Example sentences of "[conj] [noun] [verb] for [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This may partly explain why a speaker or writer opts for a marked theme in a given context . |
| 2 | As a result of these , ten percent of children go to special schools — e.g. The Petö Institute or schools catering for the blind , deaf or moderately mentally handicapped . |
| 3 | The absolute right of an editor or journalist to opt for a personal hearing before a complaints committee would be removed . |
| 4 | The absolute right of an editor or journalist to opt for a personal hearing should be removed . |
| 5 | The list of single words or phrases substituting for the sexual or scatological items listed above is considerably longer than the basic list ; e.g. " taking medicine " for having sexual intercourse , " pipe " for penis , " nest " , " eggs " and " purse " for scrotum and testicles , " fountain " for vagina . |
| 6 | At last they came to a clearing , where Vic headed for a mossy log . |
| 7 | Due to the fact that the sub-contractor when paid on a piecework basis achieves a relatively high hourly rate , most sub-contractors either negotiate an equivalent daywork rate per hour or resist working on daywork and agree rates or lump sums for the particular work involved . |
| 8 | If an error or warning occurs for a particular module then an appropriate message is output to this log file , but processing continues until all modules in the steering file have been examined . |
| 9 | Depending on the materials available , the choice of what metal or alloy to use for a particular artefact would be influenced mainly by its intended function and how it was to be manufactured . |
| 10 | We are looking for state-backed policies to provide funds for those areas of production where potential exists for a swift expansion of exports . |
| 11 | What is perhaps more important for the language learner is that viewing television or film made for a native speaking audience is an authentic experience . |
| 12 | There can be little doubt that Nizan departed for the Soviet Union in January 1934 in a crusading spirit . |
| 13 | And so it was all along the line , from Telnitz in the south , right the way to the Olmütz road , where the plain rose into the foothills of the mountains to the north ; and after he had disappeared into the tumult and light , neither Thiercelin nor Epitot spoke for a long time . |
| 14 | Given the fact that schools selected for a Minor award were being encouraged to develop existing good practice , it is , perhaps , surprising that the formation of a permanent library committee , as in the case of the Major Project , was not made a prerequisite for their participation . |
| 15 | The meeting called for the immediate demobilisation of the contras and urged that funds approved for the Nicaraguan rebels be channelled through a commission they had established earlier . |
| 16 | The Mirror revealed last week that tax-payers paid for a luxury £3,000 bath installed in Diana 's private apartments at Kensington Palace . |
| 17 | A less-technical example would be the problems that comets posed for the ordered and full Aristotelian cosmos of interconnected crystalline spheres . |
| 18 | If the taxes that individuals pay for a local public good were higher as a consequence of higher income , the poor might enjoy a greater quantity of a local public good if they were resident in a high-income area . |
| 19 | There is not , of course , any serious evidence that kin support for the elderly is declining , despite the persistent myth that it is . |
| 20 | Firstly , Baxter could not see how it was possible to avoid Antinomianism if it was accepted that Christ died for the actual sins of His people . |
| 21 | She turned back to Elinor and said in the rather loud , slow , and contrived voice that people use for the deaf , ‘ I 've brought you a surprise , Nell . ’ |
| 22 | It is inevitably a part of the normal grieving process that people search for the dead person in a multitude of ways , but it is very necessary for friends of the bereaved to help them choose carefully . |
| 23 | While the reports that IAK sent for the official files expressed no doubt at all , by Thursday he was complaining that he could hardly get the prisoner to mention politics , let alone discuss them . |
| 24 | This is a penalty that Yugoslavia pays for the large share of its foreign trade which it carries on with countries having inconvertible currencies . |
| 25 | Mostly it is a Monday that slimmers pick for a new health regime , a new diet . |
| 26 | It was reported on Nov. 26 that lawyers acting for the convicted Nazi war criminal , Klaus Barbie , were seeking his release on humanitarian grounds , claiming that he was suffering from cancer [ for Barbie 's 1987 trial see p. 35417 ] . |
| 27 | It was contended that purchasers looking for a good-quality carpet would go to a conventional carpet shop and not to a carpet superstore which they considered was more applicable to the lower end of the market . |
| 28 | It is the very particular choreographic style that MacMillan created for the child-like figure in Requiem that emphasises more strongly than any other of today 's ballets the need for choreographers to explore dance itself . |
| 29 | The result was that ministers called for a radical reform in the OECD countries ' approach to economic activities , " to help ensure that the basic life support systems of Planet Earth are not endangered . " |
| 30 | Although students belong for the entire five years of study to one particular section , much of the teaching is done cross-sectionally . |