Example sentences of "the [adj] [noun sg] for [Wh det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He needed to know both the size of the total community for which he was responsible and the strength of the army he would soon have to deploy ( see also Num. 2:32–34 ; 26:1–4 , 63–65 ) . |
| 2 | More general guides to plants include the Kingfisher Guide to Garden Plants , by Brian Davis ( Kingfisher , March , £10.99 , 1 85697 034 5 ) , and Patrick Taylor 's 500 Best Garden Plants ( Pavilion , March , £10.99 , 1 85145 928 6 ) , the advance publicity for which invokes Top of the Pops as a comparison . |
| 3 | The " Sunday Times " went to the extreme of publishing a " dummy " first edition to mislead the authorities on the night it broke the " spycatcher " revelations in Britain , but such devices are unavailable to television and radio programmes , the advance publicity for which will generally put the Attorney-General 's office on notice of a potentially embarrassing " leak " . |
| 4 | Except when a group has only one constituent , one constituent of every group will be identified as the strong constituent for whatever reason : Cureton gives rules for establishing the grouping structure of a text . |
| 5 | Lord Fraser ( at p813 ) stated : The Crown contended that the definition in s454(3) ( now TA 1988 ss681(4) ) applied to all transactions that did not have a bona fide commercial reason , and that it applied to the present transaction , the sole reason for which was to avoid tax . |
| 6 | the sole end for which mankind are warranted , individually or collectively , in interfering with the liberty of action of any of their number , is self-protection . |
| 7 | John Stuart Mill 's definition of the limits of law to curtail individual freedom laid down a simple principle : ‘ that the sole end for which mankind are warranted , individually or collectively , in interfering with the liberty of action of any of their number , is self-protection . |
| 8 | The same sort of thing is n't it , you know this is this is the technical description for what it was . |
| 9 | I am not myself much enamoured by Process Theology , which is the technical name for what Birch is expounding here . |
| 10 | ‘ Red ’ is the technical term for what most people would call ginger , orange or marmalade . |
| 11 | The sentence above would still be true if the Greek words meant ‘ ethics ’ , ‘ myth ’ and ‘ lexis ’ ( the technical term for what one gets from dictionaries or lexicons ) . |
| 12 | Accordingly instead of serving the economic function for which they were originally advocated they have been modified to serve the political function of reducing the number of unemployed whilst minimizing intervention in the economy as a whole . |
| 13 | ‘ Ad hoc ’ is a Latin phrase meaning ‘ to that ’ ; in other words these bodies were appointed to devote their activities ‘ to that ’ purpose , or for the specific purpose for which they were appointed . |
| 14 | The action could not prejudice the specific property for which the receiver was responsible , so Sir Nicolas Browne-Wilkinson V-C was willing to wait and see if Tudor Grange could come up with suitable indemnities . |
| 15 | A communiqué issued on Feb. 18 by the National Directorate of the Sandinista National Liberation Front ( FSLN ) denied any connection with the killing , the specific motive for which remained a mystery . |
| 16 | where the specific period for which the company was incorporated has expired ; |
| 17 | He died at eighty , after a full span of the retired leisure for which he had so frequently sighed , both publicly and privately . |
| 18 | ‘ The things people say about us are often too bad or too nice , ’ said Jean-Marie Gerbeaux , the Disney director of communications , with the professional goodwill for which his organisation is famed . |
| 19 | Saturday morning cartoons are n't really the right vehicle for what Deee-Lite want to say . |
| 20 | Retire is the right term for what he does : it is a ritual demanding a nightcap , a pee on the edge of the firelight , another nightcap , the preparation of a vacuum flask of hot tea for the bedside and a laborious change into old-fashioned pyjamas . |
| 21 | I 'm not like overly fat or anything , I 'm the right weight for what I 'm , for my height like but I 've just got a pot belly |
| 22 | She has the money to spend , the taste to choose correctly and , above all , the right setting for what she buys . |
| 23 | The social gains from an efficient road or rail network may exceed the private benefit for which direct users are prepared to pay . |
| 24 | We can even see pseudo-ethnic groups being invented for political purposes , as in the attempt by some of the British left to classify all third-world immigrants as ‘ black ’ in order to give them more leverage within the Labour Party for which most of them vote . |
| 25 | Quite suddenly , Manville recognized the conversational charade for what it was . |
| 26 | With FREELINK you have an unrivalled choice of holidays with the convenience of home town departures and the outstanding value for which Cosmos has long been famous — an unbeatable combination from Europe 's number one coach tour operator . |
| 27 | The most fundamental aspects of the liturgical renewal for which the Council called are all related to the biblical element in liturgy and to making it more accessible to all in the vernacular : the enormous enrichment of the lectionary , the emphasis on preaching the Word that has been read , the revelation of how biblically based the Eucharistic prayers and other sacramental actions are , and the restoration of the ‘ divine office ’ as the ‘ prayer of the Church ’ . |
| 28 | If it is a penalty , the clause is void and the innocent party can sue in the usual way for whatever is his actual loss . |
| 29 | Bill Walker , MP , who has criticised the Scottish Office for what he says is their failure to help the family , said : ‘ I will be here when they come to evict the family and I will stand shoulder to shoulder with them . ’ |
| 30 | The music of Taizé has grown out of a particular context , culture and spirituality and it effectively serves the need of the ecumenical community for which it is composed . |