Example sentences of "[conj] [noun sg] [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 | The absolute right of an editor or journalist to opt for a personal hearing before a complaints committee would be removed . |
| 3 | The absolute right of an editor or journalist to opt for a personal hearing should be removed . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | We are looking for state-backed policies to provide funds for those areas of production where potential exists for a swift expansion of exports . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | There would then be no minority interest figure in the profit and loss account for the current year , since the minority interest will also have been a debit balance last year end . |
| 10 | But you would lack all the vitamins , minerals and protein needed for a healthy diet . |
| 11 | I 've seen comparable cost per port and maintenance costs for an equivalent C++ application in spite of the theoretical portability benefits of C++ . |
| 12 | The monks of Battle usually ate the poorest meat from their own estates ; the best was sold to pay the recurrent costs of the abbey buildings and staff , and to run the hospital and almonry maintained for the local poor . |
| 13 | The Faverolles factory responded to this challenge and continued to break production records , while played their part with large increases in muesli , crunchy and pillow tonnages for the continental market . |
| 14 | Residential institutions lost favour and became associated with , if not blamed for , the lack of professional vision and determination to plan for the long term future of children . |
| 15 | Chatterton is represented in the novel as an accidental suicide — slain by a cocktail of arsenic and laudanum swallowed for a venereal infection . |
| 16 | Titanic pay increases and tax cuts for the wealthy and prosperous are of material benefit to the poor . |
| 17 | Dexy 's songs were a series of manifestos and clarion calls for a new , pure music , always about to be born . |
| 18 | Such equipment must be capable of automatic function in the very critical period between the outbreak of fire and the arrival of the fire brigade and in the extreme case under discussion should consist of a zoned in-rack sprinkler system and a zoned system of roof ventilation , both operating on sensitive detection devices and tailor made for the individual risk they protect . |
| 19 | Hungary drops the ‘ workers ’ : Imre Karacs in Budapest looks at what a change of name and newspaper means for the Hungarian Socialist Workers Party |
| 20 | In May 1972 the Minister of State for Information , Broadcasting and Tourism called for a complete ‘ rethink ’ about the role of television in the country . |
| 21 | A great deal could be done , even in the present climate of opinion , and example counts for a great deal . |
| 22 | Disenfranchisement would mean upheavals for staff , start-up costs and teething troubles for the new contractor , and a danger that the service would indeed turn out to be demonstrably less popular than the old contractor 's or different from what was promised . |
| 23 | The European Council of heads of state and government met for a special summit in Rome on Oct. 27-28 . |
| 24 | The American commanders are far more gung-ho than the politicians in Washington , and pressure mounts for an all-out attack on the enemy , including massive air strikes . |
| 25 | Other recommendations : more status for vocational qualifications , and training credits for every 16-year-old school-leaver . |
| 26 | ‘ We discussed a range of topics including the under-usage of Teesside Airport , British Rail , traffic problems in Richmond and bus passes for the elderly . |
| 27 | ‘ Our Charter for alcohol and health calls for a rational system of taxation with drinks taxed according to their alcoholic strength ’ |
| 28 | A complete set of the books published in 1982 on various aspects of nuclear weapons would probably provide adequate building material and radiation shielding for a sizeable fallout shelter . |
| 29 | But the depth of respect and affection felt for the late leader of the Islamic revolution does not extend to his successors , who have broken into two loose camps of so-called ‘ radicals ’ and ‘ pragmatists ’ . |
| 30 | Coal and Power called for an integrated and rationalized scheme for power , a follow up to the Liberal Manifesto of 1923 which suggested that coal and power supplies should be placed under the control of a public board presided over by a minister . |