Example sentences of "[adj] [prep] [noun] [to-vb] for the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Pacepa says that Ceauşescu was afraid of poisoning after the CIA 's attempt to murder Fidel Castro by impregnating his clothes with potions to make his beard fall out , and so he ordered the Securitate department which provided all his personal needs free of charge to arrange for the manufacture of a new set of clothes for every day of his life . |
| 2 | ‘ I 'll miss the involvement but it 's too important for England to qualify for the World Cup finals to take any chances . ’ |
| 3 | FEARS were expressed last night that Cheshire County Council could be £10m short of cash to care for the elderly . |
| 4 | But since it has proved notoriously difficult for determinists to account for the emergence of new and revolutionary ideas , it would surely be wise of Althusser to show how he proposes to do it . |
| 5 | He is a prolific inventor who helped to start the environmental revolution and , as a result of work undertaken for NASA , studied the conditions necessary for the continued existence of life and found that the Earth constituted a self-regulatory system whereby each of the many variable factors , such as temperature and the composition of air , sea and soil , had been kept within the narrow limits necessary for life to survive for the entire history of the planet . |
| 6 | It is less immediately evident that such an understanding should be necessary in order to account for the formal properties of code switching , although I would argue strongly that it is , inasmuch as the extent to which switching may take place is in part a function of the extent to which the codes involved have " fused " within a community , i.e. how interchangeable they are for the different purposes of everyday interaction . |