Example sentences of "[prep] [adj] for [pron] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | A summary of export mission achievements is shown on page 10 of this Report and I take this opportunity to thank all those who have led Scottish Council missions during 1989/90 for their excellent support . |
2 | We therefore have cleaner technology as a main aim , and we see growing recognition by industry of the value of this for its economic well-being and international competitiveness . |
3 | In the meantime I 'll arrange for our dietician to see you and we 'll keep a note of this for our own records , but if you 're at all worried , do come and see either myself or Dr Grant at any time . |
4 | Marks out of ten for her new look ? |
5 | Dansk Data Electronik A/S , Herlev , Denmark , is claiming a world record SPECrate — int92 performance of 8,383 for its eight-way Mips R4000-based Supermax Multiserver system . |
6 | Hill-Smith is South Australia is known above all for its white wines . |
7 | Jadeite artefacts were prized above all for their symbolic roles . |
8 | On 7 August the Cabinet accepted Ede 's conclusions that an amendment providing for the abolition of capital punishment could not be ruled out of order on the grounds that it did not come within the scope of the Bill , and that it would be impossible to grade murders into those for which capital punishment would be retained and those for which it would be abolished . |
9 | In addition , we also announced a general SVQ at level I and awards to facilitate access to the SVQ/general SVQ frameworks for those for whom mainstream training is not appropriate , including those with special needs . |
10 | ‘ If the Certificate of Primary Education tested material which was firmly within the grasp of primary school teachers : if it tested the ability to re–son and understand relationships of cause and effect ; and , if , above all , it tested relevant and practical knowledge , it would be at the same time both a more efficient and equitable instrument for selecting secondary school entrants and also a more useful preparation for those for whom primary education is terminal . |
11 | For that reason it went in early for its second service — and not before time because it was starting to run roughly . |
12 | 103 of these were canonized by Pope John Paul when he visited Korea in 1984 for its 200th Anniversary celebrations . |
13 | At the time no one denounced it more fiercely than Ayatollah Khomeini , whom the Shah had exiled in 1964 for his fierce opposition tot he Pahlavi regime . |
14 | The last of the 22 people detained in 1987 for their alleged involvement in a " Marxist conspiracy " to overthrow the Singapore government [ see p. 35462 ] were conditionally released in June . |
15 | At the same time , he was much too committed to them by years in common for their limp urbanity to strike him as funny in world-changers . |
16 | Amis 's Stanley and the Women drew blood , for a time , from feminist opinion , and is said to have been blocked for a period from entry into the United States ; and Salman Rushdie 's Satanic Verses ( 1988 ) forced its author , a Muslim-born Indian , into hiding in 1989 for its alleged blasphemy against the Prophet . |
17 | The British had never envisaged such a rapid build-up to this situation : India 's constitution was not finalised until 1950 , while Pakistan had to wait until 1956 for its soon-overthrown constitution ! |
18 | She is prolific , having been awarded the Mary Vaughan Jones Prize in 1988 for her particular contribution to the field of children 's books over a number of years . |
19 | There 'd been a repeat of the sensational reports about Waite — he 'd died of a heart attack in an Iranian prison camp and his body returned to Beirut , or the island of Cyprus was on alert for his imminent release — and a three-day series on all the hostages in the Independent , but there was still no questioning of government policy nor a proper analysis of what was really happening . |
20 | Third , detailed consideration was required of the reasons which had prompted the Cambridge Board to consider seeking providing powers for courses of a lower academic standard than those traditionally offered by universities in counties beyond those for which exceptional agreements existed . |
21 | To beautiful for her own good . |
22 | During the consultation process , we discovered considerable support for a general SVQ at level I. There is also a clear demand for awards at a preliminary level which will open up the SVQ and general SVQ frameworks to those for whom mainstream training is not appropriate , including those with special needs . |
23 | But to those for whom such patterns are becoming real , and for whom some rational explanation of the shift is required , then it can fairly be argued that the spreading ethic of Confucianism — exported in the last hundred years or so to every nation on and within the Pacific coastline by the tens of millions of overseas Chinese who have acted as its accidental evangelists — is crucial . |
24 | On his appointment in Scotland he formed part of a group of geologists who , in the period before World War I , were internationally without parallel for their original insights into metamorphic and igneous rocks and the intricate problems of structural geology . |
25 | The rationale of this is that broadly speaking the net income was spent as to one-third for the benefit of each and as to one-third for their joint benefit . |
26 | In Britain it flourished especially among those for whom orthodox religion had become untenable , providing a promise of immortality apparently much firmer than argument such as that of Stewart and Tait , or of the Bible . |
27 | Quoting Godard — ‘ fin du cinéma , fin du monde ’ — she joins with Robert Coover in describing the modern cinema as ‘ a rat-haunted , urine-scented wreck , inhabited only by a lonely projectionist screening reels at random for his solitary pleasure ’ . |
28 | The phenomenon of " automatism " as set forth by Haran involves the use of one element of a word-pair solely for balance between the lines , and not at all for its semantic significance An example that is adduced is Prov 24.30 : |
29 | Although this sounds silly , it happens quite often that contestants act with no regard at all for their own safety . |
30 | not bad at all for somebody that age . |