Example sentences of "[vb pp] for the [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The decision … is to be determined by the most worthless votes given for the most worthless candidates " . |
| 2 | These techniques were developed for the perfectly legitimate ‘ bronzing ’ and ‘ antiquing ’ of patently modern metalwork , but could also be used by the faker with less honest motives . |
| 3 | Our model adjusted for the most obvious of these ( age and smoking ) , but there may be other unidentified factors . |
| 4 | He 's always fallen for the really pretty ones , she said . |
| 5 | In the most serious corruption scandal to face the government of President Violeta Barrios de Chamorro , the Comptroller-General Guillermo Potoy made public on July 17 a report which accused a former deputy Minister of the Presidency , Antonio Ibarra , of misappropriating US$1,000,000 in foreign aid funds intended for the most disadvantaged sectors . |
| 6 | An assessment framework was developed by the SSCC study team for trial as a preliminary stage of the SMP scheme intended for the very lowest attaining third and fourth year students . |
| 7 | And Clara saw that Mrs Hanney 's ignominy was complete , for this programme , the name of which her mother so evidently did not forget , was considered by her mother to be the very lowest form of entertainment available , designed for the exceptionally stupid and depraved . |
| 8 | Shop bought cosmetics tend to be designed for the more common skin types and colourings — specialist cosmetics are difficult to find , and if they do exist , are usually expensive . |
| 9 | examine other aids to mobility ( e.g. special compasses designed for the visually impaired ) . |
| 10 | The kitchen had one small window , the parlour two , one looking out over Brodick Bay , the other inland ; joined to this main building were various outhouses , each having a door , a window , a box-bed , a small deal table , a candlestick , and a wash-basin of its own : these were let for the most part to single gentlemen , though now and again she had also lady lodgers . |
| 11 | All new replacement PCs should be of higher specification than existing machines , which will then be freed for stand-alone use , and it is recommended that SCSI boards should be installed for the more efficient use of peripherals . |
| 12 | They were confined for the most part to the close proximity of the waterways and some parts of the country hardly knew them at all . |
| 13 | False positive results with a persistently elevated creatine kinase activity have been reported for the dominantly inherited but benign blood anomaly in which the creatine kinase BB isoenzyme is elevated in erythrocytes and thrombocytes . |
| 14 | For both males and females there is a U-shaped pattern of consultations , with the highest rates being reported for the very young . |
| 15 | Malcolm , myself and Chris went round I think it was two days before , looked for the well it 's a lot tidier that it was the previous time because of the new racking . |
| 16 | This plant needs very special attention and therefore is only recommended for the more experienced aquarist . |
| 17 | Furthermore , nutritional treatment tended to be recommended for the more symptomatic and already growth impaired children . |
| 18 | A mini-bus operates to and from the town three times a day although car hire is recommended for the less energetic . |
| 19 | During the 1860s the energy of the radicals was absorbed for the most part in rebellion against the values and conventions of the educated world from which they sprang . |
| 20 | The House of Commons Treasury and Civil Service Committee has argued for the more active use of fiscal policy ( in other words a more aggressive use of tax cuts in recession ) because of the constraints on interest rate changes caused by ERM membership . |
| 21 | They were then very pleased to read in the book that it had been done for the very same reasons . |
| 22 | When allowance is made for the rather lower gravity of Venus than of the Earth , and the consequent lower degree of internal compression , then the uncompressed densities of the Earth and Venus would be similar . |
| 23 | The award will be made for the most outstanding achievement between 1st August 1991 and 31st July 1992 , and will be presented at the RSGB 's annual convention in September . |
| 24 | But when due allowance has been made for the very various functions of castles , as administrative and social as well as military centres , it remains true that they were formidable military weapons , and that some of the most remarkable technological advances of the twelfth century were made in the improvement of siege engines and of a castle 's defences . |
| 25 | … to report what reforms should be made for the more convenient , economic and efficient disposal of the civil and criminal business at present dealt with by these courts … |
| 26 | While the Treaty as a whole was deeply humiliating to Germany , it was accepted for the most part with a sullen resignation and silent disgust . |
| 27 | Having worked offshore on oil platforms for the last 13 years , Derry and Fran were well prepared for the rather isolated nature of life on the island . |
| 28 | But if the public expected from the Berliners memorable Beethoven and even more memorable Brahms ( a Brahms cycle appeared in 1964 ) , they were perhaps less prepared for the miraculously fluid Debussy record that appeared in 1964 — La Mer and Prélude à l'après-midi d'un faune coupled with the Second Suite from Ravel 's Daphnis et Chloé — or recordings of Sibelius 's Fourth or Fifth symphonies that quite eclipsed the earlier Philharmonia recording , and the Shostakovich Tenth . |
| 29 | Development , or modernization , has been seen for the most part in terms of a simple distinction between ‘ traditional ’ and ‘ modern ’ , ‘ underdeveloped ’ and ‘ developed ’ , ‘ agrarian ’ and ‘ industrial ’ societies , in the context of the present time , or of very recent history . |
| 30 | What would be the first thing , people tend to do when they 've met for the very first time ? |