Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] for [verb] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There is also a WITHIN command for limiting the search area to within a specified number of words of another specified keyword . |
| 2 | Therefore , the Fair Isle option is not only used for creating the design , it also controls the way in which the machine knits the fabric from the design . |
| 3 | Humans are unique in the living world in that they have evolved a production system within which surpluses are consciously created ; further , these surpluses of food and other products are not necessarily utilised for increasing the population , as would be the case in other species . |
| 4 | Edmund Wyatt — the person wrongly executed for orchestrating the assassination of the T'ang 's minister , Lwo Kang . |
| 5 | Lakatos 's universal criterion for the assessment of theories follows from his principle ‘ the methodology of scientific research programmes is better suited for approximating the truth in our actual universe than any other methodology ’ . |
| 6 | Five times the size of Rutland , Buckinghamshire shows every symptom of several standards of assessment : numerous reductions in the Chiltern hundreds in 1524 reduced aggregate wealth from £97 to £67 per thousand acres , while in Buckingham hundreds it only dropped from £84 to £59 , but throughout the northern half of the shire many of the 1522 assessments were retained substantially unaltered , conceivably because the people concerned deemed it prudent to keep their mouths shut and pay up ; a significant number were actually uprated , perhaps penalised for having the gall to seek abatements , so attracting a further , more searching investigation of their means . |
| 7 | She would not have told him where she was going , but for the life of her she would not have been able to invent a pressing enough reason for leaving the house , least of all with only the shelter of her flimsy summer hat , since an umbrella had not been top of her list of things to pack when she had hurriedly boarded the plane at Heathrow . |
| 8 | I do not apologise for raising the matter on more than one occasion in interventions and again in my own speech . |
| 9 | The TV crews are today scheduled to move into the town more famous for fish than football , and begin the invasion of a club arguably best known for achieving the record Scottish Cup result , the 36-0 defeat of Bon Accord in 1885 . |
| 10 | But Arudy has little to be said for it ; it is a small , mildly industrial town , best known for marking the spot where the glacier that once ground its way down the Ossau valley built a wall of debris , so causing the present-day Gave to make an abrupt swerve to westward . |
| 11 | ‘ I 've already apologized for withholding the information , Chief Inspector , ’ said Charlotte edgily . |
| 12 | I found your motherboard upgrade article most interesting as I have been thinking of upgrading my XT , but I had not bargained for changing the keyboard as I have a 102 key board ( no XT/AT switch ) . |
| 13 | The method already described for measuring the curvature of the sphere generalizes so that for any other two-dimensional surface the curvature is given by |
| 14 | There he invented the ‘ Dall tube ’ , a device still widely used for measuring the flow of water from reservoirs and in water mains . |
| 15 | If you are using one or more ‘ editing decks ’ , that is VCRs which have features which are specially provided for facilitating the editing of video , you will be able to assemble your tapes quickly and reasonably accurately with one of the more basic edit controllers — or even none at all . |
| 16 | Still , it is not that he wants biologists to give them more credit for maintaining the planet . |
| 17 | But it makes the strongest case I have ever read for reassessing the role of the post-war welfare state in the cultural field , and will force even those who are not convinced by his arguments to sharpen up their own . |
| 18 | They were also used for timing the length of sailors ’ watches . |
| 19 | Influence with senior officers and ministers was also employed for arranging the attendance or absence of military freeholders or councillors . |
| 20 | Nevertheless , he maintained his position and took an increasingly hard line with the protesters , imprisoning for contempt those who were repeatedly arrested for violating the injunction . |
| 21 | I also take for granted the fact that the water is normally heated , and that there is a mikva which is easily accessible from my home . |
| 22 | I will not dwell much longer on conformal mapping ( this is incidentally the term most often used for describing the method ) but will give a few more examples . |
| 23 | Signet and secretary could be used for sending relatively informal letters to the King 's subjects or for activating other parts of the executive machine : the Signet Office was the instrument most often used for disseminating the King 's personal commands . |
| 24 | In addition , it was noted that people in communities that have experienced long-term unemployment are often criticised for lacking the will to work . |
| 25 | All those at the college concerned in its production are to be heartily congratulated for giving the town a very impressive civic magazine of a very high standard which for once is good value for the public money spent on it . |
| 26 | All those at the college concerned in its production are to be heartily congratulated for giving the town a very impressive civic magazine of a very high standard which for once is good value for the public money spent on it . |
| 27 | It is well situated for touring the centre of Scotland . |
| 28 | They were well placed for taking the offensive , being 200 miles behind the enemy front line and 150 miles south of the coastal plain . |
| 29 | Kirchberg is extremely well positioned for exploring the Tyrol , yet it remains unspoilt and reasonable priced . |
| 30 | " My friends were saying , " Well done for making the cut " , while I myself saw the next two rounds as some form of punishment . |