Example sentences of "[adv] [noun] [vb -s] 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 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | ‘ Are you so afraid of being wrong that you 're prepared to put up warning notices for those involved ? ’ |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | If the relocation package appears very favourable , the company may find itself paying out relocation costs for more staff than it had budgeted for . |
| 8 | That worked well , certainly in France , where Alsace accounts for 45 per cent of white appellation contrôlée wine consumed . |
| 9 | I just wonder when Mr asks for other figures from the independent sector what would have happened if the figures that you 've got before you today had actually come from the private sector . |
| 10 | While the Fugue is delicate and the voices emerge well , it is also slightly under tempo and the Forlane sounds sleepy at crotchet=76 where Ravel asks for 96 , although the final E major episode is closer to the marked pace . |
| 11 | Figure 3.1 offers a possible starting-point for explaining why science has for many people ruled out religion . |
| 12 | Those constraints have gone now , and yet Haines says for various reasons we should not expect to see future AS/400s challenging the top-end mainframe market , although it will become a stronger challenger around the low-end and middle of Enterprise System 's territory . |