Example sentences of "[vb -s] [pron] [adj] [noun sg] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | The courts have held that if a public body exercises its statutory power for an improper purpose they can intervene . |
| 2 | The GRP rod has its best application for kites in the range of diameters from 1.5mm to 10mm ( 1/16 to 3/8in nominal ) . |
| 3 | The rising yen also has its dark side for domestic Japanese companies . |
| 4 | Each agency has its own system for placing staff , and charges and style of service vary considerably . |
| 5 | Every country has its own system for using frequencies , and they have to think about each other — radio waves , after all do not stop at national boundaries and without international collaboration there could be interference and general chaos . |
| 6 | Each home has its own procedure for this and will discuss it with you fully . |
| 7 | One of the main problems is that there is a clear separation between the various specialties , each of which has its own payment for a case . |
| 8 | Scotland has its own framework for the encouragement of enterprise , investment and training ; its own education system which continues to excel , with more pupils leaving school better qualified and more going on to further and higher education ; its own health budgets which deliver high standards of care ; and its own glorious inheritance of buildings and countryside . |
| 9 | Like love , listening to God has its own reason for being . |
| 10 | The State Department has its own fund for emergency projects . |
| 11 | Everyone has their own threshold for harassment . |
| 12 | One example can be given to show how this attitude contains its own potentiality for tilting from implicit justification to explicit criticism , should the balance between cost and benefit be thought to be changed . |
| 13 | Liberal Democrat candidate Rosamund Jordan holds her first phone-in for voters today . |
| 14 | St Jovite has landed an unfavourable outside draw , but he reserves his best form for right-handed tracks like Longchamp and he 's likely to be sharper than when beaten by Dr Devious at Leopardstown . |
| 15 | Jones reserves his highest praise for lateral thinkers — one of whom he identifies as the new Prime Minister Bob Hawke . |
| 16 | But he reserves his deepest angst for thespianism which is , according to this latter-day Irving , ‘ a pain , like a trip to the dentist — an unpleasant experience . ’ |
| 17 | Every general has his own method for preparing his troops for battle and I am no exception . |
| 18 | This race gave McCallen one of his five wins last year , and looks his best bet for an action replay victory . |
| 19 | Ipswich may have Geraint Williams back while City player-boss Peter Reid starts his first game for three months . |
| 20 | Ian Leigh Glover making slow recoveries but at least there 's good news in the return of centre half Colin Cooper who starts his first game for two months and two recently injured strikers are back in tandem , ironically the biggest partnership in the Division . |
| 21 | He owes us some money for the , for the , the milk that was off . |
| 22 | Can we expect individuals to enjoy equal rights and participation in their social lives and yet work under an authoritarian structure at the workplace that gives them little responsibility and allows them little scope for participation ? |
| 23 | But feminism never prescribes its own politics for the inhabitants . |
| 24 | The performance of the engine , on the bench , already meets its full specification for thrust and fuel efficiency and even it exceeds it slightly in some respects . |
| 25 | The millionairess Argentinian star blames her gruelling workload for the lack of a boyfriend . |
| 26 | Antonio , to a Christian audience , is portrayed as an unselfish and generous man who risks his own life for his best friend . |
| 27 | He says his only reason for deciding to kill Caesar was that he had committed himself to help the general public . |
| 28 | Ray uses his outside pond for retailing fish to early-season buyers and , as luck would have it , sold two Koi just as I arrived . |
| 29 | 3 Jumping in quickly behind the attacker , the defender uses his left arm for a backfist strike to the rib cage . |
| 30 | Not for anyone who uses His holy name for their own ends . |