Example sentences of "[verb] for [noun] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At the weekend the Stall offers for sale the usual selection of Catholic newspapers and Catholic Truth Society publications , rosary beads and medals , prayer cards and candles . |
| 2 | This became for cognitio the standard form of execution where judgment had been given in a sum of money . |
| 3 | Allowing for inflation the total budget for L E A's this year is around seventeen point five billion pounds , nearly sixteen percent more than last year . |
| 4 | After allowing for inflation the net income of the City within this category ( which excludes interest and dividends received ) tripled between 1966 and 1977 , but then it was almost stationary until rising by a further 20 per cent in the three years preceding 1983 . |
| 5 | Slopes had become the focus for revived interest since 1950 ( Strahler , 1950b ) and had been the subject for quantitative description and analysis ( Bakker and Le Heux , 1952 ) and then for measurements which could lead to measurements in specific areas using for example the Young Pit ( Young , 1960 ) and providing many indications of rates of erosion ( A. Young , 1974 ) . |
| 6 | Now began the long-drawn-out tragedy of the Congo which , according to General H.T. Alexander , ‘ produced a fundamental change in Ghana 's position vis-à-vis the West ’ , while Basil Davidson observes ‘ experience in the Congo … seems to have formed for Nkrumah the final demonstration that policies of ‘ tact ’ , of ‘ continuity ’ , of conformity with Western wishes had nothing more to offer . ’ |
| 7 | In Ethiopia , as in India , the role of the informal producer is not distinct from the mainstream of the economy , but is in fact a key part of it , producing for instance the home-spun cloth worn by most Ethiopian women . |
| 8 | In contrast to the monasteries of the Middle Ages and the Baroque period as well as the 1930's concept originally intended for execution the new abbey is not designed as an enclosed , homogenous complex . |
| 9 | The Oxford ordination ceremonies have been booked for April the sixteenth and seventeenth of next year although the Diocese stresses there 's been no race to be first , they 've merely found themselves at the head of the queue . |
| 10 | His trunk swelled up to resemble that of a baobab tree , matching for bulk the whitewashed curvature of the charcoal oven that dominated the restaurant . |
| 11 | Imagine for example the stunning impact of ‘ pass the sugar ’ in proper chemistry , or being asked if you want ethanoic acid with your french fries . |
| 12 | He argued , convincingly , that noun phrases taken as a whole may quite often have a different temporal assignment from that of the verb which they accompany , as in : ( 37 ) I used to be a good friend of the police chief The underlined phrase may be understood as past relative to the time of utterance ( and hence in agreement with the time indicated by the verb ) or as present ; the two different time-values correspond to the two different continuations in : ( 38 ) … before he joined the force … until he was shot for corruption The first continuation would be compatible with an expansion of the subject phrase to the man who is the police chief , while the second would support the man who was the police chief . |
| 13 | The first full attempt at establishing a colony was Raleigh 's colony of Virginia , named for Elizabeth the virgin queen and located in what is now the Roanoke district of North Carolina . |
| 14 | It was made for Magnus the Pious by the Warrior Mage Fredrik von Tarnus after the Great War against Chaos . |
| 15 | A consortium of English and European dealers , led by S.J.Phillips of Bond St , bid a world record price for a snuff box when they gave SF2,530,000 ( £1,155,2507 ) for one of the twenty-six surviving hardstone and jewelled boxes made for Frederick the Great . |
| 16 | In the late autumn or early winter one or two two-year-old shoots from each ‘ mother ’ vine are buried six to eight inches deep , leaving the one-year-old shoots for production the following year . |
| 17 | The police came , brusquely sympathetic as they assessed the damage and then informed Fran that there would be men sent out to dust for fingerprints the following day . |
| 18 | If this happens at night , go to ground , shelter yourself as best you can and go looking for help the next day unless you 're likely to freeze to death in the meantime . |
| 19 | ( Miranda was n't very big , and she was looking for people the same size as her . ) |
| 20 | He had not been prepared for Cheltenham the same as some horses are , because there had been a last-minute change of plan for him and he would not have been really galloped hard . |
| 21 | As they break for food the general conversation is n't much toned down for her benefit . |
| 22 | In the following list , I have used for convenience the geographical zone numbers indicated in the map ( see end papers ) . |
| 23 | Consider for example the famous Fibonacci sequence unc where unc and ( ii ) for each integer |
| 24 | Consider for example the distinctive variety that used to be known as ‘ motherese ’ ( now usually called ‘ caretaker register ’ or ‘ child-directed speech ‘ ) . |
| 25 | Consider for example the little lyric based on Augustine 's Confessions VIII , 5 . |
| 26 | The parties agree that , subject to legal and accounting due diligence , the [ purchasers ] will purchase for cash the issued share capital of ABC from the Vendors for the sum of £ [ X ] a share , making a total of £ [ ] for 100% of the shares . |
| 27 | Until 1979 the British Rail over-night sleepers docked at Dover , where the train was shunted on to the ferry , split in two , one part heading for Paris the other for Brussels . |
| 28 | When DC information is requested for transfer the following details are available for viewing : |
| 29 | But one thing Rachel was certain of was that the revival of those memories had only intensified her dislike of her sister 's ex-fiancé , and when she arrived for work the following Monday morning and he was the first person she saw she found her resolve to have as little to do with him as possible had only been strengthened . |
| 30 | Apart from her anxiety over Jennifer 's meeting David again , Rachel had been looking forward to Family Day , but when she arrived for work the next morning the preparations were the furthest thing from her mind . |