Example sentences of "[verb] its [noun] for the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although Goldmann accepts the significance of the social determination of knowledge thesis for epistemology he does not pursue its implications for the Marxist concept of ideology . |
| 2 | A program allows one to frequently modify the hypertext database and test its consequences for the linear form . |
| 3 | The hotel has targeted its occupancy for the first year at 55 per cent , which , Mr Nitschke says , is realistic . |
| 4 | Research grants worth £420million have been announced by the EC , revealing its plans for the third set of Esprit projects . |
| 5 | Its academic success had been such that it had become progressively less progressive , its original zeal swamped by the fee-paying prosperous solid Northern conservatism of parents and offspring : it had become a bastion of respectability , its one-time principles upheld by stray survivors like Doddridge , who appeared blithely not to notice that at election time the entire school , with one or two flamboyant exceptions , howled its enthusiasm for the Tory Party . |
| 6 | We followed the hunting team in the dark , stumbling across the scrubby terrain , heavily pitted with limestone fissures , until Rindi located a promising lair by cautiously sniffing its entrance for the distinctive aroma of a large reptile which does n't brush its teeth . |
| 7 | A snowfall the previous night , however , had covered the tracks of Graham Little and A. Baker , who had climbed it the day before — also singing its praises for the deep caves and icicles . |
| 8 | The price of land there has skyrocketed since Nagano announced its bid for the 1998 Winter Olympics " . |
| 9 | On April 27th Euro Disney , which runs a big amusement park outside Paris modeled on American ones owned by its parent firm , Walt Disney , announced its results for the six months to the end of March 1993 . |
| 10 | Central Council records its appreciation for the hard work , dedication and enthusiasm of all staff throughout a very busy and demanding year . |
| 11 | The USSR noted ‘ with satisfaction ’ that ‘ Iran is expressing its support for the world-wide democratic international Non-Aligned Movement ’ . |
| 12 | But now it has revealed its plans for the next generation of VAXes to be built around the new Alpha RISC chip , DEC is again keen to push the advantages of staying with VAX . |
| 13 | At the end of the debate , the House will give its support for the Prime Minister carrying on playing a full part in European evolution — an evolution about which we have been too hesitant for too long . |
| 14 | THE SCOTTISH National Party yesterday signalled its strategy for the 1990 regional council elections and the next general election by accusing Labour of swallowing ‘ Thatcher values ’ . |
| 15 | When the Reading Room opened its doors for the first time in the city of St Louis , Missouri , it became the world 's first literary brothel . |
| 16 | Eleven people will lose their jobs when the slaughter house closes its doors for the last time on November 26 . |
| 17 | But today it closes its doors for the last time . |
| 18 | China declared its support for the international ban on the importation of African ivory in June last year . |
| 19 | After examination the Council confirms its grant for the previous year which until the accounts are received remains provisional . |
| 20 | The new government quickly showed its enthusiasm for the private medical sector which was growing rapidly in 1979 , and in 1980 Gerard Vaughan , Minister of Health , expressed the belief that it might grow to around one quarter of the size of the NHS . |
| 21 | THE North Staffordshire Railway at Cheddleton , near Leek on the Churnet Valley Railway , has recently opened its doors for the 1992 season of running dates . |
| 22 | A new club which aims to give homeless and unemployed people what could be their only good meal of the day has opened its doors for the first time . |
| 23 | Intergraph Corp , Huntsville , Alabama warns that while it has not yet closed its books for the first quarter , preliminary estimates indicate that turnover will be lower than expected at between $280m and $285m , and that all geographic segments were below expectations for the quarter , and price reductions on older products combined with lower sales volume resulted in reduced gross margins ; the company expects a loss from operations excluding restructuring charges of $8m to $10m or $0.11 to $0.13 per share and restructuring charges and non-operating items during the quarter will increase the losses by an additional three cents a share . |
| 24 | Coniston Partners , the New York-based investment firm seeking to oust United Airlines ' board , is due to meet the engineers union today to discuss its plans for the big US carrier . |
| 25 | This research will analyse this process of reconstruction and consider its implications for the continued use of scientific evidence within the criminal justice system . |
| 26 | The large-scale youth unemployment coincided with a collapse in apprenticeship schemes as industry , in recession , withdrew its support for the part-time vocational courses that were the stock-in-trade of the further education colleges , many of whom had evolved from the old mechanics institutes . |
| 27 | Investors have been expecting its publication for the last two weeks but are fearful it will be kept back for the week when Parliament goes into the Christmas recess . |
| 28 | Last year the Group cut its dividend for the first time since it became a quoted company in 1970 , but this year analysts expect the dividend to be held at last year 's figure , with Pilkington digging into reserves in order to fend off the resulting loss of confidence . |
| 29 | Foxhall Stadium opens its doors for the first time on Sunday ( 2.30 pm ) with the Bangers and new formula stock cars . |
| 30 | The Town Cinema opens its doors for the first time in more than thirty years tonight . |