Example sentences of "[prep] what [be] [vb pp] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Impressive though productivity growth was by Britain 's historical standards , the absolute level of productivity was well below what was required for international competitiveness [ Pratten , 1976b ] . |
| 2 | Nevertheless , Debord 's place within a reified history of ‘ political modernism ’ is assured , more by virtue of what is claimed for the work than by its testing in public — Levin admits that screenings have been rare , especially outside France . |
| 3 | Without entering into the fine detail of what is required for a system of institutional international law it is clear that merely historically-established conventions followed according to the discretion of the participants in international relationships between states is insufficient to constitute law and is better regarded as a form of anarchy . |
| 4 | The bureaucrat will attempt to acquire a budget in excess of what is required for the level of output indicated by the equation of marginal cost and political demand . |
| 5 | Many parents comment that their child did the complete opposite of what was asked for several months and so the parents learned to say the opposite of what they wanted , for example , ‘ I really do n't want you to put your pyjamas on now ’ , or ‘ I do n't think you can eat all of that food ’ . |
| 6 | " Shipowners and other firms connected with port work had repeatedly complained that the men in British ports were enforcing claims altogether in excess of what was paid for similar work in continental ports . |
| 7 | In a seminar last week at CERN , Rubbia presented five events , or collisions , in which the particles that emerge are consistent with what is expected for a particular mode of decay of the particle . |
| 8 | But much latelier , in the private academies of Italy , wither I was favoured to resort , perceiving that some trifles which I had in memory , composed at under twenty or thereabouts , for the manner is that everyone must give some proof of his wit a reading there , met with acceptance above what was looked for , and other things which I had shifted in scarcity of books and conveniences to patch up amongst them , were received with written incomience which the Italian is not forward to bestow on men of this side the Alps . |
| 9 | The argument clearly attacks the notion of justified belief as well as that of knowledge in that restricted area , since it maintains that we have no reason in what is observed for any beliefs about the unobserved . |
| 10 | Pupils as well as teachers should be aware of secularist tendencies in what is taken for granted in our society and in the educational world , and they should realize that these are not beyond being questioned . |
| 11 | ‘ There is as much concern in Pelkosenniemi about what is proposed for their holy mountain as there is in Mayo and throughout the West of Ireland over what is proposed for Croagh Patrick . |
| 12 | But I remember too that it was always unwise to fuss too much over what was taken for then she becomes anxious herself and her throat seizes up and nothing can go down … oh , sir , she seems very ill . ’ |
| 13 | Stubbornness : The resistance to change in ideas on addictive disease tends to be considerably beyond what is required for normal intellectual scepticism . |
| 14 | It may be that none of these incidents , taken by itself , would be very significant , but the cumulative effect of them supports the view that the plaintiff and her husband subordinated their own interests to the wishes of the deceased … the plaintiff 's acts went well beyond what was called for by natural love and affection for someone to whom she had no blood relationship , and both she and her husband made it very clear in their evidence that there was no great love and affection between her husband and the deceased , and that he was only willing to pay for meals that the plaintiff provided for the deceased and to work as he did in the garden of the cottage because of the expectation that the deceased 's estate would in due course pass to the plaintiff . |
| 15 | On the other hand , removal of a functional group interacting with a residue other than His197 should lead to a decrease in affinity for the H197A mutant compared with the wild type , analogous to what is observed for the parent compound CP 96345 . |
| 16 | Thus the distribution system should be geared to what is needed for effective cleaning not around what is easy to distribute . |
| 17 | Both were very interesting and fun , but nothing compared to what was planned for the rest of the holiday . |
| 18 | If those that are knocked out have opposite signs , what remains may be close enough to what was expected for the element to ‘ guess ’ what it is supposed to do . |
| 19 | To superintend the threshers that they get all the grain out , stubble to be left in the ground to be ploughed , except what is wanted for thatching . |
| 20 | If you do not clear the memory by pressing ENT at the ERASE question , you will only have 15,840 bits of memory left , plus what is needed for all other functions . |
| 21 | They can rarely exercise real choice about what is provided for them , or decide to ‘ shop elsewhere ’ , except by refusing to attend a clinic or hospital or by avoiding contact with local services completely . |
| 22 | ‘ There is as much concern in Pelkosenniemi about what is proposed for their holy mountain as there is in Mayo and throughout the West of Ireland over what is proposed for Croagh Patrick . |