Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [art] [noun sg] for [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The appropriate response , however , is not to alter the law so as to allow euthanasia , and thereby arguably undermine the respect for life enshrined both in the law and medical training . |
| 2 | The members simply have not the time at their disposal to take on the continuous pressure needed to effectively construct a platform for alternative or opposing views . |
| 3 | Methods of deforestation and subsequent management practices not only influence the potential for forest regeneration but also influence the impact of deforestation on runoff and soil erosion . |
| 4 | ‘ If you only got an apple for Christmas during the depression ’ , said Mr Perot , ‘ you understood your parents loved you . |
| 5 | That is what perhaps encourages the quest for interpretation . |
| 6 | If trams no longer had an obvious technological advantage they also suffered from an institutional disadvantage-of having to pay for the upkeep of the roads they used , up to a distance of 46 cm ( 18 inches ) either sides of their tracks literally paving the way for motor buses . |
| 7 | When we found it and after I had thanked every sea god for my luck and promised never to make the same stupid mistake again , I gingerly inspected the Seayak for damage . |
| 8 | Abortifacient contraceptives , embryo experimentation and abortion itself deny the principle of the sanctity of life from conception onwards and so pave the way for euthanasia . |
| 9 | Information books at home not only supply a resource for school topic work , they also help your child develop good study skills . |
| 10 | Andrew Lawrence , sales manager from Pest Control London South , obviously has a liking for water . |
| 11 | It is often asserted that the First World War rescued the Unionist Party from an impossible position and left it poised to become the dominating force ; the war broke up Liberalism and destroyed the Liberal-Labour alliance , so opening the way for Unionism ; Lloyd George carried the party to victory in 1918 , incurred the odium for the post-war slump and was cast aside ungratefully in 1922 . |
| 12 | In fact Sir Christopher only used the plan for guidance and much of the one thousand acres of trees that he planted was the result of his own great vision . |
| 13 | Prior to that it only has a potential for value . |
| 14 | But as President Bush puts more goods on the counter for us with his TV spiel about ’ … our culture , our sense of history … rolling green fields , sandy white beaches , red-hot jazz , ’ is he selling caviare to a market that only has an appetite for candy floss ? |
| 15 | Syria especially needs the water for irrigation and electricity-generating turbines . |
| 16 | Although Gumperz bases his analyses on transcriptions of actual conversation , his examples consisting of " illustrative brief exchanges , just long enough to provide a basis for context bound interpretation " ( 1982 : 75 ) show only the stretches of speech containing the code-switched utterances themselves , and omit specifications of pauses , laughter , other parties ' contributions which overlap with the current speakers " and other details which are considered potentially important by conversation analysts . |
| 17 | Wycliffe had no idea but surely not enough to provide a motive for murder . |
| 18 | It can not only focus a desire for action , but is also satisfyingly accurate in its local ‘ fine-tuning ’ . |
| 19 | The government 's measures to secure more planning permissions for housing development will go a long way to remedy the shortage of building land and so remove the occasion for windfall profits based on scarcity values . |
| 20 | I better do a check for gas here . |
| 21 | The mature reader , of whatever age , takes liberties with the text : ‘ Proficient readers can go directly to the meaning of the passage being read , only sampling the print for confirmation of the hypotheses they have made about the meaning intended by the author . |
| 22 | He and Adam went into the house where they managed to scrounge up fifteen quid between the two of them , leaving them with just enough to cover the petrol for Goblander to get home on . |
| 23 | In fact , the present mess , whatever its practical implications for the myriad administrative changes required to implement the Estonian experiment , merely increases the impetus for reform . |
| 24 | Confrontation only creates the possibility for drama when it raises the possibility of change . |
| 25 | Which perhaps opens the door for TV companies over here to step in and make stars once more out of top domestic wrestlers . |
| 26 | Auditors will also be able to give an opinion without resolution of all uncertain matters so removing an argument for delay . |
| 27 | The 1990s saw Home Office ministers and the Lord Chief Justice apparently working together to press the case for restraint in the use of custody . |
| 28 | I am told you were recently criticised by a learned judge for wrongly sending a Romany for trial to the Assizes in Oxford ? ’ |
| 29 | ‘ I 'd probably only develop a fetish for coprophagy . ’ |
| 30 | When banks withdraw funds , the Bank of England relieves the resulting discount market shortage at that rate of interest which it thinks appropriate , nudging rates upwards perhaps to reduce the demand for bank lending or lowering them to counteract a rising exchange rate . |