Example sentences of "[noun] [adj] [prep] [verb] for [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The harassing of those caught out by need where they had no settlement was the dark side of the eighteenth-century Poor Law with its associated evasive strategies such as hiring for less than a year , pulling down cottages on the wastes , apprenticing pauper children beyond the bounds and hustling unwilling couples into marriage to avoid the maintenance of a bastard . |
| 2 | Natural selection would then gradually have produced a hardier group of individuals capable of remaining for longer in the remote mountain regions . |
| 3 | There are anti-avoidance provisions which prevent you gaining from cunning manoeuvres such as arranging for different companies within your employer 's group each to contribute a share of the total pay-out ; if this is done , all the sums will be aggregated . |
| 4 | The tape recorders were supplied by the British Ferrograph Company of South Shields , who made an extremely high-quality and tough recorder capable of operating for long periods without attention . |
| 5 | The proposal is to make the system self-regulating by arranging for any pollutant from the factory to foul the factory process water . |
| 6 | An arch of stones , for instance , is a stable structure capable of standing for many years even if there is no cement to bind it . |
| 7 | For health reasons , 69-year-old decided to call it a day on March 19 after working for five years in the semi-moist processing section . |
| 8 | Police Chief Daryl F. Gates retired on June 28 after serving for 14 years as head of the Los Angeles Police Department ( LAPD ) . |