Example sentences of "[pron] for [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Rather than modify anything to do with the external events that trigger your worry you might decide to go for option 2 and identify the thoughts or beliefs that herald your worry and examine them for possible replacements . |
| 32 | The biologists and the applied scientists have done this , have offered lectures to school children , mostly in response to requests that have come in to them for specific lectures . |
| 33 | Inmos is expected to sell about 280,000 Transputers this year , most of them for embedded applications . |
| 34 | Aquatic birds that spend much of their time in water , well insulated by fat and waterproof plumage ( Figure 6.1 ) , are pre-adapted for life in cold lands ; the insulation of marine mammals in temperate seas pre-adapts them for polar seas . |
| 35 | The borough council blames them for serious defects found in the building . |
| 36 | And there were those men who encouraged us to reprimand them for sexist thoughts and deeds . |
| 37 | The leaflet accused the Moslem of kidnapping children and using them for ritual purposes . |
| 38 | Before 1688 kings had been able to choose their ministers and to wield sufficient power to keep them in office unless the Commons used the exceptional procedure of impeachment to try to prosecute them for political misdemeanours . |
| 39 | Bank issuers have responded to the non-bank challenge with a blaze of publicity about how they are cutting their own fees , which are typically $20–40 a year , or waiving them for new card-holders in the first year . |
| 40 | For those nurses relocating from the acute sector to community services , training will be needed to prepare them for new ways of working . |
| 41 | Some said that their wives did not have ideal looks , but that they had chosen to marry them for other qualities . |
| 42 | Flying through the air to find food , they can not leave scent trails behind them for other members of the colony as earth-bound termites do . |
| 43 | In the event , no effort was needed : the early years of the Great War caused great damage to the Edinburgh printing trade , with several firms going out of business , others laying off workers or releasing them for other jobs since trade was so poor . |
| 44 | The fact that , one has as a as a council , credit approvals , it does allow you to set them against capital receipts in in further financing new capital works , to the extent that you do n't use them for other purposes . |
| 45 | However , the inner city depopulation of recent years has led to falling rolls in city schools and the consequent rationalisation of local education has caused certain Board schools to become redundant , releasing them for alternative uses . |
| 46 | Schools entering into an entrepreneurial spirit should not , for example , sell school records to promoters of consumer goods or allow journalists or public relations consultants to leaf through them for good stories . |
| 47 | Soviet citizens were given three days to exchange them for lower-denomination notes . |
| 48 | Now at that time the Scottish National Party was the only other party in Scotland advocating what we were advocating ( though obviously going much further ) and it seemed to me crazy to be competing with them for devolutionary votes . |
| 49 | In the dormitories I identified the beds in which I had slept , with the same trays beneath them for dirty clothes and the same chairs beside them . |
| 50 | They can stop people , without prior basis of suspicion , ask them for personal details or question them about their knowledge of recent terrorist incidents . |
| 51 | Courses coming within the remit of the LEAs ' duty can help people progress to more advanced courses — my hon. Friend made that important point — help them in their jobs and prepare them for various roles , such as good parenthood , or for responsible functions within the wider community . |
| 52 | I let him keep young ones for sentimental reasons since I do n't need them for practical purposes . |
| 53 | Particular indignation was caused when Laud summoned noblemen and gentlemen before the Court of High Commission , an ecclesiastical body , and fined them for moral offences ; there was also wide resentment of his use of the Star Chamber to punish by cropping their ears those who libelled court or bishops . |
| 54 | Anyway I watched Manc Of The Day and Norwich made the scum look like complete turkeys , chasing the ball round while the Canaries ‘ Southamptoned ’ them for lengthy periods . |
| 55 | Although for some years now people have been suing them for outrageous sums well beyond any amount that could ever be insured , when it came to the crunch litigants always settled out of court for a far lower figure . |
| 56 | Members will also study distance learning materials before starting the course to consolidate the College study and to prepare them for subsequent modules . |
| 57 | Some people I know have used them for departmental budgets , but quite how they do that I do n't know . |
| 58 | A spokesman for the I R A said its active service unit had tragically mistaken them for British soldiers . |
| 59 | The enumeration districts with sufficient non-whites in them for reliable rates were those with 10 per cent . |
| 60 | They also say maybe our sources got it confused with the fact that the so-called High Availability 6000 , which strapped together two of them for special orders , will become a regular product this week . |