Example sentences of "[verb] [to-vb] for a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But it was actually hearing Duane Allman that made me want to go for a powerful kind of electric sound . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | It was not until 1965 , however , that the treaties were revised to provide for a single Commission and Council of Ministers . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | I want to arrange for a commemorative postage stamp to be printed with my portrait on it . |
| 8 | 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 " . |
| 9 | 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 ) . |
| 10 | When the converted attained the faith they were no longer merely formal Christians and were predisposed to work for a righteous world . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | If only the most dependent and disturbed patients are admitted to hospital care , then local authority care will need to provide for a wide range of elderly people including many with dementia , and some with milder behaviour problems . |
| 13 | £80–120,000 ( $150–220,000 ) is expected for a Florentine bronze statuette of the Knife-Grinder after the antique , No.14 from the French Royal Inventory of Louis XIV , and a Netherlandish figure of Venus Marina of the early seventeenth century is expected to sell for a similar figure . |
| 14 | But if you want to play for a good cause and strap on your box in the company of famous faces , challenge The Lord 's Taverners to a match . |
| 15 | If the members of a section want to vote for a full-time branch secretary , there was a member of that section , who 's been a full time branch secretary for longer than eighteen months , what right has anyone got to say they ca n't ? |
| 16 | Well I think she 's done all she needs to do for a little while . |
| 17 | However , following a successful campaign under German coach Karl-Heinz Feldkamp , who brought the Istanbul outfit its first title since 1988 , the wealthy and ambitious club wants to reinforce for a European Cup assault next term . |
| 18 | SHANE MACGOWAN continues to enjoy his bottle of wine , while JON BEAST has to settle for a double chin . |
| 19 | Branson told employees that Virgin 's present staffing level was designed to allow for a modest expansion . |
| 20 | Opportunities may be expected to exist for a young male to join the harem . |
| 21 | The policy has to cater for a wide variety of machines , some fixed and some mobile . |
| 22 | The alternatives are designed to cater for a wide variety of abilities in S5 . |
| 23 | By adding the pluses and minuses , it soon becomes apparent which of the remaining six places we ought to go to visit for a final decision . |
| 24 | There are three reasons for this : first , women dress differently from ‘ 20 men all wearing pinstripe suits ’ , making them more memorable ; second , they offload their emotions over redundancy much more quickly , making them better prepared to look for a new position ; and third , because of the so-called ‘ glass ceiling ’ , those women who do make it to the top are ‘ slightly better ’ than their male competitors . |
| 25 | She was much happier person because this this she 'd threatened to do for a long time . |
| 26 | ‘ I 've decided to opt for a quiet role , ’ she had said . |
| 27 | Rather than all the rare qualities discussed , the person serving young people in the latter part of the century needs to be able to work in a no-nonsense way with young people , to be a good manager prepared to fight for a fair share of the funds , to ensure that staff are able to devote a generous amount of time to users of the services in groups and as individuals , and to ensure that there is a good stock of books and other materials to explore . |
| 28 | After 1760 , with the acceleration in turnpike trust formation and the advent of the canal age , investment in transport came to account for a substantial fraction of total capital investment in Britain . |
| 29 | Sartre 's stress on the role of the subject also finds approval because many of those no longer prepared to argue for a general theory of history as the progress of a single narrative of class-struggle , have begun to argue instead for a return of its correlative , the subject , almost as if it was the next best thing in the absence of history itself . |
| 30 | THE heavily-polluted Czech town of Chomutov has threatened to call for a general strike unless the government cleans up the air , a town official said yesterday . |