Example sentences of "[prep] [verb] [noun sg] for the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ It 's the best day of my life , ’ said Capriati after defeating Graf for the first time . |
| 2 | Twenty-three years after becoming premier for the first time , he shows every indication of wanting to lead the Liberals against the Parti Québécois in another election . |
| 3 | He was entirely serious , and had adopted a portentous tone suitable for expressing admiration for the Greatest Living Englishman . |
| 4 | Naturally , apart from the accusation of hypocrisy and of letting Britain solve its marriage problems , the government ends up being accused of allowing divorce for the wealthy and none for the poor , as the cost of going to and staying in Britain and paying for the legal procedures is beyond the pockets of the majority . |
| 5 | The prospect of his receiving deputations as Prime Minister from the Miners ' Federation or the Triple Alliance , for example , is capable of causing alarm for the future relations between the Government and Labour — between moderate and less moderate opinion . |
| 6 | In practical terms this meant that a court should not lightly disregard foreign blocking statutes or ‘ defensive laws ’ ; that perceived national interests should be carefully defined and weighed , so that some delay might well be accepted in the interest of promoting respect for the sovereign equality of States under international law ; and that evidence of the willingness of the foreign state to assist United States courts ( e.g. by a civil law country enacting legislation to enable cross-examination to take place ) should be taken into account . |
| 7 | Special circumstances are required to justify the er proposing the new settlement through the local plan structure planning process , and I believe that is exactly what has occurred over the last five years , and if I could just quickly run through paragraph thirty three of P P G three , and the your invitation for us to comment on the criteria set out there , first of all the first element , the ex the alternative must be erm seen to be a less satisfactory method of providing land for the new housing that is needed , that is the essence of what has occurred in the process which the County Council has undertaken over the last couple of years , all of the policy options available have been examined in great detail , have been subject to public consultation , public participation , d I believe clear view was that there were erm constraints operating on York which meant that not all of that additional development accommodated in the adjacent to the existing er York city villages surrounding York . |
| 8 | Secondly , and this was most important in terms of associating adolescents with the community , many of the ideas and precepts embodied in citizenship , such as duty , service , neighbourliness , social stability , self-realization , and contentment with one 's societal position , were politically convenient to reformers who stressed the significance of providing instruction for the moral development of young people . |
| 9 | They generally co-operated with the administration to the extent of providing money for the latest schemes ; participation , of course , was another matter . |
| 10 | As promised by Palmerston during the previous session , a Select Committee was set up by the House of Commons on 28th April , 1856 to consider ‘ the best means of providing Accommodation for the various Public Departments in the Neighbourhood of Downing Street ’ . |
| 11 | At Bassingbourn the job of providing aircrew for the depleted number of operational squadrons continued but with an increased emphasis on the low level role-training which had been introduced in late 1960 . |
| 12 | CRITICAL eyes will be focusing on Arazi at Saint-Cloud today when the French-trained colt will be out to prove he is still worthy of holding favouritism for the premier Classics on both sides of the Atlantic . |
| 13 | The Laws of Manu , an ancient law book of the Hindu way of life , which discusses the customs , conventions and laws , that should operate at each stage of life and govern the relation of the different orders with one another , regards the four āśramas as the best means of attaining co-operation For the common good . |
| 14 | Jacques Attali , president of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development ( EBRD ) , visited Tallinn on Sept. 24 , when he announced that the EBRD was " in the process of finalizing membership for the Baltic states " . |
| 15 | If there is no way of implementing justice for the largest and worst offending corporations then it is surely unjust to pursue with such ruthless and cruel tenacity the majority of those eventually condemned to prison . |
| 16 | That was the best way of controlling Gesner for the two remaining acts — through the orchestra . |
| 17 | There are three pierced brass hinges of graduating length for the main lid , similar to those on the Tabel , with matching smaller hinges at both of the lid flap openings . |
| 18 | We will turn later to the question of finding work for the unemployed able-bodied . |
| 19 | The 84-year-old Oscar-winner has been fighting a losing battle against failing sight for the past year . |
| 20 | Among those he approached to help with finding accommodation for the orthodox children he was bringing from Germany and Austria was Mrs Annie Wolfson . |
| 21 | The third term reforms to local government , the ‘ inner-city ’ policies , were much less about doing good for the poor and arresting decline and decay than about undermining Labour 's power bases . |
| 22 | ‘ I think they would both probably only tell me after the event about having sex for the first time but as long as I have helped prepare them they wo n't do anything silly . |
| 23 | However , despite a varied programme there has been great difficulty in gathering support for the other functions and indeed the last one had to be cancelled . |
| 24 | The Ayrshire MPs were in Prestwick before returning south for the new parliamentary session which began this afternoon . |
| 25 | In establishing funding for the National Endowment for the Arts , the Senate on Sept. 30 , 1989 , approved an amendment prohibiting the use of federal funds " to promote , disseminate , or produce obscene materials " . |
| 26 | Kraemer and Roberts ( 1984 ) ( see also Kraemer and Ossenkopp 1986 ; Kraemer , Hoggman , and Spear 1988 ) have invoked results from a rather different experimental procedure in seeking support for the retrieval-failure account of latent inhibition . |
| 27 | ‘ We want to make sure that too many laws do n't come about discouraging people from expressing admiration for the female form , ’ he said . |
| 28 | I offer my sincere thanks to my right hon. Friend for the crucial personal role that he played in securing compensation for the three injured Grenadiers . |
| 29 | I do not expect any difficulty in getting approval for the larger sum , and can do that at the same time as tenders are to hand for acceptance , but it will remain important to contain the total project cost as far as possible . |
| 30 | After annexation Korea was seen as crucial in providing support for the Japanese economy and four times as much long-term capital was invested in Korea than in Taiwan . |