Example sentences of "[adj] [vb pp] for the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What they definitely do indicate are the extremes of weight problems ; where your weight falls higher than the amount given under the large-frame weight for your height , or lower than that given for the small-frame weight for your height , then you have problems . |
| 2 | The Programme will be the same as that organised for the 9th Jan . |
| 3 | President Ramiz Alia of Albania on Sept. 2 called for the substantial body of ethnic Albanians in Yugoslavia to be represented at the peace conference . |
| 4 | The quality of consular services was improved in a number of cases , notably in Britain where a departmental committee of 1903 introduced for the first time recruitment of consuls by limited competition ( instead of as hitherto purely by nomination of the secretary of state for foreign affairs ) and a rationalised salary structure . |
| 5 | The child who has particular gifts has the right to have these developed for the common good of the society he will eventually enter as an adult . |
| 6 | Sizwe Motaung , Philemon Masinga and Sean Donnelly are all tipped for the Premier League . |
| 7 | I had been fed on a diet of Enid Blyton and her boarding school series , so I was eager — even excited — to be joining one when I came over to take my ‘ A ’ levels in the late sixties : I was not at all prepared for the harsh realities of English middle-class racism . |
| 8 | It was by no means a simple set of feelings : many longed for the straightforward solutions that apparently lay in the golden-age reign of the Emperor Charlemagne when unity , conquest and expansion to the east had surely indicated racial superiority . |
| 9 | Though marginally better in quality than that provided for the black population , their education fell far short of that which was provided in privileged white schools . |
| 10 | The map is an example of those developed for the new Regional Geochemistry series . |
| 11 | Doses 2–2.5 times those recommended for the intravenous route should be used , diluted in normal saline or distilled water . |
| 12 | He made the point that Community institutions and common rules are necessary for running common policies like those claimed for the single market , but that in areas such as foreign policy , co-operation should remain a matter for member governments accountable to the national parliaments . |
| 13 | They have features , particularly chaotic polymorphisms , similar to those seen for the spatial Prisoners ' Dilemma . |
| 14 | In its place there stands a new Ballistic Missile Defence Organisation which employs the same people to do the same things with the same money — $1.8 billion requested for the next year . |
| 15 | The herb border can be designed to follow the same principles as those used for the herbaceous or mixed border ; small plants will not thank you for planting them next to towering or buxom plants — they will be smothered in no time . |
| 16 | The household chaplain , whose role it was to minister to the spiritual needs of princely families , could also produce letters , such as those written for Stephen of Blois to his wife Adela while he was on the First Crusade ; or charters , like those produced for the post-Conquest dukes of Normandy . |
| 17 | The government was quite content , in essence , to use inflation as a weapon of war : somebody had to bear the costs , and apart from those assessed for the new Income Tax of 1799 , that somebody had to be the consumer . |
| 18 | For example , Lampsilis at the sandbar site grew at rates ( average 2.6 mm per yr ) similar to those found for the same species in other lakes , whereas less than 1 km away , in the same basin of the same lake , the average rate of growth of marked Lampsilis was -0.3 mm per yr . |
| 19 | The list of styles now available contains all those defined for the first document , ready for use in the current document . |
| 20 | This assertion was grounded on results of several studies , including one based upon the 25 WFS countries mentioned above and which reported that if all mothers had seven or more years of schooling , other things being equal ( that is , all mothers ' offspring would have the same conditions concerning survival as those observed for the educated mothers ' newborn babies ) , infant mortality would fall by 41 per cent and death rates of children aged 1–4 by 60 per cent ( Trussell and Pebley , 1984 , p.21 ) . |
| 21 | Only two of these mice expressed the transgene in the brain , but at very reduced levels relative to those observed for the -300bp mice ( figure 6 ) . |
| 22 | The presence of carbon-bearing rocks similar to those studied here would raise the rock conductivity to moderate values if dry and to high values if also saturated with brines , producing values similar to those observed for the crustal high-conductivity zones by magnetotelluric methods . |
| 23 | The hydrocarbon ratios for the Tertiary coals behave similarly to those determined for the Palaeozoic coals ( Fig. 9 ) . |
| 24 | In December 1790 the Quaker committee , which maintained its existence alongside the London body , prompted Friends in the country to lobby their local MPs , particularly those elected for the first time in 1790 . |
| 25 | The women artists are those chosen for the original Royal Academy exhibition : Vanessa Bell , Gwen John , Barbara Hepworth , Bridget Riley , Joan Hills with Mark Boyle and Gillian Ayres . |
| 26 | The models are : ( solid line ) the adiabatic CDM with ( dot-dashed line ) the isocurvature CDM , model ( the CMBR points for this model are a factor of 6 smaller than those plotted for the adiabatic model ) ; ( dotted line ) the model with texture plus CDM , . |
| 27 | ‘ The critical current calculated is already higher than the critical current first reported for the high-temperature superconducting materials based on copper-oxide compounds , ’ says George Gruner , director of UCLA 's Solid State Science Centre . |
| 28 | The family of Vincenc Kramar have consistently refused to make any public statement concerning their claim on the collection since his son first filed for the 1991 round of restitution claims in September of that year . |
| 29 | Although it is not possible to translate this directly into a success rate for the pupils in this project , an estimate of 40 per cent would be reasonable — about the same as that obtained for the written test items . |
| 30 | Despite a slick campaign — a precursor of that just ended — Labour lost for the third time in a row , its vote scarcely up on that of 1983 . |