Example sentences of "[noun] [be] [adj] [noun] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Poverty and the absence of hope are real causes for anti-social behaviour . |
| 2 | Hoteliers are supporting calls for stronger safety legislation for swimming pools after a survey revealed hotel pools to be the most hazardous in the private sector . |
| 3 | The depth of the North-South divide , its precise definition , and directions of change are key issues for this volume . |
| 4 | Here again there has been very little systematic exploration , although such universal features of the organization of interaction are good candidates for potentially important functional pressures on linguistic structure . |
| 5 | The Court of Appeal has intimated that such cases are appropriate cases for the grant of extensions of the time allowed for appealing ( Legal Aid Handbook , 1990 ) . |
| 6 | Aside from the eclipses , January , February and March are key months for professional matters and your personal aspirations . |
| 7 | Not only that , it also seems to be true that certain herbs are good company for other plants , discouraging pests and diseases ; for instance , chives and garlic have some ability to prevent roses being infected with black spot , and chamomile is said to improve the health of young plants if they are weak and slow to grow . |
| 8 | Key pensions victory for lucky 13 million New proposals are good news for employees , but a disappointment for directors . |
| 9 | Only support new housing developments where 50% of new houses are low cost for rent . |
| 10 | Eaves of houses are artificial cliffs for martins ; office blocks and ancient churches fill the same function for peregrine falcons in Salt Lake City in the United States , and in Prague . |
| 11 | Beer and tobacco taxes are huge revenue-earners for the government . |
| 12 | Exports are one way for America to soften the impact of sluggish demand at home ; the undervalued dollar makes it all the easier , in effect , to import some vitality from Germany and Japan . |
| 13 | The positive reaction to the campaign suggests that airport departure lounges are ideal locations for conveying information about safer sex . |
| 14 | The courts have always said that fraud ( or dishonesty ) and partiality are valid reasons for refusing to uphold an expert 's decision . |
| 15 | In open country , birds are easy targets for predators , and many authors have argued that flocking increases the likelihood of an individual 's survival in the event of an attack , if only because of the cover provided by its fellows ( Vine 1971 ; Hamilton 1971a ) . |
| 16 | The screening of procedures , the control of prescriptions and the identification of patient groups are further benefits for doctors and for patients . |
| 17 | Even as there is a movement among women towards women-controlling our own sexuality and reproduction , childbirth , and a return to midwifery principles , the new reproductive and genetic technologies are asserting a model for scientific control of reproduction , and one that is industrial : these methods are big money-makers for the biotechnology industry , the old and new pharmaceutical and medical supply companies . |
| 18 | Compacts are one route for recruitment but they exist alongside established recruitment routes , and employers are not likely to abandon these in the foreseeable future . |
| 19 | Heavily leaded bronzes are obvious candidates for analysis . |
| 20 | For their next project , the Club are busy knitting for a competition organised by the Stroke Association . |
| 21 | Each candidate has two supervisors ; and the normal minimum periods of supervised research are 24 months for the MPhil ( 36 months part-time ) and 36 months for the PhD ( 48 months part-time ) . |
| 22 | Rover claim their cars are good value for money and have the option of being run on diesel , the cheaper alternative to petrol . |
| 23 | Secondly , he demonstrates that fractals are good models for an impressive variety of natural objects . |
| 24 | The sets of annals known collectively as the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle are major texts for pre-Conquest history , and it is particularly unfortunate that their entries for Cnut 's reign are both uninformative and ( after 1023 ) increasingly sparse . |
| 25 | Company cars and private healthcare are popular perks for firms to offer employees . |
| 26 | Words are essential tools for formulating and communicating thoughts , and also for putting them into the storage of memory , but words can also become snares , decoys or straight jackets . |
| 27 | Canal walks are another choice for good quality lowland walks . |
| 28 | It is sometimes argued that certain subjects are better vehicles for a liberal education than others , because they are concerned with the human rather than merely the natural , or are reflexive rather than merely instrumental ; hence the term ‘ liberal ’ has been most often associated with the arts , and in this century social sciences , though it has been used of some science courses as well ( e.g. ‘ Liberal Studies in Science ’ ) . |
| 29 | These works raise a serious question as to whether their subjects are suitable cases for treatment — that is , by librettists and composers . |
| 30 | The glorious Romanesque collegiate church and fine signiorial mansions from its 15th century heyday are added reasons for not missing the town , so take a camera and lots of film with you . |