Example sentences of "[prep] [adj] for [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Polished thin section surfaces are required , and a special microscope with UV source and quartz lenses is needed , such as used for immunological work in many biological laboratories . |
| 2 | The upper limit of normal for gastrointestinal blood loss is less than 1.0 ml/day . |
| 3 | Two specimens were placed in 2 ml of saline for bacteriological examination and two specimens were fixed in 10% neutral formalin for histopathological examination . |
| 4 | See the " Assembler " section for a more detailed description of the use of DIM for reserving memory for assembly code programs . |
| 5 | A dash of eau-de-Cologne for good measure . |
| 6 | It stresses that government projects should only be undertaken which produce a favourable trade , in the collective judgment of the community , of current for future expenditure . |
| 7 | In any case , 100 Welsh players having the opportunity to take on the world champions and learn from them will do a lot of good for Welsh rugby . ’ |
| 8 | HERE is a splash of pink for early spring . |
| 9 | We suggest that , whilst there might appear to be a substitution of temporary for regular workers , the alternative to temporary working would probably be more hiring and firing and more temporary lay-offs . |
| 10 | Yeah mhm yeah I mean you may want to select some stuff that 's y'know that represents different kinds of things because as I remember our conversations earlier , you were interested in er y'know sort of ideological soundness , political correctness and y'know were some things funny but sort of off-colour for other reasons erm er I 'm paraphrasing it badly but er y'know I think that th s so you might want to get some stuff that 's sort of ideologically sound and humorous and er some stuff that 's a bit off-colour and humorous and some stuff that 's erm sort of I do n't know some stuff that 's main stream but has got a lot of y'know if you look at something like say The Two Ronnies or something , there 's a lot of there 's a lot of racism and sexism in there but it 's because it 's sort of main stream because it 's family viewing and stuff like that people tend not to think of it as problematic . |
| 11 | The swopping of cheap for expensive leathers by shoe makers was dealt with by 9 George I c. 27 in 1722 , while 13 George II c. 8 in 1739 dealt with several putting-out trades including iron working , textiles and leather . |
| 12 | Attempts to reform the education service in the 1930s had been frustrated by financial stringencies ( of the kind , for example , that led to the substitution of special for free places in secondary schools ) , by the conservative indifference towards education that marked the National Governments of the decade , and , perhaps most decisively , by the persistence of religious difficulties . |
| 13 | In some areas of the country , where voluntary services are well developed , substitution of voluntary for local provision would be easier than in areas where the voluntary sector is weak . |
| 14 | The Sisters also visit the elderly and provide a place of quiet for numerous people inside and outside the Parish . |
| 15 | Thus treatment with salt ( or with freshwater for marine fish ) , formalin , quaternary ammonium compounds , malachite green , and antibiotics for example can be given at high dose for short duration , making them more effective against the disease organisms while offering a better safety margin to the fish through shorter contact time . |
| 16 | The English necessary for social communication , on which most coursebooks other than those concerned with English for Special Purposes are based . |
| 17 | Trading remains tough with like for like sales down 2.5 per cent since 1 August at Next Retail . |
| 18 | Hopefully , it should see many forms of cancer treatable as simply as popping into hopsital for minor surgery . |
| 19 | It contained a pound of raw stewing steak , laced with Seconal for good measure . |
| 20 | Other areas with potential for offshore deposits include Helmsdale in Caithness ( gold ) and Skye and Mull in western Scotland ( magnetite , ilmenite and chromite ) . |
| 21 | David Walsh looks in vain for encouraging signs |
| 22 | If , on the other hand , the condition is that the proper name , if it is to count as a proper name at all , must be non-descriptive , then we shall look in vain for suitable candidates , for there can hardly be an expression that communicates something and yet does not incorporate , or contextually presuppose , a descriptive content . |
| 23 | He put the probe away and studied the device with a frown , searching in vain for recognizable wiring or circuitry . |
| 24 | FRISK Dennis Cooper A ‘ gay American Psycho ’ they said , but you 'll search in vain for long lists of clothes and accessories . |
| 25 | According to Mustafa Dzhemilev , leader of the Crimean Tatars ' Majlis , 600 members of the local militia on Oct. 1 forced their way into the Krasnyy Ray settlement near Alushta ( where returning Tatars had started work independently on the construction of a camp after waiting in vain for local authorities to allocate land for the purpose ) , injuring several residents and arresting 26 . |
| 26 | Last year the police went back to the Baroness 's former home to look in vain for hidden gold bars . |
| 27 | They will look in vain for detailed information on , for example , the housing benefit scheme or the ‘ social fund ’ in the Act : this is contained in subsequent regulations . |
| 28 | During the following weeks , the world waited in vain for detailed confirmation of Richter 's claims . |
| 29 | The north wind was still blowing , Randy Rarick was still biting his nails , and surfers patrolled the Kam Highway , boards poking out of jeeps , strapped to cars , balanced on bicycles , searching in vain for rideable waves . |
| 30 | Whilst many base analogues ( 1 ) have been developed to investigate interactions in the major groove of the DNA helix 2'-deoxy-3-deazaadenosine ( d 3C A , Figure 1 ) is one of the few nucleosides that is useful in probing for sequence-specific interactions in the minor groove . |