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

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31 And we 've written back that we might get money from but can we use it for I E buying chairs and other things or for the general welfare .
32 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 .
33 The truth is that he only races as a personal challenge , or for the pure enjoyment of running .
34 All of these further contributed to the post land reform potential o of the law set to maintain and increase its income , or for the Communist Party to tax .
35 It is important to know what help is forthcoming for you or for the elderly person for whom you are caring .
36 The purpose of this was to allow the stone to disimpact or for the acute complication to resolve .
37 It involves the disinterested pursuit of truth , beauty or goodness , even though it is always mixed up with other motivations such as the search for social importance ( knowledge is power ) , or for status and acceptance , or for the comforts of a dream world , or for the individual self-realisation which involves the establishment of a personal identity .
38 And should the conditions about availability of , or taking of , food be national or for the local Licensing Justices to attach as appropriate when granting the Children 's Certificate ?
39 For example , something may be written for the wedding of a friend , or for the local organist to play .
40 Examples include : the automatic generation of weather forecasts by a computer communicating with satellites , the selection of lists of random numbers for a competition or for the Premium Bond draw , programs which produce artistic designs or music automatically , being based upon a set of rules built into the program , a program designed to simulate some particular environment , such as climate , monetary systems , battle scenarios , etc .
41 In most instances these special schools for visually handicapped pupils are for children of primary school age or for the full school age-range and they have in general terms a regional catchment .
42 The system can be searched by author , title or pupils 's name , as seen with LIBRAFILE above and overdues can be produced for a pupil , a class or for the whole school .
43 One of the decisions you have to make is whether to have the entertainer for just an entertainment slot or for the whole party .
44 The House of Lords , not for the first or for the last time , held that ‘ determination ’ should not be construed as including everything which purported to be a determination but was not , and so the court was not precluded from deciding that the order of the Commission was a nullity .
45 Hence TL is normally used in the following situations : beyond the range of radiocarbon : when no organic material has been preserved on the site : when the association between the event to be dated and the radiocarbon content of the organic samples is poor ; or for the few periods where the age range on a calibrated radiocarbon age is larger than the corresponding TL error term .
46 Current refinements , no doubt with Christmas present buying in mind , include boxed sets of three or more related cassettes from Warners — for example , all three of James Dean 's movies for £29.95 , or for the same price , Marilyn Monroe in The Prince and the Showgirl , The Misfits and ( a bit of a scoop , since it has not been on video before ) Some Like It Hot .
47 With this announcement the powers which had occupied and divided Germany after the Second World War effectively accepted the inevitability of early German unification , although the statement contained no indication of the four powers ' preferred timetables for unification or for the two-plus-four negotiations .
48 For someone like Anderson — or for the Tory activists Simpson heard chanting ‘ Privatise the BBC ’ outside Central Office — the case for dismemberment is clear .
49 Provided that an applicant for the renewal of a licence or for the permanent transfer of a licence need not attend or be represented unless the applicant has been cited by the board to attend the meeting .
50 Elsewhere , intelligent use of colour is responsible for the blue shading which fills out me of the canthari surrounding the Tyche medallion at Brantingham , Humbs. , or for the red shadow which falls across the shoulder and left cheek of Venus , in the Kingscote mosaic .
51 Given that there is no physical reason for either the strong antibiasing ( ) required on all scales , or for the non-zero value of , we do not consider this option further ( but see ref. 35 for an alternative view ) .
52 It is by helping newcomers , becoming a sponsor and by doing practical service of one kind or another for the group or for the Anonymous Fellowship as a whole that one gains greater insights into one 's own disease and greater humility and security in one 's own recovery .
53 Halfway through interviewing candidates is no time for governor discord or financial disagreements to surface , or for the true needs of the school to be hastily compromised .
54 She showed no concern for her own situation , or for the throbbing pain .
55 We hasten to add that we adopt the above procedure without any deep reverence for psychiatric classification as such or for the psychiatric form of describing the person .
56 Inevitably the analysis is relatively crude since it is difficult to gather data about the financial circumstances of dementia sufferers or about the total amount of care provided for them in the community .
57 It would be unwise , therefore , to say anything to him of what he had learned about Ipuky 's sons from his first marriage , or about the other visitor to the City of Dreams .
58 Thus , by overwhelming margins voters , in 1980 , believed that ‘ too little , or about the right amount ’ of public money was being spent on various problems : halting crime ( 94 per cent ) ; drug addiction ( 92 per cent ) ; health ( 92 per cent ) ; education ( 89 per cent ) .
59 or about the right number ?
60 I hereby acknowledge that I have received from the sum of £ in payment for the fixtures , fittings and chattels now in or about the above premises listed in the Schedule below AND I confirm that I am absolutely entitled to the same free of any charge , hire-purchase agreement or other incumbrance affecting the same or any of them .
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