Example sentences of "[prep] [verb] [noun] for the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There is also concern that complainants might be put off bringing complaints for the same reason . |
| 2 | ‘ It 's the best day of my life , ’ said Capriati after defeating Graf for the first time . |
| 3 | Twenty-three years after becoming premier for the first time , he shows every indication of wanting to lead the Liberals against the Parti Québécois in another election . |
| 4 | He was entirely serious , and had adopted a portentous tone suitable for expressing admiration for the Greatest Living Englishman . |
| 5 | The advantages of using microbes for the early stages of such studies were well known and their biochemistry provided a convenient starting point for several investigators , especially in America . |
| 6 | Naturally , apart from the accusation of hypocrisy and of letting Britain solve its marriage problems , the government ends up being accused of allowing divorce for the wealthy and none for the poor , as the cost of going to and staying in Britain and paying for the legal procedures is beyond the pockets of the majority . |
| 7 | In August 1899 , Joseph revisited his Valley of Winding Waters for the first time in twenty-two years . |
| 8 | The prospect of his receiving deputations as Prime Minister from the Miners ' Federation or the Triple Alliance , for example , is capable of causing alarm for the future relations between the Government and Labour — between moderate and less moderate opinion . |
| 9 | In practical terms this meant that a court should not lightly disregard foreign blocking statutes or ‘ defensive laws ’ ; that perceived national interests should be carefully defined and weighed , so that some delay might well be accepted in the interest of promoting respect for the sovereign equality of States under international law ; and that evidence of the willingness of the foreign state to assist United States courts ( e.g. by a civil law country enacting legislation to enable cross-examination to take place ) should be taken into account . |
| 10 | The French authorities did something to safeguard communal property among their Moslem subjects in Algeria , even though Napoleon III ( in the Senatus-Consulte of 1863 ) found it inconceivable that individual property rights in land should not be established formally among the members of Moslem communities ‘ where possible and opportune ’ , a measure which actually had the effect of permitting Europeans for the first time to buy them out . |
| 11 | Special circumstances are required to justify the er proposing the new settlement through the local plan structure planning process , and I believe that is exactly what has occurred over the last five years , and if I could just quickly run through paragraph thirty three of P P G three , and the your invitation for us to comment on the criteria set out there , first of all the first element , the ex the alternative must be erm seen to be a less satisfactory method of providing land for the new housing that is needed , that is the essence of what has occurred in the process which the County Council has undertaken over the last couple of years , all of the policy options available have been examined in great detail , have been subject to public consultation , public participation , d I believe clear view was that there were erm constraints operating on York which meant that not all of that additional development accommodated in the adjacent to the existing er York city villages surrounding York . |
| 12 | Secondly , and this was most important in terms of associating adolescents with the community , many of the ideas and precepts embodied in citizenship , such as duty , service , neighbourliness , social stability , self-realization , and contentment with one 's societal position , were politically convenient to reformers who stressed the significance of providing instruction for the moral development of young people . |
| 13 | They generally co-operated with the administration to the extent of providing money for the latest schemes ; participation , of course , was another matter . |
| 14 | Certainly no impression from visits to primary schools in Africa has been borne more strongly on me than the importance of providing opportunities for the professional growth and survival of teachers in schools . |
| 15 | As promised by Palmerston during the previous session , a Select Committee was set up by the House of Commons on 28th April , 1856 to consider ‘ the best means of providing Accommodation for the various Public Departments in the Neighbourhood of Downing Street ’ . |
| 16 | At Bassingbourn the job of providing aircrew for the depleted number of operational squadrons continued but with an increased emphasis on the low level role-training which had been introduced in late 1960 . |
| 17 | CRITICAL eyes will be focusing on Arazi at Saint-Cloud today when the French-trained colt will be out to prove he is still worthy of holding favouritism for the premier Classics on both sides of the Atlantic . |
| 18 | The third practice had overspent because it had taken over a smaller practice after the preparatory work on budget setting had been completed , and it had not been able to make an accurate estimate of prescribing costs for the 1300 patients involved . |
| 19 | The Laws of Manu , an ancient law book of the Hindu way of life , which discusses the customs , conventions and laws , that should operate at each stage of life and govern the relation of the different orders with one another , regards the four āśramas as the best means of attaining co-operation For the common good . |
| 20 | Details of joining fees for the respective sports sections of the club may be obtained from the Personnel Department . |
| 21 | Jacques Attali , president of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development ( EBRD ) , visited Tallinn on Sept. 24 , when he announced that the EBRD was " in the process of finalizing membership for the Baltic states " . |
| 22 | In rather the same way the practice of giving hostages for the due execution of a treaty , quite common in the distrustful atmosphere of the sixteenth century , was last seen in operation in 1748 , when two British peers were sent to Paris as guarantees of the restitution by Britain of the conquests she had made in north America at the expense of France . |
| 23 | If there is no way of implementing justice for the largest and worst offending corporations then it is surely unjust to pursue with such ruthless and cruel tenacity the majority of those eventually condemned to prison . |
| 24 | That was the best way of controlling Gesner for the two remaining acts — through the orchestra . |
| 25 | There are three pierced brass hinges of graduating length for the main lid , similar to those on the Tabel , with matching smaller hinges at both of the lid flap openings . |
| 26 | We will turn later to the question of finding work for the unemployed able-bodied . |
| 27 | Here , wildlife cameraman Nick Hayward describes the challenge of filming mink for the forthcoming ‘ Wildlife on One ’ programme , and on page 47 biologists Nigel Dunstone and Jane O'Sullivan tell how well the animal has settled in . |
| 28 | Er , next week will be the last week for selling tickets for the social so if you 'd like to come tickets next week . |
| 29 | The 84-year-old Oscar-winner has been fighting a losing battle against failing sight for the past year . |
| 30 | There was little to indicate what a busy area this was to become , with buoyed channels for the large tankers , and the storage tanks and quays of Sullom Voe tucked away neatly out of sight amongst the low hills . |