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 | Protocols specified the level of " economic convergence " required for states to embark on the third and final stage of EMU . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | The bill 's most contentious provision , which has polarised the profession 's two branches , sets up a framework for solicitors to appear in the higher courts , now the barrister 's preserve . |
| 8 | The bill 's most contentious provision , which has polarised the profession 's two branches , sets up a framework for solicitors to appear in the higher courts , now the preserve of barristers . |
| 9 | Figure 6.6b shows us the possible routes for trajectories to pass through the four shaded areas . |
| 10 | He knew all about gossip and calumny , having tried for months to cope with the shifty Hoornik family . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 ’ . |
| 16 | It 's a challenging objective and there is general recognition among the senior administrators that it is going to take a tremendous effort , one that is both concerted and coordinated , for Canada to qualify for the 1995 quarter-finals . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | The ultimate sanction for failure to comply with the various controls are criminal in character , even if the penalties available are relatively slight . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | Japan risks remaining saddled for years to come with the primitive financial sector that created the domestic boom and bust of the late-1980s . |
| 22 | It 's very tough for Robin to finish on the losing side after playing a knock like that . ’ |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | Its significance for social policies , however , was that it created a platform for changes to occur in the 1940s , changes that secured very widespread social and political acceptance . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | It was possible for yeniçeri to rise to the highest offices in the state . |
| 30 | 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 . |