Example sentences of "[adv] [vb base] [noun] for [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When designing your garden , plan to include shrubs like pyracantha and Berberis darwinii that give flowers all year round and thereby provide food for wildlife . |
| 2 | Tap the first letter of the command ( eg Tap T for Transfer ) . |
| 3 | I constantly cut trails for use indoors . |
| 4 | Lastly some art societies only accept pictures for exhibition not less than 10×8 in . |
| 5 | The best that could be achieved in western Europe was a dispersed defensive strategy which would bog down an offensive , in case of war , and so give time for negotiation . |
| 6 | The solicitors for P & O , the owners of the Townsend Thoresen ferry Herald of Free Enterprise , naturally face claims for loss of or damage to vehicles . |
| 7 | Single-stranded 30 base long oligonucleotide probes for tumour necrosis factor α and interleukin 1Β were supplied by British Biotechnology ( Oxford , UK ) . |
| 8 | While there is no way of knowing whether these rates of erosion are typical or atypical of Andean regions in general , the data nevertheless give cause for concern and emphasise the role of soil erosion as a major agent of environmental change . |
| 9 | Same 's true of the individual , of course : just read psyche for midden . ’ |
| 10 | For if nature is offering a sturdy resistance to man 's efforts to wring from her a larger supply of raw material , while at that particular stage there is no great room for introducing important new economies into the manufacture , the supply price will rise ; but if the volume of production were greater , it would perhaps be profitable to substitute largely machine work for hand work and steam power for muscular force ; and the increase in the volume of production would have diminished the expenses of production of the commodity of our representative firm . [ … ] |
| 11 | My own answer to that difficult question would be : Because language has the effect that relationships , which among other creatures are generated by inbuilt , genetically endowed , " instincts " ( as in the social insects ) , or by individual stimulus/response mechanisms ( as in the mating behaviours of birds and mammals ) , are , in man , reified as verbal concepts , and thus become matters for group determination rather than individual determination . |
| 12 | Well the only way we can see is to turn to the , to the physicists and the computer experts and to remove the chemical steps from our analytical scheme and use the speed and precision of the newer types of maschotrometer We already use auto-samplers for gas chromatography but now we need to bypass chemical steps . |
| 13 | This is not at all surprising given the insistence by magistrates on the uniqueness of the cases appearing before them , which is why they utterly reject calls for consistency ( Parker et al. , 1999 ) , since these are seen to betray an ignorance of their own unique role in deciding each case on its particular merits . |
| 14 | One such package is supplied by Cordingly Barnes : Pastel Accounting , the successor to TurboCASH , recently achieved the 1992 Best Buy award for budget software from Which Computer ? — beating both Pegasus and Sage . |
| 15 | Cringing cats desperately hug buildings for cover , dealing with their inherited agrophobia in the best way they can . |
| 16 | And once caught they usually remain customers for life . |
| 17 | Omagh sisters Olivia ( 15 ) and nine-year-old Laura McGuckin also still make time for story books outside the classroom . |
| 18 | Economic projects tend to support companies and infrastructural provision ; social and community projects usually involve funding for community and leisure centres or educational and advice projects ; housing schemes are directed towards improvement and the needs of special groups ; and environmental expenditure is allocated to improving older buildings and vacant sites . |
| 19 | Thought will have to be given now to players discouraged previously , including Ramprakash , who has had a raw deal while Hick has been favoured , and the hapless Fairbrother , for whom critics always seek reasons for non-selection . |
| 20 | People still exhibit articles for sale on the quayside for visiting cruise ships , but boys no longer dive into the murky waters . |
| 21 | We need to develop techniques to allow tourists to see animals and plants , without destroying them ; to devise systems of farming that deliberately create opportunities for wildlife , and to design our cities with wildlife in mind . |
| 22 | At the second meeting on 9th June , Hunt was called as a witness ; he presented a paper which demonstrated that if all the Government Offices ‘ scattered about in various parts of the metropolis ’ , with the exception of the Admiralty and the Inland Revenue at Somerset House , were housed in four storeys , although architecturally ‘ hardly desirable ’ , allowing for courts and roads , they could fit into the area between Richmond Terrace , the river , Parliament Square and the park , and still leave space for expansion . |
| 23 | Should your powder technique still leave room for improvement , offpiste thrills can be provided by waking up to clear , blue skies and spring snow . |
| 24 | The English still play golf for exercise , while Scottish amateurs , whose inner conceit about inventing the game holds them back , mostly suffer from little inclination to practise . |
| 25 | Skischools nearly always have classes for expert skiers which explore the mountains with their instructors . |
| 26 | With so much inspiration in the pages of this month 's magazine let's hope that after reading all the features you still have time for knitting . |
| 27 | These also raise money for charity and pay out 50p for every £1 worth of tickets bought . |
| 28 | As J. Fisher ( 1954 ) and Ward and Zahavi ( 1973 ) have argued , dispersal systems based on roosts probably provide centres for information exchange whereby birds can detect contrasts in the foraging success of other individuals and follow the more successful back to good feeding patches . |
| 29 | ( The latter association , along with the other two major local authority associations — the Association of Metropolitan Associations and the Association of County Councils — and professional bodies such as SOLACE ( Society of Local Authority Chief Executives ) also provide opportunities for liaison at national level . ) |
| 30 | If you are lucky enough to lure a governor from Sainsbury 's the governor will not only get three days paid leave per year for meetings and training , but also receive £200 for school funds . |