Example sentences of "[adj] [conj] for [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Was it simply that he wished to remain in Istanbul , and , if so , did he wish to do so for professional or for personal reasons ? |
| 2 | Fresh and wider insights have been offered for the ongoing formation to which ministers of the Eucharist are committed , whether ordained or for special needs . |
| 3 | The Bernard brothers were so struck by this that for some weeks afterwards Henrietta was known to them as ‘ Piss-off darling ’ . |
| 4 | It should be clear that for total injections and total withdrawals to remain equal requires that a rising interest rate be accompanied by a falling level of income , and vice versa . |
| 5 | However , a study commissioned by FRES , the primary objective of which was to give support to these claims , made very clear that for certain categories of worker , particularly secretarial/keyboard staff in central London and computer staff , agency supplied labour was more expensive ( Rothwell/Mingard , 1985 ) . |
| 6 | The off-licence was empty except for two drop-outs buying canned beer : the proprietor contrived to address Scarlet and Constance without once taking his eyes off his other customers , not even as he wrapped a bottle of Smirnoff and extracted six cans of Long Life from under the glass counter . |
| 7 | The ward beyond was empty but for ten beds , only one of which was occupied . |
| 8 | It is possible that for brief periods during construction of the breakwater , barges or other vessels may need to moor in positions which would affect operation of the radar station . |
| 9 | Values of the order of 10 6 g mol -1 are now accepted without question , but the accuracy of the measurements is much lower than for simple molecules . |
| 10 | For relationships between Imperial units ( Example 98 ) success rates were low , 30 per cent or less , rather lower than for metric units . |
| 11 | The estimated reservation wages increase with age up to about 35 years and then decrease with the men aged over 55 , with estimated reservation wages for both periods which are lower than for teenage men . |
| 12 | It was in these few rooms that the last act of the drama took place , for the rest of the building remained unused except for those rooms near to the Empress 's apartments where her few attendants camped out , sleeping on improvised beds and working , when necessary , on the corners of tables hastily cleared to provide space on which to write . |
| 13 | Ideally we should include configuration interaction ( CI ) , but this is rarely possible except for small molecules . |
| 14 | Michael Jones says : ‘ Brittany is particularly rich in manor houses — thousands survive and the serious study of them is much less advanced than for equivalent buildings in England . |
| 15 | The dominance of the corporate publishing sector is such that for many writers the most available social relations are those of employment in this sense , with the ideas for books coming from new professional intermediaries ( publishers ' editors ) within the market structure , and authors being employed to execute them . |
| 16 | The Orb recreating the Pistols covering Iggy , with Paterson simulating Rotten 's every sneer , note perfect except for odd snatches of reggae backbeat . |
| 17 | Concrete blocks should be laid in a 1:3 cement/sand mix , and mixed a little stiffer than for absorbent materials . |
| 18 | Teams are all male except for two women 's teams who will be playing at 6pm . |
| 19 | So , at end-1984 , therefore , the nuclear industry is looking more bullish than for many years , despite the fact that the environmentally committed Greens are strongly represented in state and federal parliaments . |
| 20 | The climate for doing so is more favourable than for some years past . |
| 21 | Juniper Green Tennis Club was formed in 1979 and for 11 years it has provided a valuable service to the local community in Juniper Green and Baberton Mains . |
| 22 | This proved too ambitious ; the Twenty-Second Session favoured separate texts for civil and for criminal matters , and a subsequent Expert Group , meeting in New Delhi in 1982 , decided that a model bilateral agreement in each of these areas was more appropriate than a draft convention . |
| 23 | The bed appeared un-made and for all intents and purposes I did n't see her , had I seen her erm the situation would have been very different . |
| 24 | For political reasons as much as for economic ones , the government needs to come up with a scheme that is simple ( so that its essence can be explained in one sentence ) and seen to be fair ( the duke pays more than the dustman ) . |
| 25 | Software development and programming for multiple T9000s is as easy as for single devices , according to Inmos . |
| 26 | Software development and programming for multiple T9000s is as easy as for single devices , according to Inmos . |
| 27 | We still remain then , for moral as for prudential questions , at the position that imperatives can serve only for judging between spontaneous reactions . |
| 28 | Mass production on an artificial medium is now possible and for some formulations the endotoxin is extracted . |
| 29 | What could be more natural than for three members of Prince 's plus a girlfriend to wander over to St. George 's to see the closing stages of the Million Sterling Tournament ? |
| 30 | Although a comprehensive study by Shaw ( 1969 ) has shown that increased boldness of print increases legibility for some readers , differences in typography were found to be considerably less significant for younger than for older readers with partial sight . |