Example sentences of "[adv] [noun] [verb] for [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | • Algae magnets can be used to hold down lettuce leaves for herbivorous fish . |
| 2 | A leopardess heavy with young is at an obvious disadvantage when it comes to hunting , so nature compensates for this by making her pregnancy a short one of 90–105 days . |
| 3 | The main part of the investigation consists in a survey of Soviet archival and published sources , especially periodicals intended for industrial organisers . |
| 4 | Mr Gorbachev had said there were no longer prisoners convicted for political or religious beliefs , and most prisoners of conscience known to the West had been released . |
| 5 | Most , speaking no English , have been handing over notes asking for political asylum . |
| 6 | Why , oh why , is not internment introduced for all known paramilitaries of all kinds . |
| 7 | Not Beethoven playing for everyday listening perhaps , but rather a fine wine , to be pondered over , and deliberated upon at length before its true quality most fully reveals itself . |
| 8 | Under a joint WWF/EEC programme , funds have already beeb allocated for anti-poaching activities in Kenya and Tanzania , where the poaching and elephant population declines have been particularly drastic . |
| 9 | Nevertheless recipes abounded for eggless , sugarless , fatless , fruitless cakes , sweet and savory pastries , puddings and biscuits . |
| 10 | One nationalist leader read out a list of ‘ traitors ’ on Belgrade Television , mostly Serbs working for Serbian radio and TV . |
| 11 | And there are always builders looking for cheap properties to renovate . |
| 12 | However , the higher ground in Scotland and Wales is usually snow covered for several months in winter . |
| 13 | To compensate for the absence of transitions Jelinek used backing off formulae to account for missing transitions . |
| 14 | Nevertheless , local newspaper reports say Peking is concerned that this could further fuel calls for greater democracy in Hong Kong , where the British government now seems more committed to increasing the pace of political reform . |
| 15 | There was hardly room to move for large chairs and cupboards . |
| 16 | Sun Microsystems Inc has a new desktop SBus Expansion Subsystem that provides three more SBus slots for several of the its workstations and servers , and enables use of single and double width boards ; it also accommodates up to two 424Mb disk drives and will be available from Sun Microsystems Computer Corp and SunExpress at $2,500 in July . |
| 17 | Still others search for new religious forms , or invent their own in a small group or sect . |
| 18 | In the early days both methods co-existed for some time in Great Britain , but the adherents of each method campaigned against one another here and elsewhere in Europe until towards the close of the nineteenth century , when oralism for the time being triumphed in all European countries . |
| 19 | She had managed to squeeze herself into such a small space in the saddle that there was practically room left for two men . |
| 20 | Although what use could dear Alfred have for any of them ? she wondered . |
| 21 | ‘ Are you so afraid of being wrong that you 're prepared to put up warning notices for those involved ? ’ |
| 22 | The recommendations state , ‘ Time should be provided for education , by means of hospital based programmes relevant to this stage of the doctors ’ training and also time allowed for private study . ’ |
| 23 | The US Congress has dreamed up the Mary Whitehouse chip , a circuit that the television industry would be required to build into television sets , enabling parents to block out programmes coded for violent content : according to Associated Press , the chip was thought up by Representative Edward Markey , a Democrat from Massachusetts and chairman of the House Energy & Commerce subcommittee on telecommunications — the parent could just push the v-block button on the remote control and keep violent programming out of the home , ’ he said reckoning that if only 10% or 15% of all homes started blocking programmes , broadcasters and advertisers would soon get the message . |
| 24 | In Denmark , private investors have been successfully encouraged to build their own small wind turbines and now wind accounts for one per cent of electricity consumed there . |
| 25 | If the relocation package appears very favourable , the company may find itself paying out relocation costs for more staff than it had budgeted for . |
| 26 | Today , as the massive clear-up operation got underway traders called for extra security measures including the installation of cameras . |
| 27 | Typically companies designing for automated assembly fall into the central band shown in Figure 5.13 , and include product/ideas-based and skills/ideas-based companies , all dealing with a mixture of over and underconstrained problems . |
| 28 | The pharaoh had thrown out beliefs held for two thousand years , rejecting them as superstitions , and replaced them all by a single god , whose spirit could not be contained in images , whose love extended to all people , and who lived in the power of the sunlight . |
| 29 | However , Save & Prosper , with about £175m held for 37,000 Tessa customers , says that only about 10% to 15% came from existing customers — about 85% is new to the group . |
| 30 | Now Oxford hope for similar results . |