Example sentences of "[noun sg] for [verb] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He may start sitting like this in preparation for moving into the supine lying position ( on his back ) or , more rarely , into the prone lying position on his stomach . |
| 2 | Early experience in exploring the environment at home should precede this , and will not only be stimulating as an activity in its own right but a helpful and positive preparation for coping with the wider and more varied situation of school . |
| 3 | In The Form the prose style shows Rolle at his best embodying his sense of " the expanding of love beyond desire " : The first sentence uses the inexpressibility topos — the rhetorical trick for gesturing towards the ineffable . |
| 4 | There is certainly a case for insisting on the democratic control of the EMS , but that means getting more , not less involved in European politics , messy , complex and frustrating as they may be to those who long for simple black-and-white , left-and-right simplicities . |
| 5 | If this transpires to be the case for binding of the intact 140k protein during VZV infection , numerous possible functional implications of such a broad-ranging conformational effect can be envisaged , including modification of the interactions of transcription factors with DNA or with other proteins , or clearing the promoter of non-specific DNA binding proteins . |
| 6 | Bush called for greater funding for housing for the poor and for inner city redevelopment . |
| 7 | Perhaps Rourke was there as an ideas man — certainly he did n't show much enthusiasm for getting into the nitty-gritty of the day-to-day workload . |
| 8 | In December 1857 the new head of the Third Department , V. A. Dolgorukov , revealed an unlikely enthusiasm for cooperating with the liberal intelligentsia when he asked the Slavophile Aleksandr Koshelev to send him his hard-hitting " Memoranda on the Dissolution of the Enserfed Estate in Russia " . |
| 9 | For all index-linked stocks issued prior to January , 1987 , it is necessary therefore to adjust downward their base for indexing by the multiplicative factor of 100/394.5 . |
| 10 | It was during the Autumn term that certain staff had responsibility for contributing towards the self-appraisal report . |
| 11 | Those of us who work with refugees recognise how stretched are the resources of the United Nations , particularly those for the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees , and those who have responsibility for coping with the enormous problems about which the hon. Member for Islington , North ( Mr. Corbyn ) has just spoken . |
| 12 | The new administration was given responsibility for preparing for the forthcoming general election and drafting a new constitution . |
| 13 | On Oct. 5 it was reported that a former Minister of State , Ghulam Akbar Lasi , had been given a one-year prison sentence for overspending during the 1988 election campaign . |
| 14 | But Welsh Local Government Minister Gwilym Jones told the Welsh Tory Conference in Llangollen yesterday : ‘ While we shall be listening very carefully , we see no case at present for departing from the main thrust of our proposals . |
| 15 | If the landlord attempts to take counter measures ( eg by erecting lockable posts in some spaces and issuing keys to some of the tenants and not others ) he may face an action for interfering with the other tenants ' easements . |
| 16 | How competent are the teachers in each setting for dealing with the specific characteristics of the child in question ? |
| 17 | President Roosevelt broadly favoured trusteeship for dealing with the former western colonial territories in South-East Asia occupied by Japan in 1941–42 . |
| 18 | The notion of ‘ topic ’ , though undefined , seems to provide Rochester & Martin with a natural criterion for distinguishing between the connected , yet incoherent , discourse of thought-disordered speakers and the coherent discourse of normal speakers . |
| 19 | These links are vital as this body is the main vehicle for communicating to the maximum number of students at Napier . |
| 20 | Their independence reduced the executive 's capacity for interfering in the legal process . |
| 21 | There will have to be specific help for those in the least favoured areas , and particular help for restructuring in the southern countries of Europe . |
| 22 | Literary theory is at present in demand as a point of reference for writing on the visual arts . |
| 23 | The equipment for funnelling off the carbon-12 takes up two sides of a workshop the size of a church hall . |
| 24 | Gough , the first Scotland captain to be sent off , faces a one-match ban after his automatic dismissal for handling during the disastrous defeat in Berne . |
| 25 | After years in the wilderness , he became head of the newly-established Institute for Forecasting in the mid-80s . |
| 26 | This implies a rejection of any activities undertaken by the mass of the population ( always with the exception of direct revolutionary action ) as a possible basis for learning about the future development of our society . |
| 27 | The social determination of knowledge is supported not as a basis for analysing knowledge or ideology but as a basis for disputing with the positivist tendency in social science in order that an idealist and historicist account of the process of history can be recovered . |
| 28 | As a result , we see this objective and the strategy for moving towards it contained in ‘ Agenda 21 ’ and the EC 's Fifth Action Programme on the Environment , as the basis for assessing of the future role of CCW . |
| 29 | The exercise described in the preceding paragraphs provides a basis for arriving at the funded establishment of nurses for each unit which will enable the recruitment and employment of the labour force . |
| 30 | So , I think you should now have a very clear basis for discriminating between the two sorts of two sorts of toxin . |