Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] [conj] [verb] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | A bargaining strategy is the broad framework or plan for obtaining your overall objective . |
| 2 | When one came under the hammer in Morgan 's — the boat belonged to a fisherman who no longer required it — it drew strong bidding and sold for £2,000 . |
| 3 | That Christie 's estimates were no guide to value was clear at once , when Mr Sheaf began 16 hours of auctioneering by selling a rare feathery painted goblet and cover for Dfl16,100 ( £4,878 ) , four times expectation . |
| 4 | Money-Go-Round : One European parliament that speaks for the elderly |
| 5 | The possibility of a child being born with a handicap is not only an emotional worry but caring for the child in the future will be expensive . |
| 6 | One such company took a finance director of a subsidiary out of the business for a whole year , sent him to Harvard for an abbreviated MBA and to work for a merchant bank in the City . |
| 7 | If we now divide by the total concentration and substitute for then or |
| 8 | ‘ The Chancellor is steering a careful course and going for steady growth . |
| 9 | Leibniz took a different route and looked for clues to particularity within the monads themselves , but the only " criterion " he was able to produce was his " principle of indiscernibles " , and eventually he was forced to introduce the additional metaphysical postulate of " sufficient reason " in order to safeguard the existential uniqueness of his monads . |
| 10 | Unlike gastrin , the increased CCK is not a transitory response but continues for at least 15 weeks . |
| 11 | Boswell observes that when the clans were disarmed after Culloden , they used the old broadsword as covers for their buttermilk barrels : ‘ a kind of change , ’ he says , ‘ like beating spears into pruning-hooks ’ ; swords turned sadly into ploughshares . |
| 12 | The importance of social support and contact for the health and well-being of individuals is well documented . |
| 13 | He began life as a commercial photographer and worked for Renault , but he was sacked for bad time keeping after late nights in the darkroom . |
| 14 | He and his staff reject the option of off-site provision and argue for an individually tailored solution involving guidance ( pastoral ) and curricular staff : They see the assessment panel as providing an alternative , non-punitive role , for guidance teachers . |
| 15 | Spread the top level and bake for 30–40 mins or until well risen and the top is golden brown . |
| 16 | But Virgin wanted compensation to cover commercial damage and pushed for limited undertakings regarding BA 's future conduct . |
| 17 | This group must put across its views and gain popular support and understanding for its campaign . |
| 18 | If at any stage you wish to go beyond your daily existence and to ask for the knowledge of how you can reach your higher self , then your guide will teach you about the workings of your mind , your intellect and how to rise from your lower mental being into that of perfection . |
| 19 | The horn is a profoundly expressive instrument when used for quiet , simple , melodic utterances in its medium register , roughly , say . |
| 20 | On Feb. 7 Sharif announced a programme of economic reforms to encourage foreign investment and to compensate for losses resulting from the Gulf crisis . |
| 21 | Sitting at the table one evening next to Astrid 's mum , Peg , from Massachusetts , he opened up , as one sometimes can , to an interested stranger and spoke for hours about the old days and about his condition and his feelings . |
| 22 | Some journals give clear feedback and ask for a list of changes if the paper is resubmitted , but this is not true of all . |
| 23 | Our link up with adidas has certainly provided a boost to membership , with many of you taking up the option to join and receive a free headband or wristband for their trouble . |
| 24 | The tied cottager can then become a ‘ statutory tenant ’ , obliged to pay a weekly rent and paying for services and rates . |
| 25 | Tip the mixture into the prepared tin and bake for 30 minutes or until the sponge is springy to the touch . |
| 26 | Robyn clutched the cast-iron railing and wondered for the first time why her legs felt so shaky and weird , why her stomach was churning so violently . |
| 27 | After 12 months you should have nice young plants nearly ready for moving on to permanent quarters or , if the cuttings are of the rugosa type and intended for rootstocks on to which you are going to bud other varieties , they can be planted out ready for working . |
| 28 | The new functionality includes distributed schemas that can be shared by application developers to ease development of related applications ; detachable databases for more flexible distribution of databases ; on-line incremental backup and restore for high availability of databases in production environments ; schema evolution and object migration for upgrading deployed object applications and new database administrative tools and programmatic interfaces so developers can include database administration functions in applications . |
| 29 | First , that we have no intention of abandoning public ownership and accepting for all time the present frontier of the public sector . |
| 30 | The primitive inn that catered for travellers who had missed the last ferry is now a modern hotel , and commercial interests have been attracted by the growing number of tourists . |