Example sentences of "[adj] [prep] [verb] for the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They act out their role in a number of scenarios with an actor , such as meeting for the first time , attracting the man 's attention , and putting him off the trail . |
| 2 | You would become accustomed to looking for the ambiguous and the turgid , to cutting the text down to its basic message . |
| 3 | ‘ At the moment I 've no thoughts at all about preparing for the next World Cup ’ , said Best . |
| 4 | But the notion of marked rheme may prove helpful in accounting for the communicative force of some utterances . |
| 5 | The Socialists have historically been better at going for the gut-level reaction . |
| 6 | A handout is currently being produced for those responsible for caring for the elderly . |
| 7 | They are sure to be stiff after riding for the first time . ’ |
| 8 | Even the best examples of restoration , and there are perhaps a few , fall far short of compensating for the lost of ‘ real countryside ’ . |
| 9 | Research projects are concerned with housing for the elderly , the mentally handicapped and mentally ill and it is hoped to carry out research on the housing circumstances of single women , ethnic minority groups and the physically disabled . |
| 10 | ‘ At the moment I 'm just concerned with preparing for the Lithuanian game . |
| 11 | Peter said that although fifth was a respectable position he felt the team was capable of pushing for the top spot and added the society was eager for new blood . |
| 12 | We 'll need as much exposure as possible in the first couple of years , but it worries me that there 's no independent ‘ father figure ’ capable of speaking for the whole game and making sure it does n't ‘ do a snooker ’ . ‘ |
| 13 | The action of Louis XIV in sending for the first time , in 1679 , an envoy extraordinary to the imperial court in Vienna probably helped to accelerate this process . |
| 14 | Chair , if I can , if I can speak to it from a financial point of view , this is the scheme where we have been successful in bidding for the European Rural Development Fund grants . |
| 15 | 30 ( a ) Octavian , bearded in mourning for the murdered Caesar . |
| 16 | That means not only that the BA could save money , but that it could make a bob or two by catering for the assembled hacks . |
| 17 | The external conjugate was not , however , related to cardiovascular mortality after adjusting for head circumference whereas the trend in cardiovascular mortality with head circumference remained significant after allowing for the external conjugate diameter . |