Example sentences of "[verb] the [noun] for the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Cotswold-stone shop sells bears vintage ( £2,500 ) and everyday ( £10 ) , and owner Ian Pout has trawled the world for the top teddies . |
| 2 | The speech was all too unexciting , having travelled the country for the past year , and not noticeably improving with age . |
| 3 | I remember sitting in a hotel in Lymm thinking that I could n't really spare the time for the Managing Quality course but I 'd run out of excuses ! |
| 4 | Wenner ditched the piece for the American edition . |
| 5 | We can only presume the allocation for the current financial year is the first element of a rapidly expanding budget over the full five years of the scheme . |
| 6 | And they said we 're not naming the home for the elderly that will probably be closed . |
| 7 | In reaching this conclusion I have not , of course , overlooked the findings in the special case [ that the owners never intended to affirm the agreement for extra payments ] but I do not think that an intention on the part of the owners not to affirm the agreement for the extra payments , not indicated to the yard , can avail them in view of their overt acts . |
| 8 | Soon Vickers at Barrow was building the Hercules for the Argentinian navy and then , under licence , helping it to build the Santisima Trinidad at Rio Santiago . |
| 9 | Mr Milburn has contacted Durham County Council to explain the situation and push the case for the local people in the hope the council may subsidise the route . |
| 10 | The somewhat carefree atmosphere of this event was dampened a few months later when the Electricity Board 's contractors prepared to start work on levelling the ground for the new power station . |
| 11 | Then repeat the calculations for the actual construction programme , making due allowance for exceptionally adverse weather and delays which are at the contractor 's risk . |
| 12 | Use this side as a guide to mark up the measurements on the opposite side , before cutting , and then repeat the process for the other two sides . |
| 13 | Mark Hateley scored the first and made the second for the prolific Ally McCoist to deliver the riches of the Champions ' League into the already bulging coffers of the Glasgow club . |
| 14 | Englishman Robert Hynam made the clock for the Russian Court at St Petersburg in 1760 . |
| 15 | A vertical scale , erected at that point , can be projected through the drawing by using the VP for the vertical plane . |
| 16 | Aaron and McGuire ( 1970 ) derived from assumptions about individual utility functions and the procedure determining public goods supply an explicit allocation formula , which values the ith person 's consumption of the public good at his marginal rate of substitution between the public good and income ( using the conditions for the optimum supply of the public good discussed in Lecture 16 ) . |
| 17 | Using the equations for the expected return ( 5.7 ) , actual return ( 5.19 ) , beta ( 5.20 ) , variance due to the market ( 5.21 ) , non-market variance ( 5.22 ) , and total variance ( 5.23 ) we may construct and analyse any portfolio of equities . |
| 18 | I should add that Decca are still using the notes for the original LP set . |
| 19 | Alan had been busy and had arranged the cremation for the following Wednesday morning . |
| 20 | She knew that she should never have accepted it , she thought , as she knelt on the carpet , placing the mug down beside her and beginning to search the floor for the elusive ring . |
| 21 | You 'll all be given the instructions for the small group sessions for bail today . |
| 22 | The team as a whole was given the responsibility for the whole task and for assigning individuals to particular jobs . |
| 23 | Olivetti will also adapt the communicators for the European market — for DECT and Groupe Speciale Mobile cellular networking compliance , for example . |
| 24 | The text as structured above should be capable of generating the typography for the New OED . |
| 25 | Polybius paved the way for the other Greek intellectuals who accepted Roman rule and collaborated with it . |
| 26 | The changing face of football , from top : ‘ A shot from Bobby Charlton erupts out of elegance , ’ said Arthur Hopcraft ; Keegan and Lineker paved the way for the cash-rich super league ; this summer Candy-sponsored Liverpool paid more than £5 million for Mark Wright , left , and Dean Saunders |
| 27 | It drew together several countries in a common body which controlled important areas of the economy ; it was a sign of Franco-German rapprochement and it paved the way for the full removal of post-war industrial controls on West Germany by the Western allies ; it succeeded in overcoming doubt and opposition from politicians and industrialists ; and it created a workable machinery . |
| 28 | Furthermore , could not the very reproduction of the species itself be regarded as depending on a form of memory — genetic memory , the apparent capacity of the DNA , transmitted between parent and offspring , to carry the rules for the future accurate development of the new organism ? |
| 29 | SIMON TRACEY last night volunteered to carry the can for the double calamity that denied Sheffield United victory over Wimbledon . |
| 30 | In general , we have to thank the Orient for the early breeds and North America for the late ones . |