Example sentences of "[vb infin] [prep] the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He thought that architects should design for the new life style which was to arise , and design " for service " , making economical and logical use of space and using mechanical devices in order to provide comfort and to make housework pleasant by lightening the time and effort spent doing it ( 1934 p 32 ) . |
| 2 | We were contented to let things remain as the Great Spirit … made them . |
| 3 | Industrial manufacture would remain as the basic technique of production in the society which would replace capitalism . |
| 4 | They are well understood , cheap to collect and very difficult to evade … rates should remain for the foreseeable future the main source of local revenue for local government ’ ( DOE/Welsh Office 1983a : 14 ) . |
| 5 | Although a good deal of success has been achieved with regard to mapping vegetation ( Hathout , 1980 ) , there are still problems with resolution and cloud cover ( Allan , 1980 ) and although these are gradually being resolved by radar , the problem of more detailed and fine-grained interpretation will remain for the foreseeable future ( Deane , 1980 ) . |
| 6 | Two years later , however , in a further White Paper , Rates : Proposals for Rate Limitation and Reform of the Rating System ( 1983 ) , the government recognized that wide consultation had failed to find any consensus for an alternative local tax , and conceded that rates should remain for the foreseeable future as the main source of local government revenue . |
| 7 | But , that niggle aside , London is where he will remain for the foreseeable future . |
| 8 | Although microfilm will remain for the foreseeable future by far the more acceptable medium of preservation , as a versatile aid to the scholar the computer image is far in advance . |
| 9 | A change in magma composition may occur during a single eruption as different parts of the magma chamber are tapped , but more significant compositional changes , often leading to the production of more acidic ejecta , may arise during the overall lifespan of a volcano as a result of chemical changes in the magma reservoir . |
| 10 | Following the conclusion of the Heads of Agreement , we will be available to assist should any issues arise during the due diligence carried out by the acquiror 's accountants . |
| 11 | Pam , 63 , said : ‘ They used to come every summer for a couple of weeks and the rest of the year they would stay for the odd week . |
| 12 | I would make for the Federal Republic . ’ |
| 13 | It might be part of her job to parade through the ballroom but she surely did n't want to have to prattle facts and figures for what she was wearing now , a skin-tight concoction of bugle heads and sequins that probably cost more than she 'd make for the entire year . |
| 14 | If the point is finally disposed of by the European Court and if the judgment goes against the United Kingdom , then the question will arise about the appropriate response to bring the legal system into line with the State 's international obligations . |
| 15 | The DRO can follow up a placement to discuss any problems that may arise between the disabled worker and his employer . |
| 16 | They do , paradoxically , thread through the dead experience of work a living culture , which is n't simply a reflex of defeat . |
| 17 | With four minutes left I was worried — worried whether I would be able to go out and eat for the next week or so . |
| 18 | This will ship during the first quarter of this year . |
| 19 | With the Matisse exhibition just opened at the Museum of Modern Art in New York ( until 12 January ; see interview with the curator , John Elderfield , The Art Newspaper No. 20 , July-September 1992 , p. 8 ) , the discerning visitor should budget for the complete experience with the following : |
| 20 | Its body is sheer muscle , it could double as the severest whip . |
| 21 | As she shares Christmas dinner with her brother Charles , Diana will experience for the first time the trauma she has dreaded since the cracks first showed in her marriage . |
| 22 | If Nodform Wonder is in anything like the form he was at Wetherby on Friday , he will laugh off the six pound penalty that is intended to slow him down in the Levy Board Handicap Hurdle at Kelso . |
| 23 | This collection of 10 essays is focussed. according to the editors on , ‘ such dialogue as can exist between the current work of feminists on post-structuralist and post-modernist themes , and the political project of what for shorthand we call ‘ 1970s western feminism ’ . |
| 24 | It could evolve as the necessary cost of processes beneficial to youth , or could instead be purely maladaptive , and evolve because of the pressure of deleterious mutations on populations . |
| 25 | Elderly people require a lot of time and effort on a GP 's part , the GP gets extra money for that but it may not compensate for the extra work . ’ |
| 26 | It was like interviewing someone who had answered one of her frequent advertisements for a daily maid , trying to create a spurious atmosphere of equality and friendship that would compensate for the low pay she had to offer . |
| 27 | They could not afford to buy a horse , and although the richer peasants were more heavily taxed , this did not compensate for the wide difference in equipment , which was not taxed . |
| 28 | Importing authorities , on the other hand , have complained that the cross-boundary flow adjustment does not fully compensate for the actual workload since , by using average costs , it does not fully cover the costs of treating high-cost cases . |
| 29 | Those of a pike have become elegant filmy sculls , rotating slowly back and forth from a joint within the body , so that the fish can compensate for the tiniest variation of current and hang above a rock as though it were suspended from an invisible wire . |
| 30 | Anyway Feynman makes it clear that classical mechanics will arise as the limiting behaviour of large systems since the only paths that will count in their sum over histories will be extremely close to the classical trajectory of least action . |