Example sentences of "[verb] [art] [noun] for [art] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 Biggart says : ‘ The Northwest promotion , which offered two for the price of one tickets to 74 international destinations , met the prerequisite for a successful sales promotion .
2 I was not consulted about membership of the Group , and with the exception of Dr Charles Suckling , a member of the Kingman Committee , I met the members for the first time when we assembled in London for our opening working session .
3 Breeze now met the Vicar for the first time , and thought he was one of the most unconventional people she had ever seen .
4 On Monday , the managing director , Jacques Calvet , met the unions for the first time but said there could be no discussion of pay until production was resumed .
5 As Mr Urbanec met the opposition for the first time , it appeared increasingly likely that his predecessor , Mr Milos Jakes , would eventually find himself behind bars .
6 The Cotswold-stone shop sells bears vintage ( £2,500 ) and everyday ( £10 ) , and owner Ian Pout has trawled the world for the top teddies .
7 This fits the student for a professional career in a wider range of applications .
8 The speech was all too unexciting , having travelled the country for the past year , and not noticeably improving with age .
9 I remember sitting in a hotel in Lymm thinking that I could n't really spare the time for the Managing Quality course but I 'd run out of excuses !
10 These so-called ‘ displacement activities ’ which often involve grooming the body for a short time , seem to occur particularly in states of conflict between , say , attacking and escaping from another individual .
11 From the church came a dual impulse strengthening this morality : the prevailing teaching on sexual abstention outside of marriage under pain of mortal sin , and the rigorous life of a clergy pledged to chastity and preaching the need for an unmarried laity to practise the same degree and kind of circumspection in sexual matters which the clergy had been taught to impose upon themselves .
12 Its dictator , President Siad Barre , ditched the Russians for the better-heeled Americans .
13 Wenner ditched the piece for the American edition .
14 We can only presume the allocation for the current financial year is the first element of a rapidly expanding budget over the full five years of the scheme .
15 Simmer the chicken for a further 10–15 minutes until the chicken is tender .
16 And they said we 're not naming the home for the elderly that will probably be closed .
17 Wordsworth writes as if he is a new kind of human being , like Adam naming the creatures for the first time .
18 Thus on the eve of the Labour Party Conference at Blackpool in May 1945 , which he hurried back from America to attend , Attlee called on Churchill at Downing Street and discussed with him the possibility of maintaining the coalition for a further period .
19 In reaching this conclusion I have not , of course , overlooked the findings in the special case [ that the owners never intended to affirm the agreement for extra payments ] but I do not think that an intention on the part of the owners not to affirm the agreement for the extra payments , not indicated to the yard , can avail them in view of their overt acts .
20 This criterion is intended to signal the need for a healthy scepticism concerning the supposition , embodied in the HMI report The School Curriculum ( 1981 ) , that given equal access to educational resources , the strengths of each child , male or female , would be more fully realized .
21 Soon Vickers at Barrow was building the Hercules for the Argentinian navy and then , under licence , helping it to build the Santisima Trinidad at Rio Santiago .
22 Mr Milburn has contacted Durham County Council to explain the situation and push the case for the local people in the hope the council may subsidise the route .
23 They went to Zliten and spent the night in a guestroom ; in the morning the Zliten boy asked to borrow the vehicle for a few moments , drove it away , smashed it and abandoned both the vehicle and his Zuwayi friend who had to find other means to get back to Benghazi .
24 An Alton rider also shared the award for the fastest composite team , with M. Tuero of Alton CC and M. Sparkes and Antelope Racing recording 53 mins. 04 .
25 IntelliDraw is by far the most interesting drawing package to hit the market for a long time .
26 Having calculated the profit for the first six months discuss whether the profit figure is a useful benchmark for measuring the performance of the business , and also whether it is useful as a guide to future profitability .
27 Ali failed to go the route for the first time in his career .
28 The somewhat carefree atmosphere of this event was dampened a few months later when the Electricity Board 's contractors prepared to start work on levelling the ground for the new power station .
29 As he told Fred Emery on Panorama , ‘ from the moment that decision was taken to cancel the opportunity for a collective judgement to be taken , I knew that something very wrong had happened . ’
30 In the first a company or industry discerns the need for a new product or product range , develops markets and sells to the widest possible market .
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