Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] [conj] [verb] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | A bargaining strategy is the broad framework or plan for obtaining your overall objective . |
| 2 | When one came under the hammer in Morgan 's — the boat belonged to a fisherman who no longer required it — it drew strong bidding and sold for £2,000 . |
| 3 | In poor physical condition they set off under the blazing sun , marching for fifty minutes and resting for ten . |
| 4 | I use a packet mix ( sponge ) and set out petit fours cases , drop a teaspoon of mixture into each case and bake for about eight minutes . |
| 5 | That Christie 's estimates were no guide to value was clear at once , when Mr Sheaf began 16 hours of auctioneering by selling a rare feathery painted goblet and cover for Dfl16,100 ( £4,878 ) , four times expectation . |
| 6 | Money-Go-Round : One European parliament that speaks for the elderly |
| 7 | Laughton and his board have put faith in the players and they must repay that faith or look for another club . |
| 8 | The possibility of a child being born with a handicap is not only an emotional worry but caring for the child in the future will be expensive . |
| 9 | The 5th Issue index-linked certificates , also tax-exempt , pay the accumulated increase in the Retail Prices Index each year plus 4.5 p.c. if held for five years . |
| 10 | One such company took a finance director of a subsidiary out of the business for a whole year , sent him to Harvard for an abbreviated MBA and to work for a merchant bank in the City . |
| 11 | Mr. Corfe is unimpressed with a League plan to impose a levy on transfers and performance money , which would be held individually on behalf of each club and used for items like ground improvements . |
| 12 | If we now divide by the total concentration and substitute for then or |
| 13 | The immunisation was carried out every four weeks and 10 ml of blood was collected one week after each injection and analysed for reactivity against PT-gliadin by dot blotting . |
| 14 | Greater affluence and improved air travel have also encouraged an increase in tourism to such an extent that it is now the world 's third largest industry and accounts for c. 12 per cent of the world 's GNP ( Geofile No 118 1988 ) . |
| 15 | ‘ The Chancellor is steering a careful course and going for steady growth . |
| 16 | It might not be in strain-on-your-meat-pies Trideocolor or go on all night like America 's bloody buggering 119 channels , but at least some nice bint like his old French teacher came on at ten-thirty and said good night as you drank your bloody buggering Ovaltine and waited for the shipping forecast . |
| 17 | Leibniz took a different route and looked for clues to particularity within the monads themselves , but the only " criterion " he was able to produce was his " principle of indiscernibles " , and eventually he was forced to introduce the additional metaphysical postulate of " sufficient reason " in order to safeguard the existential uniqueness of his monads . |
| 18 | Both reports argue for trade governed by multilateral rules and call for the completion of the Uruguay round of trade talks . |
| 19 | Hoffs twists some hair and goes for the sexism angle . |
| 20 | As British economists know only too well , it is easy to turn a blind eye to unwelcome truths of this kind and to indulge for decades in a form of national self-delusion . |
| 21 | Discover some of the key figures in this story and see for yourselves mechanical marvels past and present . |
| 22 | The governors , a charity , have incurred substantial costs in fighting this case and ask for an order that their costs both in the Court of Appeal and in this House be paid out of the Legal Aid Fund . |
| 23 | Unlike gastrin , the increased CCK is not a transitory response but continues for at least 15 weeks . |
| 24 | Requiring a Streams interface from the host Unix system , SNAP-IX includes PU type 2.1 ( over SDLC or X.25 ) , APPC , CPI-C ( as adopted by X/Open ) , LU6.2 , LU 0,1,2 and 3 , 3270/3770 emulation and support for NetView . |
| 25 | The music and lyrical ideas are the stuff of nightmares , foam-flecked poetic rantings that go for the throat and refuse to let go no matter how hard you may plead . |
| 26 | Boswell observes that when the clans were disarmed after Culloden , they used the old broadsword as covers for their buttermilk barrels : ‘ a kind of change , ’ he says , ‘ like beating spears into pruning-hooks ’ ; swords turned sadly into ploughshares . |
| 27 | The importance of social support and contact for the health and well-being of individuals is well documented . |
| 28 | He began life as a commercial photographer and worked for Renault , but he was sacked for bad time keeping after late nights in the darkroom . |
| 29 | He and his staff reject the option of off-site provision and argue for an individually tailored solution involving guidance ( pastoral ) and curricular staff : They see the assessment panel as providing an alternative , non-punitive role , for guidance teachers . |
| 30 | Spread the top level and bake for 30–40 mins or until well risen and the top is golden brown . |