Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] [verb] for [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In Leeds meanwhile he interested himself in educational ventures and became widely known for public service . |
| 2 | The area that offers most promise for chemical theory is in the understanding of reaction mechanisms . |
| 3 | Boss wrongly sacked for sexual harassment |
| 4 | The money will also be used to provide better signposting for existing access points to the towpath . |
| 5 | Prof Wilkie , who trained with Scottish Widows and who has also worked for Standard Life , is a partner of R Watson & Partners , the firm of consulting actuaries , and is an honorary visiting professor at Heriot-Watt University . |
| 6 | I am as surprised as anyone to learn that Colin has now signed for current Football League champions Leeds United . |
| 7 | In the event of the building becoming insufficiently furnished for full habitation or unoccupied , cover under both policies is restricted as follows : |
| 8 | He was a key figure in the Quakers ' side for six seasons and played an equally important role with Bristol City until he moved abroad to play for Turkish side Beskitas . |
| 9 | L M Ericsson Telefon AB has a $470m contract for Groupe Speciale Mobile equipment from Mannesmann Mobilfunk GmbH : the contract covers infrastructure , services and telephones and is the largest the company has yet received for mobile phone kit . |
| 10 | Smaller and more volatile businesses do not have this luxury and often find themselves unable to attract the best people , and therefore have to go outside to recruit for senior management . |
| 11 | If it will not be possible to substitute hard copy for electronic mail , will this premise eventually be extended to all electronic information/data either by the courts or by legislation . |
| 12 | Finally , let us note that titles of address and all vocative forms seem invariably marked for speaker-referent relationship : there is no such thing , it seems , as a socially neutral summons or address ( see Zwicky , 1974 : 795 re English ) . |
| 13 | Full and part-time courses are continually running so call for up-to-date information . |
| 14 | Er we 've got one month in which to do it basically erm so what I would suggest is that the officers of the three unions represented here apply for paid release first of all to or , presumably it will be Geoff the Chief Personnel Officer . |
| 15 | The UK Government offers Overseas Research Student(ORS) awards annually to provide for partial remission of fees to overseas postgraduate students of outstanding merit and research potential who are studying for research degrees . |
| 16 | One is frighteningly reminiscent of Bez — should the Mondays hoofer ever opt for regular employment with the Woolwich . |
| 17 | In field bear uphill aiming for double electricity posts . |
| 18 | Japan 's ruling and opposition parties have both put forward plans for political reform , which include a shift towards a first-past-the-post electoral system . |
| 19 | The rising at Abingdon in 1431 ( with offshoots in the Midlands and London ) , which contemporaries associated with Lollardy , although on somewhat tenuous grounds , was undoubtedly anti-clerical , and some rebels seem to have put forward plans for ecclesiastical disestablishment . |
| 20 | His pen-and-ink drawings provided Minton with unrelieved amusement , as Lyttelton has recalled : Humphrey Lyttelton 's presence at Camberwell helped make it a centre for the beginnings of ‘ trad ’ , a jazz revival which replaced ‘ the polite and effete noise which had hitherto passed for genuine jazz ’ with a new vitality and energy . |
| 21 | The League , which had already campaigned for nationwide non-payment of taxes , on Oct. 9 caused an further uproar by calling on small savers not to buy treasury bonds on the grounds that their money would be at risk . |
| 22 | Yet Anglicans had always allowed for passive resistance , in the sense of non-compliance with the ungodly commands of the sovereign , so long as one peacefully accepted the punishments for one 's disobedience . |
| 23 | Since central government had always paid for new building , local districts and services did not have to face the cost of using buildings and capital , and hence tended to waste space and capital assets . |
| 24 | Some 1,500 high-school students had been protesting against the reintroduction of mid-term examinations and had also called for increased government spending on education . |
| 25 | Reports on April 6 said that Australia 's Prime Minister Bob Hawke had also called for international action to help the Kurds . |
| 26 | The theses advocated both support for national liberation movements and agitation to ensure that workers and peasants were prepared for the Soviet revolution which was to follow , a policy contradiction which was never resolved . |
| 27 | President Kaunda told delegates that Zambia 's experience could not be compared to that of the Soviet Union or of East European countries which had recently opted for political pluralism . |
| 28 | This , however , is of little use unless the score has been fully studied beforehand , and the passages of which the effect can not be heard mentally marked for special attention at performance . |
| 29 | Today 's factory farms , which dispense with straw for bedding and have little use for natural manure , turn out thousands of litres of slurry — dung and urine mixed with water — every day . |
| 30 | Jackson have long stood for high quality American instruments , with their Japanese- and Korean-made Charvel counterparts sitting at the other end of the corporate see-saw . |