Example sentences of "for [adj] [conj] the [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I have to say that I know for definite that the force at that time only possessed two shields , er we kept one shield in the South of the county at and one shield North of the county and and hence that is why I went to the headquarters in the morning . |
| 2 | Individuality counts for little as the nurse in the antenatal clinic brightly calls us ‘ Mother ’ , and the doctor treats us as if we were half-witted . |
| 3 | As for 1993 and the fulfilling of promise , hold your breath . |
| 4 | ‘ I think they can make a much more plausible case for this than the invasion of Grenada [ in 1983 ] or the Dominican Republic in the Sixties , ’ said an American university law professor , Mr Robert Goldman . |
| 5 | Fears focused on the £50 billion borrowing requirement for 1993-94 and the narrowness of the window the Chancellor has left for economic recovery in the next 12 months before he begins tightening the tax screw in earnest . |
| 6 | The area of oilseed rape grown this year is believed to be less than half that for 1992 and the area of potatoes ( 7,500 hectares ) is down by 30pc . |
| 7 | The last sentence refers to an earlier conversation between Green and Hickson in which the latter had claimed that the Cambridgeshire LEA would not be prepared to support the work of the District , whereas the Board had been offered a grant of £100 for 1931–32 and the prospect of increased grant-aid in subsequent years . |
| 8 | For all that The Mouse on the Moon ( 1963 ) is a slight film , its satirical swipes at the unprogressive nature of British institutions and the nation 's difficulty in coming to terms with its global insignificance do find their target . |
| 9 | If you can do business each week for less than the price of a TV licence , the government has a deal for you . |
| 10 | The strategy is to sell the plug compatibles for less than the price of the equivalent IBM machine but to make them at least as powerful , or to provide more for the same money . |
| 11 | There are plenty of dealers who can offer you a computer for less than the price of a Dell , Elonex or a Dan ; but will the support be as good ? |
| 12 | Microsoft 's latest scheme to increase its market share in the Macintosh software arena is a trade-in deal which nets a customer the four Microsoft applications which make up the integrated Microsoft Office pack for less than the price of just one of those applications . |
| 13 | The result is that ordinary motorists can now pick them up at the more respectable auctions for less than the price of an everyday family car . |
| 14 | If not , should heads settle for less than the whole of their ideal or keep on pressing their colleagues ? |
| 15 | As the bulk of the material was culled from just three radio sessions , this proved that an album of quality could still be made for less than the cost of recording your average chart single . |
| 16 | Many people whose films have been lost have taken the processors to court , winning compensation for more than the cost of the film . |
| 17 | Clearly , information from the subcortical visual system can , under some circumstances , be used for more than the control of visual reflexes . |
| 18 | But tell story too , if viewer wants a story , a story about our desire for more and the folly of that desire , the desire for more and the inevitable frustration of that desire . |
| 19 | A learned paper from Paris has confirmed this opinion by declaring , after an exhaustive description of my son 's genius , that there was no doubt that this child would at the age of twelve write an opera for one or the other of the Italian theatres ; but everybody thought that a German should reserve such glory for his own country alone . |
| 20 | But we do not have to opt exclusively for one or the other of these forms . |
| 21 | But she knew that telling things the way you wanted them to be rather than the way they were did n't change anything for longer than the moment of the lie . |
| 22 | Even if they were noted , they might not survive for longer than the solution of the particular case or point . |
| 23 | The girl was glued to the spot , terror-struck , pop-eyed , quivering , knowing for certain that the Day of Judgment had come for her at last . |