Example sentences of "[adv] [subord] the [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 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | His clinical experiences taken together provided the basis for , as well as continuing opportunity to re-evaluate , his theory of early emotional development . |
| 9 | 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 ) . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Eventually equipment purchases will have to be made so long as the demand for packaging is there . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 " . |
| 16 | The fee of 9d showed that Halling possessed a church and was designated so as the fee for a chapel was 6d . |
| 17 | So as the time for hatching approaches , all the eggs may not be equally ready . |
| 18 | So when the advert for the Rose Bowl had appeared in the trade Press it had seemed like an answer to a prayer . |
| 19 | I can see case by case judgments arising based on the precise nature of the services or their scale as a whole , but those are judgments on the facts rather than the framework for general rule-making . |
| 20 | This analysis relates to the kind of expenditure incurred rather than the purpose for which it was incurred . |
| 21 | Readers of the tabloid press overwhelmingly preferred television rather than the press as an information source but , like other voters , they had a relatively slight preference for television rather than the press for helping them decide how to vote . |
| 22 | Rather than the need for the centre diminishing , it is now greater . |
| 23 | Although he blamed himself rather than the department for his own failure , making comments like ‘ I 'm just not an academic basically ’ and ‘ I do n't think there 's a lot wrong with the course , if you want to do an academic course ’ , the path he saw himself as taking seemed directly opposed to the departmental ethos ; stating that he did n't want to do ‘ anything theoretical ’ , he told me that he wanted to train to be a nurse . |
| 24 | Cawson ( 1985b ) , for example , prefers the description ‘ corporatism at local level ’ , since he argues that ‘ in most cases the local dimension is the target of intervention rather than the basis for the organization of the participating bodies ’ ( p. 144 ) . |
| 25 | The desire for children may determine the timing of marriage , rather than the desire for marriage determining the arrival of children . |
| 26 | Diagnosis is the same whether the doctor is homoeopathic or orthodox , but the homoeopathic doctor has the advantage of not needing a diagnosis before treatment begins , since it is the patient rather than the disease for whom the prescription is made . |
| 27 | Long life expectancy also indicates the success of development rather than the potential for it . |
| 28 | It should be the exception rather than the rule for client to sign the letter at the meeting when it is first presented to him . |
| 29 | The pros and cons of which financial saviour should be favoured — a bid led by the American company Sikorsky , or a European consortium including British Aerospace — need not concern us here , because to dwell unduly upon them would be like treating the assassination of an archduke in Sarajevo as the cause rather than the trigger for the First World War . |
| 30 | Public anniversaries normally provided the cue for unrest . |