Example sentences of "[adv prt] the [noun] for [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ We shall carry on the fight for individual airlines in this complaint to the EC , ’ he said . |
| 2 | There may well be a reputable graffiti artist in the area who would take on the challenge for little more than the cost of the materials ! |
| 3 | Notice that throughout the 1980s , the objectives of the MTFS have remained the same : that is , to control inflation , to reduce the government 's budget deficit and to lay down the foundation for sustainable economic growth . |
| 4 | They have got to pin down the Turks for five-minute periods , which will exaggerate the sense of panic in their back four . |
| 5 | He left his job as Chairman of Ratners in November and was busy searching up and down the country for another shop . |
| 6 | According to the script , after an initial twenty minutes of Anglo-Saxon bombardment , the Turks would be weeping with fear and humiliation , and devoting much of their on-field activities to figuring out ways of being granted political asylum , rather than returning home to their doubtless murderous regime , where they would be summarily sent to work down the sewers for ten years . |
| 7 | Over the past decade a sudden surge of research reports managed to answer the question of when people achieve a basic grasp of psychology : sometime in the fifth year of life we lay down the framework for generalisable inferences about the intentions of others . |
| 8 | Dr Fitzhugh admits that the prices he pays for commissioned prices are well below market value ; but few artists turn down the opportunity for such excellent exposure . |
| 9 | He continued down the Namoi for 150 miles towards the Brigalow Scrubs — a distance of 400 miles from the coastline , and the farthest he went into the interior — slaughtering en route a plethora of birds , many of which — the white-backed swallow , the black-eared cuckoo , the yellow-throated miner , the striated grass-wren , the red-backed kingfisher and another bower-bird of the spotted variety to name but a few — were completely new to science . |
| 10 | No , we 've got to look down the race-card for some attractive , available , acquiescent filly — and the likeliest filly is surely — ’ |
| 11 | The easiest equation if I said , Write down the equation for one of these . |
| 12 | Almost all the colonies the English ever acquired were of one or another of these three types , and in a number of other ways the overseas activities undertaken between the 1550s and the 1640s laid down the pattern for all that was to come . |
| 13 | At random , she lifted down the volume for 1977 . |
| 14 | For some operators , there is the added benefit of a deal put together and managed by a service company which cuts down the workload for in-house geophysicists . |
| 15 | For a wood glue-to be effective it has to penetrate down the tubes for some distance so as to get hold of the undamaged wood . |
| 16 | On July 15 the Soviet Chamber of Commerce and Industry signed an agreement on mining co-operation with the South African Chamber of Mines which it believed would " lay down the basis for future economic relations " . |
| 17 | ‘ Zarathustra closed down the project for good reasons , by his lights . |
| 18 | Every two years or so , production staff would be faced with a choice : shut down the plant for two weeks to avoid an explosion or let the contraption blow up and restart full production on the following day . |
| 19 | They were the nearest residents to the front line and most of them had not dared to walk down the boulevard for more than a year . |
| 20 | I ca n't sleep at night for that baby crying , I ca n't breathe in the daytime for that stench of tallow coming out of their back door — and one of his customers brushed me into the dusty street the other day … |
| 21 | Continue along the ridge for another two miles on grassy tracks . |
| 22 | Keith Lascelles , friend and floor manager , turned from his prompt side console and , raising one enquiring eyebrow , asked : ‘ Miss Caine ? ’ — not needing to add , ‘ Shall I tell Dennie you 're ready to meet your public and to take over the warm-up for ten minutes ? ’ |
| 23 | The VAT returns for the last quarter are due in , and that big ( very profitable ) convention which took over the hotel for three weeks last year is imminent but you ca n't get at your data . |
| 24 | A quick barbecue pud is to part split a banana , put half a Mars bar in the middle , wrap it in tin foil and cook over the flames for five to 10 minutes . |
| 25 | A national health service should take over the provision for medical care in the old insurance scheme and effectively underpin the new one . |
| 26 | Sir Ian painstakingly worked over the evidence for this from decade to weary decade — and drew a blank . |
| 27 | ‘ It is the Headmistress 's custom ’ , Miss Honey went on , ‘ to take over the class for one period each week . |
| 28 | They followed up the cases for 12 months to discover how the accident had affected their general mental state , travel anxiety and their attitude to driving or being a passenger . |
| 29 | For example Bergmann et al , 1978 found that 38 per cent of a sample of 83 patients with organic mental disorder referred to a day hospital assessment unit lived alone ; and the authors concluded , after following up the sample for 12 months , that those who lived alone were least likely to be maintained at home for that period of time even with substantial support from social services , and recommended that resources should be concentrated on those who lived with their families . |
| 30 | For the eye to work the following minimum perfectly coordinated steps have to take place ( there are many others happening simultaneously , but even a grossly simplified description is enough to point up the problems for Darwinian theory ) . |