Example sentences of "[is] [verb] for [adj] [noun sg] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | An example would be when an extra record is added for each project in a company every day . |
| 2 | The in-head sound from headphones is easily explained by the fact that almost all the programme material recorded or broadcast is designed for two-loud-speaker reproduction in which both ears receive the sounds from both loudspeakers . |
| 3 | But with the messenger business increasingly beset by price wars , market saturation , soaring development costs and flagging margins , Mr Gates is looking for fresh profit in producing and selling the message itself . |
| 4 | Yet when all allowance is made for this bias in the evidence , one can not help being struck by the conspicuous part in our story which was played by the Empress Theophanu , the Empress Agnes , the Countess Matilda , St Margaret , the Empress Matilda , Queen Eleanor — great ladies who rose above the limitations of their sex , as commonly understood , as rulers , as saints or as viragos ; and the twelfth century would have been greatly the poorer without the life and work of the English Christina , the Hertfordshire anchoress , or of the French Heloise , the Stoic of the Paraclete , or of the German Hildegarde , the mystic of Bingen . |
| 5 | Provision is made for this possibility in a system that has some affinity with the STV , namely the exhaustive ballot . |
| 6 | Where no allowance is made for this depreciation in the calculation of investment , the resulting figure is called gross investment . |
| 7 | According to Swedenborg every soul is destined for eternal happiness in heaven unless individual freedom in life has been used to pursue the wrong types of love — love of the material world and love of the self instead of love of the neighbour and love of performing what he termed ‘ uses ’ ( useful acts ) . |
| 8 | NICKY MASON , ranked No.5 , showed during England 's outstanding 5-1 victory over the Soviet Union at Worthing on Thursday night that he is pushing for regular inclusion in the England team . |
| 9 | West Yorkshire , having presided over a massive expansion of rail traffic in recent years , is pushing for more electrification in the wake of the successful completion of InterCity 's electrification to Leeds . |
| 10 | The case demonstrates the difficulties which the policy of parental choice in education is presenting for multicultural education in state schools . |
| 11 | ( An average cost for this is shown for each hotel in the brochure . ) |
| 12 | ’ My reconnaissance visit is scheduled for some time in January . ’ |
| 13 | A charity is calling for tougher action in the fight against solvent abuse . |
| 14 | Now he 's sueing the Ford motor company in America and is calling for improved safety in all vehicles . |
| 15 | This is to increase the personal tax exemption ( the amount by which taxable income is reduced for each person in a household ) . |
| 16 | This is explored further in Chapter 7 , but we might note in passing here that the extent to which these contextual co-ordinates are encoded within grammar varies across languages : what is semantically signalled by grammatical means in one language is left for pragmatic inference in another . |
| 17 | Meanwhile the cider maker is preparing for future growth in demand … it 's just finished planting a million young apple trees . |
| 18 | ‘ If there is to be talk of a pool of ability , it must be a pool which surpasses the widow 's cruse in the Old Testament , in that when more is taken for higher education in one generation more will tend to be available in the next . ’ |
| 19 | Cloke ( 1977b , p. 19 ) provides probably the most useful definition : ‘ the key settlement itself is planned for comprehensive growth in terms of housing , services and often employment … ’ , while ‘ the key settlement policy incorporated an overview of the settlement pattern as a whole and lays special emphasis on the relationship between the key settlement and other settlements served by it … ’ . |
| 20 | A demonstration is planned for next month in Glasgow to rally public support for the Albion workforce . |
| 21 | Meyer has her sights on McColgan again Harry Pincott meets Elana Meyer , who is hoping for more success in the World Cross-Country Championships |
| 22 | Having sailed past Digital Equipment Corp in terms of total turnover with embarrassing ease , Hewlett-Packard Co is poised for more success in 1993 . |