Example sentences of "for [v-ing] a [adj] [noun] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Milton 's Paradise Lost or Spenser 's Faerie Queene are applauded for bringing a sophisticated use of classical epic conventions into English , creating national works which stand comparison with those of antiquity . |
| 2 | Thank you for bringing a little bit of light in . |
| 3 | The recent case of a consultant convicted of attempted murder for administering a lethal injection of potassium chloride to a patient in intractable pain has highlighted the issue of pain that , contrary to expectation , does not respond to opiates . |
| 4 | The Opposition may not like it , but does my right hon. Friend believe that there is a case for allowing a small part of parliamentary time for the Leader of the Opposition to be questioned ? |
| 5 | And they have argued that , whilst feminism should indeed always have a critical relationship to psychoanalytic theory , the latter has within it the potential for allowing a better understanding of the complexities of human desires and of the psychological construction of ‘ masculinity ’ and ‘ femininity ’ . |
| 6 | As for the East , it is a curiosity that Egypt , from which almost all of the rest of the evidence emanates , seems to have had a preference for using a joint clause of damnatio and fideicommissum . |
| 7 | The plaintiff did recover against his employer for using an unsafe system of work . |
| 8 | This example letter is suitable for contacting a potential vendor of a targeted business ( a non-client ) on behalf of a prospective purchaser , our client . |
| 9 | In effect his agenda of constructing a theory of the state appropriate to the modern world is transformed by the public lawyers into an agenda for building a modern theory of public law . |
| 10 | Harry had been all for building a full-blown ship of three hundred tons or more , with four masts , three decks , two castles and ten brass pieces into the bargain , but Sam Gristy had insisted upon a more modest outlay , and a three-masted bark had been agreed upon . |
| 11 | The kind of guilt imposed by society is responsible for maintaining a certain amount of law and order within our civilisation . |
| 12 | Well , if death can ever be glamorous , that , I suppose , is the glamorous side of war casualties , but I think we need to spend the rest of our time very much looking at what it was like for the ordinary people of St Aldate's. erm And here , I apologise for producing a modern slide of Carfax , but I think just to remind you that we are talking about a very busy crowded city area , and erm about a city whose whole aspect was changing during the war . |
| 13 | The research has 3 principal aims : a ) to throw light on the process of assessment from the viewpoints of parents , children , professionals responsible for identifying special needs , and administrators responsible for producing a formal Statement of a child ; s needs ; b ) to describe , and provide an analysis of , sources of conflict and of agreement in the assessment process ; c ) to develop a theoretical understanding of the concept of EBD from the view-points of the various people involved in assessment , whether as clients or as professionals . |
| 14 | This maxim is also responsible for producing a large range of standard implicatures . |
| 15 | These included the British Aerosol Manufacturers Association , for suggesting that all domestic aerosols were now " ozone-friendly " ( despite the fact that some still contain ozone-damaging chemicals ) ; NIREX , the nuclear waste agency , for producing an over-simplified version of the problem of nuclear waste disposal ; and the Young Telegraph newspaper , for running a promotion sponsored by the BASF chemical conglomerate , which included copy presenting what FoE claim is an over-flattering account of BASF 's safety record . |
| 16 | And interestingly , one review by Mawer contains the only mention of the Newbolt Report to be included in the Review during the whole of the inter-war period , and this solely in the context of attributing to the Report responsibility for generating a good deal of subsequent discussion of grammar . |
| 17 | Neither , however , are adequate for generating a full picture of elders , and more work is needed to achieve this . |
| 18 | It is , we are told ( among other things ) ‘ a systematic description of a language ’ , ‘ the way words , and their component parts , combine to form sentences ’ , ‘ a device for generating a finite specification of the sentences of a language ’ . |
| 19 | Chapter 5 ( " Word Play in Action " ) promises at least a look at the socio-linguistic context of jokes , with particular emphasis on , and analysis of , real joke-capping sessions ; and Chiaro is to be commended for tackling an interesting aspect of joke-telling , in relation to discourse analysis , that has generally been neglected in book-length studies . |
| 20 | Meanwhile my interest in the film industry through Hellen Semmens was not the only reason for becoming an active member of the Vancouver Film Society — I have always been interested in films for their own sake . |
| 21 | As Account Director for the client 's advertising agency , responsible for developing a proposed Advertising Strategy document , prepare a list of the information you would require for launching a new range of hair products . |
| 22 | Many women used the campaign as a means of deepening feminist consciousness and as a platform for launching a wider programme of demands . |
| 23 | On the contrary , the maintenance of meaningful links with the birth family appear to be beneficial to children , to their sense of identity and self esteem and for gaining a better understanding of their genealogical background and adoption circumstances . |
| 24 | The latest mood of optimism gathered pace as the Prime Minister attacked ‘ doom-mongers ’ for painting a false picture of a nation in decline . |
| 25 | The West Midlands RAC , for example , was typical in arguing that the attempt to differentiate between ‘ craftsman ’ and ‘ technician ’ was based on a misunderstanding of agricultural practice which did not distinguish between them ; it therefore advocated the setting-up of a separate National Council with responsibility for establishing a unified structure of agricultural education below degree level . |
| 26 | The House version calls for establishing a National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal Diseases . |
| 27 | The Senate version , however , is in the expansionist spirit : it calls for establishing a National Institute of Arthritis , Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases . |
| 28 | The four basic relations between classes furnish a model not only for establishing a fundamental group of sense relations , but also for defining a set of systematic variants applicable to virtually all other paradigmatic sense relations . |
| 29 | It may be no accident that Jack Aubrey shares with Marryat himself a reputation for saving an unusual number of ‘ men overboard ’ . |
| 30 | The research has drawn attention to the possibilities for developing a collaborative style of classroom management which effectively frees quality teacher time but is not subject to the limitations associated with management structured on the basis of cooperative groups . |