Example sentences of "in for [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Edwina , the worldly mother-in-law who goes in for interior decoration . |
| 2 | The diet , of bread and butter and tea for breakfast , bread and butter and tea for tea , milk for supper , and a very limited variety of items for dinner , came in for adverse comment . |
| 3 | Network South East has its patriotic red , white , and blue bands with grey thrown in for good measure . |
| 4 | We ate the fish and polished off some cider while we watched the bombers blasting Caen , the British guns along the Orne joining in for good measure . |
| 5 | Like a David Goodis noir novel reset in Deptford with an extraneous espionage plot thrown in for good measure |
| 6 | More significantly , for the long term future of the industry , it has launched into a series of alliances , including a development partership with long-time rival Apple , with chip maker Motorola thrown in for good measure , and former IBM allies Intel and Microsoft left out in the cold . |
| 7 | It usually ended up as a slow jog with a buck thrown in for good measure . |
| 8 | Where we used to see an organ with its automated conductor and maybe a waterfall thrown in for good measure , we now have canned music and disc jockeys aping their favourites from radio or TV and hoping against hope that one day they too may be discovered . |
| 9 | The game itself is an interesting mix of platform hopping and hand-to-hand combat , with a few subgames thrown in for good measure . |
| 10 | Not that it 'd need to — Grandmaster Chess might be showing its age a bit , but if you can put up with its idiosyncrasies it 's a bargain at £1.99 , especially with Renaissance Othello thrown in for good measure . |
| 11 | ‘ One paper , by Paige ( 1967 ) , for example , quotes Lenin 's ‘ who does what to whom ’ , and Mao 's ‘ war without bloodshed ’ , reminds us of the more familiar formulations of Lasswell ( 1936 ) — ‘ who gets what , when , how ’ — , Easton ( 1953 ) — ‘ the authoritative allocation of values ’ — , Levy ( 1952 ) — ‘ the allocation of power and responsibility ’ , and Snyder ( 1958 ) — ‘ the making of authoritative social decisions ’ , and throws in for good measure a definition by a Japanese political scientist , Masao Maruyama — ‘ the organization of control by man over man ’ . |
| 12 | He offers everyone a serious comparison of Keaton and Charlie Chaplin ( with Harold Lloyd and Fatty Arbuckle trivia thrown in for good measure ) , revealing that Keaton was , for him , the true genius on account of his invention and comic daring . |
| 13 | The quadriathlon , still in its infancy , is basically a triathlon with a gruelling canoe leg thrown in for good measure , and East Anglia has one of the leading exponents in this new sport . |
| 14 | Also profiting from the New Europe , with a sprinkling of gardening thrown in for good measure , is Weidenfeld and Nicolson with J.M. Dent 's Germany : Architecture , Interiors , Landscape , Gardens by Christa von Richthofen with photographs by Oliver Benn ( £30 ) . |
| 15 | This is very much a ‘ people ’ story and concentrates on the day-to-day happenings in The Mob , with a fair amount of humour thrown in for good measure . |
| 16 | This is the new , raunchy Kylie ( I use the word ‘ raunchy ’ in its broadest possible sense ) and ‘ Let's Get To It ’ is basically eight desperate attempts at funkiness with two token ballads thrown in for good measure . |
| 17 | Rory would be nothing more to him than a pleasant extra thrown in for good measure . |
| 18 | The ability to laugh at themselves was never more evident as the three took their audience on a comic tour of Jewish life as we know it today with a smattering of politics , anti-semitism and Zionism thrown in for good measure . |
| 19 | When I first went in for forensic medicine he used me a lot and I got a great deal of experience I would n't otherwise have had because he was never too proud to ask for a specialist opinion . |
| 20 | ‘ We should go in for wholesale demolition of buildings from the Sixties and Seventies . |
| 21 | When agricultural improvers visited Sussex in the war years they had little favourable to say about the situation in general and the Weald came in for wholesale condemnation , although there was some disagreement about the details . |
| 22 | — TOP PREMIER League clubs are set to move in for ace North-East star-spotter Peter Kirkley , who has been sacked by Newcastle United . |
| 23 | The Forestry Commission has declared its intention to expand forestry , particularly of the broadleaved variety , at " down the hill " locations — a move away from recent tendencies to afforest uplands with conifer plantations , which have come in for extensive criticism [ see section on Pollution : Air in this issue ] . |
| 24 | Another new face in the pack is lock Jeremy Cruiks who has come up through the ranks , while back in action are back-row duo Mark Hampton and David Croft , who fills in for injured number 8 Roger Wilson . |
| 25 | In the afternoon , one or both of us goes in for extra teaching , discussions , etc. in the afternoon , and then we eat dinner at 6 . |
| 26 | Even those who thought that spatial perception would stand in for technical ability at age thirteen felt that the match between the specific ability and general intelligence was too close to allow it to generate a specialised educational form . |
| 27 | The gaol was at its busiest during the 1840s , when labourers on the Buckingham railway line were continually being hauled in for petty crime and drunkeness ; a spell in one of the cells was guaranteed to sober them up . |
| 28 | as colleagues who are involved will know is just about the only industry in the building materials sector that has n't made some kind of pay offer in this current round it 's very much bringing up the rear and we 're determined to use what industrial strength we have to change the employer 's stance otherwise we 're very concerned that the national negotiation missionary , this will be his death knell since we 'll have to resort to local pay bargaining , so the short answer is E C C er , will be balloted as far as the G M B is concerned union and , er , T & G are balloting in for industrial action to try to change the employers ' position . |
| 29 | The contrasts between the synoptic gospels ( Matthew , Mark and Luke ) and the fourth gospel , between the various letters ascribed to Paul , and between Paul 's theology and that of other leaders in the primitive church , all now came in for serious consideration . |
| 30 | Buck rabbits on their own seldom or never go in for serious digging . |