Example sentences of "[adj] and [noun sg] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | When I heard a friend was willing to part with some of his things , I swapped my Game Boy , games , light and case for 3′ tank , internal filter , two heaters , and most important of all , a breeding pair of Angels . |
| 2 | There was a substantial body of opinion which would support the view that , whatever convictions were held on the merits , it would be inopportune to introduce this experiment in the unsettled conditions following a major war , when the number of violent crimes was abnormally high and respect for the sanctity of human life had inevitably been impaired by the circumstances of war . |
| 3 | This critic may have been thinking of a well-known passage in one of the Nativity sermons in which Andrewes keeps up a series of puns in Hebrew , Latin and English for three pages on the word Emmanuel : ‘ If it be not Immanu-el , it will be Immanu-hell … . |
| 4 | Never mind , ’ said Breeze valiantly , ‘ perhaps if we 're awfully careful and cheese-paring for the next forty years or so , we may end our days in some sweet little cottage with roses round the door … ’ |
| 5 | However they still have good players — Zlatko Vujovic , Stojkovic and Susic for example — and England will have an opportunity to check them out at Wembley next week . |
| 6 | However , if it was too weak and watered down a version of Presbyterianism for the Scots , it none the less proved far too rigid and alien for the majority of the English laity . |
| 7 | Add the chopped spinach and mint and bubble for a minute or two until the spinach is soft . |
| 8 | Add the chopped spinach and mint and bubble for a minute or two until the spinach is soft . |
| 9 | They may also start with an individual and search for a location . |
| 10 | In other words , having debited principal and interest for loans raised to operating statements , rates had to be collected at least to cover those repayments ( S. 2 , General Rate Act 1967 ) . |
| 11 | ‘ Careful consideration should be given to re-marketing the restaurant by introducing a style of menu that is more appropriate in style , content and price for the identified target markets , ’ Horton says . |
| 12 | ( Or whatever feels appropriate and right for you . ) |
| 13 | Although it included the Byzantine penalties of blinding and mutilation for certain offences , it was far in advance of the legal practices of many medieval states , and it was the first comprehensive legal code amongst the South Slavs . |
| 14 | Then we declare row t and column u unavailable and search for the smallest in the remaining available rows and columns , say , and set , declaring row v and column w unavailable . |
| 15 | He told me some hair-raising stories of the casual , careless way in which bodies can be handled at the undertaker 's and in transit , the most common being losing the coffin on the way to the funeral because the doors have not been properly secured or the wrong name-plates having been attached , resulting in great distress to the relations of the deceased and confusion for the minister concerned , all of which made our dealings with Nigel seem positively reverential ! |
| 16 | Braque , on the other hand , wanted to paint these distances or spaces , to make them as real and concrete for the spectator as the objects themselves . |
| 17 | Not not quite a law for the rich and law for the poor , |
| 18 | During the First World War the little colony of gifted foreigners in Montparnasse and French artists unfit for military service was increasingly shunned by the rest of society at a time when xenophobia was rife and contempt for any man out of uniform was universal . |
| 19 | Balfour 's charm was too subtle and serpentine for him . |
| 20 | The ‘ Minister of the Crown ’ role was hung on little Colin Moynihan for a day or two while everyone tried not to laugh ; he was , after all , only just over five foot tall and Minister for Sport and he had , after all , not slept with Pamella , only been with her at the Winter Ball . |
| 21 | My family 's complete and life for me is just beginning . |
| 22 | Portable treatment couches are usually too narrow and lightweight for treating a hemiplegic patient . |
| 23 | Victorian Gothic it certainly is , and looks wonderfully strong and solid and right for its hard-working and worthy owner , who was not averse to a little picturesque grouping of steep roofs and gables and the addition of a narrow corner tower . |
| 24 | The funding formula is to include provision for special needs within the mainstream and funding for statemented pupils lies outside the formula . |
| 25 | This road we also notice leads from King 's Road [ Pancras Way ] as a back entrance to Professor Coleman 's residence and garden , and to his stable , coach-house and kennel for his dogs — which , however , we understood he rarely used except in the shooting season . |
| 26 | His movements were far too quick and self-assured for her efforts to succeed . |
| 27 | The cervix ( the neck of the womb ) remains soft and elastic for some time and the vagina remains distended , but these will return to normal with time although the vaginal outlet will be permanently widened from its original state . |
| 28 | ( As far as modern women are concerned , an analogous situation must exist in which the demands of civilization — principally incest-avoidance and respect for the paternal authority — represent a recent and indeed onerous imposition on an earlier instinctual nexus which knew nothing of this , indeed which perhaps was the foundation of that submissiveness to male aggressiveness which still seems to underlie the female sexual constitution . |
| 29 | Similarly do occurs as a lexical verb but also as a purely grammatical element whose function is to carry tense and negation for the lexical verb . |
| 30 | The outcome was a £250 fine and disqualification for two seasons . |