Example sentences of "for [verb] [prep] the [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The local police no longer stop him for speeding through the sleepy streets of his home town of Riolo Terme , they just pull him over for an autograph . |
| 2 | The Prime Minister , Shaikh Saad al Abdullah as Salim as Sabah , commuted on June 26 the death sentences imposed on 29 people ( three of them women ) for collaborating with the Iraqi authorities . |
| 3 | He improved his championship best to a wind-assisted 10.39 seconds in the 100 metres semi-finals and the organisers have agreed to pay his expenses for competing in the Olympic trials in Birmingham on June 27 and 28 a bonus normally offered only to winners . |
| 4 | Wedding and funeral forms , sent in by the families , were passed to me for transposing into the accepted cliches . |
| 5 | In those days there was considerable emphasis on its carcass quality and 60,000 fat Jutlands were sent to England with another 30,000 lean cattle going for fattening on the German marshes . |
| 6 | Our expedition was the brainchild of a small , rotund , Bombay businessman with a penchant for climbing in the outermost reaches of the Himalayas . |
| 7 | Indeed , many women had no footwear suitable for walking beyond the local shops , boots always posing a major difficulty in household budgeting . |
| 8 | If the landlord attempts to take counter measures ( eg by erecting lockable posts in some spaces and issuing keys to some of the tenants and not others ) he may face an action for interfering with the other tenants ' easements . |
| 9 | If anybody has given up his right to vote , in the misguided intention of not paying his taxes , he will get no sympathy from the public — and more fool he , for listening to the Labour Members of Parliament who urged people not to pay their community charge . |
| 10 | Literary theory is at present in demand as a point of reference for writing on the visual arts . |
| 11 | STRABANE-based Adria , the province 's leading hosiery manufacturer has developed a reputation for pushing beyond the traditional boundaries in the hosiery industry . |
| 12 | All correspondence from members should be sent to the office for forwarding to the relevant officers , and members should not be encouraged to call at anyone 's home without an invitation . |
| 13 | With an estimated cost of DM15 billion , the five-year programme is being implemented through the Treuhandanstalt , the agency responsible for selling off the state-owned assets of the former communist regime in East Germany . |
| 14 | If the by-election results were repeated throughout the district , the number of Labour councillors on Wear Valley Council would be reduced from eight to four with the Liberals increasing from 28 to 32 scarcely a reason for rejoicing in the Labour ranks . |
| 15 | He was n't up to the fancy footwork required for duelling on the high seas . |
| 16 | Notwithstanding the possible ground for distinguishing between the two cases , therefore , there remains a fundamental doubt as to just how much policy innovation can reasonably be expected from the British judiciary especially in such a politically sensitive area as defence policy . |
| 17 | There will have to be specific help for those in the least favoured areas , and particular help for restructuring in the southern countries of Europe . |
| 18 | The notion of a lead agency with overall responsibility for developing services or for buying in the necessary services from local statutory , private or voluntary agencies would make clear where responsibility should lie . |
| 19 | Drugs and hypnosis were all very well as tools for coping with the hormonal storms caused by the superhuman organs his body housed ; but what he must attain swiftly was a superhuman mind which could command the body to fight on irrespective of injury . |
| 20 | Those of us who work with refugees recognise how stretched are the resources of the United Nations , particularly those for the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees , and those who have responsibility for coping with the enormous problems about which the hon. Member for Islington , North ( Mr. Corbyn ) has just spoken . |
| 21 | Traditional ‘ jump-ups ’ , with pulsating rhythms and trade wind breezes , will provide perfect conditions for dancing until the early hours . |
| 22 | So , I think you should now have a very clear basis for discriminating between the two sorts of two sorts of toxin . |
| 23 | Thanks are due to Andrew Lane ( Letters , 1 April ) for cutting through the confused signals about identifying and recording unmet need . |
| 24 | Six years ago , the drawer ( said Mr Jansen ) happened to contain DM40,000-50,000 ( $15,000-32,000 ) of his own money , which he gave to a Christian Democratic aide as a thank-you for tipping off the Social Democrats about a dirty-tricks campaign against them . |
| 25 | The achievement of democracy and civil rights will make the way open for linking of the economic demands to the national question . |
| 26 | Languages can be learned ‘ at home ’ , where there are few opportunities for mixing with the native users of the language ( such as evening class french ) or they can be learned in a second language situation , either in the country in which that language is native or in one 's own country where the language is used for a specific purpose ( such as learning English in parts of Africa where it is used as the commercial language ) . |
| 27 | A KURDISH asylum seeker forcibly returned to Turkey was detained yesterday for questioning by the political police , writes Nicholas Schoon . |
| 28 | Parker , in a seminal article in the Journal of Social Policy ( 1976 ; see also Judge , 1980 ) , summarised the reasons legislators had invoked for charging in the social services . |
| 29 | We have seen , then , that the historical reasons for charging in the social services are diverse and often contradictory , but a case can still be made for charging on a priori grounds . |
| 30 | In 1770/71 Lagrange set about analysing the various methods then known for dealing with the general equations of degrees 2 , 3 , 4 and he found that they all depended on the same general principle ( see Section 5.2 ) . |