Example sentences of "[conj] [verb] [adj] for the " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ The reorganisation of ecological balances which will eliminate subsidies to any goods or process bad for the earth and the environment . ’ |
| 2 | We do n't need whining leftie bands like The Farm droning on about justice and equality now that Britain is such a wonderful place , where nobody sleeps in a cardboard box or goes hungry or gets busted for the colour of their skin or dies of hypothermia , where pigs fly and the sun always shines and where kids from council estates have just as much chance of becoming millionaires as — say — kids who inherit a million pounds from mummy and daddy . |
| 3 | Owners naturally forget or feel sorry for the underdog , but experience has shown that dog/owner relations are all important if treatment is to be successful . |
| 4 | I suggest that you have some brine shrimp nauplii or microworm ready for the time when they become free-swimming . |
| 5 | It was natural , but unreasonable , to feel guilt for what seemed like a failure in duty , rather than feel thankful for the years of unremitting and unselfish care that they had been able to give . |
| 6 | Lynda said that getting ready for the first visitors was proving quite a challenge . |
| 7 | So even if you are convinced that interest rates are going to drop further and remain low for the foreseeable future , you need to be alert to find a good bargain . |
| 8 | Sometimes landing on strips made of sand , transporting troops and supplies ready for the liberation of Kuwait . |
| 9 | The stated aims of the restructuring were partly to reduce the recent increased level of borrowing , but also to make individuals more accountable and profit conscious for the areas of operation under their control . |
| 10 | After correction , the newspaper page would eventually be cast in metal by printers and made ready for the presses to roll . |
| 11 | Have the Stork refuelled and made ready for the return trip . ’ |
| 12 | Javed Miandad : passed 6000 one-day runs on Jan 19 , and passed fit for the World Cup three weeks later |
| 13 | We rushed out to the aircraft and got ready for the scramble which never came . |
| 14 | Therefore my own chapel which has not been used for two generations but for a lumber room , because our family seldom resided here long together , shall be cleared and cleaned and got ready for the ceremony . |
| 15 | A succession of printers led the paper by 1968 to a Carlisle outpost of the Baring Family where , once a fortnight , Robins and Levy would arrive and wait overnight for the paper to roll off the presses . |
| 16 | To this end , schools were set up for peasant women and for prostitutes , who were numerous since Havana had previously been a notorious entertainment centre for North Americans , to give them an education and to provide them with some skills and training ready for the job market . |
| 17 | But just in case the bed failed to live up to his claims , Dr Graham wisely installed a more familiar sexual stimulus in the form of Emily Lyon , who took the form of Hygeia and danced naked for the clientele . |
| 18 | As rhetoric enfolds a group or initiative , so fibres of meaning interpenetrate every strand of sound , ensuring that the experience reaches us already placed in a general scheme of significance , validated and rendered ripe for the ICA We are constantly made conscious . |
| 19 | While Robyn is getting up , and getting ready for the day , thinking mostly about the nineteenth-century industrial novels on which she has to lecture this morning , I will tell you about Charles , and other salient facts of her biography . |
| 20 | The then that leaves me just basically five weeks or four weeks to tie up everything and get ready for the record of achievement obviously |
| 21 | The care pulls up at the studio and Kylie greets everyone with a breezy ‘ G'Day ’ and gets ready for the last few moments as Lola teenage runaway . |
| 22 | The term ‘ culture ’ could be used in this way in less complex , smaller-scale social systems , but it has other meanings in industrial society and seems inadequate for the task of relating everyday life to historical development . |
| 23 | Natalie Merchant 's voice — so emotive it could make you like a song about King Of The Gits Jack Kerouac and feel sorry for the little bunny rabbits that we cruelly kill for a laugh — rose through songs which flew and were simultaneously ecstatic and melancholy . |
| 24 | You will probably find that you perform very badly and feel dreadful for the first few minutes . |
| 25 | Aimed at helping the country 's construction industry to survive the recession and emerge ready for the competitive European future , the conference fielded a strong line-up of speakers . |
| 26 | He was wearing a T-shirt and jeans and looked perfect for the UK market . |
| 27 | Another colour idea is to knit the large tile in one pastel colour , the diamonds in another and use white for the outlines . |
| 28 | Put in as many as the bottle will hold conveniently , and put it in a warm sunny place for 12 hours , and keep warm for the next 12 , then remove the spikes . |
| 29 | It is a safe bet to assume this competition will present no problems for them leaving them the first pipe band in history to collect every available award and go undefeated for the duration of the season . |
| 30 | But Neva the miller 's daughter had overheard this talk and felt sorry for the old woman who wanted to bake her yuletide cake . |