Example sentences of "[adv] [subord] [art] [noun sg] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | As the Law Commission observed , it is possible to justify the continued existence of the offence on such grounds only where the penalty for participating in the fight is relatively light , and whereas the penalty was life imprisonment at common law , it is now three years . |
| 2 | ( h ) Windows The lease should make clear whether windows are included in or excluded from the demise , especially where the responsibility for repair is divided between landlord and tenant ( Reston v Hudson [ 1990 ] 2 EGLR 51 ) . |
| 3 | Helmut Schlesinger has attacked the Commission for overestimating the economic benefits and for under-estimating the risks of EMU , especially where the need for massive transfers from rich countries to poor ones is concerned . |
| 4 | Comparing television with the press , for example , the public rated television a full 1.0 marks better than the press for providing issue-information , and 0.7 marks better on providing leader-information , but only 0.3 marks better for helping viewers and readers decide how to vote ( Table 6.9 ) . |
| 5 | Presley City 's up-town morning traffic was less than a match for it . |
| 6 | With the ICAEW examinations the tutors would be up in arms if any referral subject had a pass rate less than the rate for students sitting all papers . |
| 7 | True , but in some cases that did not amount to all that much , and while inter-war legislation obviously provided the experience for the post-war Planning Acts which followed , the development of statutory land-use control took place at a time when particular environmental changes seemed to be little affected by formal planning powers . |
| 8 | Policy E Ten requires that the boundary be moved only if a need for expansion can be established . |
| 9 | The revolution would have come , if it was to come at all , only if the demand for industrial democracy through the agency of Industrial Co-operation , could have prompted such a comprehensive tide of sympathetic opinion as had carried parliamentary reform over the barriers of stubborn opposition . |
| 10 | His clinical experiences taken together provided the basis for , as well as continuing opportunity to re-evaluate , his theory of early emotional development . |
| 11 | This may be so if the average for all industries is considered , but in the key areas of manufacturing where demand is more variable , the bonus-earnings ratio experiences greater volatility ( Hashimoto 1979 p. 1101 ) . |
| 12 | Naturally the more challenging the holiday the higher the price , especially if the reward for six hours in the saddle — with perhaps some of it spent in the rain — is a hot bath and the creature comforts of at least a hotel . |
| 13 | So while the search for links is pervasive in the coverage of sex attacks by popular newspapers , it is important to recognise that the demand is not totally inexorable . |
| 14 | The terms of many restraints will have been settled long before an occasion for their enforcement arises . |
| 15 | It may take as long as a week for all the caterpillars to make their chrysalises . |
| 16 | Eventually equipment purchases will have to be made so long as the demand for packaging is there . |
| 17 | European Economic Community legislation allowed variation around the nominal weight ( that printed on each packet ) so long as the average for a particular production period equalled the nominal weight . |
| 18 | Discovery of the truth is a basic requirement of justice which should be sacrificed for speed of dispute-resolution only when the case for expedition is overwhelming . |
| 19 | The " freedom of private property " was to be protected by the state , and taxes were to be imposed " on a basis of justice and only when the need for them arises " . |
| 20 | The fee of 9d showed that Halling possessed a church and was designated so as the fee for a chapel was 6d . |
| 21 | So as the time for hatching approaches , all the eggs may not be equally ready . |
| 22 | So when the advert for the Rose Bowl had appeared in the trade Press it had seemed like an answer to a prayer . |
| 23 | Discussions of plays , for instance , can often be seen to be founded on the undeclared assumption that a dramatic figure represents a self ( rather than a vehicle for dramatic ideas ) . |
| 24 | Obesity is common among multiparous women but this may indicate that weight gain is the result of multiple pregnancies rather than a prerequisite for conception . |
| 25 | But Chris Avery , of stockbrokers Smith New Court , said : ‘ It is a tangible , positive step forward and takes us well down the path of Al Yamamah two becoming a reality rather than a hope for bonanza . ’ |
| 26 | The poet James Fenton , who was stringing for The Washington Post and who must have cut an unlikely figure riding into Saigon on a victorious Viet Cong tank ( described in The Fall of Saigon , first published in Granta 15 and then included in All the Wrong Places ) , wrote a savage review of the book in the New Statesman describing Herr as a ‘ shooter ’ , rather than a reporter for Esquire . |
| 27 | To take a trivial example , it is a cost rather than a benefit for me to pay my children to clean my car rather than to take it to the automatic car wash , even if the car wash charges more than my children . |
| 28 | When he gets his way in a new ‘ voluntary agreement ’ ( which is likely once the industry gets over its panic on finding a Minister for Health rather than a Minister for Tobacco in the DoH ) he may feel bound to reject the ban . |
| 29 | A forward contract is therefore a contract for forward delivery rather than a contract for immediate or spot or cash delivery , and generally no money is exchanged between the counterparties until delivery . |
| 30 | Her condemnation of the home and family as the source of women 's subjection and inferiority , and her assertion that ‘ any woman who is really a rebel longs to destroy the conventions which bind her in the home as much as those which bind her in the state ’ , has a modern ring , although in practice her solution , like that of Florence Nightingale , amounted to a complete rejection of family life rather than a demand for its restructuring . |