Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] [verb] for the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now he found himself playing Kaa , the deaf snake known for the power of his hug . |
| 2 | Mr Karel Van Miert , the Transport Commissioner , is asking member governments to approve a plan which would leave passenger services largely in the hands of state-owned monopolies but open up freight services to competition by permitting private operators to pay for the use of publicly-owned tracks . |
| 3 | where do all that money go for the fee ? |
| 4 | That decision called for the establishment of joint working parties , for each of the subject areas , with responsibility for devising guidelines for the new syllabuses and specifying the detailed criteria relating to their assessment . |
| 5 | In order to excavate the site itself , a new road had been built and a viaduct constructed to carry it across the valley before it climbed through the wooded hillside to the rocky crag chosen for the location of the church which formed the heart of the project . |
| 6 | To understand that stupid , stubborn , eternal desire to light up , it is necessary to understand the special romantic pull that smoking exerts for the left . |
| 7 | Here had he buried his face in Sir John 's broad chest to weep for the loss of his mother . |
| 8 | There emerged a consensus that such are the limitations of the EMS that the system can not provide the monetary framework required for the creation of the single European market . |
| 9 | The sole permission required for the entry of modules into LIFESPAN . |
| 10 | One of the possible reasons suggested for the relationship between risk and recall in Study 1 was that performing risk-related judgment tasks while driving had made that information particularly memorable . |
| 11 | Israel felt emboldened to ask America for massive extra economic aid to pay for the damage caused by the state of emergency , the prolonged military alert — and the arrival of hundreds of thousands of new Soviet Jewish immigrants . |
| 12 | Emily lifted her head and breathed in the sweet March air , it was good to stand in the garden of Summer Lodge looking out over a tranquil sea with timid waves reaching for the shore . |
| 13 | It is evident that the classical Hindu tradition , in which Gandhi was nurtured , recognized the importance of family life as providing the cohesive force required for the well-being of society as a whole . |
| 14 | Three youths armed with Armalite pen-knives waited for the band to unload their gear before threatening them and attempting to drive away with their van . |
| 15 | In the extensive research undertaken for the book it became clear that a number of particular issues posed the greatest challenges to potential returners and to prospective employers . |
| 16 | For democratic elitists the state is directed by legitimately elected political leaders ; it is a driverless car which political parties compete for the right to manage . |
| 17 | On the grounds that James IV 's will had nominated her for the regency only if she remained a widow , the Scottish Estates sent for the Duke of Albany , descendant of that Stewart who had plagued James III . |
| 18 | Further opportunity follows for the squad established after the 1992 Divisional Championship when on Wednesday October 14th , four days after a heavy Courage League weekend , they entertain Ireland U21 s at Newcastle Gosforth . |
| 19 | In fact , such was the sheer awesomeness of Mr Wilson 's fury that , as one person , the whole assembled mass headed for the door at top speed . |
| 20 | This course lasts for the equivalent of three terms , and has two distinct parts . |
| 21 | They do n't congeal round any unifying principles beyond a vague commitment to an idealised model of the intellectual free market in which different discourses vie for the reader 's attention — like a basket of competing currencies battling for prominence against the deutschmark or the yen . |
| 22 | CLUB AND RESORT FACILITIES — some Clubs charge for the use of certain facilities , e.g. mini-golf , tennis courts , saunas , sun loungers , parasols , and nightclubs etc . |
| 23 | The simplest method would have been for a French submarine to wait for the Rainbow Warrior somewhere on the high seas and sink it with a torpedo but that posed the problem of what to do with any survivors . |
| 24 | Adjusting this income to allow for the rise in prices , it seems that the real income fell by more than one-third . |
| 25 | The fact that human beings do not always perceive the correct ( rigid ) structure when presented with a mathematically adequate though impoverished stimulus , may be due not ( as Ullman suggests ) to their failing to pick up all of the mathematically necessary information in the stimulus , but rather to their using computational strategies evolved for the perception of non-rigid objects which — even when directed at rigid objects — need more information than is present in the experimental stimulus concerned . |
| 26 | Some solicitors acting for the husband may take a robust view to save their clients costs and , following the court order , may merely dispatch the title deeds to the wife 's solicitors on the basis that the husband has no further interest in them and that they will receive a conveyance for execution by the husband in due course . |
| 27 | The defence thus utilized one side of the ambivalence — the love and high esteem felt for the father — to build a bulwark against the other — the hate and contempt of the father — in order to inhibit the aggressive egoism of males and make them all equally subject to a primal father-figure who for the first time now became fully internalized as a shared superego . |
| 28 | The need to differentiate between different types of riot and the contrasting meanings involved for the participants is recognised by Smith ( 1983 ) . |
| 29 | This duality accounts for the generation and alternation of opposites throughout nature , light and dark , moving and still , male and female . |
| 30 | Instead , we opened with a symphonic version of the ‘ Dead March ’ from ‘ Saul ’ , fading out into the reading of a six-stanza poetic eulogy written for the occasion by a local lady admirer and 1OAB fan . |