Example sentences of "for [noun] [to-vb] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mr Angell responded that it would not be feasible for Moscow to leap from the present unconvertible rouble to the complex Western system of floating exchange rates , or to a dollar or yen-backed rouble . |
| 2 | Apart from any sense of injustice which it might create between one plaintiff and another , it would make it even more difficult for counsel to advise on the correct figure for settlement . |
| 3 | Ethnographic research has special qualities suited to dealing with controversial topics in sensitive locations , for it entails a gradual and progressive contact with respondents , which is sustained over a long period , allowing a rapport to be established slowly with respondents over time , and for researchers to participate in the full range of experiences involved in the topic . |
| 4 | Last year 's activities included explanatory talks , simple construction projects , radio fox hunting , Morse instruction , radio operating with contacts as far away as Australia , USA and Japan , including opportunities for attendees to chat to the overseas operators , and experiments with a kite antenna . |
| 5 | It has been argued that human wealth is so illiquid that the greater is this h ratio , the greater will be the demand for money to compensate for the limited marketability of human wealth . |
| 6 | He knew all about gossip and calumny , having tried for months to cope with the shifty Hoornik family . |
| 7 | I have thus found the study of pupil deviance a fertile valley for optimism to set beside the forbidding mountain-like permanence of theories of gender reproduction . |
| 8 | The novels enjoyed a limited success , but because most novelists were concerned at the time to redefine the relation of the individual to society in terms of changing values , it was all too easy for readers to focus on the social dimension of Brooke-Rose 's fiction and to overlook those aspects which can in retrospect be seen to prefigure the problems and techniques of her later work . |
| 9 | Detectives seized eight kilos of coca leaves , the base for cocaine , which were to have been handed out for visitors to chew at the Bolivian Pavilion . |
| 10 | Also , before the 1991 Budget , the tax benefit was simply not a big enough incentive , and it has taken time for companies to respond to the new , more generous tax environment . |
| 11 | The binary policy was perhaps a product of the search for power by the DES and the LEAs , but partly also a result ‘ of mistaken conceptions of what is appropriate for universities to do in the modern age ’ . |
| 12 | In the autonomous Serbian province of Kosovo , where 6,000 Albanian teachers were being threatened with dismissal for refusal to comply with the Serbian curriculum , some 1,000 Albanian teachers demonstrating in the capital , Pristina , on Sept. 10 were dispersed by police . |
| 13 | The surety covenant increases the value of the reversion in that the landlord can look not only to the tenant but also to the sureties for the payment of a sum equal to the rent and for damages for failure to comply with the other tenant 's covenants . |
| 14 | The ultimate sanction for failure to comply with the various controls are criminal in character , even if the penalties available are relatively slight . |
| 15 | The following paragraphs focus upon the right to cancel for failure to comply with the requisite formalities , as this is likely to be most important in practice . |
| 16 | Japan risks remaining saddled for years to come with the primitive financial sector that created the domestic boom and bust of the late-1980s . |
| 17 | It 's very tough for Robin to finish on the losing side after playing a knock like that . ’ |
| 18 | In a world of perfect competition it would not be possible for managers to deviate from the profit-maximization norm for any length of time even if they were tempted to pursue their own rather than the shareholders ' interests . |
| 19 | With massive organisational changes in health and social services , came the consultants armed with games and simulations for managers to play to the new ground rules of collaboration . |
| 20 | There is a further incentive for firms to break into the robust French economy , which has a GDP 15 per cent greater than the UK 's despite a slightly smaller population , since it still enjoys a substantial trade surplus . |
| 21 | This total was boosted to almost £200 by staff at the town 's Asda store where teachers shopped for goods to send to the Russian town . |
| 22 | A study 's to be carried out to see whether it 's feasible for trains to travel along the Great Western line at a hundred and fifty miles an hour . |
| 23 | We are particularly grateful to members of the undergraduate years 1965 , who responded to the Librarian 's appeal for items to display at the Gaudy in June , and to Nina Bawden ( Mabey , 1943 ) who has supplied us with a complete set of her novels . |
| 24 | The prognosis was for Rangers to qualify for the European Cup , Celtic for the Cup-Winners ' Cup ( having beaten Rangers in the semi-final , of course , then prevailed in the final ) , Hearts for a place in the UEFA Cup for finishing second in their Premier Division and Hibs as Skol League Cup winners , joining them . |
| 25 | North asked the Second Channel to act as his courier ‘ as a personal favour for the cause we both believe in ’ ; the note was a draft of a speech for Rafsanjani to make to the Iranian parliament . |
| 26 | He feels the inclusion of HIV/AIDS into the arena of child sexual abuse will be made easier for SSDs to develop within the existing child protection guidelines and framework . |
| 27 | The important thing is for people to listen to the genuine concerns , sort out the , the real issues from the power politics and then hopefully go forward in , in a , in a manner of conciliation . |
| 28 | The ‘ blockbuster ’ bombs were part of the IRA 's economic war , but there had been a tendency for people to despair of the political process , he warned . |
| 29 | This , in turn , will make it harder for diggers to profit from the crude — and illegal — looting of ancient sites . |
| 30 | The important point to note about the current approach is that the existence of the substantive law , and the penalties imposed in the event of breach and detection , provide an important incentive for players to abide by the self-regulatory and quasi-statutory controls , which generally carry lighter penalties . |