Example sentences of "[noun sg] [pron] [vb base] for [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I think perhaps it is the cocaine I keep for medical purposes , pure , straight cocaine . |
| 2 | The reason is that foreign companies want to come here for a highly trained and highly motivated work force who work for good British companies . |
| 3 | Age is no longer the benchmark criterion we use for distinguishing people . |
| 4 | Living up to other people 's signalled expectations is often a pleasure/pain experience : pleasure in the recognition we receive for satisfying others ' expectations , pain in the sense that we lose some of our independence and freedom . |
| 5 | If I could speak French like François Mitterrand I probably would n't have the empathy I do for young horses . |
| 6 | Choose the mat thickness you need for proper comfort level . |
| 7 | The legal work they do for other clients gives them this experience . |
| 8 | When I am lying with him , and he is inside me — that is the moment I know for sure . ’ |
| 9 | My guess is he 's moved across to some private security firm — the sort they use for unattributable jobs like this . |
| 10 | The perceptions of their interests by the two parties may not always be entirely accurate , or they may change over time , but there can be no doubt of the importance they hold for local government structure . |
| 11 | We 're taking a hundred and fifty odd thousand out from a budget we have for additional staffing , and we 're also taking |
| 12 | Most of the evidence we find for full-time craftsmen nevertheless comes from the temples of the Middle and Late Minoan periods , so we should see the main period of craft industries as belonging to an urban society and in particular to the temples within that urban society . |
| 13 | But here and throughout there is an illuminating clarity of texture , purity of sound and impeccable intonation which make for satisfying listening . |
| 14 | Their second objective is to qualify their own champion which they aim to do with the black pup they plan for late 1993 . |
| 15 | But as soon as I had the door shut I began to ransack the flat for the sheet music I keep for special occasions such as Christmas , bar mitzvahs , weddings and so on . |
| 16 | Theories which aim to explain social phenomena do so through methods of investigation and interpretation which strive for internal consistency , comprehensiveness , and conceptual clarity . |
| 17 | One thing I know for certain is that after completing the first pitch it was only my experience as a climber to the lower E grades that got me through , and I wondered how a non-climber might have got on using the same information . |
| 18 | The one thing we know for certain is that life has arisen once , here on this very planet . |
| 19 | One thing we know for certain about global warming is that — whether fields get drier or damper , whether temperatures soar or only fluctuate — our crops will have to adjust quickly . |
| 20 | The only thing we know for sure is that shit happens . |
| 21 | Although evolution decrees that species of plant and animal which survive for long periods are shaped to the advantages determined by natural selection , progress over time to larger size might be a law of nature independent of environmental factors . |
| 22 | Every year we look for buried treasure . |
| 23 | But if replication needs complex machinery , since the only way we know for complex machinery ultimately to come into existence is cumulative selection , we have a problem . |
| 24 | NATIONAL Power and PowerGen , the privatised power generators , are making changes in the way they account for direct sales to industrial companies to reduce the risk of discrimination and cross-subsidies . |
| 25 | Finally she admitted , ‘ The last time I know for sure it was there was this morning when I was in Signor Diomede 's office . ’ |
| 26 | The dilemma can be expressed as follows : the more accessible teachers seek to make themselves to all their pupils as individuals , the less time they have for direct , extended and challenging interaction with any of them ; but the more time they devote to such extended interaction with some children , the less demanding on them as teachers must be the activities they give to the rest ; and the less demanding an activity is of their time and attention as teachers , the more the likelihood that the activity in question will demand little of the child . |
| 27 | Scientists and science educators might do well to worry about the attractiveness of computers and the sense of power they unlock for brilliant young people today . |