Example sentences of "[conj] [adj] [noun] for the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Standard contracts issued by trade or professional associations for the use of their members will be caught ( RIBA contracts for example ) as will individual standard conditions of the type often printed on the back of quotation forms or invoices . |
| 2 | We can now see clearly why it is that once great state dominations appear which have the means to minutely command and control the lives of their citizens , those citizens can relieve themselves of the discomfiting need to exercise personal self-restraint or economic forethought for the simple and adequate reason that the state now exercises these ungratifying functions for them . |
| 3 | Use a round rat tail or half-round file for the burr on the inside — all pipes should be smooth on the inside . |
| 4 | ( Please note that it is not intended to issue an agenda or further papers for the presentation . ) |
| 5 | As for drinks , there would be silvery twirled urns of tea on tap for the grown-ups and milk or fresh lemonade for the young . |
| 6 | This can be anything from five pages on someone like Dame Edna Everage — because she 's a fictional person ( or did n't you know ? ) to thirty or forty pages for the Elizabeth Taylors of the world . |
| 7 | Morris 's role appears to have been both that of a clerk of works , responsible to a greater or lesser degree for the erection of the buildings , and that of an architectural amanuensis employed to make ‘ Drawings and Explanations of his Lordship 's Directions ’ ; but to what extent he was involved in the actual process of design is not certain . |
| 8 | But that quartet seems responsible to a greater or lesser extent for the flavours most people like . |
| 9 | ‘ My one motto or guiding principle for the year is value for members in all we do . |
| 10 | For the tasks illustrated the pupil has been directed to either Imperial or metric units for the set of questions concerned . |
| 11 | Tens of thousands were killed or ‘ disappeared ’ ; thousands of others were displaced or forced into exile as successive military governments sought to eliminate any potential source of political sympathy or logistical support for the armed opposition . |
| 12 | The difference grows as numbers increase ; with anything over 1000 enquiries all the cylinders would be likely to be referenced , thus giving a time of 20 × 10 ms or 2 seconds for the batched and sorted input , and 2000 × 30 ms or 60 seconds for the unsorted input . |
| 13 | The government gave a series of reasons for its decision , some of them more plausible than others ; but the main aim seemed to be to acquire cash or foreign credit for the rehabilitation of its industries . |
| 14 | ‘ Business crime is an illegal act , punishable by a criminal sanction , which is committed by an individual or a corporation in the course of a legitimate occupation or pursuit in the industrial or commercial sector for the purpose of obtaining money or property , avoiding the payment of money or the loss of property , or obtaining business or personal advantage . ’ |
| 15 | The conflicting results in the literature about the pre- or postsynaptic locus for the maintenance of LTP may be resolved by this data . |
| 16 | The service provides a fully-configured , ready to use replacement or substitute system for the Wang RISC Series , or an equivalent Unix system — Wang sells the RS/6000 , so an equivalent system is presumably the IBM version . |
| 17 | Already at this stage of the rite 's evolution , the absence of a similar rite or substitute ceremony for the girl was a loaded omission . |
| 18 | Every August or early September for the last few years I have been lucky enough to receive a present of ripe mulberries from a magnificent old tree in the garden of Rainham Hall in Essex . |
| 19 | This religious sanctuary stood near Paderborn , and was a type of national spiritual or magical centre for the widely scattered and nomadic Saxon tribes . |
| 20 | We might , of course , do the opposite , and try to explain the depictions of temples on coins or patterns of coin loss from our knowledge of surviving temples or official statistics for the money supply , but in this case we would be using coins as secondary evidence and not as a primary source of new information . |
| 21 | As there is a lot of detail in the design , smooth yarns ( not fancy ) are best , although a multicoloured fleck or marled yarn for the dark contrast of the landscape is particularly striking . |
| 22 | The patient had never had psychiatric problems or previous admissions for the same symptoms , making the diagnosis of Mu∘nchausen 's syndrome unlikely . |
| 23 | Committee Members are asked to write out two or three questions for the Gardeners Roadshow and give them to Ruth Wilson at or before the next committee meeting . |
| 24 | Committee Members are asked to write out two or three questions for the Gardeners Roadshow and give them to Ruth Wilson at or before the next committee meeting . |
| 25 | He also kept two or three cows for the sustenance of the family , and so required two , three or four pieces of enclosed land around his house . |
| 26 | I had given the Lions two or three penalties for the same offence . ’ |
| 27 | Twelve-week-old poodle pups , with hair and ear mites , sold directly to , or even worse , given as presents to frail OAPs who were given no idea of the amount of care the dogs ' ears will need every two or three weeks for the rest of their 16 year lives ? |
| 28 | The Football League accountant told us it would take two or three weeks for the proper tax codes to be sorted out . |
| 29 | Particular varieties of handicap bring their own specific problems , such as obstructions in the footway and crossing roads for the visually impaired , or dealing with crowds or directional information for the mentally handicapped . |
| 30 | Nor could I believe that it was the intention to bring in at a single stroke a charge to tax that would be calculated to interrupt the education and expectations of so many parents and children , for it is surely common knowledge that the provision of free or subsidised education for the children of those teaching in independent schools was part of their usual terms of employment and that the salaries paid would be wholly insufficient to meet a charge to tax based on the full fees of the school . |