Example sentences of "[noun sg] [coord] for the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Members can also choose how long they wish to stay at the ‘ weekend ’ , whether for just a morning or afternoon or for the whole day-and-a-half . |
| 2 | Natural science is happy to take a spectator 's view of the workings of nature , and any retreat , as in quantum theory in physics or for the philosophical reasons in the last chapter , is reluctant . |
| 3 | May I thank my honourable friend for that extremely helpful reply and for the encouraging figures which he has given to the house this afternoon . |
| 4 | Denoting the intrinsic energy change by — U we have the equation and for the whole body Now the rate at which work is done by the external forces is The second integral converts by Gauss 's theorem to Now is we assume infinitesimal strains we may write and the second term vanishes in the summations . |
| 5 | Some of the implications of this observation , both for my own research and for the dominant disease model of child abuse , I shall discuss in the following section . |
| 6 | The batsmen now change gear and for the next 25 overs try to raise their run-scoring — ‘ strike-rate ’ in television jargon — to five or six an over without conceding more that three of four wickets . |
| 7 | Jennings [ 1990 ] Crim LR 588 ( CA ) confirmed the need for there to be a crime and for the unlawful act to be identified . |
| 8 | Congratulations to Usborne for a marvellous PR job for the computing industry and for the educational and fun use of the micro . |
| 9 | This is usually to throw light on the character being played or to create the right atmosphere for the location of the action and for the expressive action required for the unfolding of the plot or theme . |
| 10 | It is customarily assumed that the five years and eight months between the outbreak of war with Nazi Germany in September 1939 and the final collapse of that power in May 1945 was an epoch of ever-increasing radicalism , both for the British electorate and for the Labour Party itself . |
| 11 | Lipson and colleagues subsequently report ( May 22 , p 1352 ) from Australia a girl born with multiple congenital defects to a mother , who before conception and for the first 5 weeks of gestation , had used a topical liquid preparation of 0.05% tretinoin in 45% alcohol . |
| 12 | Tolkien 's romance is not a book for the trained critic but for the enthusiastic semi-amateur with an avidity for self-improvement ; and in intention , at least , it is essentially sexless . |
| 13 | Digital Equipment Corp has announced that it will offer a new hub backplane , code-named One Hub , in early 1993 , plugging the gap at the high end of the DEChub 90 range and for the first time offering Ethernet , Token Ring , and the Fibre Distributed Data Interface , FDDI , at first , and Asynchronous Transfer Mode high-speed networking technology , when it becomes available , in one product . |
| 14 | It is a language that needs a large memory capacity and for the first time there were machines available to use it . |
| 15 | This is a double alienation and for the Christian a curious kind of worldliness of mind . |
| 16 | Listening to the news through a set of headphones is at the core of the work and for the last year there has been monitoring of television broadcasts by satellite . |
| 17 | Thus , when the Board of Education issues its official Suggestions for Teachers handbook in 1910 it transmitted a clear message : ‘ … the high function of the teacher is to prepare the child for the life of the good citizen , to create and foster the aptitude for work and for the intelligent use of leisure , and to develop those features of character which are most readily influenced by school life , such as loyalty to comrades , loyalty to institutions , unselfishness and an orderly and disciplined habit of mind . ’ |
| 18 | This is an alternative to the knowledge test and for the same reason is therefore irrelevant . |
| 19 | Madeline had spent 20 years in education and childcare management and for the last 10 had been running nine nurseries for a charity in London . |
| 20 | I think it 's possibly the thirteenth consecutive year I 've been on the committee and for the first time I 've managed to be elected . |
| 21 | Baker visited Saudi Arabia and Jordan on July 20-21 and both King Fahd and King Hussein announced their support for the US plan and for the Egyptian initiative . |
| 22 | The whole festival is heavily dependent on sponsorship and for the last five years it has successfully attracted and maintained a number of business sponsors both locally and nationally . |
| 23 | I have expressed a general thanks to all counsel but special thanks should be recorded to the Official Solicitor and to Mr. Michael Nicholls of his department for the rapid response to my cry for help and for the superb way in which the Official Solicitor and Mr. Butler , who holds his brief , have responded . |
| 24 | Dr Stainer died when I was fourteen-and-a half and for the next eighteen months I attended one of the LCC Day schools . |
| 25 | The court ordered the original bills of lading , which were in the hands of B. , the ambassador of the Republic of Somalia appointed to the United Nations Organisation by the former government , to be placed in court to facilitate the sale of the cargo and for the net proceeds of sale to be paid into court . |
| 26 | There are going to be implications for the private sector and for the statutory authorities and for SAD . |
| 27 | Commenting on the boycott by the opposition , he said : " Whilst the state provided all the facilities and preconditions for the success of the pluralist experiment , for widening the scope of the political scene and for the active participation of tendencies and parties , many opposition parties preferred not to participate and to adopt a negative stance towards the development of this experiment . " |
| 28 | I have over the years many times come to the rostrum but for the first time it gives me no pleasure at all in saying what has to be said . |
| 29 | These courses are a very important initiative not just for this diocese but for the whole country at a time when we need to find new ways of helping lay people and priests to work together in furthering the mission of the church . |
| 30 | Opposition Members believe that the British people have the basic talents and abilities which , with investment in their skills and a programme committed to training , will allow us to map out a better , more secure and more dignified future not for only those already in work but for the many people who will join the labour market in years to come . |