Example sentences of "[vb -s] for the [adj] [noun] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | Again he said , in an argument strangely reminiscent of Erastus , Richard Hooker and Matthew Arnold , that ‘ the State is more sacred than any Church … for the State stands for the whole people in their manifold collective life ; and any Church is but a fragment of that life , though one of the most important fragments ’ . |
| 2 | She 's quick , determined , and looks for the good things in life . |
| 3 | This is the name given to integrated computer hardware and software which allows for the easy production in the office of complex and elaborate documents and reports . |
| 4 | The working party meets for the first time in July when it will define the terms of reference of the study . |
| 5 | He says for the first time in his life , he 's known what life must have been like for the old masters . |
| 6 | Conversely , it is also important to realise that if diarrhoea starts again or even occurs for the first time in a patient treated by gluten restriction , the patient should be investigated for colonic disorders , since the answer may not simply or necessarily rest with dietary lapses , an unresponsiveness phase , or lymphoma . |
| 7 | When a vacancy occurs for the top post in a department , the tradition is for the vacancy to be discussed by the head of the civil service with the secretary of state . |
| 8 | The evidence for this assumption seems in the end to be the fact that Taskopruzade uses for the first time in relation to Molla Fenari a distinctly official-sounding title which appears to encompass the entire Ottoman state , namely ; but it must be reiterated that there is no evidence in Taskopruzade 's account to suggest that this appointment occurred in the time of Murad II rather than earlier , perhaps in the time of Mehmed I or even of Bayezid I. |
| 9 | Stipe sings for the main part in the first person , though it 's unclear if he 's taking on a character or being genuinely autobiographical for the most part . |
| 10 | This appeal with leave of the judge , from a judgment of Morland J. given on 15 March 1991 , raises for the first time in the Court of Appeal the question whether a local authority which is a body corporate can sue for libel under the law of England and Wales . |
| 11 | Like the hon. Member for Livingston ( Mr. Cook ) , the hon. Lady leads for the Labour party in a weak suit . |
| 12 | Courageous Carina Hamlet prepares for the latest operation in 10 years of surgery , comforted by her mother Margaret Picture : TEGWYN ROBERTS |
| 13 | It includes for the first time in one volume additional indexes for porcelain painters , enamellers and silhouettists , incorporating the work of artists up to the present day . |
| 14 | This week The Economist appears for the first time in its own new type-face — known as Ecotype . |
| 15 | Catholicism is presented as a potential remedy , but the philosophy of indeterminacy appears for the first time in this novel as a rival discourse . |
| 16 | This accounts for the high turnover in membership … the recruit having seen emphasis laid on military activity is not prepared for the political activity which must come before it . |
| 17 | On the other hand it is possible thatsuch a diagnostic suspicion bias accounts for the modest increase in risk among current users but not former users of the pill , although previous work has suggested that this pattern of risk may be due to an accelerating effect of the pill . |
| 18 | Every few metres along the Plzeň Road , is another cherry tree , which partly compensates for the immediate deterioration in the quality of the road surface . |
| 19 | JOHN MELLENCAMP had to cancel tour dates for the second time in a month when bass player Toby Meyers was injured in a boating accident in Saratoga , New York . |
| 20 | A new link building , already in use , relieves for the first time in years the problems of the Printed Books Department . |
| 21 | The central issue is whether or not a Third World bourgeoisie can become hegemonic in its own realm and drive towards ‘ real ’ development ( as Becker asserts for Peru 's ‘ New Bourgeoisie ’ ) or whether the only realistic option for Third World bourgeoisies , under the present system of global capitalist hegemony , is to throw their lot in with the TNCs , as Evans argues for the triple alliance in Brazil . |
| 22 | Centre Don Caskie returns for the first time in a month after suffering concussion in Gloucester 's defeat at Bath . |
| 23 | The answer must be prefaced by a reminder that the WGMS relies only partially on the use of party lists : it provides for the direct election in constituencies of half the MdBs . |