Example sentences of "[prep] [verb] for the [adj] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Our idea — which would involve wheeling a building large enough to cover London 's Tower Bridge over the damaged reactor — gained us a $ prize and , more importantly , an automatic place on the short list for bidding for the 3 million ECU feasibility contract . |
| 2 | An elderly man living alone , for example , was 5.74 times more likely to have had a home-help visit during the previous month than an elderly couple , after allowing for the different average disability levels of the two types of household . |
| 3 | Rainey , seeking his fourth straight world title , slid off the Santamonica circuit after leading for the first third of a race run in dry , sunny conditions . |
| 4 | Earlier in the day Joey finished second to brother Robert in the Shell 125cc race after leading for the first three laps . |
| 5 | In tackling the serious problem of rural poverty , the Kenyan Government has advocated a Basic Needs approach to development and the research focuses on the ability of the schemes to improve standards of living for the rural poor . |
| 6 | As a result of the introduction of machines and the growth of markets , relatively unrestricted by government , the standard of living for the average British person — judged in terms of food , clothing , shelter , health , life expectancy , infant mortality , education and material possessions — increased on an unprecedented scale over these years . |
| 7 | The profit-seeking firm faces the difficult task of searching for the appropriate profit-maximising output and profit margin . |
| 8 | And the only thing is that finally after three months of waiting for the received all their medals and things for so it can go ahead . |
| 9 | The difficulty of accounting for the historical demographic transition by conventional economic measures ( Cleland and Wilson 1987 ) , and the fall of fertility even in some Third World countries with little economic progress today ( Cleland 1985 ) , has revived interest in non-material motivations for childbearing . |
| 10 | In July 1936 he gathered in his palace at Bishopthorpe a select team of ten for the purpose of preparing for the coming ecumenical conference . |
| 11 | The rhetoric of Idealism , as proclaimed by , for example , Sadler , Urwick , and Haldane , gave intellectual credence to their views on the importance of educating for the new democratic age , as they perceived it , especially after 1918 . |
| 12 | Some people may feel that Rawls ' original position is already a description of a process of compromise , of settling for the second best . |
| 13 | Wirral Association for Disability starts the scheme to take the strain out of shopping for the disabled next March . |
| 14 | This brought a swift end to the Marquis 's exploits and he and La Tour had to go into hiding for the next few years . |
| 15 | These meetings are Making the most of the seventy fifth in shops , Involving young people in singing for the seventy fifth , Branches sharing fund raising ideas for the seventy fifth and Small World Theatre extracts from Moving , a play on the theme of refugees . |
| 16 | He made the cut by three strokes , and in qualifying for the final two rounds he has already guaranteed himself a place on next season 's growing satellite tour , Europe 's golfing second division . |
| 17 | He made the cut by three strokes , and in qualifying for the final two rounds he has already guaranteed himself a place on next season 's growing satellite tour , Europe 's golfing second division . |
| 18 | Chair , if I can , if I can speak to it from a financial point of view , this is the scheme where we have been successful in bidding for the European Rural Development Fund grants . |
| 19 | The most feverish area of research in snowboarding for the past few years has been the quest for an improved binding system — in particular a releasable binding that works . |
| 20 | On Nov. 13 Clinton unveiled a new ethics code for those in his transition team which prohibited members from lobbying for the first six months of the new administration . |
| 21 | There was no point in staying for the next three days ; her physical progress was excellent , and the proximity of these midwives and mothers and babies was having a most unfortunate effect on her . |
| 22 | In voting for the 56 Greek-Cypriot delegates to the House of Representatives ( the nominal allocation of 24 seats to Turkish-Cypriots continued unfilled ) , the conservative Democratic Rally ( DISY ) finished first with 35.8 per cent of the vote and 20 seats ( one more than in the previous assembly ) . |
| 23 | The same explanation is called upon to account for the single small diamond and lonsdaleite-heating iron meteorite found in the Allan Hills area . |
| 24 | Catch crops are usually sown in late summer or early autumn immediately after harvest , for grazing in early winter and again in the spring before ploughing for the next main crop . |
| 25 | Secondly for your efforts in putting for the recent joint Delegates Conference on the out-sourcing and that 's a company 's way and not mine . |
| 26 | Those respondents calling for a drastic limitation of the professions ' liability and/or the abolition of the Compensation Fund altogether , often voiced the angry conviction that the transition from profession to trade — with the accompanying loss of status for the services of solicitors which that implied — had accelerated in recent years to the point at which the profession could no longer be called upon to pay for the dubious moral privilege of an ‘ anachronistic ’ system of compensation . |
| 27 | The much smaller amount of work on older women represents them as in mourning for the same psychological characteristics . |
| 28 | Yet in planning for the new financial year , which starts in April , the Japanese government has forecast an economic growth rate of 3.3 per cent . |
| 29 | Specialisation could be in terms of industry , for instance , financial services ; experience in a particular area of banking ; in high technology ; in consumer products ; in working for the international general consultancies ; or in working in chemicals , engineering or pharmaceuticals . |
| 30 | Neither the programme of resettlement in Siberia , nor peasant purchases of noble land came close to compensating for the continued steep rise in the rural population in these regions . |