Example sentences of "[conj] [vb -s] [adj] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | We do n't need whining leftie bands like The Farm droning on about justice and equality now that Britain is such a wonderful place , where nobody sleeps in a cardboard box or goes hungry or gets busted for the colour of their skin or dies of hypothermia , where pigs fly and the sun always shines and where kids from council estates have just as much chance of becoming millionaires as — say — kids who inherit a million pounds from mummy and daddy . |
| 2 | And alertness that goes untested for too long decays into complacency . |
| 3 | That he got into his stride so quickly at the pre-Wimbledon Queen 's Club tournament was evidence of his timing ability , an ability that holds good for both sports . |
| 4 | ( A pure line is one that breeds true for that character ; when two peas from a pure ‘ tall ’ line are crossed , they always produce a tall pea . ) |
| 5 | You , you find a house to rent that seems right for your about the price , perhaps a bit high but about right for your level of income . |
| 6 | There is only your way , the way that feels right for you . |
| 7 | Thus democracy is not a regime that remains self-sufficient for decades but is only a direct prelude to the socialist revolution . |
| 8 | Sometimes landing on strips made of sand , transporting troops and supplies ready for the liberation of Kuwait . |
| 9 | The mind — if unable to express creativity or creative impulses — exhibits frustration and evokes self-disdain for negative self-images and loss of self-worth ; the emotions — if subject to suppression or repression of essential human responses relating to love , understanding and compassion — are suffocated ; the harbouring and nurturing of accumulated aggressions , rejections or guilts , destroys the human ability to be receptive to positive influences , and depression , grief , hopelessness and helplessness all evoke a desire for self-annihilation if sustained ; the spirit — if unable to establish any connection between its personal nature and those higher elements which nourish it — eventually starves . |
| 10 | In situations where there seems to be little acceptable alternative , advice from an alternative practitioner can do little harm , and has potential for considerable good . |
| 11 | The problem for the teacher is to provide a source of language for their classes which is both language enhancing and has potential for communication . |
| 12 | The swimfeeder and baits suitable for it are ideal for this purpose . |
| 13 | The care pulls up at the studio and Kylie greets everyone with a breezy ‘ G'Day ’ and gets ready for the last few moments as Lola teenage runaway . |
| 14 | Your water will then be so pure that the natural salts and chelates necessary for life will be removed and will need to be replaced by mixing with carbon filtered tap water . |
| 15 | The term ‘ culture ’ could be used in this way in less complex , smaller-scale social systems , but it has other meanings in industrial society and seems inadequate for the task of relating everyday life to historical development . |
| 16 | Wipe the slide free of oil and view under a fluorescence microscope fitted with an incident source and filters appropriate for the fluorochromes used . |
| 17 | The water available depends upon the amount of water that infiltrates and becomes available for pedogenesis compared with that which is removed by surface flow and hence is not available . |
| 18 | By the time a nurse qualifies and becomes eligible for registration on the UKCC 's Professional Register , she will have satisfied the competencies ( relevant to her specialism ) for the registered nurse as set down in Rule 18 of the Nurses , Midwives and Health Visitors Rules Approval Order 1983 S-I-1983 No 873 . |
| 19 | However , a state with k unoccupied rows has 8k children , so the branching ratio starts at 64 and remains high for most of the search . |
| 20 | A final point on this type of clause : if what is regarded as an initially reasonable figure is inserted in standard conditions and remains unchanged for a number of years it may well have become unreasonable through the impact of inflation , either in an absolute sense , or because average contract values have increased . |
| 21 | They are a little smaller , club-shaped and covered with a shiny brown fluid which neither hardens nor evaporates , but remains liquid for the three or four weeks it takes the eggs higher up the twig to hatch . |
| 22 | Sitting close to the blackboard seems like an old-fashioned solution , but remains useful for some pupils . |
| 23 | Grown in impoverished conditions , the plant becomes stunted but remains alive for a long time while many small shoots develop to give the appearance of an irregularly worn shaving-brush . |
| 24 | In fact , Moore also suggests that mosaics — as seems likely for pavements such as the Aldborough Star mosaic ( pI . |
| 25 | Thus , even if , as seems unlikely for a cold Moon , isostatic equilibrium was subsequently achieved there would still be a residual basin . |