Example sentences of "[adj] [verb] for the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Byrne looks embarrassed to be in it — and it is indeed a sore waste of his undoubted talents — while Basinger as usual goes for the lowest common , and I mean common , denominator . |
| 2 | In recent times gilt has been widely used to create the effect of gold , but during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries there was a fashion in Europe for silver thrones , like that made for the coronation of the Queen of Denmark in 1731 . |
| 3 | What they definitely do indicate are the extremes of weight problems ; where your weight falls higher than the amount given under the large-frame weight for your height , or lower than that given for the small-frame weight for your height , then you have problems . |
| 4 | The female has a colour pattern which almost fits that given for the Threadfin Goldie . |
| 5 | With sufficient manipulation of the rota , it would be possible to arrange for the work-force to have been working for the same number of hours at different times of the day — condition ( 2 ) . |
| 6 | I wonder if , even at this late stage , it might be possible to arrange for the loan of an item from your collections for our forthcoming exhibition on John Slezer , of which you may already be aware . |
| 7 | Where this is not feasible , it may at least be possible to arrange for the experts to see the child together . |
| 8 | That goes for the whole Scottish team , poised between the extinction of their American dream and a famous victory . |
| 9 | ‘ That goes for the rest of the team . |
| 10 | That goes for the well-meaning GPs , health visitors and breastfeeding counsellors as well as the woman down the road who fed four babies herself until they were two years old ! |
| 11 | And that goes for the doctors I admire as well . |
| 12 | And that goes for the Bucks Badger group as well . |
| 13 | In a game similar to that devised for the radio show Desert Island Discs , we listed those who would get one bullet from a six-gun , and placed them in order of preference , much in the way the FBI listed the top wanted men in the USA . |
| 14 | ( The main reasons for taking this approach is that for dynamic handwriting recognition it is necessary to select the correct information shortly after the word was written — it may not be possible to wait for the user to finish a sentence or clause . ) |
| 15 | She wrote to me saying that in this place she found it possible to forgive for the first time and then return home to seek reconciliation . |
| 16 | This was done for all posts in the industry and the data were computerised in a similar manner to that undertaken for the study posts . |
| 17 | Above them , as far as it was possible to see for the blood , he wore a striped knitted pullover over a navy jumper . |
| 18 | The Programme will be the same as that organised for the 9th Jan . |
| 19 | What this illustrates is that , notwithstanding the progress made in the past two years , the reforms in themselves have done little to compensate for the long term underfunding of the NHS . |
| 20 | While this is a welcome help it does little to compensate for the difference in service provision between the urban and rural areas . |
| 21 | This regulation was exploited by over 1,000 pro-Indian individuals and organizations each applying for the opportunity to participate in the hearings and thereby assist Harper in delaying a vote . |
| 22 | Party Change Total seats Socialist Party ( PS ) +4 70 Rally for the Republic ( RPR ) -1 90 Communist party ( PCF ) -1 15 Democratic and European Rally ( RDE ) -1 22 Centrist Union ( UC ) -2 66 Independents and Republicans ( RI ) * -4 47 Independents +4 10 |
| 23 | Let me say I believed that the wrongs of women were interconnected with and subsidiary to the wrongs of man ; that to work for the revolution was to work , indirectly , for women . |
| 24 | This structure differs from that found for the related H5 histone genes , where less than 150 bp of the proximal promoter region seems to be sufficient to ensure basal level transcription ( 19 ) . |
| 25 | Phosphorus accumulation reached a maximum during the deposition of unit VI ( Table 1a ) when the per capita output of 0.31–0.54kgyr -1 was similar to that reported for the Classic Maya . |
| 26 | Works on show include a ‘ Virgin and Child ’ by Badile ; a ‘ Road to Calvary ’ by the Bolognese Aureliano Milani ; an ‘ Apollo and Marsyas ’ of circa 1805 by Cammerino ; a ‘ Bacchus and Ariadne ’ by Pelagi , probably from an album of around 1802 made for the Accademia della Pace ; and a red chalk study of a hand by Lorenzo Tiepolo . |
| 27 | ‘ Does all this account for the proposed development at the pottery ? ’ |
| 28 | His own depression was compounded now with this global malaise , a process he found paradoxically satisfying ; it was acceptable to weep for the dusky seaside sparrow , but not for oneself . |
| 29 | ‘ No , I am not prepared to wait for the trial . |
| 30 | However , Ferguson , despite some disappointment at Hughes ' goal ratio — he struck only 14 times in 52 appearances last season — is prepared to wait for the Welshman 's response . |