Example sentences of "in [adj] [noun sg] [verb] for the " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Nine players in that side appeared for the first team later . |
| 2 | The force of cohesion and tension in this column account for the upward rise of the water . |
| 3 | The geographer L. Dudley Stamp fashioned his land use survey in this context to capture for the first time since the Domesday Book an impression of how the land of Britain was used ( or misused ) . |
| 4 | From The Silmarillion we can infer that Gandalf is a Maia , a spiritual creature in human shape sent for the relief of humanity ; much later than he finished the trilogy Tolkien indeed reportedly said ‘ Gandalf is an angel ’ . |
| 5 | Some composers have written eucharistic settings in traditional vein providing for the needs of choirs with limited resources and expertise . |
| 6 | Teaching effectively in higher education calls for the extraordinary ability on the part of the teacher to bring students to the point where they can distinguish sense from nonsense for themselves , where they can say and do things for themselves and give reasons for so doing which are full of insight , and where they have the intellectual resources to take off under their own steam . |
| 7 | Out of sixteen instances , four were shopkeepers , one a hotel proprietor , one in insurance , and four were farmers ; and nearly all provided either houses — in one case paying for the maids , coal , and gas as well — or land . |
| 8 | HOSPITAL staff were not in any way to blame for the tragic death of a nine-day-old baby boy from west Belfast , an inquest has been told . |
| 9 | Although although there 's a lot of people who feel they 're all living in the lap of luxury if you 're Post Office or B T pensioners , they are n't and we have n't been able to get this surplus er in any way used for the benefit of those people and er and that 's where the ownership of the fund really and the surplus are tied in together . |
| 10 | He constructed the timetable , possibly the task which in any school calls for the supreme diplomat . |
| 11 | Until the goalposts moved , roughly half of publicly listed firms in financial trouble opted for the private route . |