Example sentences of "[noun] for [verb] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He may start sitting like this in preparation for moving into the supine lying position ( on his back ) or , more rarely , into the prone lying position on his stomach . |
| 2 | ‘ Perhaps not , and he may have had sentimental reasons for going to the little hut , but I want to be sure . |
| 3 | In my judgment the Secretary of State , if he sets a tariff period which exceeds that recommended by the judiciary , is not under an absolute obligation to give reasons for departing from the judicial view . |
| 4 | We have seen , then , that the historical reasons for charging in the social services are diverse and often contradictory , but a case can still be made for charging on a priori grounds . |
| 5 | In The Form the prose style shows Rolle at his best embodying his sense of " the expanding of love beyond desire " : The first sentence uses the inexpressibility topos — the rhetorical trick for gesturing towards the ineffable . |
| 6 | There is certainly a case for insisting on the democratic control of the EMS , but that means getting more , not less involved in European politics , messy , complex and frustrating as they may be to those who long for simple black-and-white , left-and-right simplicities . |
| 7 | If this transpires to be the case for binding of the intact 140k protein during VZV infection , numerous possible functional implications of such a broad-ranging conformational effect can be envisaged , including modification of the interactions of transcription factors with DNA or with other proteins , or clearing the promoter of non-specific DNA binding proteins . |
| 8 | Cut out long thin strips for trimming around the top edge of the boat and fix on with a dampened paint brush . |
| 9 | ( i mean the way he have sticked with specially dino shows us that — dino himself who expressed wishes for playing at the international level himself when he joined leeds — i guess he is a farther away now : the likes of Shearer , Wright ( a flop in the internationals ) , Cole ( hey there is one that puts them in the net ) and Ferdinand will have no problems keeping him out … ) |
| 10 | My plans for flying around the beautiful Nelson and Marlborough Sounds area happened to be frustrated by the fact that Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands was visiting nearby . |
| 11 | Bush called for greater funding for housing for the poor and for inner city redevelopment . |
| 12 | Perhaps Rourke was there as an ideas man — certainly he did n't show much enthusiasm for getting into the nitty-gritty of the day-to-day workload . |
| 13 | In December 1857 the new head of the Third Department , V. A. Dolgorukov , revealed an unlikely enthusiasm for cooperating with the liberal intelligentsia when he asked the Slavophile Aleksandr Koshelev to send him his hard-hitting " Memoranda on the Dissolution of the Enserfed Estate in Russia " . |
| 14 | For all index-linked stocks issued prior to January , 1987 , it is necessary therefore to adjust downward their base for indexing by the multiplicative factor of 100/394.5 . |
| 15 | The conflicting demands of efficient service provision , democratic involvement , and local historical or community traditions led to different proposals for dealing with the perceived shortcomings of the existing local government system . |
| 16 | It was during the Autumn term that certain staff had responsibility for contributing towards the self-appraisal report . |
| 17 | Those of us who work with refugees recognise how stretched are the resources of the United Nations , particularly those for the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees , and those who have responsibility for coping with the enormous problems about which the hon. Member for Islington , North ( Mr. Corbyn ) has just spoken . |
| 18 | The new administration was given responsibility for preparing for the forthcoming general election and drafting a new constitution . |
| 19 | When we examine animals with nervous systems that were built with conditional rules for dealing with the external environment , the business of predicting how they will respond on the basis of knowing how they were made becomes impossible . |
| 20 | Applying Shirk 's concept of ‘ adaptive behaviour ’ ( Shirk 1982 : 5 ) , their enthusiasm for a number of major student ‘ tides ’ such as going abroad to study , doing business and having love affairs , can be viewed as strategies for escaping from the depressing reality of everyday life in contemporary China . |
| 21 | But Welsh Local Government Minister Gwilym Jones told the Welsh Tory Conference in Llangollen yesterday : ‘ While we shall be listening very carefully , we see no case at present for departing from the main thrust of our proposals . |
| 22 | If the landlord attempts to take counter measures ( eg by erecting lockable posts in some spaces and issuing keys to some of the tenants and not others ) he may face an action for interfering with the other tenants ' easements . |
| 23 | New guidelines for dealing with the sexual abuse of adults with learning difficulties have been published by the Scottish Society for the Mentally Handicapped . |
| 24 | How competent are the teachers in each setting for dealing with the specific characteristics of the child in question ? |
| 25 | The notion of ‘ topic ’ , though undefined , seems to provide Rochester & Martin with a natural criterion for distinguishing between the connected , yet incoherent , discourse of thought-disordered speakers and the coherent discourse of normal speakers . |
| 26 | Languages can be learned ‘ at home ’ , where there are few opportunities for mixing with the native users of the language ( such as evening class french ) or they can be learned in a second language situation , either in the country in which that language is native or in one 's own country where the language is used for a specific purpose ( such as learning English in parts of Africa where it is used as the commercial language ) . |
| 27 | The Armed Forces Supreme Court sentenced 26 non-commissioned army officers to terms of imprisonment of between six and nine months for participating in the abortive military coup of Dec. 3 , 1990 [ see p. 37913 ] . |
| 28 | These links are vital as this body is the main vehicle for communicating to the maximum number of students at Napier . |
| 29 | Their independence reduced the executive 's capacity for interfering in the legal process . |
| 30 | There was , then , a clear political strategy in both countries for dealing with the public enterprises . |