Example sentences of "[verb] [adj] [noun] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | But ‘ Tarzan ’ Heseltine , professing total support for Chancellor Norman Lamont revealed the plans in a radio interview . |
| 2 | However they will understand the difficulties of using such an unpredictable material as wood , and make due allowance for minor defects . |
| 3 | Should an apparent truce in Bosnia lead to the sending of substantial peacekeeping forces , the subsequent breakdown of such an agreement would trigger acute pressures for sending sufficient troops to achieve peacemaking ( ‘ smothering the war by force ’ ) . |
| 4 | Even is we use only the lowest numbers available , based on official statistics , we are still seeing acute poverty for 873,000 people . |
| 5 | The School also offers distance-learning courses for teachers of the visually impaired and of hearing-impaired people , and for teachers of children with speech and language disorders . |
| 6 | The local authority , which shared parental responsibility for J. in consequence of a care order made under the Children Act 1989 , obtained leave under section 100 of the Act to invoke the court 's inherent jurisdiction to determine whether artificial ventilation and/or other life-saving measures should be administered to J. if he were to suffer a life-threatening event . |
| 7 | They accordingly obtained leave to invoke the High Court 's inherent jurisdiction and by their summons , directed to W. and to her aunt who shared parental responsibility for her , sought the court 's leave for such transfer and treatment without her consent . |
| 8 | Purcell did not make extensive changes for the Fairy Queen revival — and indeed he had two excellent reasons not to . |
| 9 | If you are moving for job reasons , the local authority or new town development corporation , even if they can not offer permanent rented accommodation , might be able to arrange short-term letting for up to a year under Schedule 3 of the Housing Act 1980 . |
| 10 | Organizing respectable credit for respectable people became the respectable part of an accountant 's work , whose training enabled him to ensure that it was sound , that is , within the bounds of profitability . |
| 11 | So the Bank of England is in the situation that it usually wishes to sell government securities ; it invariably wishes to sustain long-run demand for such securities but it periodically has to take action which inflicts losses on the holders of such securities . |
| 12 | As a result , it saw the need to continue strong support for local authority housing provision . |
| 13 | A subsidiary of the Rover group is producing complete bodyshells for the car , which was last built sixteen years ago . |
| 14 | A subsidiary of the Rover group is producing complete bodyshells for the car , which was last built sixteen years ago . |
| 15 | This had set the tone later reflected in the harsh rules of the Indian Penal Code 1860 ( prescribing long sentences of ‘ rigorous imprisonment ’ ) , in the Prisons Act 1894 , in gaol manuals allowing cruel punishments for the smallest breach of discipline , and in a lasting policy of spending as little as possible on the gaols . |
| 16 | Trailing variegated nepetas are often sold with the bedding plants during summer at garden centres as they make admirable subjects for hanging baskets and window boxes . |
| 17 | A binary number can easily be coded into the bars by using narrow bands for Os and wide bands of 1s ( or vice versa ) . |
| 18 | All that remained was to issue specific orders for action to Kirov in Russia and Phil Andersen in Turkey . |
| 19 | Most towns have a former industrial area close to the centre — it may be a railway goods yard , cattle market or former brewery — which offers ample space for car-parking as well as large areas for shops . |
| 20 | National institutions and agencies , each responsible for one agenda , are charged with administering specific policies for each sector and each group of multi-nationals . |
| 21 | Resorts : Cortina is international jet set , glamour and glitz ; Cervinia , Courmayeur and neighbouring La Thuile have a wide range of intermediate pistes , Gresonnay and Champoluc , also in the Aosta Valley , make tranquil alternatives for adventurous Italian speaking beginners ; and where is the noisiest of them all ? |
| 22 | They may concentrate on car phones , or only offer short term rental facilities : British Airways , for example , offers mobile phones for hire and use within airports . |
| 23 | Hunt , a part-time preacher , had also been under investigation for using state-owned aircraft for profit-making preaching trips , but was understood not to have ben charged in relation to this . |
| 24 | ‘ I could see how the notion of raiding charnel houses for the secrets of life had always been present in Shelley 's thought ; but these horrid machine speculations were new . |
| 25 | Southern African states , such as Zimbabwe , Botswana and South Africa , have already declared their opposition to a ban , as their stocks of elephants are rising , allowing profitable culling for ivory , meat and leather . |
| 26 | Well here are the answers and they make shameful reading for Premier John Major . |
| 27 | Only eight and 12 children respectively received nutritional treatment for varying intervals during years one and two . |
| 28 | He cooed total infatuation for the well-proportioned figure at the despatch box . |
| 29 | The BCS does lots of other good things , like sitting on 31 standards committees , working with 15 European computer societies to harmonise professional qualifications for the single market , accrediting computer science courses to make them less theoretical and more oriented towards projects , maintaining a register of expert witnesses , setting up ad hoc specialist groups very quickly on new areas like expert systems , natural language translation and parallel processing , and helping the disabled . |
| 30 | In a classic experiment reported in 1964 , John Wing and his colleagues showed that long-stay schizophrenic patients given advance preparation for placements in an industrial rehabilitation unit were less likely to suffer a relapse than those who were unprepared . |