Example sentences of "for [verb] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Art critics are being blamed for vandalising cast iron sculptures which have been likened to ice-cream cones or seashells . |
| 2 | Knowing what the Bushmen knew then — that the NEA was unpopular with conservative legislators and already the target of fundamentalist Christians for subsidising offensive art — they can hardly have seen this as a plum they could hand to a big contributor or a rising political star or , indeed , to anybody aiming to leave town alive . |
| 3 | There is certainly a case for subsidy on the social railway , but I am sure that my hon. Friend will agree with the judgment of the previous Labour Government , who said that there was no case for subsidising inter-urban services , nor was there a social case for subsidy with regard to inter-city services . |
| 4 | They are used in learning vocabulary as well as for mastering grammatical structure . |
| 5 | It had been announced , however , on June 26 that the trial of the former political leader Fadilj Hodza for instigating racial and religious intolerance [ see p. 37382 ] , had been adjourned indefinitely after defence claims of a mistrial . |
| 6 | The phenomenon of modifiable taste aversion is often taken as one of the prime pieces of evidence for doubting general principles of associative learning . |
| 7 | For earlier times , though , there are reasons for doubting certain simulations . |
| 8 | Just two machines , four people and gradually that got up to a reasonable size er i it grew on the back of companies like , , , manufacturing what I call the coordinated look cos knitwear was utilized for bringing other things together . |
| 9 | And if demand was substantially reduced then the urgency for bringing new power stations on stream could equally diminish . |
| 10 | However closely it cultivated its links with the labour movement , the UDC was not simply a device for maintaining Labour politics during the wartime political truce or for bringing individual ex-Liberals into the labour movement . |
| 11 | The Panel is proving its worth as a forum for the discussion of new procedures and for bringing practical information to the attention of Lending Services . |
| 12 | We are for bringing outside analysis to departments along with the office of the Minister for the Civil Service and the Treasury . |
| 13 | The focusing device of this chapter will be the role of metaphor in the novels as a strategy for bringing specialized discourses to bear on the consciousness of the fictional character and for ‘ mobilizing ’ the discourses themselves . |
| 14 | The matter was considered by the Court of Appeal in Britton where a youth had left pamphlets late one evening in the porch of the house of a single member of Parliament whom he believed to be responsible for bringing coloured immigrants into Britain . |
| 15 | In Drenthe , with his unerring instinct for bringing old and new together , he took note of a gnarled old apple tree , how ‘ at certain moments ( it ) bears blossoms that are among the most delicate and virginal things under the sun . ’ |
| 16 | Initially the stated aim had been to promote economic and cultural co-operation , but the revolutionary developments in Eastern Europe since 1989 had added a new dimension , the grouping coming to be viewed as a vehicle for bringing emergent east European democracies into the Western fold . |
| 17 | ‘ For bringing inexpensive but effective two-channel electronic anti-lock braking to small cars ’ |
| 18 | Pros for bringing Rubber Girl — |
| 19 | Praise must go to Paul Aylett and the makers of the 20-foot BFG mechanical puppet , small hand-held rod puppets , and shadow-puppets for bringing make-believe alive which was enthralling . |
| 20 | According to Tass , the official Soviet news agency , the two leaders agreed that " there were no compulsory models or stereotypes for realising socialist ideas and principles " . |
| 21 | He points to the irrationality of this assumption and makes the seemingly rather obvious point that ‘ Torture … is an infallible means for absolving robust scoundrels and for condemning innocent persons who happen to be weak ’ ( p. 32 ) . |
| 22 | Here you will carry out all of the tasks you have been trained for including general ship 's duties . |
| 23 | The hon. Gentleman would be well advised to pay some regard to the settlement of next year 's budget , and to set arguments for including specific references to social cohesion in the Maastricht treaty in the context of the bargaining that that budget will involve . |
| 24 | The awards are made annually to choirs , choral , orchestral and concert societies who have shown enterprise in plans for including contemporary music in their programmes . |
| 25 | Highly specialised manufacturing equipment , chemical cleanser for photographic equipment , or nuts and bolts for plumbing equipment do not readily lend themselves to sampling , but a case might be made for including small but appropriate gifts in any press pack . |
| 26 | In this area , we have the possibility for including non-DOS machines on networks , by using the appropriate cabling and software . |
| 27 | Wordlists are notorious for including bizarre mis-spellings . |
| 28 | You can see the version of MS-DOS that you are using by including $V , and there are also several options for including special characters such as the backspace or carriage return line feed . |
| 29 | Patients were evaluated according to endoscopic result , early and late functional success , necessity for repeat endoscopic treatment , and dose rate of laser energy required to control intraluminal tumour ( averaged laser energy per month ) . |
| 30 | ( Notice here that the ‘ causal relation ’ between the events is artificially contrived , and indeed the only basis for attributing causal status to the events is their temporal relation . ) |