Example sentences of "[verb] for [art] [adj] [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Pensions are usually compared by converting the annual pension paid to an average earner into ecu , using ‘ purchasing power parity ’ to accommodate for the various costs of living in each country . |
| 2 | Khrushchev , who was preoccupied with trying to promote a policy of peaceful coexistence with the United States ( Khrushchev and Eisenhower met at Camp David in September 1959 ) whilst at the same time seeking to contain the emerging Sino-Soviet rift , had little thought to spare for the bearded revolutionaries in far-off Cuba . |
| 3 | Let us think for a few moments of the wonderful achievements of the human race — the towns that have been built , the works of art that have been produced — the books , plays , films , pictures , music … the progress that has been made in science and technology . |
| 4 | The Chinese do n't like their planes to fly unless the weather is absolutely O.K. So we had to wait for a few hours for the plane to arrive from Shanghai . |
| 5 | I am just not prepared to wait for the green shoots of recovery . ’ |
| 6 | In many cases the large size of a company , which is the source of its market power , may enable it to make cost savings which , although not fully passed on , more than compensate for the distorting effects of an uncompetitive market structure . |
| 7 | Once the winter rains have passed , Delhi experiences two months of weather so perfect and blissful that they almost compensate for the climatic extremes of the other ten months of the year . |
| 8 | Field Chairs are not paid for their additional responsibilities , nor do they automatically receive any remission of teaching ( though most fields have developed arrangements which partially compensate for the considerable demands of the post ) . |
| 9 | The European Commission , which is responsible for formulating the proposal in line with the views of the council of ministers , was criticized for the repeated delays in the adoption of the third Framework programme and hopes to stick to the intricate timetable for approval of the new programme , which must be accepted at three levels . |
| 10 | This suggests that certain groups and individuals will be ‘ stronger ’ and better placed to obtain the housing they want , although this is something of an oversimplification since it implies that all are competing for the same types of house . |
| 11 | ‘ I 'll stay for a few days at least — if she can put up with me . ’ |
| 12 | We think they should be able to get jobs and hope they will stay for a few years at least . |
| 13 | He qualified for the light-middleweight semi-finals by beating Norway 's Ole Klemetsen . |
| 14 | Let's , let's just put it here , A minus B times A minus B. Now it 's tempting to go for the easier ones in it as you did , so we 'll do the A squared , okay that 's no problem . |
| 15 | When it obtained the Royal Assent , the Criminal Justice Act 1988 had expanded to 173 Sections and sixteen schedules , half as long again as the Bill which had its First Reading in November 1986 , allowing for the separate provisions of the 1987 Act . |
| 16 | The engineering brief was to achieve a 10 per cent gain in performance over the already rapid Turbo R , implying a top speed target of well over 150mph and 0–60mph acceleration in just over six seconds — a tough task , even allowing for the aerodynamic gains in the switch to the coupe shape , in a vehicle weighing at least two-and-a-half tons . |
| 17 | It was this base which , allowing for the unusual circumstances of the General Election of December 1923 , permitted Labour to form its first government early in 1924 . |
| 18 | Allowing for the inevitable delays of London traffic I rang the bell of her flat at six-thirty . |
| 19 | Taylor said : ‘ Even allowing for the big advances in modern medicine , I 've always been a big believer in waiting for an operation to be complete before making any assessment . |
| 20 | It is even possible that if you decide to set up your own business , you may be able to claim for the initial costs of this . |
| 21 | In the early numbers there are such diverse items as an account of a tea given for the Baptist children in Port Ellen and the news that Lord Rosebery had succeeded Mr Gladstone as Prime Minister . |
| 22 | In the early numbers there are such diverse items as an account of a tea given for the Baptist children in Port Ellen and the news that Lord Rosebery had succeeded Mr Gladstone as Prime Minister . |
| 23 | The total number of accidents and the calculated average traffic flow at a junction are given for the 40 junctions in Table 3.2 . |
| 24 | Here , for example , is a context drill to master the difference between " essen " and " fressen " : Non-English speakers learning the English word " run " would construct drills similar to the examples given for the different uses of " run " . |
| 25 | CHEST ( the Combined Higher Education Software Team ) has also purchased SASPAC91 , the package which accesses and manipulates the Small Area and Local Base Statistics , developed for the 1991 datasets by the London Research Centre . |
| 26 | When the weather calmed her master spent several days trawling for the missing anchors with grapnels in what the charts said was 30 fathoms of water . |
| 27 | ( Incidentally never forget to plan for the practical needs of the press when you 're drawing up your arrangements . |
| 28 | As well as catering for the spiritual needs of the Russian settlers , monks , sometimes with lay assistants , participated in the colonial process by establishing small monastic communities which soon attracted peasants and became the focus of new communities . |
| 29 | They had begun life catering for the manic requirements of radio 's The Goon Show , which stretched ingenuity to the full , requiring anything from Major Bloodnok 's gastric eruptions to the sound of ‘ a batter pudding whizzing through the air , hitting a wall and slithering to the floor ’ . |
| 30 | The fourth aim of catering for the different levels of ability is more likely to be teacher-dependent . |