Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] [to-vb] for the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One of the first top riders to sign for the 1993 British League season , Rickardsson has no sympathy with riders who are refusing to sign this year because of the promoters ' strict pay policy . |
| 2 | Utilities were among the more buoyant sectors , helped by the search by pensions funds for higher-income investments to compensate for the five-point drop in their investment returns as a result of the Budget changes . |
| 3 | It was possible to pay the skischool extra so that after school in the morning she would be taken to lunch in a local restaurant under supervision , then brought back to skischool in the afternoon , but for a 4-year old learning to ski for the first time to stay in skiboots all day is really very tiring . |
| 4 | It was designed by the old masters to allow for the aesthetic development of the practitioner . |
| 5 | The Secretary of State may try to dodge the issue but tonight he is asking us to allow him and British Coal to pay for the top-of-the-range redundancy levels which the interim report from Rothschild urges as a necessary prerequisite for privatisation — |
| 6 | During their time off , there was an exciting world to explore for the adventurous . |
| 7 | Now Ingrams has found a new hobby in his retirement , the Oldie , a publication with extra-large print to cater for the antiquated myope . |
| 8 | In fact , at one stage in this study our thoughts ran on catastrophes of a biblical kind and we pictured half-seriously a universal conflagration to account for the black band . |
| 9 | Moreover the tendency during the present century has been to create broadly defined criminal offences ( such as theft ) , with a sufficiently generous maximum to cater for the worst contingency . |
| 10 | He will now begin the physically and mentally painful process of taking male hormones to establish for the first time his masculinity . |
| 11 | May I ask the Secretary of State specifically about the extra resources to compensate for the running down of Holy Loch ? |
| 12 | A town filled with disgruntled men-at-arms , more than ready to pick an easy quarrel to pay for the hard one they had lost , was no place for a fugitive Franciscan friar escaped from the Leicester convent , and suspect of treason along with several others of his house , some already executed . |
| 13 | Especially since there 's no electric cable to cut for the fifty-fourth time , he added , with a big wink so she 'd know he was joking . |
| 14 | ‘ You 're right , Dane , ’ she said tenderly , allowing her unguarded heart to speak for the first time . |
| 15 | Even the formulation of a dualistic class division , Laclau and Mouffe have argued persuasively , is itself nothing less than a nostalgic attempt to recreate for the nineteenth century the imagined simplicity of the conditions of the aristocracy/bourgeoisie conflict of the French Revolution which had originally inspired Hegel . |
| 16 | One standard way of establishing the degree of discrimination in employment is to arrange for equally qualified black and white workers to apply for the same job . |
| 17 | Tools are expensive , but it is often a false economy to go for the cheapest . |
| 18 | If we are not going to appeal to the anthropic principle , we need some unifying theory to account for the initial conditions of the universe and the values of the various physical parameters . |
| 19 | Few or no other routes were available and so it was a most logical decision to opt for the sporting escape . |
| 20 | Despite frequent pauses to listen for the doleful cries of lost sheep , the roaring wind was so loud that George was deafened to any other sounds . |
| 21 | It arranged for groups of identically qualified white and black applicants to apply for the same jobs in Chicago . |
| 22 | ‘ We have no viable theory to account for the supposed phenomena and no technology at all , ’ Dr Blackmore stressed . |
| 23 | Even Albert Piggott had a good word to say for the dying man , as he drank his half-pint of bitter at The Two Pheasants . |
| 24 | ( Nobody could find a good word to say for the secondary moderns , and that silence was eloquent and effective . ) |
| 25 | As a cautious start , British Telecom is a good choice to buy for the long term . |
| 26 | Size was not a great problem , according to Cinefex 27 ( 1986 ) , but very lightweight foam pieces had to be attached to black leotards to substitute for the original heavy suit . |
| 27 | That is the orderly and sensible way to proceed , which is why we are pressing and encouraging others to press for the earliest possible membership of the former Soviet republics in the IMF . |
| 28 | His return to Middlesbrough as cover for Stephen Pears will leave Scarborough manager Ray McHale with a key position to fill for the final five matches . |
| 29 | Yon Yonson married her in an evident attempt to qualify for the Irish dole . |
| 30 | And it will provide medical equipment to care for the 120 children there . |