Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] for [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The compartments were referred to by the ordinal numbers from 1 ( apex ) to 5 ( base ) and the labelling index calculated for each compartment . |
| 2 | It may be argued by analogy that , given the importance under the CPA 1987 placed upon accurate instructions , this should permeate to cases where the buyer sues for economic loss under , for example , s14 of SGA 1979 . |
| 3 | Does dismissal of God 's existence make for greater openness and enquiry , or does it have the effect of closing the door on trying to understand what is strange or threatening to itself which might be , for example , the claims of other religions ? |
| 4 | Glottochronology is a technique developed for spoken languages which has a basic assumption that languages change at a relatively steady rate . |
| 5 | The Lake District 's Herdwick sheep are threatened by the reduction of an EC subsidy concession allowing for late lambing in the cold climatePHOTOGRAPHS : DON McPHEE Tyson Hartley … |
| 6 | This doctrine enables a lessee to sue for any trespass committed between the granting of the lease and his entering in pursuance of it . |
| 7 | She wwent to the High Court in August and won the riught to sue for malicious falsehood , a rare procedure , which she says she has to use because she ca n't afford libel proceedings . |
| 8 | The decision to go for darker shades was a brave one , as many hoteliers opt for pastels or similar standards in the erroneous belief that they will not cause offence . |
| 9 | – This means that the outer G forme was removed from the press part way through — printing stopped for some reason — and someone dropped it , scattering the letters everywhere . |
| 10 | N-plant leaked for five hours |
| 11 | A two-year part-time course intended for medical graduates interested in medical and radiation oncology . |
| 12 | with money to spare for small luxuries ; |
| 13 | But it was n't easy to lose puppy fat when Mum fed her on stodgy good home cooking — stews with dumplings and meat pies with pastry crusts and steamed sponge puddings , and there was no money to spare for proper hairdressing salons . |
| 14 | The fall in pocket money received for this age group contrasts with a rise from £1.40 a week to £1.48 shown in a Halifax survey of the under-12s last month . |
| 15 | Is not that because many Tory Members are up to their necks in money received for commercial lobbying of one sort or another ? |
| 16 | It must have cost a lot of money to go for that amount of time ? |
| 17 | The patients with adenomatous polyps were assigned to one of four study groups using the random sampling quota technique allowing for 10 subjects in each study group . |
| 18 | The London County Council ( 1961 ) had wanted a New Town at Hook , in Hampshire , planning a compact settlement designated for universal car ownership and complete pedestrian segregation , but Hampshire County Council preferred major town-expansion schemes at Andover and Basingstoke , and the proposal failed to come to fruition . |
| 19 | Trevor East , the new producer of The Match , explains the decision to wait for late autumn : ‘ People are reluctant to watch televised football or anything else on a sunny afternoon . |
| 20 | He craves success the way an alcoholic longs for another drink . |
| 21 | The futuristic Sparc90 is a design for a low-cost single-chip Sparc chipset intended for embedded applications . |
| 22 | ( b ) have the patience to search for helpful clues . |
| 23 | Another correspondent asked for cheap tracts which she could distribute to the poor as the middle class were already knowledgeable . |
| 24 | West Belfast should be treated as a special case and a uniform grant at the Premium 3 level given for all trainees ; alternative solutions must be found where it is simply not possible to find employers to take second year trainees ; cover should be given to management committees to protect them from personal liability in the event of insolvency . |
| 25 | Odyssey also comes with host mode which means you can set your computer to wait for incoming calls . |
| 26 | They were thought to have gone to the course to search for lost golf balls . |
| 27 | The Power Engine family comprises two products : a VMTR2 high-performance VME single-board machine ; and a VGPW2 , which is a VME board optimised for real-time applications under Posix 1003.4 compliant operating systems . |
| 28 | Knowing exactly what was coming next , and her heart aching for poor Phena , Ellie said softly , ‘ And she could n't find any record of a David Anthony Kent having been born , having even existed — and so knew that her mother had lied . ’ |
| 29 | Conditions of work were not pleasant ; landowners tried to get their estates cultivated by indentured labourers who had come out under a contract to work for some years for the man who paid for the journey or anyone to whom he sold the right to command their services . |
| 30 | It is surprising what can be achieved in an old and complex building to provide for disabled people and also how much the internal and external architecture can benefit from the refurbishment that the opportunities of converting a building for disabled access can provide . |