Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] for [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Headmaster was helping prepare for the grand event and was so confident it would be a success , he had contacted a specialist to come to take the Bookman away when caught . |
| 2 | But it was actually hearing Duane Allman that made me want to go for a powerful kind of electric sound . |
| 3 | For example , if they failed to arrange for a minor repair in the science labs and a pupil was hurt as a result , they might be guilty of a safety offence . |
| 4 | The corollary is that if they eventually return to the UK , their foreign domicile will be retained until it can be ascertained that they intend to remain for an indefinite period . |
| 5 | Not all practices will want to contract for an expanded range of services and local circumstances will also affect contracting decisions . |
| 6 | In fact , unreasonable behaviour is often used as a means of getting a quickie divorce where husband and wife both want one but do n't want to wait for the two-year separation period ; and because the age of chivalry is still not dead , men are often willing to let their wives petition for divorce when the fault is fifty-fifty , or even when the women are more to blame . |
| 7 | ‘ Not sure , really , though the little ones tend to go for the easy stuff . |
| 8 | In approaching family work in this way a social worker may want to arrange for a multidisciplinary assessment , calling on advice from the health care team . |
| 9 | It was not until 1965 , however , that the treaties were revised to provide for a single Commission and Council of Ministers . |
| 10 | After two years in the London office of Heidrick and Struggles , Kidd felt that he would prefer to work for a British firm and employ the systems he had designed . |
| 11 | The UN Charter would have to be amended to provide for a special security council which would not , presumably , include the rights of veto held by the five permanent members of the existing security council . |
| 12 | The amendment stated that the USA would attempt to dissuade any NATO ally from making force reductions , and that , should this attempt fail , the USA would seek to persuade other NATO allies to compensate for the resultant shortfall in overall NATO force levels . |
| 13 | I want to arrange for a commemorative postage stamp to be printed with my portrait on it . |
| 14 | BP and Shell account for a large slice of petroleum tax payments because they operate mature fields that have lost their tax shelter . |
| 15 | The Bank has arranged for a special travel insurance policy to insure those travelling against a range of mishaps such as personal accident , delayed departure and many other occurrences . |
| 16 | I understand that , in view of the allegations about the conduct of Staffordshire special branch officers , the chief constable of Staffordshire has arranged for a full investigation by the deputy chief constable of another force . |
| 17 | The couple 's apparent reconciliation will have done little to lessen Princess Diana 's anger at the knowledge that the man who once told her he loved her has fallen for a beautiful woman , 10 years younger than herself . |
| 18 | On the contrary , he has pressed for a centralised federation in which Serbia would presumably play a dominant role . |
| 19 | The Association has pressed for a clear-cut answer on this issue and has not received it . |
| 20 | The chief executive may know what change is needed , but has to wait for the right time to introduce it . |
| 21 | In bibliographic databases , it is important to consider whether pupils will want or need to search for a particular author , a particular location or a particular format such as " book " or " video " . |
| 22 | In a wide ranging and at times overtly anti-communist speech , described by the Guardian of March 30 as " more measured and specific than any he has given for a long time " , Yeltsin pilloried central government policy , labelling perestroika the " last phase of the stagnation period " . |
| 23 | The car 's hydraulics soughed as they tried to compensate for the sudden shift of the bubble but against that gale they were all but useless , and the bubble-canopy clanged on the car 's shell . |
| 24 | The peer review methods adopted by the Research Councils in the evaluation of research proposals were designed to provide for a fair distribution of national R & D funding , ( which some consider to be inadequate at present ) . |
| 25 | So that the training is not unduly prolonged the deans suggest that the undergraduate course could be shortened to compensate for the extra time spent as a house officer . |
| 26 | When the converted attained the faith they were no longer merely formal Christians and were predisposed to work for a righteous world . |
| 27 | The initial allocations ( $9½ billion spread over three years ) were expected to provide for a reasonable growth of reserves in the context of a staunching of the flow of dollars . |
| 28 | Two months after the military crackdown in Beijing in June 1989 , it was announced that university student intake would be cut from 640,000 to 610,000 in the next academic year , and that " specialities mainly in the social science fields which the State has deemed for a long time to have turned out personnel not qualified for socialist construction " would be suspended . |
| 29 | The time has come for a radical re-examination of the provision of services for this particularly disadvantaged group of people . |
| 30 | We must recognize that the time has come for a national crusade against pornography . |