Example sentences of "[verb] for the [adj] [n mass] " in BNC.

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1 On the edge of the runway Greg brought the ambulance to a halt and while they prepared to wait for the incoming aircraft , David maintained radio contact with the control tower .
2 However , for best results any of the mixtures prescribed for the other species of Cryptocoryne should be provided .
3 Best to go for the well-behaved species like O. adenophylla , with its pinkish lilac flowers , which are sometimes a rich magenta .
4 Even allowing for the restricted staff , there appears to have been some lack of organization of the lecturing programme in Coleman 's later years .
5 But I mean for the other people it 's just , it 's just rejection in n it , you 're not good enough
6 Though this is good news for American and Japanese firms , who share a paltry 11% slice of the luxury market , it is disastrous for European companies which account for the remaining 89% of sales ( see chart on next page ) , but which sell nearly half of all their fancy products in America or Japan .
7 The panel asked for the new data to be published as a correction to the original paper .
8 This once German land , which under Polish rule sank into misery and neglect , has been conquered for the German people by sword and plow .
9 Do you think that erm any of the town 's been badly designed for the old people ?
10 Well I do n't se I do n't think that it has been badly designed for the old people , I think the object of building the town as it has been built is to integrate the erm the old people with the young , perhaps the young people resent that but I think we have got to have a mixed community in as much as we have got to be aware that old people need attention in as much as they need companionship and if they are not integrated with the community they are going to be I really se , just left out on their own which in lots of cases there are very , very many lonely people , old people but if they are put within the community I think the community will look after them , in as much as giving them companionship whether the people , some people resent it or not , I do n't know , but I do think that they should not be segregated .
11 The greatest victory for the Sandinistas , he said , was that a new path was opening for the Nicaraguan people without war and where national interests would prevail over interventionist policies .
12 Some versions substituted for the front pair a .5 Browning heavy machine gun , and some jeeps had a single Vickers fitted in such a way that the driver could operate it .
13 Again he said , in an argument strangely reminiscent of Erastus , Richard Hooker and Matthew Arnold , that ‘ the State is more sacred than any Church … for the State stands for the whole people in their manifold collective life ; and any Church is but a fragment of that life , though one of the most important fragments ’ .
14 Software pirates are also blamed for the low sales figures .
15 ABOUT 1.4 million payment notices for the final 70p instalment for Scotland 's two privatised electricity companies Scottish Hydro-Electric and ScottishPower were sent out yesterday .
16 Both plasmids were introduced into E.coli C , a strain that has been shown to be deleted for the chromosomal hsd genes [ 29 ] , and tested for R-M function .
17 Expenditure will qualify for the new 20% initial allowance if it is incurred under a legally binding contract made in the year ending 31 October 1993 , and the claimant was contractually committed to the expenditure by that contract .
18 I ca n't wait for the mini series .
19 One of the usual planting media as recommended for the other species of Cryptocoryne is suitable .
20 to stand for the other people 's names .
21 2.4 The proposed structure allows for the following staff to be graded on GS in the Exchequer Division :
22 At last the tide has turned for the unsung aircraft of 1940 .
23 The Tate Gallery has announced the shortlist selected for the coveted £20,000 Turner Prize , and the winner will be announced in November 24 , 1992 .
24 Of course one needs to exercise some common sense about the number of objectives written for any one piece of teaching , but if teaching sessions are seen as part of a series for a given student then objectives can be written for the whole series .
25 I 'm an administrator by background , and I think that 's interesting , because one of the things that we are trying to do in the health service is to open up our management posts to people of all professions , and to recognise that management is not the prerogative of any particular group , but that we 're looking for the right people to manage our services from wherever they might come , and I 'm one of three people who has a responsibility to the senior manager in the community at the top , for the managing on a day-to-day basis the health services in Oxfordshire .
26 The SVR4-compatible Irix includes symmetric multi-processing , support for the 64-bit MIPS R4000 architecture and the MIPS Special Interest Group application binary interface .
27 The great Labour party — which brought together militants , because it thought that they knew what they could do for the working people of this country — is scornfully setting democracy aside .
28 In the New Testament Jesus uses two images to convey God 's extravagant concern for the world : one is the shepherd who risks the rest of the flock in order to go searching for the lost sheep ; the other is the woman who turns a house upside down looking for lost coins .
29 The Philippines government , still searching for the estimated £6.5bn that the Marcos family squirreled away , is unimpressed with this fairy tale .
30 In general , all restores would then be carried out from the optical disk , minimising the number of mounts needed for the magnetic media .
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