Example sentences of "for [verb] [prep] the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The first … is the arrangement for bringing to the Joint Intelligence Organisation 's attention information other than intelligence reports . |
| 2 | Both Mac and Morrissey were well known for slagging off the entire rock world outside their own small circles . |
| 3 | Theodosiou was the first to go for stamping in the 72nd minute and Greg Downs followed after protesting at a penalty decision . |
| 4 | On Oct. 5 it was reported that a former Minister of State , Ghulam Akbar Lasi , had been given a one-year prison sentence for overspending during the 1988 election campaign . |
| 5 | Gough , the first Scotland captain to be sent off , faces a one-match ban after his automatic dismissal for handling during the disastrous defeat in Berne . |
| 6 | For all index-linked stocks issued prior to January , 1987 , it is necessary therefore to adjust downward their base for indexing by the multiplicative factor of 100/394.5 . |
| 7 | In April 1984 the National Development Officer for catering in the Western Division , which includes Strathclyde and Dumfries and Galloway , organised the initial ‘ fleshing out ’ of the catering related modules through the SCFE members from the Western Division . |
| 8 | This distortion may be important in providing the flexibility needed for binding of the binuclear iron cofactor . |
| 9 | Scarlet had thrown away all her old aluminium pans since she had learned that they might cause Alzheimer 's disease , and she never used tap water for cooking for the same reason . |
| 10 | It is now almost certain that more people in Indian cities will become dependent on kerosene for cooking in the near future . |
| 11 | He advises that while the unit backs onto our store , as a self-contained unit , it should continue to be available for let on the open market . |
| 12 | The tallship is most famous for appearing in the 70s TV programme , The Onedin Line . |
| 13 | Cut out long thin strips for trimming around the top edge of the boat and fix on with a dampened paint brush . |
| 14 | SNOOP Cyril Reenan was branded a prying sneak yesterday for eavesdropping on the intimate phone conversation . |
| 15 | It was during the Autumn term that certain staff had responsibility for contributing towards the self-appraisal report . |
| 16 | And , of course , the payment of dividend itself re-instates the 40% tax rate and defeats the tax motive for incorporating in the first place . |
| 17 | But better still is the delightful Gothic cloister which opens on the southern side of the nave , an asylum all the more praiseworthy for opening on the far side on to the street , and with an admirable fig tree standing in one corner to remind you that , northern Gothic or no , you are in the south . |
| 18 | She stopped for a moment , and put her shoes back on for walking on the hard tarmac . |
| 19 | On arrival , guests take off their outdoor shoes at the ryokan entrance and are supplied with slippers ; shoes are handled by the management ( ie , placed at the entrance for you to leave ) , and for walking within the ryokan garden , they supply sandals or traditional geta ( wooden clogs ) . |
| 20 | The social determination of knowledge is supported not as a basis for analysing knowledge or ideology but as a basis for disputing with the positivist tendency in social science in order that an idealist and historicist account of the process of history can be recovered . |
| 21 | Their independence reduced the executive 's capacity for interfering in the legal process . |
| 22 | In December 1857 the new head of the Third Department , V. A. Dolgorukov , revealed an unlikely enthusiasm for cooperating with the liberal intelligentsia when he asked the Slavophile Aleksandr Koshelev to send him his hard-hitting " Memoranda on the Dissolution of the Enserfed Estate in Russia " . |
| 23 | In that way , Sir William was able indirectly to indulge his penchant for meddling in the basic work of the force , without upsetting the senior officers . |
| 24 | It was not until the end of the 18th century that the first bottle of claret as we now know it was put down for ageing at the famous Chateau Lafite in 1797 . |
| 25 | They 're ideal for saving in the short term and of course your money is accessible . |
| 26 | However , where a term of a contract is unclear , is capable of having more than one meaning , or is specific to a particular trade or market , there is considerable scope for looking at the factual background or " matrix " known to the parties , in order to clarify how it should be applied . |
| 27 | Managers are required to put down a small security deposit , but all equipment is provided by the company , which also pays staff wages and overhead expenses , together with a small additional honorarium ( currently 5 per cent of husband 's salary ) to the manager 's wife for looking after the domestic accommodation . |
| 28 | Foster parents can often claim fostering allowances of 2–3 times the Supplementary Benefit that the natural parent would have received for looking after the same child … which is peculiarly ironic when one considers that some children might not be in foster-care at all if their parents had adequate incomes in the first place ( Fairbairns , 1976 ) . |
| 29 | Applying Shirk 's concept of ‘ adaptive behaviour ’ ( Shirk 1982 : 5 ) , their enthusiasm for a number of major student ‘ tides ’ such as going abroad to study , doing business and having love affairs , can be viewed as strategies for escaping from the depressing reality of everyday life in contemporary China . |
| 30 | She suggests that the ‘ board ’ money which young people paid for living in the parental household was seen as an exchange , especially for daughters : they handed over their wages to their mothers and in exchange their mothers equipped them to enable them to go into service . |