Example sentences of "[det] [adj] [noun] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Plants have little specific focus for mind energy , such as we see it in the brain and central nervous system of insects and higher species . |
| 2 | and er anyway our Dawn says I 'm not paying all that bloody money for babe to rip it off for when |
| 3 | ‘ I 've had enough of that bloody scrump for one night , ’ he growled . |
| 4 | I ca n't see in that bloody fridge for love nor money . |
| 5 | He had stood there with left arm aloft and right arm horizontal and remained in that statuesque position for some thirty seconds . |
| 6 | For example , ‘ it is self-evident that enslavement as a form of punishment is impossible without a slave economy ; that prison labour is impossible without manufacture or industry , that monetary fines for all classes of society are impossible without a monetary economy ’ . |
| 7 | Bailey does n't go for idiots , he 's not a … what 's that awful word for women ? … bimbo man . ’ |
| 8 | Isabel stared at that strong hand for several seconds before lifting her gaze to fitzAlan 's face . |
| 9 | This was based on the assumption that once supranational institutions had been set up in one economic sector , interest groups would look to that political level for the realisation of their demands , and that in time the groups would begin to appreciate the value to themselves of integration . |
| 10 | We may thus argue that /a/ functions for women as a network marker to a greater extent than it does for men ; by this we mean that there is for them a higher correlation between choice of variant and network structure , a tendency to select relatively backed variants being associated with higher levels of integration into the community . |
| 11 | Request : that eternal campaigner for true justice was asked if he would consider writing a foreword for a book titled ‘ An Eye For An Eye , A Tooth For A Tooth ’ . |
| 12 | Critics of this view variously suggest that Socialist propensity to ‘ violence ’ anticipated that of the right ; that unnecessary enemies for the Republic were created by anticlericalism and , in general , too narrow a view on the part of the left as to what constituted acceptable ‘ Republican ’ values , credentials and behaviour ; and that the CEDA , a potentially Christian Democratic party which might have evolved in a genuinely democratic direction , was actually forced rightwards by the conduct of the left . |
| 13 | His mother noted the start and end times of each rocking session for every morning for one week . |
| 14 | I did not date the typed copy I made — for Dana could not or would not type , and after we had finished a poem to our common satisfaction , I had to type it out while he rested on the bed — but I am fairly certain it was written soon after I met Dana in that Spanish class for foreigners , which I have noted in my 1957 Letts Diary : ‘ Wednesday , October 16 . |
| 15 | Otherwise , they fear , there will be little public support for the policies on health and welfare , national service and education , which both they and Mr Clinton want to see . |
| 16 | Reality , in York as elsewhere , means precious little public protection for our pubs and heavy reliance on the better nature of the brewers credit — brewers such as Samuel Smith 's , for for their loving and appropriately ‘ benign neglect ’ of a low-barrelage , unpretentious gem like The Wellington Inn in Alma Terrace , York . |
| 17 | For they will make each muddy lake for Essex calves a pasture . |
| 18 | We need to find people to buy these places so that we can sort of balance the books , but one wonders , you know , could n't something have been done with that empty building for two years while there are folk in the area with nowhere to live . |
| 19 | But what if they were obliged to seek that elusive spring for the good of those they 'd orphaned and anguished ? |
| 20 | Jealous , without admitting that gut-tearing feeling for what it was until recently . ’ |
| 21 | It is surprising how many herbs can thus be fitted in before that agonizing search for a space for yet another indispensable plant proves that the only vacancy is the concrete path surrounding the dustbins . |
| 22 | I said to her what the hell would anybody be getting involved in all that damp nonsense for ? |
| 23 | and I 've only just started , still got two people outstanding so I 've got that forty pound and I put that into the building society and use that forty pounds for months see so it kind of like saved it for me , I 've managed , had to do without it |
| 24 | We can conclude only that unequivocal evidence for the existence of the special short-term version of latent inhibition posited by Wagner 's theory has yet to emerge . |
| 25 | Approaching the fabliaux with a mind prepared to find moral instruction in the texts , however unpromising they might superficially seem to be for such interpretation , is something that we can reconstruct as an authentic medieval mode of reading — " " All that is written is written for our doctrine " " as St Paul has it — although there is little direct evidence for the application of such literary theory to vernacular literature as well as the classics before the fourteenth century , and even then the extent of such application is difficult to assess . |
| 26 | Although scholars have noticed instability in initial h spellings in early English , the traditional view is that there is little reliable evidence for ‘ [ h ] -dropping ’ in English much before the end of the eighteenth century , and earlier instability in spelling is usually dismissed as unreliable in handbook accounts . |
| 27 | There is little social provision for single-parent families and , indeed , government policy is much more favourable to the widowed parent than to the divorced parent , even if their situations are very similar . |
| 28 | So there is little social embarrassment for the shy . |
| 29 | Disknet gives the user no other choice than to stick to a routine of checking each incoming diskette for viruses . |
| 30 | Disknet gives the user no other choice than to stick to a routine of checking each incoming diskette for viruses . |