Example sentences of "[vb base] for the [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Conversely , ‘ the simultaneous and combined economic and political struggle of European workers … helps account for the more articulated class character of [ their ] labour movements ’ ( Kassalow , 1982 , p. 210 ) directed against a very visible and expanding bourgeoisie and , in part , a response to a more repressive state apparatus ( Geary , 1981 ) . |
| 2 | The latissimus dorsi account for the very impressive ‘ V ’ shape of athletes and bodybuilders . |
| 3 | They were not creative artists but they were and still remain for the most part arbiters of technique and the niceties of perfect performance . |
| 4 | With COSMOS all children 2 to 15 years of age at the time of return travel qualify for the specially reduced child prices advertised in the holiday pages as long as they share a room with 2 adults . |
| 5 | They provide for the less committed who still wish to enjoy some of the fruits of the soccer culture . |
| 6 | Such memory differences appear instead to be limited to the single arousing item and not appear for the immediately following ones although general physiological arousal would be expected to still be present . |
| 7 | And here I apologise for the rather poor sound quality , but he refused to shut his parrot and dogs in another room during the interview . |
| 8 | Shirley Hughes 's The Big Alfie Out of Doors Storybook ( TS403 — one cassette ; 33 minutes ) read by Thora Hird is a lovely listen for the very young and more than tolerable for their elders . |
| 9 | Bobby Robson was there to assess World Cup candidates , but nothing positive emerged from 90 minutes of scuffling that made one almost yearn for the more measured boredom of Rangers ' European Cup exit in Munich three days earlier . |
| 10 | WHEN JUGGLING YOUR FINANCES AT HOME AND WORK , WHY TOSS A COIN AND HOPE FOR THE BEST ? |
| 11 | He agreed that they could disembark at Peterborough and wait for the 2.30pm train . |
| 12 | When you begin classifying , look for the most obvious groups first . |
| 13 | I suggest that we proceed along those lines and look for the most economic way to alleviate my constituents ' problems while not doing too much damage to my hon. Friend 's constituents . |
| 14 | Look for the more creative solution — the tried and true do n't always bring the best results . |
| 15 | It is widely available as Tumbleweed and Greenscape but if you have a large area to treat ( say 500m2 ) , look for the more economical Roundup GC . |
| 16 | The only thing that could warp the way that the band goes is the media , because they lie for the most part ; they come up with their own reasons and their own interpretations and people just believe what they read . ’ |
| 17 | My view of the exhibition and these complementary texts is that they seem for the most part to lack the critical motivation and the dialectical irony of the Situationists . |
| 18 | Very broadly residential homes cater for the physically frail whereas nursing homes/long-stay hospital care is more likely to cater for the mentally frail . |
| 19 | If you are planning to cope with very large lawns , or use the trimmer for keeping an orchard under control , opt for the more durable petrol-engined version . |
| 20 | Most opt for the more mundane pursuits as their peers abandon their grand schemes and resign themselves to working in an office , a factory , a building site , or taking a cushioning three years in tertiary education . |
| 21 | He said consumers would handle various conventional materials such as cotton , and Tencel garments , and then opt for the more expensive Tencel version . |
| 22 | If you opt for the once a week regime , apply the oils three times a day if possible , otherwise once a day is enough . |
| 23 | The theories considered so far deal for the most part with major changes in the form of society , but it is evident that there are more continuous , relatively small-scale changes which affect political life . |
| 24 | Climbing sports originate for the most part from bush types ‘ sporting ’ extra long canes which still bear the same flowers as the parent . |
| 25 | if they would only produce the same styles that they produce for the up to size twelve . |
| 26 | Editorial standards in the media operate for the most part well inside those limits , with the criminal law invoked chiefly against publications which have as their primary function the exploitation of those limits through material traded as ‘ forbidden fruit ’ . |
| 27 | It may also be equally true that disincentive effects operate for the very low and the low income-earners where any increase in earnings is counter-balanced — sometimes more than counter-balanced — by a corresponding loss of benefits . |
| 28 | McLeish stopped at the door of the interview room and looked in through the spy-hole , wanting to get some feel for the evidently hostile and , by all accounts , neurotic Penelope Huntley . |
| 29 | In the Janacek second string quartet Intimate Letters that followed they really cracked the idiom , playing with a perceptive feel for the uniquely arhythmic phrasing that echoes that of the Czech language . |
| 30 | We apologize for the somewhat chaotic state of affairs on Saturday and the slight lateness in some runs . |