Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] [verb] for [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | To send a letter in due course to ask for support from Council of Churches in the UK and Ireland . |
| 2 | Also in Indonesia , Agil Riyanto bin Darmowiyoto , a law student , continues to serve a 15-year sentence imposed for subversion in 1987 . |
| 3 | The fiddler crabs of North America emerge from their burrows at low tide to scavenge for food . |
| 4 | In the past ministers have been charged with failing to refer mergers which might have been politically sensitive , despite claims that a strong economic case existed for referral . |
| 5 | The volume concludes with the first country-house poem published in English , an encomium of the countess 's estate at Cookham , in which the passing of the seasons suggests the ephemerality of patronage relations ; the walks bear ‘ summer Liveries ’ , and the prospect of hills and vales appears to ‘ preferre some strange unlook 'd for sute ’ only as long as their mistress is in residence . |
| 6 | The aerosol dry lubricant illustrated contains ptfe powder — the non-stick ingredient used for coating pans . |
| 7 | The total aid granted for investment ( except some property improvements and land improvements ) must not exceed the aid resulting from financing the investments with a 15 year loan at a 7% interest rate subsidy . |
| 8 | This was evidently regarded as a heavy burden by the English government , although it was the merest tumulus compared with the great Everest of debts owed by the Emperor Charles V. The English Crown had escaped large-scale indebtedness by selling Crown lands , which produced 32 per cent of the total revenue raised for war , and by debasing the coinage , which produced just about as much . |
| 9 | Chomsky is therefore highly critical of the way in which Skinner uses operant terminology to account for language . |
| 10 | We will pursue it vigorously , and we will campaign to get changed the basic rules which ensure that a country which is rich in coal resources ensures that it makes the most of the use of these coal resources , and changes the rules automatically excluding coal from being used from sensible base burning for electricity laws . |
| 11 | In the non-isolated version of the topology , as used in Terrence Finnegan 's design , the capacitor is , as he says , smaller than the equivalent magnetic component used for energy transfer . |
| 12 | British Rail , SNCF and SNCB ( Société Nationale de Chemins de Fers Belges ) are cooperating in the design of a special fleet of high speed trains for use on the London-Brussels-Paris lines , and an international consortium of companies has been formed to tender for their detailed design and construction . |
| 13 | Vic Williams , the British soldier imprisoned for desertion on the eve of the Gulf War , was released on parole on 23 April after serving just over half of his 14-month sentence . |
| 14 | It is possible to generalize the no-arbitrage condition to allow for taxation effects . |
| 15 | We have already touched on the challenge which the beginnings of modern historical study posed for theology by questioning a certain understanding of the authority of the Bible . |
| 16 | Mr Escobar , in a letter to La Prensa , called for ‘ direct dialogue to search for peace ’ , with participation by government , opposition , judicial , church and journalism representatives . |
| 17 | Insurance companies sometimes offer free window etching for motor policy holders . |
| 18 | Channel 4 has if anything led the cavalry charge , pioneering direct sponsorship deals for minority sports such as American Football , Tour de France cycling and Sumo wrestling . |
| 19 | Moreover , given the disparity in actual salaries , it is unlikely that the more general " managerial labour market " constraint on operation is fully effective since , as we said in chapter 3 , it is likely that the public sector trawls for talent in a different pool , at least in the UK.6 On the assumption that the people actually being appointed were ( unlike their private sector counterparts ) altruistic , this would be no bad thing , but it would be foolish to believe altruism were always the case . |
| 20 | When Andrew returned to Dartmoor he rode out to High Tor to look for Topaz . |
| 21 | Emergency Communist party congress makes radical break with the past East German leader pleads for time to reform state . |
| 22 | Dan-Air take-over cleared for take-off |
| 23 | The bogs have been in the main part destroyed by forestry development and commercial peat cutting for horticulture . |
| 24 | Dexter had seen it happen many times before : the moment when a human being slips from conversation into confession , the moment when what seemed like a universal desire to atone for wickedness overwhelmed the conflicting wish for self-preservation . |
| 25 | The old team budgeted for government borrowing of £28 billion this financial year and more next year . |
| 26 | Examples of genetic or prepared learning are sensitisation , habituation , imprinting and , in humans , the specialised physiology required for speech . |
| 27 | Darwin proposed his theory of sexual selection to account for sex differences of structure and behaviour , according to which , in most species , males compete for , and females select , mates . |
| 28 | Companies with well-established brands , which are the best vehicles for such expansion , are likely to be increasingly few and far between — this explains the keen interest in and premium price paid for Rowntree . |
| 29 | Social control depended for respect on agencies which proved increasingly inadequate . |
| 30 | a tough brown paper used for packing . |