Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] for the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 Royal Aberdeen Golf Club had a more original way of observing its 200 years existence with a Royal Aberdeen Bicentenary Whisky blended for the special birthday occasion .
2 Suppose , father being impoverished and son having come into money , the father had required the creditor to sue for the whole sum ?
3 When the first contestant to go for the top prize , Marine Captain Richard MacCutchin who , oddly , specialized in haute cuisine , pulled it off by describing the ingredients of a royal banquet given by George VI to the president of France , three-quarters of American television sets were tuned in to watch him wrestle for the answers .
4 Others realized that it was only a matter of patience to wait for the guaranteed escape which would be provided by the end of the war , and as the war dragged on more and more people became converted to this view .
5 Quite what the taxpayer got for the extra money is not readily apparent .
6 The EC has also contributed to the restoration of the MountAthos monastery , to the reconstruction of the Chiado area in Lisbon , destroyed by the 1988 fire , and to the renovation of a building of the Coimbra University intended for the European College .
7 Equally depression of prostaglandin synthesis , by diminishing pain perception , could at least in part account for the high proportion of NSAID associated ulcers that are silent .
8 One has transferred to the communications department and all were offered the opportunity to work for the new contract firm .
9 If , as these authors postulate , the tumour exerts some type of inhibitory effect on the proliferation of the cells surrounding it , it is possible that the lower labelling index reported for the rectal segment is at least party related to a wider — that is , extending beyond a 5 cm radius — zone of inhibition produced by rectal tumours with respect to those arising in other colonic segments .
10 It has been argued that human wealth is so illiquid that the greater is this h ratio , the greater will be the demand for money to compensate for the limited marketability of human wealth .
11 But when they cast off Penry seemed reassuringly unconcerned , and sang under his breath as the Angharad headed for the turbulent stretch of sea separating Gullholm from the coast .
12 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 .
13 ‘ I spoke to the people next door at number 26 and they get mail intended for the other number 26 , ’ he said .
14 ( Three separate negotiating teams were sent to each country tendering offers for the Urengoi gas pipeline , as a result of which the FRG , much to her surprise , found herself underbid at the end of the day . )
15 An example of the pessimistic view is the study undertaken for the French Government by two of their senior civil servants ( Nora and Minc 1980 ) .
16 ‘ What we have to do is develop the investment research capability designed for the private client .
17 The patient may try to use his ‘ good ’ side to compensate for the affected side of his body which he can not move at will .
18 I 've got a piece to write for the Overseas Service .
19 Utilisation measured by admission rates at the small area level was used as the measure of need , with an attempt to adjust for the current level of supply of health care facilities .
20 If no action lies for the actual object , none the less the doctrine of tracing allows the money or property received by the trustee on sale of the object under trust to be pursued , and for it to be regarded as subject to the trust in place of the original property intended .
21 In his recent study of the links between power and crime , Box states that corporate crime is crime committed for the corporate organisation and not against it ( Box , 1983 ) .
22 The design of the breakwater was based on the recommendations of an engineering study prepared for the Regional Council by Sir William Halcrow and Partners , which include a computerised hydrodynamic model .
23 The only exception to this rule occurs for the combined transition of the steps T3pG4 and C9pA10 where changes are also seen to occur in the centre of the dodecamer .
24 Italian maritime aircraft were soon out in force searching for the British Fleet , but not until after midday was it at last spotted .
25 Since Croatia became an independent state in June 1991 , Raymond Harding , the New York lawyer acting for the Yugoslav government , has become the lawyer for the Croatian government .
26 Rory smiled , looked once more at Lewis 's retreating back , then started down the far side of the dune heading for the narrow road .
27 On the same day that it announced its intention to apply for the judicial review , Greenpeace members attempted to block the company 's discharge pipes , provoking an injunction banning them from trespassing further on the company 's property .
28 Hobson 's Imperialism is important in our context not because of its impact on the development of Marxist theories of ‘ the last stage of capitalism ’ , but as an attempt to restate for the new century the fundamental principles of Cobdenite free trade .
29 If there were no possibility of obtaining the pipework needed for the above solution , the line h-f indicates the catastrophic failure in the general meaning of the word as well as that of Thom .
30 Furthermore , many of these students " have not the degree of human sensibility needed for the complete assimilation of a poem …
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