Example sentences of "[verb] [adj] for [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 've talked to other people whose mothers came to naturopathy in the fifties , and it 's been explained as a way of eating posh for those who do n't know about Continental food . |
| 2 | Of claims that the relationship was one of passionate intimacy , the brigadier said : ‘ They have been suggesting that for some time . |
| 3 | Erm , the local government act nineteen ninety-two permits the auditor to actually advise the council to er matters which we believe that you should consider in full , er er , County erm , Council meeting , and I 'm pleased to confirm that for this year there is nothing of that nature , that er , we would put to you , to refer to . |
| 4 | I indeed er in the er companies act in nineteen eighty nine the minister himself er argued that for any system to be effective there had to be a distance between regulators and regulations but the only people who have done any inquiry into B C C I which is the Institute er it itself is the mafia regulating the mafia auditors trying to regulate er the the auditors . |
| 5 | But now , at last , I am beginning to see that for all the ‘ believed failures ’ of the past , I have done my best . |
| 6 | Pottery has a limited life , determined by the function of the vessels , and thus store jars kept secure in a pantry may remain intact for several generations , while cooking pots , if in constant use , have a very short life . |
| 7 | They showed not only that for most elderly people the costs of community care were considerably lower than those of institutional care ( and that home care would therefore remain cost-effective for many even if service provision were greatly increased , when the alternative was admission to an institution ) , but also that community care was not necessarily cheaper , and that there were some elderly people for whom institutional care would be less expensive ( though not necessarily to be advocated solely on that account ) . |
| 8 | Via infected leaves these winter spores enter the soil where they can remain alive for several years . |
| 9 | The discrepancy between job-specification and status became acute for some coordinators , and remained a problem in some schools , not just for coordinators but also for many other staff with significant cross-school managerial responsibilities . |
| 10 | ‘ But if you got that for this place and I sold my apartment , together we 'd have enough money to get married and buy — ’ He broke off , a flush appearing beneath his tan as he realised he was pushing her too far along the relationship path and could also be sounding mercenary . |
| 11 | And although unemployment is likely to remain high for some time , many economists believe that pay settlements are influenced less by the absolute level of unemployment than by its rate of change : as unemployment starts to fall , the perceived threat to job-holders dwindles , so they push harder for pay rises . |
| 12 | There is a great deal of prejudice about age , with the result that the older you are the more likely you are to remain unemployed for more than a year . |
| 13 | However , the motion does not remain periodic for any great distance downstream . |
| 14 | With good reason , the memory of the 1975–6 war became painful for many Palestinians . |
| 15 | Raw fruits also keep well if stored in the fridge , where they will remain fresh for several weeks . |
| 16 | Several pointed out that the mining issue was only one of a number of considerations , particularly given the fact that commercial exploitation would remain unviable for some time to come . |
| 17 | The courts , together with a wooden pavilion of historic interest , were built around 1910 but lay derelict for many years until the Club revived them with a grant from the Village Association . |
| 18 | Similarly , when subletting , if the sublet part is not to remain empty for any time , a separate assessment is still prudent . |
| 19 | The partial pressure of component a is given by the ideal gas equation as If we repeat this for all the components and substitute these expressions into equation ( 7 ) we obtain By combining equations ( 8 ) and ( 9 ) we obtain The quantity is known as the mole fraction of component a . |
| 20 | The newspaper changed sides and the public 's antagonism changed to vocal support as the safety and environmental benefits became clear for all to see . |
| 21 | She wanted Boy to know that for all the book 's nine hundred and forty-eight pages the author had seen fit to devote only one ambiguous and insignificant paragraph to the fact that this great man had lived forty-one years of his public life accompanied everywhere by a handsome and dedicated working-class servant . |
| 22 | Unfortunately , those four hundred thousand Palestinians lost everything in Kuwait , and erm it 'll be important to know that for each Palestinian in Kuwait there 's at least two or three other Palestinians whom they support outside Kuwait , in other words in Jordan , West Bank and the Gaza strip , so totally the Palestinians who got devastated by this invasion is about one point two million Palestinians . |
| 23 | The future holds little for these Romanian children , they live in appalling conditions in one of the country 's worst orphanges , at Siret . |
| 24 | Are you keeping that for all of them now ? |
| 25 | Except on North America voyages , and despite falling unemployment and rising real wages in the country as a whole , seamen 's wages rose little for some years . |
| 26 | I say that for another reason . |
| 27 | It must not be forgotten that for this three year period the patient was being cared for in two hospitals and in Hunstead Park by a full range of no doubt dedicated professions . |
| 28 | The winters there are long , hard and cruel ; two-thirds of the entire territory are grounded on ‘ permafrost ’ — permanently frozen earth , in many areas over one kilometre deep ; eastern Siberia contains the northern hemisphere 's ‘ pole of cold ’ , at Oimyakon , several degrees south of the Arctic Circle where temperatures in this inhabited settlement sometimes sink to — 70°C ; major rivers , seas and ports are frozen solid for most of the year , and growing conditions are so disadvantageous as to create one of the most fragile ecological systems in the world . |
| 29 | Dock empty for much of case |
| 30 | Only a few of the Christian residents appeared to notice that the Syrians had come prepared for more than just a few days ' stay . |