Example sentences of "[adj] for [verb] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Such procedures are right for generating the phenomenon in Wagner 's associative form — a series of widely spaced exposure trials will promote the formation of a context-stimulus association ; and the after-effects of presentation of the target stimulus could not be expected to survive a 24-h retention interval . |
| 2 | The CLAWS tagset used for tagging the LOB corpus is very similar to that of TAGGIT but is somewhat larger with 134 tags to achieve greater delicacy of analysis while preserving compatibility with the Brown corpus ( Johansson et al , 1986 ) . |
| 3 | The police say they 're considering charges against the 3 youths , but add that the youths now realise how foolish they were to fire the replica in the street and are deeply sorry for frightening the family . |
| 4 | It was awarded to Hans Spemann , yet another German embryologist , in 1935 for discovering the organizer . |
| 5 | The planners must work out in which order departments , functions or sites move and who will be responsible in each for overseeing the removal process . |
| 6 | If your car seems totally unsuitable for transporting the patient , you may have to exchange it for a different model . |
| 7 | 2.6.1 for insuring the Centre or ( where such insurance includes the Centre and other premises ) such proportion [ reasonably ] attributable to the Centre of the sums that the Landlord shall from time to time pay by way of premium for insuring the Centre and other premises to be determined from time to time by the Surveyor acting as an expert and not as an arbitrator |
| 8 | So there 's no moment which is greater than this for supporting the liberation struggle . |
| 9 | Walt Disney may well have appreciated a tool like this for taking the drudgery out of the cartoon business but it has more serious applications in logo design and very effective business graphics ; one of the stock Adobe illustrations is a plot of the stock market showing a bull turning into a bear ! |
| 10 | ( If you already have a pension plan , you can usually use this for obtaining the loan ) . |
| 11 | In that way , I think they 'd be much more prepared for learning the skill than if they go completely unprepared and see children looking at books and saying things and it makes no sense to them . |
| 12 | In that way , I think they 'd be much more prepared for learning the skill than if they go completely unprepared and see children looking at books and saying things and it makes no sense to them . |
| 13 | No high for finishing the marathon if you do n't run through the nerves at the start , the blisters , the soft grey stage of the race where the roadscape does n't change , where it feels as though you have done it all and yet there are still a few miles to go . |
| 14 | It is not adequate for describing the task 's operators , nor does it suffice for description of the whole search space . |
| 15 | This argument was closely related to that of Hilaire Belloc in his book The Servile State , which criticised the liberal welfare reforms of the period 190–14 for sapping the independence of workers . |
| 16 | In the 5th edition we find the following footnote to 270 : ‘ In order to maintain a fixed and measured standard for developing the power of liquid medicines , multiplied experience and careful observation have led me to adopt two succussions for each phial , in preference to the greater number formerly employed ( by which the medicines were too highly potentized ) . |
| 17 | Oh that 's clever for getting the polish off ! |
| 18 | Such an interchange is identified as crucial for maintaining the cooperation that appears absent in adversarial Western systems . |
| 19 | which can yield 2 tonnes/hectare year of dry wood even on unfertilised , very dry soil , was considered to be crucial for upgrading the environment as a whole . |
| 20 | Yassin had been sentenced to life imprisonment in October 1991 for ordering the killing of Palestinians suspected of collaborating with the Israeli authorities [ see p. 38550 ] . |
| 21 | She just hoped that the lady would not charge too much for taking the child off her hands . |
| 22 | I think it reinforces the case , not so much for retaining the bobby in New Deer , but for increasing policing in country areas where crime is increasing just as much as it is in the towns . ’ |
| 23 | When Johnston joined the republican movement in 1965 , at the invitation of Cathal Goulding , IRA chief of staff , he was probably some distance to the right of some existing members of the movement and he was responsible not so much for leading the movement to the left as for crystallising a more coherent political strategy . |
| 24 | ‘ So much for preserving the beauty of the countryside … |
| 25 | Eventually it became apparent to several members of both the main board and the heads of businesses that the technically controlled , decentralized divisions , which were primarily local in nature , were not appropriate for addressing the market of the future . |
| 26 | However , a historical focus is appropriate for understanding the meaning of attitudes , for the rhetorical context of attitudes is also a historical context . |
| 27 | First , a person who seriously asserts the validity of some given rule of law , say a particular statute , himself makes use of a rule of recognition which he accepts as appropriate for identifying the law . |
| 28 | Gregori Martin , of Malta 's Sliema Wanderers , was suspended from UEFA competitions until 1995 for assaulting the referee in a tie against Nentori Tirana . |
| 29 | The dusty furniture of other forgotten rooms was perfect for making the catapult . |
| 30 | ( 3 ) … the court shall , on such an application , make such order as it thinks fit for restoring the position to what it would have been if the company had not entered into that transaction . ’ |