Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] [verb] for the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Vigilance is certainly required that funding allocated for the public good should not be siphoned off into private firms . |
| 2 | ‘ The availability of Core-byte data allowed for the early input of important parameters such as core permeability into the test programme and increased the percentage of successful repeat formation testings , ’ said Tim Dodson , manager , Exploration Operations , Statoil . |
| 3 | The pendulum swings from right to left , and from left to right , each side overcompensating for the perceived aberrations of the other . |
| 4 | A contrast will be made between the conclusions of the public pollsters , who suggest an unqualified support exists for the British monarchy today , and a rhetorical analysis , which suggests a more complex reaction between explicit and implicit features . |
| 5 | This technique fails for the central question of how to write the relativistic law of gravitation because Newton 's law of gravitation is not compatible with SR and so we lack a starting point . |
| 6 | So , for high taxes vote for the Labour party , and for low taxes vote Conservative . |
| 7 | Utilities were among the more buoyant sectors , helped by the search by pensions funds for higher-income investments to compensate for the five-point drop in their investment returns as a result of the Budget changes . |
| 8 | The only exception to this rule occurs for the combined transition of the steps T3pG4 and C9pA10 where changes are also seen to occur in the centre of the dodecamer . |
| 9 | In simplified terms , this guidance calls for the following parameters : . |
| 10 | Phase ( III ) will be a series of interviews to obtain more detailed information on the strategic and tactical considerations involved for the contracting parties . |
| 11 | On the night of Wednesday 4 July 1759 Rear-Admiral George [ later Admiral Lord ] Rodney in the 60-gun Achilles , led four 50-gun ships of the line , five frigates and six bomb-ketches , described earlier , into Le Havre and , impudently anchoring in the main channel , began next morning a heavy bombardment of the docks , the warehouses storing timber , the construction yards , and , most important of all , the completed flat-boats intended for the coming invasion . |
| 12 | The buccaneer impulse revealed in these artless words accounts for the vigorous campaigns against other villains in other castles , though the immediate object is almost always the traditional one of help for a distressed damsel . |
| 13 | Like the hon. Member for Livingston ( Mr. Cook ) , the hon. Lady leads for the Labour party in a weak suit . |
| 14 | The force of cohesion and tension in this column account for the upward rise of the water . |
| 15 | Bohr and his friends hammered out an approach to the understanding of quantum theory which hardened into a rigid orthodoxy prescribed for the faithful . |
| 16 | This pact called for the rival forces , confronting each other in the south of the city , to pull back and allow a neutral force under the control of the interim government to establish a buffer zone . |
| 17 | The 1972 Act provided for the principal councils ( i.e. the county councils and district councils ) to have a number of major functions . |
| 18 | This failure to invest for the long term can be seen also in innovation , the development of new ideas and products . |
| 19 | Some versions substituted for the front pair a .5 Browning heavy machine gun , and some jeeps had a single Vickers fitted in such a way that the driver could operate it . |
| 20 | If you have made too few contributions to qualify for the basic pension , you may be able to use some of your ex-husband 's contribution record to build up your pension to the full amount . |
| 21 | Leaving its Lyneham home , with British troops bound for the United Nations in Bosnia . |
| 22 | Its characteristics are personal acquisitiveness , set free by generous tax cuts for the rich and a licensed pursuit of the fast buck ; markets , including foreign exchange , left unfettered to bestow their dynamism on the economy ; a state rolled as far back as is electorally tenable ; and a participatory capitalism , based on profit rather than ownership , where almost anything is a commodity to be traded . |
| 23 | They would still like to have some toddler swings for the playing field and as an interim measure it was suggested that one of the existing swings should be fitted with a suitable toddler seat . |
| 24 | Because the phallic stage of sexual development continues for the Australian aborigines right up to puberty and because resolution of the Oedipus complex can not occur until initiation , it follows as a matter of inexorable logic that a latency period recognizable as a consequence of a culturally induced culmination of the Oedipal stage can not be expected . |
| 25 | Bosnian Serbs meanwhile allowed two stranded aid convoys to head for Gorazde and Sarajevo , but another convoy intended for the besieged Muslim town of Srebrenica remained stuck at the border . |
| 26 | Both sides agreed that a multi-party planning conference should be held later this month to prepare for the full constitutional negotiating session . |
| 27 | I got involved with agencies who specialise in placing children who were difficult to place , be it handicapped , black or of the wrong age , and that led to my doing a lot of work taking photographs for a magazine published by the British Agencies for Adoption and Fostering and various publicity and public relations work for the Catholic Children 's Society . |
| 28 | The Pan-African Union for Social Democracy called for the total rejection of any modification of the election timetable , while on Sept. 15 the National Alliance for Democracy ( AND ) , a grouping of about 40 political parties , demanded that the 12-month transition period be respected and called for a reshuffle of André Milongo 's transitional government . |
| 29 | The result was the creation of large-scale public bureaucracies designed for the efficient regulation of water use . |
| 30 | This new residence , recently named Alexander Court by the former Principal , Sir Kenneth Alexander , is the first of a series of residential developments planned for the eastern end of the campus , beyond Airthrey Castle . |