Example sentences of "the [adj] [noun sg] [be] [verb] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although the stripes change in depth , you are still using the colours in equal amounts , therefore approximately half of the total amount is required for each colour , plus extra for borders . |
| 2 | The date for the joyous occasion was set for the Sunday of the Canon European Masters and so Spence had to find a replacement to carry his bag at Crans-sur-Sierre . |
| 3 | The European Community is asking for what remains of Yugoslavia to be isolated from world organisations , like the United Nations , as violence continues in Sarajevo in spite of a ceasefire call . |
| 4 | The European Commission are working for radical cuts leading to abolition of subsidies throughout the Community and we strongly support their efforts . |
| 5 | The Swedish-made Werax is used for opening and emptying standard drums without the need for removing the standard cap . |
| 6 | The successful " buck-a-day " cost-cutting programme that is used in the USA works because the strong motivation Is applied for a short time . |
| 7 | But the ill-fated journey was captured for posterity in an extraordinary collection of photographs . |
| 8 | His withdrawal was unobtrusive , but it was of great import , for he was off to launch his ‘ Operation Rubicon ’ ; the long-awaited coup was scheduled for the night of 1–2 December . |
| 9 | The strain of the foster colony is chosen for good mothering ability and preferably the coat colour should be different from the animals to be fostered , or the mating arranged so that the natural young of the foster mother are not of the same coat colour as the pups to be fostered . |
| 10 | The ratio of the radioactivity bound to the ulcerated and to the intact mucosa was calculated for each group of animals of the B series . |
| 11 | The improvement in mean hearing threshold since the preoperative assessment was calculated for each child at each follow up . |
| 12 | The technical field being considered for the full proposal is inertial navigation technology . |
| 13 | The professional army is substituting for the national will . |
| 14 | Adopting as a precedent the order made by this Board in Baksh v. The Queen [ 1958 ] A.C. 167 , 172 , their Lordships consider that this is a case in which the right course is to rely for that purpose on the judicial discretion and experience of the court in Jamaica . |
| 15 | Atropine from deadly nightshade , eserine from the ordeal bean of old Calabar , the alkaloids from the arrow poison curare all yielded useful medicines when their properties were studied carefully and the right dose was used for beneficial instead of destructive ends . |
| 16 | Durnford and Kimura therefore concluded that the right hemisphere is specialised for the perception of depth cued by retinal disparity . |
| 17 | An officer 's doing the right thing at the right time is taken for granted . |
| 18 | The moths suffered a rousing shaking as the right moment was watched for . |
| 19 | There were some striking differences among the non-right handers with lesions of the right hemisphere , depending on whether the left or the right hand was used for writing . |
| 20 | And three , that financial prudence and co- operation with the private sector are adopted for the good of our city . |
| 21 | The private placing was handled for Delrina by First Marathon Securities Ltd , Marleau , Lemire Securities Inc , and Richardson Greenshields of Canada Ltd . |
| 22 | Presumably the working class were voting for the Labour Party since they saw it as their party and did not need to incentive of a party machine . |
| 23 | The rate of unemployment as a percentage of the working population is recorded for both 1980 and 1988 ( columns 1 and 2 ) for each region ( refer also to note section on Table 9.3 ) . |
| 24 | Although Ernest Bevin 's Transport Workers had not come out on strike the real opprobrium of the Labour movement was held for Jimmy Thomas , the railwaymen 's leader , whose opposition to sympathetic strike action had been vital to the collapse of the Triple Alliance . |
| 25 | He has done a lot of thinking and he has concluded the labour party is finished for him and I think a lot more people will do the same . |
| 26 | Both they and the Labour party are calling for an immediate change in the law to allow them to sell second-hand toys as before . |
| 27 | Remember , the Labour Party was formed for working people because we had an unsympathetic Tory government . |
| 28 | By 1934 the Labour Party was Preparing for the next election and the delegates at Southport resisted the attempts of the Socialist League to change the programme For Socialism and Peace into a radical appeal for a rapid transformation to socialism . |
| 29 | The usual critique was reserved for the evening , in view of the common abstraction . |
| 30 | In that case , the usual procedure is to ask for two items of identification , such as a driving licence , when accepting an order , and then allow people to pay by cheque . |