Example sentences of "[adj] for [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 One rider I feel sorry for at the moment is Robert Dunlop who appears to have lost his way this season .
2 Three double cabins , each with WC and shower , crew forward , together with spaciousness and room for ancillary cruising equipment and ample stowage space , make her ideal for around the world cruise or Caribbean/Mediterranean chartering .
3 It would be limited to the function it is most useful for in the language classroom : intensive listening .
4 Wonderful Town was the work of the Bernstein/Comden/Green team responsible for On The Town , and although Wonderful Town is a little patchy in recording , ( which does not give a particularly strong idea of the show as a whole ) , there are plenty of excellent numbers , and their variety is refreshing from the barber-shop style ‘ My Darlin' Eileen ’ to the bluesy ‘ Ballet at the Village Vortex ’ , passing through the remarkable ‘ Swing ’ , which defies description .
5 Now for those of us that have been slightly biased by the dubiously titled ‘ Warehouse Raves ’ compilations that Rumour have been responsible for in the past , well we can not sit up and take note , because here comes their most exciting release for as long as I care to remember ( sorry Rumour ! ) .
6 The definitional question , of what natural selection is , can be answered by specifying necessary and sufficient conditions for its occurrence , namely hereditary variation that is causally relevant to reproductive success thanks to organism-environment interactions ; it can , then , be answered without begging in advance of empirical inquiry all those further questions as to whether these conditions are ever met : whether , that is , any natural selection exists ; and , if so , how it is distributed , what it can do now and what it has been responsible for in the past .
7 ‘ They have been working on the driving maul yet it 's not something they have been renowned for in the past . ’
8 Actually 12 were unaccounted for at the end . ’
9 It was unaccounted for in The Future of an Illusion , and yet it is more a basic and fundamental source of religion than are illusory and delusory beliefs .
10 Eventually it plans to launch a high-tech home-shopping service that combines the personal service it is famed for with the convenience of a catalogue .
11 But er he never asked me , put it that way , what I thought was suitable machinery and he , as far as I know he never asked other rock men what they thought was suitable for the rock and other slate makers what they thought was suitable for inside the mill , or the diamond saw operators , what sort of saws they thought were the best .
12 I did n't think it was bad for off the cuff , but he 'd probably used it a zillion times before .
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