Example sentences of "and [vb -s] [noun sg] for [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Built in Luton at IBC and with a range of European Vauxhall and Opel engines that take local content to 80 per cent , they 'll be in about half of Vauxhall 's dealers with prices just up on the Suzuki Vitara for the Sport and just below the Isuzu Trooper and old Shogun for the five-door Across Europe , GM is optimistic it can sell 40,000 and has capacity for another 10,000 should Europe 's fastest-growing market segment require it . |
| 2 | He sits as a judge in the House of Lords , where he also acts as Speaker ; he is a cabinet minister and advises on constitutional issues ; and his department , established in 1885 , is our nearest approach to a Ministry of Justice and has responsibility for many aspects of the legal system . |
| 3 | The satellite makes 14 orbits per day , and at present IRAS surveys the sky for nine orbits and uses DAX for five . |
| 4 | A further risk that may be relevant where a purchaser acquires assets and assumes responsibility for some but not all of the creditors , is that the sale may be seen as a preferential treatment of creditors under IA 1986 , s239 . |
| 5 | Gordon Richards 's star novice created a tremendous impression when beating Dreamers Delight at Doncaster and possesses scope for considerable improvement . |
| 6 | The official state planning agency GOSPLAN sets all prices , production plans , import quotas and export targets , and allocates capital for new investment . |
| 7 | Symbolics plans to unbundle its various products and says support for other Unix platforms will follow . |
| 8 | to lovers of the sea it is a great treat , and affords scope for varied tastes . |
| 9 | Today , the race attracts huge crowds … and raises money for local charities . |
| 10 | Sleeping with the succuba who may be disembowelled but also disembowelling , Eliot 's speaker is in a position analogous to that of the eunuch priest ; poetry like sex here points to horrible death and finds expression for that concept in the language of the rituals of primitive religion and mythology . |
| 11 | When scratches , cuts and grazes call for fast action , Sudocrem can help , quickly , gently and effectively . |
| 12 | When scratches , cuts and grazes call for fast action , Sudocrem can help , quickly , gently and effectively . |
| 13 | I want Martin to be Cullam 's shadow and if he goes and pays cash for that refrigerator we 're really getting somewhere . |
| 14 | This is a positive step which promises to improve standards and taste , and gives cause for some optimism . |
| 15 | A longer time period is probably advantageous to the acquirer as it enables a better assessment of assets to be made and gives time for undisclosed liabilities to appear . |
| 16 | At this point , the family probably can not yet afford a high quality modern house , but for reasons of status it still decides to move into a sub-standard , ill-constructed house built with modern materials , a house that turns into an oven during the summer and generates demand for electrically-powered cooling devices . |
| 17 | Moreover it seems ironic that while the Secretary of State for Education attacks , and rightly attacks , the appalling attendance rates at certain schools , and apportions blame for this situation by claiming that children are bored , he offers a solution , in the form of the national curriculum , of a diet of mathematics , English , science , history , geography , a foreign language — all hamstrung with a pedestrian approach to evaluation in the form of bench-marks . |
| 18 | Their writing has wide appeal and provides material for many publications . |
| 19 | Pollution laws : Britain has infringed more air and water pollution directives than any other country in the EC ; according to the advocate general of the European Court of Justice , it exceeds EC nitrate standards in drinking water ; and faces prosecution for 138 substandard beaches . |
| 20 | Lyn Failing , a former Consultant with WACC 's curriculum development programme , is the new Information Coordinator with the UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestinian Refugees in the Near East . |
| 21 | At Abu Hamed the river turns back on itself and runs south-west for some 200 miles before it turns again and reasserts its northerly course . |