Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] [adj] for [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Right : Laminated pine type GGL Velux window turns through 180 for easy cleaning |
| 2 | The contrasting patterns shown in table 6.8 may be interpreted in conjunction with the tendency reported in 6.2.4 for phonological units in low-status speech to cover a wider phonetic range . |
| 3 | David Walsh looks in vain for encouraging signs |
| 4 | By the end of 1922 the number rose to 33,800 for Soviet Belorussia , a smaller area . |
| 5 | Andrews proposed that W T /WE is small , between zero and 0.2 for polar and sub-polar glaciers , but between 0.5 and 0.8 and tending towards 1.0 for temperate glaciers . |
| 6 | A Kinnock government in present conditions of economic crisis might well have done in Labour for good and all . |
| 7 | In doing so , it secured for co-operatives what the first of the modern Companies Acts had done in 1844 for joint stock companies . |
| 8 | He put the probe away and studied the device with a frown , searching in vain for recognizable wiring or circuitry . |
| 9 | The north wind was still blowing , Randy Rarick was still biting his nails , and surfers patrolled the Kam Highway , boards poking out of jeeps , strapped to cars , balanced on bicycles , searching in vain for rideable waves . |
| 10 | if you wish to use NOT to reverse the action of an IF statement it is important to ensure that the testable condition does actually evaluate to -1 for TRUE . |
| 11 | You see in British Steel we we have seventy thousand deferred pensioners and er it is a group of people that I feel extremely sorry for , because er in nineteen eighty-six British Steel introduced into their pension scheme while it was still in the public sector , retirement at sixty where with a pension credit spaced on length of service , so if you had thirty-five years service in , you could retire at sixty as if you were sixty-five and there was nothing done at all for deferred pensioners and in certainly our submission to British Steel for seeking improvements , we we asked that they er they look at deferred pensioner with a view to paying their pensions at sixty , recognising that it was a very high-class plane that might have to be er achieved in stages . |
| 12 | Founded in 1229 for Augustinian Canons . |
| 13 | These include the Centre for Speech Technology Research ( CSTR ) , which was founded in 1984 for collaborative research with departments in the Faculty of Science and Engineering into human/computer interaction through speech . |
| 14 | If , on the other hand , the condition is that the proper name , if it is to count as a proper name at all , must be non-descriptive , then we shall look in vain for suitable candidates , for there can hardly be an expression that communicates something and yet does not incorporate , or contextually presuppose , a descriptive content . |
| 15 | They will look in vain for detailed information on , for example , the housing benefit scheme or the ‘ social fund ’ in the Act : this is contained in subsequent regulations . |
| 16 | Last year the police went back to the Baroness 's former home to look in vain for hidden gold bars . |
| 17 | FRISK Dennis Cooper A ‘ gay American Psycho ’ they said , but you 'll search in vain for long lists of clothes and accessories . |
| 18 | According to Mustafa Dzhemilev , leader of the Crimean Tatars ' Majlis , 600 members of the local militia on Oct. 1 forced their way into the Krasnyy Ray settlement near Alushta ( where returning Tatars had started work independently on the construction of a camp after waiting in vain for local authorities to allocate land for the purpose ) , injuring several residents and arresting 26 . |
| 19 | Moya Hood has for the last year been teaching weekly classes at Stroud Court in Gloucestershire , a sheltered community opened in 1983 for autistic adolescents and adults . |
| 20 | Guide to Labour for Expectant Parents : |
| 21 | Table 5.10 shows odds ratios for the receipt of three statutory services , for different types of household , after controlling for disability , in each case comparing the level of service received with that for elderly married people . |
| 22 | RNA and total cell extracts were prepared from Hep3B cells treated with IL-6 for various times . |
| 23 | The scattering envelope reflects the scattering attenuation and is compared with that for small particles in figure 9.7 . |
| 24 | The fatality incidence rates per 100,000 stands at 11.5 compared with 4.2 for self-employed construction workers . |
| 25 | Female GP referrals averaged 2.28 social problems compared with 2 for other women and 1.87 for male GP referrals . |
| 26 | Teachers ' salaries are relatively low compared with those for other professions requiring the same duration of training , so that there is no great incentive to become a teacher . |
| 27 | It contained a pound of raw stewing steak , laced with Seconal for good measure . |
| 28 | Hopefully , it should see many forms of cancer treatable as simply as popping into hopsital for minor surgery . |
| 29 | It is obligatory that you keep the Process and Working Directories for each LIFESPAN Process separate from those for other LIFESPAN Processes , otherwise several LIFESPANs could cause fatal interactions between themselves . |
| 30 | Pressure mounted in 1990 for political reforms . |