Example sentences of "[noun] [vb -s] for [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It may be argued by analogy that , given the importance under the CPA 1987 placed upon accurate instructions , this should permeate to cases where the buyer sues for economic loss under , for example , s14 of SGA 1979 . |
| 2 | The Blues ' Graham Marshall gets one in the eye as McIntosh of the Reds goes for broke during his impressive Scottish Trial performance . |
| 3 | He craves success the way an alcoholic longs for another drink . |
| 4 | In the heart of London and in its leafy suburbs , English Heritage cares for some marvellous properties which survive , after extensive restoration , almost in their original state . |
| 5 | Other shapes include elliptical and spandrel , as well as extra soffit strips for wider walls , and rectangular make-up pieces , which can be used between arch corners , or to lengthen the centre of a semi-circular arch . |
| 6 | Maybe P and Q and R behave alike , but there may be times when the algorithm folds a set { P , Q , R } where , say , Q sometimes occurs in a context which never contains P or R. The algorithm looks for any context which contains some of X 's children but not the others . |
| 7 | It is in its work on health and healing , the Board of Social Responsibility has for some years now been concerned with the provision of training conferences for ministers and others involved in this aspect of the church 's commission . |
| 8 | In the preface to his Hortus Britanno-Americanus ( written in 1749 but not published until 1763 ) Mark Catesby [ q.v. ] , the pioneer naturalist of the south-eastern states of America , said that ‘ Mr. Gray at Fulham has for many years made it his business to raise and cultivate the plants of America ( from whence he has annually fresh supplies ) in order to furnish the curious with what they want … |
| 9 | Peter Scott assesses Perry Anderson 's verdict on English intellectuals ; Tony Parker on Thatcherism 's casualties ; Stephen Howe looks for new life in the unions ; Conor Gearty cross-examines a defender of the Bar ; and Geoff Dyer wades through Ted Hughes ' Shakespearean fantasy |
| 10 | ‘ And the TCCB 's directive for pitches has for several years now been that they must start dry . ’ |
| 11 | Unlike the UK , the Netherlands has for most of the time since 1950 pursued a consistent policy of reducing and limiting the prison population ; overall it is difficult to argue that this reduction in punishment has adversely affected the Netherlands ' crime rate , which has risen in a roughly similar manner to that in the UK over this period ( Downes , 1999 : 33–41 , 194–5 ; NACRO , 1991a : 93 ) . |
| 12 | This increase is not just for number crunching ; the system has been installed to meet user needs for Personal Productivity [ wordprocessing and spreadsheets ] and Information Access [ library catalogues and databases ] . |
| 13 | This means that the Board will have issued exposure drafts for 10 of the 11 standards affected by the Statement of Intent . |
| 14 | As the Potato Marketing Board has for many years worked successfully for the benefit of processors , consumers and producers , does he agree that any proposals to scrap the PMB should be strongly resisted ? |
| 15 | The International Atomic Energy Agency of the United Nations organises the Intor workshops ( Intor stands for International Tokamak Reactor ) although most of the work is actually carried out by groups working in their various home laboratories . |
| 16 | Letter : Arts grants for ethnic minorities |
| 17 | Given constraints on public expenditure , it is unlikely that the Government could be persuaded to introduce maintenance grants for 16 to 18-year-olds . |
| 18 | It would be easy to dismiss this significance were it not for the fact that general or national interests continue to be important and highly effective rallying cries for much of contemporary politics . |
| 19 | To this end , this association has for some years now made the data sheet compendium — written originally for doctors and pharmacists — available to public libraries and , on request , to individual members of the public . |
| 20 | He shows that , where there is an interior solution for the amount of bequest or gift across generations , then the Ricardian result holds for small variations in debt . |
| 21 | Suppose the result holds for all simpler triples ( P' , Q' , R' ) . |
| 22 | Then , using Lemma 3 , we have for general P , Q , R : unc Now because the few elements F of the first set which are not of the form unc are easily proved ( using the laws ) equivalent to ones that are , using the laws , e.g. unc By our assumption that the result holds for finite processes this in turn is equal to unc Since we are in the process of setting up powerful machinery for dealing with finite programs ( for example Theorem 1 ) there are advantages in only having to prove new laws for them . |
| 23 | Each article or book chapter counts for one point ; each book counts for ten ; and the productivity trend , needless to say , is on the up and up . |
| 24 | The Revenue has for some time been concerned about what is done with the money . |
| 25 | We have found , using this assay , that all optimized CTL epitopes for other class I molecules ( HLA-A2 , D b and K b ) have bound with high affinity , and the assay has recently been used to identify a HIV-gag CTL epitope in mice by screening of potential epitopes fitting the D b motif . |
| 26 | Ann stands for all the women of common-sense , warm affection , and practical piety that Edward repeatedly attempted to sketch realistically or to record in dream-like settings in his essays and sketches . |
| 27 | The second working party , set up by the General Practitioner Board , is also looking at training but within the wider context of what the future holds for small accountancy practices . |
| 28 | BML has for some time been concerned about the declining popularity of the NBS , which began in a blaze of publicity in 1955 . |
| 29 | At least 2,000,000 people had been made homeless by the war , the report said , and it estimated food aid needs for 1991 as totalling approximately 1,000,000 tonnes . |
| 30 | The University of Warwick has for some time provided the possibility of studying both English and foreign texts in a comparative way at undergraduate level . |