Example sentences of "[verb] for [adj] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We do not need to wait for new efficient technology : as Stewart Boyle described in ‘ More work for less energy ’ ( New Scientist , 5 August 1989 ) , the technology exists to take the first step towards the targets we have set to save energy and fossil fuel , and to cut back on carbon dioxide emissions . |
| 2 | Consequently offers for unlisted public companies and even for private companies may be of interest to the Panel if the shareholder base is sufficiently wide for minority protection to be relevant . |
| 3 | The chief inspector had seen businessmen before , stopped for drunken driving or speeding offences , who adopted the same tactic . |
| 4 | I thought to myself , ‘ Jimmy Dickinson does n't go abroad and certainly not to the States , so if I make a good job of it at Walton Heath I might be caddying for Sandy full-time in the future . ’ |
| 5 | The NIMBY ( not in my back yard ) attitude , whether at home or abroad , does not make for good environmental policy . |
| 6 | To obtain a free camera take any film along to your nearest Supasnaps branch for standard overnight film processing . |
| 7 | The text for the first term 's production will usually be selected for the purpose of getting a new group to work together rather than trying to go for detailed individual performances . |
| 8 | Specifically , he notes that lenders like banks have an interest in the firm 's undertaking projects that carry little risk of default even if the expected return is low , whilst if it is true that shareholders in general hold diversified portfolios , they would want the firm to go for high expected returns . |
| 9 | Allowing for certain stylistic overlaps , all medallion designs can be divided into two broad categories . |
| 10 | This ‘ step ’ is mirrored at the tip of the asymmetric headstock , and at the recess in the base of the body , with two straplock buttons either side of the base allowing for good free-standing stability . |
| 11 | The survey data also allow us to explore whether , after allowing for other identifiable differences in the characteristics of male and female workers , the labour market during the 1970s appeared to discriminate against young women compared to their male contemporaries . |
| 12 | Linkage lift depends on engine power and hydraulic capacity , and should be sized to give spare capacity over the heaviest item on the farm — allowing for extra wet-soil loading where appropriate . |
| 13 | This would be covered 2.6 times by earnings ( excluding additional tax ) or 2.3 times after fully allowing for additional Advance Corporation Tax ( ‘ ACT ’ ) . |
| 14 | Throughout 1838 , Darwin had been allowing for Lyellian competitive defeats to extinguish some species before their predetermined ageing overcame them . |
| 15 | One of the other stock-market listed football clubs , Tottenham Hotspur , capitalises the cost of its players ' registrations and , after allowing for estimated residual values , amortises them over the period of the respective players ' contracts . |
| 16 | The level of funding was sufficient to cover 100 per cent of the benefits that had accrued to members after allowing for expected future pay increases . |
| 17 | The level of funding was 97.3 per cent after allowing for expected future pay increases . |
| 18 | Allowing for minor environmental changes for pictures taken at , an interval of , say , one minute , these images are correct . |
| 19 | In the late 1960s there were 15,493 Commonwealth citizens registered for various nursing courses in the UK ( 1 ) . |
| 20 | In each case students registered for the module in the current or a future term must be counselled about and registered for viable alternative programmes . |
| 21 | Whitehall officials are putting their usual brave face on the prospect that , against British objections , a version of the Social Charter will be agreed and an inter-governmental conference arranged for late 1990 or early 1991 to consider amending the Treaty of Rome in the direction of a single central bank and currency . |
| 22 | Some Romanians claim ( not unreasonably though without evidence ) that Nicolae and Elena Ceauşescu were diabolists who had arranged for certain black magical and other superstitious figures to be carved in the decorations of the Casa Republicii or hidden in the overall design and visible only to other satanic initiates of the occult . |
| 23 | The much-delayed Saarc summit has been provisionally arranged for early next March in Colombo . |
| 24 | Although gastrectomy specimens were carefully examined for possible endocrine cell abnormalities , quantitative estimation of endocrine cell densities have been performed strictly in areas corresponding to the site of biopsy specimens during gastroscopy . |
| 25 | All surgical specimens were obtained immediately after resection , opened longitudinally , rinsed , examined for gross morphological changes , and a representative full thickness sample obtained . |
| 26 | On the grounds that these seem to be used paradigmatically for ordering , questioning and asserting , respectively , one might argue that it is pointless to search for internal linguistic motivations for these three sentence-types : they recur in the languages of the world because humans are , perhaps , specifically concerned with three functions of language in particular — the organizing of other persons ' actions , the eliciting of information , and the conveying of-formation . |
| 27 | I gave warning in 1987 that it is part of Gorbachev 's character to search for absolute personal power . |
| 28 | Because low profits also militated against the use of available funds for productive investment , investors were encouraged to search for short-term speculative ‘ killings ’ . |
| 29 | In the Companies Act 1981 an option was given for certain smaller companies ( provided they are not public companies ) to produce modified or shortened accounts for filing with the Registrar of Companies . |
| 30 | We report here 2 cases of opportunistic infections occurring after 3 months and 6 weeks , respectively , of IFN given for chronic viral hepatitis C in intravenous drug using seropositive patients . |