Example sentences of "[vb -s] for the [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This , of course , is a popular subject : it seems particularly attractive to the poet-turned-novelist because of the scope it offers for the tremulously sensitive probing of feelings . |
| 2 | Horse riding : Available every day , as well as horse drawn carriage rides for the less energetic ! |
| 3 | Why is it everyone goes for the most difficult car parking spot ? |
| 4 | and after a time you know you say ha and you just because the lawyer for the other side always goes for the very worst scenario |
| 5 | The most direct approach leaves the village by way of Glen Canisp , taking advantage of a rough road to a shooting lodge and then continuing on a good track along the north base of the mountain until opposite the obvious saddle ; here the track , which heads for the more orthodox mountain of Canisp , is left and a watery beeline made for the foot of the gully descending from the saddle . |
| 6 | The scheme is generally considered successful in making science more enjoyable and accessible for students , though the goal of independent practical work by students has for the most part not been achieved . |
| 7 | By not considering the results of case management practice and research in greater depth and learning more about the value it has for the most needy clients of the health and welfare system , we are in danger of failing to learn the lessons which others have learned , and of having to re-live their mistakes . |
| 8 | In the interests of conciseness and convention , it is necessary to use here the suffix notation for vector equations which has for the most part been avoided in this book ( the other main exception being the appendix to Chapter 5 ) . |
| 9 | The " experience of men of our race and culture " in fact stands for the quite narrow culture of which the report itself forms a part . |
| 10 | She dresses for the most part in a pink frilly fairy costume in which she walks down to the beach , paints , dances and collects snails . |
| 11 | A HOSPICE which cares for the terminally ill is holding a special fund-raising week . |
| 12 | Colour both shatters the possibility of an overdetermining unity , yet through the distribution of coloured masses allows for the somewhat antagonistic oblique spaces of these block-like fragments to be transposed . |
| 13 | This collection of problems , divided into sections , ranges widely over physics , and a special feature is the provision of hints and part answers for the more difficult problems , which precede the final list of complete answers . |
| 14 | Day Out : Siobhan Dolan and Owen Slot list shows for the scientifically minded |
| 15 | It is highly significant that the two texts which Sartre chooses for the most part to ignore are L's Chiens de garde and Le Cheval de Troie , the two texts where Nizan 's communist party allegiances are most clearly visible . |
| 16 | Not surprisingly , Reilly has gone for tried and tested players , with few surprises , as he prepares for the most important assignment in his five-year international coaching reign . |
| 17 | Are we all prepared to accept these price increases for the sometimes dubious advantage of seeing our environment improved ? |
| 18 | Business men find it especially odd that the Labour party intends to introduce a minimum wage with one hand while with the other hand it would remove our tax cuts for the lowest paid . |
| 19 | Towards the end of the decade , however , Rogernomics became associated with economic stagnation , growing inflation and , consequently , high interest rates , cuts in the welfare state and growing income disparities arising from tax cuts for the highest paid . |
| 20 | The Scottish National Sports Centre at Glenmore Lodge in Aviemore is offering special activity breaks for the over 50s . |
| 21 | The number is easy to divide by 8 as it consists for the most part of successive multiples of 8 . |
| 22 | That accounts for the particularly speedy data transfer and seek times you can see in the benchmarks box . |
| 23 | This circulating cold water accounts for the anomalously low mean temperatures of eastern Antarctic Peninsula . |
| 24 | In the nineteenth century the company survived periods of economic difficulty ; important progress was made in the use of new machinery , the introduction of the first coloured earthenware bodies and the manufacture of bone china which now accounts for the most valuable part of the company 's export trade . |
| 25 | The view just proposed accounts for the rather curious fact that there are no passive constructions followed by the to infinitive with the verb watch , as both Fries ( 1964 : 21 ) and Mittwoch ( 1990 : 119 ) have pointed out : ( 75 ) He was seen to cross the street . |
| 26 | It was therefore considered appropriate to assign responses such as these to the ‘ other ’ rather than the ‘ no ’ category and this accounts for the rather unusual statistics . |
| 27 | But the utilitarian function of keeping church walls dry hardly accounts for the occasionally bizarre juxtaposition of the sacred and profane : Christ and the saints among the foully contorted and pagan fertility symbols , the Virgin Mary elbowed by giants ( usually depicted with both hands pulling back fierce lips ) . |
| 28 | This diversity accounts for the mutually contradictory complaints that are frequently voiced by village locals : that the newcomers come in and try to run everything or that they take no part in village life and are not ‘ involved ’ . |
| 29 | This conditioning idea , absent in the that-clause construction , is what I believe accounts for the less factual tone of the infinitival structure : explicitly evoking one 's knowledge as the condition allowing one to assert something ( rather than flatly stating one 's awareness of a fact ) tends to suggest that what one is saying is a personal opinion rather than a matter of objective fact . |
| 30 | They have two openings on each side of the skull which made it more like a scaffolding , and accounts for the unusually high number of archosaur skulls broken into small fragments . |