Example sentences of "for [det] [noun pl] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This is condemnation indeed , but more crucial is the circumstance that in its diminished state , criminal law remains for some students the first impression of serious legal study . |
| 2 | Indeed , for some commentators the three adjectives appear to be almost synonyms . |
| 3 | As Clinton Rossiter maintained , for some presidents the chief executive 's most difficult task ‘ is not to persuade Congress to support a policy dear to his political heart , but to persuade the pertinent bureau or agency or mission , even when headed by men of his own choosing , to follow his direction faithfully and transform the shadow of the policy into the substance of a program ’ . |
| 4 | Although for some domains the specific dictionary far outperformed the general , the overall margin , on average , was insufficient to justify their continued use . |
| 5 | For some years the naval dockyards have been operating in a limbo land . |
| 6 | His father was a tailor and for some years the young Steen helped him in his business . |
| 7 | For some years the three-cornered parish with its three Mass centres had been looking to provide a parish centre with meeting and function rooms and to locate the priests ' house onsite . |
| 8 | For some years the growing number of bank collapses had been putting pressure on the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation ( FDIC ) , the government body which guaranteed the safety of private savers ' deposits in most , but not all , of the federally approved banks . |
| 9 | For some years the local authority sent boxes of books which were changed monthly and which were distributed by volunteers from their homes or village halls on two evenings a week . |
| 10 | For some schools the central guidelines will be interpreted through a carefully structured timetable . |
| 11 | For some centuries the first reason seemed simple , though it has been greatly complicated by the most recent technical developments . |
| 12 | Ingolstadt was for some centuries the principal seat of the Bavarian dukes when Munich was not much more than a village . |
| 13 | For these reasons the moral dimension of world politics has not been deemed to constitute an overriding objection to the development of International Relations theory . |
| 14 | Sir Bartle Frere , the Governor of Bombay in the 1860s and a great enthusiast for railways , pointed out to his London masters that for these reasons the Indian station required three or four times more space than its British counterpart . |
| 15 | For these reasons the Bosnian Serb deputies had already rejected the Vance-Owen plan twice , before the fateful meeting of May 5th at a hotel in their mountain headquarters in Pale , just north of Sarajevo . |
| 16 | For these reasons the common system of farming in Britain is one of mixed farming , with several different outputs , as well as being intensive farming and commercial farming . |
| 17 | For these reasons the basic form of instruction modification described above is no longer used ; instead its effect is achieved by the use of index registers , as described in the next section . |
| 18 | For these reasons the inevitable defeat of the " United Front " and of Communist affiliation by a predominantly trade-union vote did little to deter the " Unity Campaign " which grew in direct defiance of the Edinburgh decisions . |
| 19 | For these reasons the residual precession is greater for Mercury than for any other planet . |
| 20 | For these cases the appellate process provides the remedy . |
| 21 | For these trials the six cameras , and a 35mm SLR ‘ control ’ camera , were subjected to 50 separate operations in a variety of conditions . |
| 22 | Informal discussions with Afro-Caribbean pupils indicated that the pupils felt that certain teachers disrespect them on the basis of their ethnicity and that for these pupils the pupil-teacher relationship was based on conflict , with the pupils attempting to play the teachers at their own ‘ game ’ in order to survive . |
| 23 | For these practices the overall consultation rate was 3.2 per patient per year , which is not dissimilar from the national average . |
| 24 | When birth weights are standardised for these variables the social class gradient disappears . |
| 25 | In reading the bundle of documents relating to this appeal , both before , during and since the hearing before me , I have wondered whether attention was not focused almost as much on the father 's wish to obtain an order for costs against the local authority as upon the important question of making for these children the best decision that was available . |
| 26 | For all tissues the preservative method was immersion in buffered neutral formalin for up to 24 hours followed by embedding in paraffin . |
| 27 | For all groups the main determinant of improvement in mean hearing threshold was the otoscopic presence or absence of fluid . |
| 28 | For all countries the ten-year difference in the two sets of pyramids demonstrates how the excess births of one generation moves through the population , creating a successive need for new schools , jobs , houses and , ultimately , pensions . |
| 29 | It must be remembered , however , that for all children the ultimate aim is still maximum competence in the conventional skills involved in writing . |
| 30 | The venerable Clarkson , for many reformers the remaining patriarch of the movement , was not exempt by 1838–40 . |