Example sentences of "and [adj] [noun pl] for [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Thus Franco had powerful personal , professional and political reasons for wanting to avoid the immediate capture of Madrid at the beginning of September 1936 . |
| 2 | First er in raising national awareness of the problems , secondly in acting as advocates for children , thirdly in piloting new and innovative methods for helping children and fourthly in acting to protect the interests of children who are the victims of disaster . |
| 3 | Two upper floors together accommodate nearly 2,200 men , each having his numbered place with table , while adjacent staff premises contain steam ovens , tea and coffee brewing and usual appliances for meeting the needs of those workmen who do not go home for meals during the day . |
| 4 | Such a statement may be justified because the penalties imposed on industrial and agricultural concerns for discharging poisons into our rivers are still ridiculously low . |
| 5 | Mr Peter Bergg , the Liberal Democrat candidate , said both Conservatives and Labour plans for financing local government were expensive and inefficient . |
| 6 | Considerable ingenuity may be required to discover non-racial criteria for racial discrimination and non-racial reasons for criticizing other races . |
| 7 | First of all they have enormous and very efficient and reliable memories for retaining simple bits of information . |
| 8 | Thus , a stated aim of this book is to provide a significant bibliographic resource on empirical and theoretical approaches for predicting the fate of chemicals . |
| 9 | A paradigm embodies a particular conceptual framework through which the world is viewed and in which it is described , and a particular set of experimental and theoretical techniques for matching the paradigm with nature . |
| 10 | These data buttons have been chosen and laid out with great logic , giving the player instant and sensible choices for altering patches , or the parameters which go to make up those patches . |
| 11 | The first is to accept the skill and knowledge of the designer , and to try to give designers improved techniques and improved facilities for exercising this skill and knowledge . |
| 12 | There is now more awareness of the problems that methane generated in landfill can cause , and improved methods for detecting methane are now available . |
| 13 | Within the context of current agricultural policies there are sound economic and social reasons for abandoning farming altogether over large areas of the uplands and using the land for other purposes which would both be profitable and create employment . |
| 14 | None of these difficulties are likely to trouble us much in daily life , but they remain genuine difficulties none the less and raise issues of fundamental importance ; for if there can be no absolutely reliable and unequivocal criteria for deciding whether any given existent remains numerically , and not merely qualitatively , the same from one moment in time to the next , then we can not hope to be able to " define " the distinction between numerical and qualitative identity in terms of the criteria of particular-identification . |
| 15 | Thus most ethologists take the existence of various interpretative and representational capacities for granted , and concentrate on asking which of these capacities are shared by which species . |
| 16 | Its significance will be far-reaching , and this should be hardly surprising since similar considerations already dictate our legal and moral procedures for dealing with those human beings who , for whatever reasons , fail to measure up to normal competence . |
| 17 | A presentation by Bob Wiggins ( ITD/DTI ) discussed sources for help available for organisations wishing to pursue an interest in expert systems , and future plans for developing the expert systems opportunities programme . |
| 18 | There are indeed , as I have already suggested , certain similarities between the two theories , and they have similar powers of deception and similar capacities for making mischief . |
| 19 | I think there are practical and philosophical reasons for acting now . |
| 20 | Danvers , Massachusetts-based PictureTel Corp is cutting prices on its M-8000 bridge product family : it says it will offer a fully H.320 version of its M-8000 Multipoint Bridge starting at $45,000 for the M-8600 with three ports : the M-8600 is for customers with only a few videoconferencing systems and limited requirements for linking a large number of sites on the same call ; the H.320 standards-compliant version will ship in the autumn . |
| 21 | The UUUC had been formed in early December to bring together Westite Unionists , Vanguard Unionists and Democratic Unionists for electioneering and propaganda purposes . |
| 22 | I wandered into dusty , pungent shops selling live chickens , and dried snakes for rubbing into bruises . |
| 23 | Nadirpur spoke to his office in Monaco and left instructions for contacting him at the IAP offices in London . |
| 24 | HIGHER tobacco taxes and national targets for reducing the number of people who smoke should be considered by the EC , health minister Dr Brian Mawhinney told a seminar in London today . |
| 25 | People also need to learn the practical skills which bring about improvement the problem solving techniques and diagnostic tools for finding the way through seemingly impassable barriers . |
| 26 | There are no hard and fast rules for judging when a workshop qualifies for this accolade , any more than there are for conferring greatness on people and institutions in other forms of art ; but it is normally reserved for workshops which consistently produce outstanding items under the direction of a masterweaver , who is accepted by his peers as a pre-eminent exponent of his art . |
| 27 | There are no hard and fast rules for becoming an account person . |
| 28 | There are no hard and fast rules for planning healthy meals . |
| 29 | The hotel features a pleasant swimming pool with sun terrace , lounge chairs and large lawns for sunbathing . |
| 30 | In this respect , my analysis can be located close to the ‘ Alternative Economic Strategy ’ ( AES ) — which has been given its most lucid expression by the CSE London Working Group ( 1980 ) — in its acceptance of the need for socialists to offer constructive and credible proposals for regenerating economic growth and reducing unemployment even if these appear to fall short of ‘ true socialism ’ . |