and tourism were considered the most likely areas for diversification . |
| 7 | Not many ticks had been added to our bird list , but we 'd earned a very fine tick for our lizard list ! |
| 8 | Nor are any reservations about Hawking 's work itself : on this score , Soul is more incisive than Errol Morris ' movie , in which the director has substituted a somewhat bemused deference for the confident spirit of critical inquiry that animated its forerunner , The Thin Blue Line . |
| 9 | His acceptance of the condition was made with an easy mind — he did n't feel that distributing a newspaper , even a banned one , would be considered a particularly heinous offence for a young girl , and anyway he could not imagine that he would be in any danger himself if he admitted knowledge of the basket 's contents . |
| 10 | As far as Soviet exports are concerned , Latin American economies , which have generally attempted import-substitution industrialisation in the consumer goods sector rather than in capital-intensive heavy industry , might be considered a potentially receptive market for Soviet machinery and equipment . |
| 11 | It was considered a very eccentric pursuit for a female ; people used to commiserate with my mother for having such an awful daughter with such odd tastes . |
| 12 | Still , it was particularly unnerving , somehow , to find her naked body so closely enfolded in a garment that had done the very same thing for him — strange , personal , intimate . |
| 13 | I got into the car , to be told by him that he had made the most elaborate arrangements for lunch . |
| 14 | would have presented a very good budget for |
| 15 | I had written a particularly tear-jerking script for 1OAB 's ‘ last hour ’ for which we might well have played ‘ Hearts and Flowers ’ as an obbligato . |
| 16 | Sylvia Stevenson has written a characteristically informative text for the catalogue . |
| 17 | CNP 's staff prepared a particularly useful paper for the meeting , which I have enclosed . |
| 18 | Consultation has revealed a most marked preference for route A , which is the green route shown on the consultation leaflet attached to the report and if , if looks would divert the primary route the A ten sixty five around the north west premature , the town of Brandon , the summary table of cost and benefits showed within the consultation leaflet identifies that route A gives the best value for money , it has least impact on land use and it offers the shortage and therefore possibly the most attractive reduction to bypassable traffic on the A ten sixty five access . |
| 19 | Ed , I think argued a very strong case for a greater level of influence of trade unionists in the Party than is suggested in this reform and I can see the force of those remarks but the C E C adopted the position that we did not want to take a position of dominance to the Party Conference . |
| 20 | NEVER before have I seen a more pressing need for a statement from Dame Barbara Cartland . |
| 21 | Possessed a relatively intense need for financial information . |
| 22 | In a decision which was widely predicted , Mr Patten has declared himself minded to uphold the view of the department 's inspectorate that Consortium Developments , representing several of the country 's major home-builders , had not made a sufficiently strong case for the development of 4,800 houses in what is an abandoned quarry and a conifer plantation . |
| 23 | Merton 's written an entirely new set for the Edinburgh Festival , but the last time he did any substantial stand-up was in Australia in '89 . |
| 24 | I would have thought the mo Without knowing anything about it I would have thought the most likely explanation for that is that that the property company who own the precinct have suggested to the Council that they would like to buy the Market Hall and the Council have been sitting on it and pondering it and some bright spark has come up with the idea , Yes you can buy the Market Hall if you also buy Pembroke Hall . |
| 25 | The DES ( 1983 , 1984a , 1986b ) have used the most recent year for which data are available , arguing that although there were government-induced reductions in the entry of UK students to universities in the early 1980s these were more than offset by increases in the public sector . |
| 26 | The Borough of Southwark was not thought a very suitable district for me to live . |
| 27 | He believes fans would have preferred a more lavish packaging for ‘ Bizarro ’ and that its fierce edge might have been a reaction to signing with RCA . |
| 28 | Occasionally I would have preferred a more urgent tempo for the most turbulent responses , such as ‘ Seniores populi ’ ( track 6 ) and ‘ Tradiderunt me ’ ( track 10 ) . |
| 29 | They 've actually drawn a very detailed plan for it , shows us where the war memorial recreation ground |
| 30 | Quite by accident , she had produced a brilliantly simple brainwave for home furnishings ; using in the same room the monochrome positive/negative wallpaper and fabric . |