Example sentences of "[verb] [pron] [adj] for the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This is the idea that crime and deviance have positive qualities and consequences that make them necessary for the healthy functioning of society . |
| 2 | I usually keep him in when I wash his clothes and I got them special for the cold weather so he should be all right . |
| 3 | The 44 has a 1/4in shank , and I found it perfect for the aggressive work I was attempting . |
| 4 | If the casual worker can not make himself available for the full length of time requested , he is unlikely to be offered the assignment , although exceptions will be made if the organisation is facing a tight labour market and can only cover its manpower requirements by bringing in " part-timers " . |
| 5 | they would have to arrest everyone responsible for the present crises . |
| 6 | RICHARD GOUGH and Trevor Steven will be examined by Rangers ' medical staff today but the injuries sustained at Fir Park last night have made them doubtful for the European tie with FC Brugge . |
| 7 | To summarize : although Paisley and the other ministers of the Free Presbyterian Church have always maintained a clear division between ‘ constitutional ’ and ‘ party ’ politics — the Church has a position on the constitution but does not back any particular party — the close historical and biographical links between Church and Party have made it impossible for the Free Presbyterian Church to avoid either being tagged with the label of being the DUP at prayer or on occasion being disrupted by the spill-over of tensions from the Party into the Church . |
| 8 | As part of its drive to improve its efficiency and make itself ready for the private sector should the Government decide to privatise it following the review of the nuclear industry next year , Scottish Nuclear recently appointed Charterhouse , the merchant bank , as its adviser . |
| 9 | It is the cynicism in the design process that offends me ; the suggestion that there 's no point in designing anything special for the working classes because they do n't have any taste . |
| 10 | South Korean President Roh Tae Woo dismissed two members of his Cabinet and the governor of North Chungchong province on Sept. 19 , after holding them responsible for the massive damage which resulted from severe flooding earlier in the month in Seoul and the central region of the country . |
| 11 | In its wisdom , the Community felt able to do that for the Iberian peninsula a few years ago and it would be right and proper for it to do something analogous for the central European countries . |
| 12 | Concentrate instead on getting everything ready for the big day . |
| 13 | Exhausting because there is never enough time it seems between being invited " to pitch " for the new business and actually getting everything ready for the big day . |
| 14 | Many persons will have their own particular reasons for gratitude to him , and everyone will so warmly want to wish him well for the new place in life which awaits him back in his own native diocese of Liverpool . |
| 15 | He is Dieter Schmidt and his secret recipe keeps him awake for the 20-hour flights . |
| 16 | Guido reckons he 'll have it ready for the qualifying trials . ’ |
| 17 | Yeah , I 've I sprayed it pink for the Rocky Horror and I ca n't get it out ! |
| 18 | With justice Henry V is credited not only with having understood , better than did any of his contemporaries , what were the naval problems which faced England in the early fifteenth century , but also with having done much towards the creation of a fleet of ships , some of them very large , almost ‘ prestige-type ’ vessels , which would make it possible for the English to take to sea quickly and thus try to wrest the initiative from any enemy who might be coming against them . |
| 19 | Does not that make it difficult for the United Nations to carry out a peacekeeping role ? |
| 20 | The essential disunity between the radicals made it easy for the inter-war period to be dominated by the conventional wisdom of economic orthodoxy and sound finance . |
| 21 | The timing of these concerted attacks to the same day , along the entire front , made it impossible for the Austro-Hungarian forces to be switched back and forth behind their line , with the result that they had to fight each battle with the support of no more than local reserves . |
| 22 | New policing strategies The commitment of large numbers of police officers to the task of keeping the pits open made it impossible for the National Union of Mineworkers to achieve a total shut-down in domestic coal production . |
| 23 | However important this battle might be for future power at sea , the decisive point for the current war had been that the blockade made it impossible for the French to reinforce their West Indian or North American possessions . |
| 24 | In fact the broken ground made it impossible for the English knights to manoeuvre easily . |
| 25 | Mrs Castle , as it turned out , had opposed this allowance , again on the characteristically doctrinaire grounds that an allowance which made it necessary for the disabled to purchase motor cars would place them at the mercy of the commercial interests of motor manufacturers . |
| 26 | Continuing demand in Edinburgh for water from the Union Canal made it necessary for the new aqueduct , which would eventually carry the canal over the bypass at Hermiston , to be constructed without interruption to the flow in the canal and the contractor elected to use an open channel diversion capable of passing 237 litres per second . |
| 27 | A similar view of the importance of social movements is taken by Touraine ( 1973 ) in his account of the Popular Unity Government of Salvador Allende in Chile where , he argues , the activities and influence of a variety of movements within the governing coalition made it possible for the poor to express their grievances directly and continuously , instead of having them diverted ( and perhaps stifled ) in the official channels of a monolithic ruling party . |
| 28 | Nathan waited patiently for the remissions which made it possible for the ruined mind to function for a time ; he sat by the sick man , who by now was almost blind ; the paralysis was , after all , general . |
| 29 | The very weakness of the Arab states , economically , militarily and in terms of political stability , made it dangerous for the Soviet Union to support them unconditionally . |
| 30 | We were playing The Nortons , a side collated from the villages of Great and Little Norton , two hamlets whose relative size made it difficult for the outside observer to decide which was which . |