Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] for [verb] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The same thing applies to ‘ exclusive ’ jobs : ‘ You 're so lucky to be : working in this posh Knightsbridge shop/meeting celebrity authors/the international jet-setter 's PA — that you can be paid very little money for doing so . ’ |
| 2 | 82% of the respondents thought that cultural preparation for working overseas was necessary and important and 54% stated that the preparation they received was adequate , while 36% thought it was inadequate . |
| 3 | The possibility that the amount of the bills might be reduced on a taxation which has still not been initiated is not a sufficient reason in this case for setting aside the demand . |
| 4 | At least , then , the note that had been left for me ( 'See you around ? ' ) gave me some excuse for trespassing now . |
| 5 | ‘ Yet there is no valid scientific case for doing so , ’ he says . |
| 6 | It may be argued on the one hand that where the owner of goods was under no tortious liability for their appearance on the occupier 's land , he ought to be able to retake them in any event , provided he does no injury to the premises or gives adequate security for making good any unavoidable injury . |
| 7 | Well , let's have this team for answering then . |
| 8 | None the less , I am grateful to my hon. Friend for doing so . |
| 9 | I thank my right hon. Friend for responding so promptly to my request that either his good self or my hon. Friend the Minister for Corporate Affairs should visit Nottingham . |
| 10 | ‘ Master Peachey reprimanded you only this morning for speaking thus — it is unladylike , he said ! ’ |
| 11 | She 's enjoying herself , we met her at John 's house I felt nervous this morning for sleeping home late although in fact I have been awake quite a lot in between , but |
| 12 | By contrast , in actions not brought under Ord. 53 the defendant must take positive steps to apply to the court to have the plaintiff 's case struck out if there is some ground for doing so . |
| 13 | You do n't think we 'll be chucked out of this library for talking too loud do ya ? |
| 14 | in the third division its saturday as usual for hereford … united were given a pat on the back by Wimbledon this week for playing so well against them in the cup … it beats a kick on the leg … tomorrow its all change for Crewe |
| 15 | But why this passion for hearing more , seeing more , experiencing more ? |
| 16 | Steen outlines a theoretical model for approaching empirically the problem of understanding metaphors , i.e. of how their identification , appreciation and evaluation is determined by the reader 's cognitive process and by their linguistic structures . |
| 17 | ‘ Another reason for moving here , apart from outgrowing the London pottery , was the Japanese . |
| 18 | The judgment effectively absolved it of criminal and civil liability for causing approximately 3,500 deaths and injuries to thousands , and the final settlement was only a percentage of the orginial sum of $3.5 billion that the government was going to sue them for . |
| 19 | I doubt whether there will be much opportunity for sight-seeing here , but I might manage a trip to Sao Paulo or to Rio , or to the beach , which is about 60 miles away , I think . |
| 20 | The World Cup is the perfect vehicle for doing so . |
| 21 | although I mean there may be a er an argument in terms of lowest costing for reviewing generally how many investigators we do need , and |
| 22 | ‘ There was n't much scope for doing very much that year … . |
| 23 | Er I I 'm most er grateful to my honourable friend for giving yet another example of how the social chapter has exported jobs out of the eleven into Britain . |
| 24 | Perhaps the most appropriate mechanism for safeguarding both the patient 's and the doctor 's interests is for the hospital to document the circumstances fully in the notes , and to have the patient 's competence assessed in cases of doubt by a qualified person not otherwise concerned in the case . |
| 25 | A joint strategy for closing long stay hospitals and providing services in the community was in place five years before the phrase ‘ caring for people ’ emerged as the title of a White Paper . |
| 26 | I was well into my holiday before I learnt Margaret 's real reason for looking so elegant that afternoon . |
| 27 | There is an additional reason for doing so . |
| 28 | We need something else besides the scalar potential for describing correctly a time-varying electric field . |
| 29 | The stated reason for doing so is that an increasing number of cardholders are paying their bill at the end of each month , pay nothing for the card , and are therefore being subsidised by those who do use the credit facility . |
| 30 | Even drinking in a public bar may be considered to be solitary if the principal reason for doing so is the consumption of alcohol rather than for specific social contact . |