Example sentences of "[verb] for [adj] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Do the other senses automatically compensate for limited or non-existent vision ? |
| 2 | The larger estates were heavily criticized for absent or late provision of social and community facilities . |
| 3 | Even so , an anti-Subirachs cabal has sprung up , calling for his work at the Sagrada Familia to be stopped for artistic and ideological reasons . |
| 4 | There is nothing wrong with this ; the Commons is , after all , the nearest thing we have to a democratic assembly , but it does not make for thorough and well-informed debate . |
| 5 | In any event , if great prominence came to be given to APR , many people could be misled about the comparative value of competing credit arrangements ; partly because our calculations show that small and sometimes insignificant differences in what the buyer actually has to pay for credit can make for huge and therefore misleadingly imposing differences in APR ; partly because it will tend to make longer-term borrowing look more attractive than shorter-term borrowing even when ( given that the great majority of people prefer to pay off their debts as quickly as possible ) this may not be best for people . |
| 6 | Most patients will also require counselling for social and personal difficulties . |
| 7 | He advises organisations to go for proven and well understood technologies to meet their basic requirements , wherever possible using architectures which are already known within the company — even if different technologies have been implemented on top . |
| 8 | At this point I decided to go for broke so I wound in the other corn rod and changed this over to a boilie . |
| 9 | I had done well in my O-levels , but I had already won the Under-16 British squash championships , and I decided to go for broke and turn professional and see how I got on . |
| 10 | Your second option is to go for tailor-made and professionallyinstalled doors that combine the latest design and construction techniques with materials that promise minimal maintenance , and which include the bonus of having extra-wide sealed-unit double glazing and built-in weather-stripping . |
| 11 | From January 1 1994 , the Mainz factory , which makes platters and disk drives for mid-range and large systems , will become part of the mass storage subsidiary of IBM Corp , as IBM Deutschland AdStar GmbH . |
| 12 | Students may be registered for full-time or part-time study , and the appropriate degree is awarded after submission of a thesis and its approval by a Board of Examiners . |
| 13 | Lavish praise given for undemanding and second rate efforts lowers standards rather then enhances them . |
| 14 | THIS year 's Faraday Medal , given for notable or conspicuous achievement in the electrical sciences , has been awarded to Professor Alistair MacFarlane , principal and vice-chancellor of Heriot-Watt University , Edinburgh . |
| 15 | They reflected our great breadth of interest , being given for cultural and educational activities , as well as for buildings and environmental projects . |
| 16 | : systems developed for legal or commercial applications could include automatic signature verification as a useful part of their functionality ; |
| 17 | Developed for offshore and ocean sailing . |
| 18 | Divisions may have been formed for administrative or historical reasons , which do not necessarily produce organizational units which are identical with SBUs . |
| 19 | More emphasis will be given to social class inequalities , partly because they are more adequately documented and partly because they partially account for ethnic and sex inequalities . |
| 20 | A ‘ Book of Hours ’ was the name given to such a prayerbook intended for private or family devotion , the term ‘ hours ’ indicating not an interval of sixty minutes , but less precise parts of the day that were set aside for religious and other duties . |
| 21 | The options under this index allow the manipulation of ‘ products ’ , packages of software which are intended for internal or external release to a ‘ client ’ . |
| 22 | Only in 1914 were Indonesians admitted to schools where the medium was Dutch ( these were intended for Dutch and Eurasian students ) . |
| 23 | Designers of training materials intended for national or area use tried to allow for board members who would differ in experience and working diverse contexts . |
| 24 | Chapter 6 examines the way in which studying physics interacts with students ' sense of identity , and looks at how this differs for male and female students . |
| 25 | The two girls , travelling together in the back of a car as it passed close by the explosion in St Mary Axe on Friday night , are being treated for facial and eye injuries in neighbouring beds at Guy 's Hospital . |
| 26 | The machine has seven programmes which include a 55°C economy wash and can be plumbed for hot or cold fill . |
| 27 | The ‘ dressing room ’ in each saloon was converted into a bathroom containing copper and silver-plated bath-tubs , wooden cased and lidded and plumbed for hot and cold water . |
| 28 | They are particularly favoured for Indonesian and Thai cookery , but are used throughout the Orient . |
| 29 | That Bukharin argued for balanced and proportional growth can be seen to arise from his earlier work on equilibrium theory and in his formulating an algebraic approach to the problems of analysis posed by Marx 's reproduction schemas . |
| 30 | Flatworms , tapeworms or threadworms make for lurid and colourful pictures in the horror section of Koi manuals , but their life cycle is invariably so complex that not all the vectors will be present in the pond . |