Example sentences of "[adj] [verb] [noun] for [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some critics have considered it to be too weak and idiosyncratic to carry responsibility for major public and social services . |
| 2 | The promoters of the Alexandra Palace show , Kennedy Street Enterprises , replied to fans ' accusations this week , claiming that they had done everything possible to provide tickets for genuine applicants . |
| 3 | It is also possible to find support for this reading by considering Anderson 's interruptions of other speakers . |
| 4 | We 're prepared to sustain losses for several years while we get it going . |
| 5 | Without wishing to champion the Soviet system and the way in which it ‘ manufactures ’ its sportsmen , I believe the general philosophy underlying the integration of sports with other components of education is much more realistic than the irritating duality with which we labour in the Western world where educators are prone to see justification for particular studies in terms of their practical value . |
| 6 | She maintains that ‘ speakers of an oral language rely more on context for the communication of their verbal messages ’ ( 1972 , p. 169 ) , and this has implications for cognitive processes . |
| 7 | ‘ proportionately many more single clergy and Church workers in Urban Priority Areas than in other areas , and this has implications for pastoral support . |
| 8 | This has implications for advanced training of students in techniques relevant to modern industrial processes , it severely limits the ability of lecturing staff to be fully up to date with new technologies and it limits the ability to provide ‘ state-of-the-art ’ technology and training at tertiary level for both indigenous and multinational companies . |
| 9 | Broadly speaking , it is easier to obtain funding for explanatory research that seems to provide guidance to policy-makers than for purely academic research , and for research that is statistically based than for research that is more qualitative in its approach . |
| 10 | In the England of Edward I , if the great feudatories had refused payment for fear of losing caste , by the reign of Edward III all were ‘ now prepared to accept wages for military service ’ . |
| 11 | At the second of these meetings Attlee stressed that the strategic arguments about the Middle East were not valid because no country would be willing to grant bases for military action , and all Britain would achieve would be to pose a needless and pointless threat to the Soviet Union . |
| 12 | Departments have also generally found it easier to establish objectives for administrative costs ( which account for only 13 per cent of departmental expenditure ) than for programme costs ( 87 per cent of departmental expenditure and , therefore , offering potentially much greater scope for savings ) ( Public Accounts Committee , 1986–7c , para. 30 ) . |
| 13 | It 's easier to find excuses for poor customer service than accept reality and do something about it . |
| 14 | A further example of the assumption that women should be willing to provide sex for interested men seems implicit in the Sun headline — LANDLORD 'S DEATH LUST FOR GIRL Lodger shunned sex . |
| 15 | Nor did this brief fashion for working-class subjects derive directly from their critical campaigns , except insofar as Richardson had directed Look Back in Anger on the stage in 1956 , and that production marked the cultural watershed from which a fashion for ‘ realism ’ seemed to flow . |
| 16 | Table 2 shows data for two characteristics — proportions living in privately rented housing and unemployment ( 1981 data ) . |
| 17 | A major problem area is that of young people aged 16–17 with no benefit , and 18–25 on reduced benefits — this increases hardship for young people . |
| 18 | Yes and there are different going rates for different things as there are with property , are n't there ? |
| 19 | The Law graduate who has gained full exemption proceeds at once to the Final ; this requires attendance for nine months at one of the law schools recognised by the Law Society for this purpose . |
| 20 | It immediately became economical to use polythene for all kinds of products , like plastic bags , which nobody had ever contemplated previously . |
| 21 | This lacks credibility for two reasons : first , there is no evidence to prove Hollis was a Russian mole , and second , no investigations were ever planned that would have tracked down any of these spies , despite the fact that they all displayed behaviour patterns that were highly suspicious , until a defector alerted MI5 . |
| 22 | It will take irrefutable economic arguments , and a leap of faith , before any of them is prepared to abandon steel for reinforced plastic . |
| 23 | This included provisions for institutional cooperation between Bonn and Paris across a wide range of policy areas , something which was quite compatible with the political objectives of the EEC . |
| 24 | Table 14.1 presents data for selected time periods since 1979 . |
| 25 | It may , of course , be easier to quantify risk for natural hazards because of historical records and statistical estimation of recurrence intervals . |
| 26 | A total of 118 British firms were granted awards for export achievement this year ; 25 were rewarded for technological achievement ; 12 won awards for Environmental correctness . |
| 27 | This means jobs for 23,400 typists and supervisers whose varying rates of productivity come under fire . |
| 28 | Surely this gives cause for greater alarm , it would have been less alarming had the three cases been connected . |
| 29 | This gives guidance for IFAC member bodies on ways to ensure that their members have an adequate continuing understanding of professional values and ethics , so that they can operate effectively and with integrity in a constantly changing environment . |
| 30 | This permits adaptation for different situations , evaluations of new techniques and evaluation of materials . |