Example sentences of "for [verb] [noun sg] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | PRINCESS Anne must take much of the credit for bringing royalty into the 20th Century . |
| 2 | In one other sense fear was promoted by abolitionists as a motive for demanding abolition in the national interest — fear of divine judgement falling upon the guilty nation as a whole . |
| 3 | There are many issues where a N C V O should be exercising leadership , sometimes a rather difficult concept , and there is no need to apologise for that , for using leadership at the right time , but it has to be a leadership by consent , rather than claimed without authority , and it is in this context that the policy development department in N C V O exists , to help channel voluntary sector concerns to opinion formers , and policy makers , regardless of party politics , regardless of political commitment . |
| 4 | When we turn to the third section of Figure 1.10 , we see a wide range of devices for receiving information from the outside world , for transmitting information to the outside world , and for expanding the storage capacity of the computer . |
| 5 | He welcomed the Glorious Revolution of 1688 and William III appointed him a commissioner of the Admiralty , a responsibility he took very seriously , effectively using Whitehaven for gathering intelligence during the Irish war of 1689–90 . |
| 6 | However , the research assistant responsible for organizing fieldwork in the two outer-city community studies ( John Harris ) is an Ulsterman , and therefore , although in no sense associated with any of Ulster 's political pressure groups , was very conscious that there were parts of the city which he could not visit freely and confidently . |
| 7 | In situations where sex is not an ‘ essential determinant ’ of a legal relationship , he appears to see no reason for denying recognition of the transsexual 's change . |
| 8 | Suggestions are also made for incorporating video into the overall teaching programme . |
| 9 | , The NRA has announced a " disturbing " rise in prosecutions of companies and individuals for polluting water over the last two years . |
| 10 | Such incentives might be made up of a share of the surplus which the bureaucrats could appropriate ; ‘ deferred prizes ’ for keeping a bureau 's output within what was promised in a budget-output proposal and for returning money to the general fund during an official 's tenure of office ; and allocations towards supplementary activities such as travel budgets . |
| 11 | The British Medical Association led an attack on the eugenists for confusing undesirable behaviour with mental deficiency and for advocating sterilisation of the feeble-minded . |
| 12 | The Green Paper 's major suggestion for saving money in the short term was to cut housing benefit , so reducing expenditure by some £500 million annually . |
| 13 | By questioning the taken for granted boundary of the political which operates so that women 's experiences and concerns are often excluded , research should take account of women 's distinctive political contributions . |
| 14 | He was entirely serious , and had adopted a portentous tone suitable for expressing admiration for the Greatest Living Englishman . |
| 15 | HAMBROS BANK has launched an interest-rate fixing product which is likely to intensify competition in the market for hedging exposure to the fluctuating cost of money . |
| 16 | When an enquiry has been received which may lead to an export contract , what options are available for securing payment from the overseas buyer ? |
| 17 | The strongest motivation for inscribing multilateralism in the new world order came from the United States and had definite implications for the UK . |
| 18 | The importance of complicated magnetic field patterns , particularly the ‘ reconnection ’ of field lines , for releasing energy in the solar atmosphere was especially evident . |
| 19 | From a European perspective , ski North America means the Rockies : it 's not worth fighting the New Yorkers for turning space in the icy East Coast resorts . |
| 20 | ‘ I 've never met a girl with such a talent for getting hold of the wrong end of any available stick . |
| 21 | We think the obligation for doing this should be laid on creditors , but think the cost involved in securing this improvement to their accuracy should be met by the bureaux themselves , as an addition to the fee which they already pay for getting material from the Central Registry . |
| 22 | There must of course be provision for retaining information about the interrupted sequence of instructions , so that processing can continue from the point at which the interruption took place . |
| 23 | There 's nothing like it for losing sight of the real point . |
| 24 | In addition , the justice minister of the self-proclaimed republic of Bosnia-Herzegovina has accused Yugoslav TV 's editor-in-chief , Goran Milic , of being directly responsible for committing genocide on the Serbian people . |
| 25 | Methods exist for recording information about the affective domain ; we believe that observations must include information of this kind . |
| 26 | It is the best and only basis for strengthening cooperation between the Twelve , while leaving ultimate power with national governments . |
| 27 | ‘ It was a nightmare , ’ Baldwin told G. M. Young , attributing the defeat exclusively to ‘ the pacifist ’ issue and using it as a reason for eschewing rearmament in the early days of Hitler . |
| 28 | Earlier in 1959 , Yulo Tsering had been given a life sentence for taking part in the Tibetan revolution of that year . |
| 29 | Sigrid Sternebeck Friedrich was sentenced by a Stuttgart state court on June 22 to 8<1/2 years ' imprisonment for taking part in the 1977 abduction and murder of German businessman Hanns-Martin Schleyer and the 1979 attempted assassination of Gen. Alexander Haig , the then NATO Supreme Allied Commander Europe . |
| 30 | Other things equal , there will be a greater case for taking advantage of the lower average costs of larger communities . |