Example sentences of "[adj] [prep] [v-ing] for a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Unfortunately , the SPD , like Labour , has been nervous in calling for a complete recasting of public financing and altering both tax and expenditure profiles to fit with a post-cold war world while attempting to relate to an electorate that believes it is paying too many direct and indirect taxes as well as ever-rising social security and health insurance payments . |
| 2 | Hilton was certainly conscious of writing for a wide monastic audience , but The Ladder is ostensibly written for a nun , who was enclosed in a convent and bound by traditional monastic disciplines , but who also seemed about to begin a more solitary life . |
| 3 | If you believe it , you are naive , and if you do n't you are dishonest in arguing for a non-payment campaign . ’ |
| 4 | A significant proportion of women with these disabling conditions are also responsible for caring for a male spouse or other relative with a disability . |
| 5 | Some may see the bird 's warning cry as falling short of lying for a further reason . |
| 6 | The commentators told people used to queuing for a bare minimum that the General-Secretary and the First Deputy Prime Minister had a choice of six different menus . |
| 7 | Almost immediately , Doherty went on to try to make it general and so , of course , capable of calling for a general strike . |
| 8 | If we were biologically capable of living for a million years , and wanted to do so , we should assess risks quite differently . |
| 9 | At the end of a book almost entirely devoted to arguing for a strong genetic component in the causes of crime , he turns his attention to the contemporary ‘ crime wave ’ and what should be done about it . |