Example sentences of "[noun sg] for the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | DEC is trying to gain visibility for the 661 companies it says are converting programmes for Alpha RISC . |
| 2 | The prismed bomb aimer 's station provided excellent visibility for the pin-point accuracy required . |
| 3 | He was recruited because a man could not be found to act as porter for the annual salary of £27 . |
| 4 | In another entry the master had sent the porter for the medical officer at three o'clock in the morning to attend a single woman in childbirth . |
| 5 | Mr Bullins , porter at Magdalen College for forty years , and senior porter for the last ten , put on his bowler hat and the bland expression he always assumed on such occasions , and walked to staircase III in New Buildings , overlooking the Deer Park , where E. A. J. de Chavigny had some of the most desirable rooms in college . |
| 6 | One hang-up for the profit-motivated British garage is that they feel it is not worth taking on work for less than a tenner . |
| 7 | The field-work for the first was conducted in 1964 as part of the research for the Committee on the Management of Local Government . |
| 8 | Geriatrics became a serious medical specialty for the first time . |
| 9 | The key feature of effective mentor schemes is a genuine consistent interest on the part of the mentor for the young person . |
| 10 | She never bought more , nor less , than she would need for her housekeeping for the next 24 hours . |
| 11 | Steve , who has won the Isle of Man race eight times and holds the outright lap record , will be arriving with his latest bike for the 1992 racing season . |
| 12 | Le Roux wanted to create an industrial miniconglomerate which would finance the development of a new Norton bike for the Nineties : the rotary-engined F1 , a sleek , stylish , jet-black , light and aerodynamic superbike . |
| 13 | Three days later 100 paramilitary carabinieri were sent to the island , to join another 100 who were already providing protection for the 5,000 troops ( largely conscripts ) who since July 21 had been stationed there , ostensibly for training exercises . |
| 14 | Perhaps recognising the risk , Malaysia has used tariffs only as a temporary form of protection for the first-comer investor in certain sectors , like television sets . |
| 15 | Indeed the Committee even extended this logic to a position whereby they felt themselves able to justify the decriminalisation of adult homosexual behaviour in private as a form of protection for the young : |
| 16 | The spur — which must be 2.5mm 2 cable — runs to a fused connection unit ( FCU ) , which should contain a 5amp fuse to provide the correct fuse protection for the new lighting sub-circuit . |
| 17 | In all three parts " reasonable " means providing no more than relevant and necessary protection for the legitimate interest of the covenantee . |
| 18 | What better protection for the rich world 's vanishing wildlife than a tract of land that stays untouched because people are frightened to visit ? |
| 19 | Captain George Sutherland , director of marine operations for Shetland Island Council , said : ‘ The proposals for traffic separation should go a long way to providing protection for the adjacent coastline and we are content with the measures . ’ |
| 20 | Events have also shown that in this day and age the exercise of a right to silence affords protection for the guilty and is unnecessary to safeguard the innocent . |
| 21 | The use of copper as a protection for the underwater parts of ships ' hulls had been suggested in England as early as 1708 and by the 1770s it had been generally adopted throughout the navy . |
| 22 | The protection of that model , and the benefits of legal charisma to individual clients , is the justifica-tion for the claims to power and privilege — power to determine the conditions of practice independently of the state and privilege in state protection for the monopolistic economic basis of that practice . |
| 23 | But life has got too complicated to understand : the vote is no longer sufficient protection for the working man . |
| 24 | The Stabil , according to adidas , offers both stability and protection for the advanced player , while the ‘ direct contact ’ feel required by serious players can be found in the Tennis Lite . |
| 25 | adidas ' Tennis Stabil offers both stability and protection for the advanced player |
| 26 | It would certainly create more work for the lawyers but would not add a great deal of protection for the ordinary person . |
| 27 | And therefore more protection for the middle peasants . |
| 28 | So there is , there is this very clear and I think very substantial protection for the middle peasant . |
| 29 | Perhaps some consideration might be additionally given to the current situation regarding the lack of protection for the current situation regarding the lack of protection for the interiors of unlisted buildings within conservation areas … ’ |
| 30 | The American law of libel , including as it does no protection for the individual politician as well as political institutions , goes further along the road of freedom of the press than the English law ; nor would I wish to extend it . |