Example sentences of "[verb] for [noun] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Baker met for talks with a three-member Palestinian delegation led by Faisal al-Husseini , director of the East Jerusalem Institute of Arab Studies , on July 21 . |
| 2 | Every time we go I have to wait for ages in the cold hospital wearing a scratchy towelling robe the colour of sick and drinking black coffee . |
| 3 | Within a year , in the summer of 1987 , Brannen was competing for Britain in the European Junior Championships . |
| 4 | Shankill player Cowan , the former Irish Junior number one , is no longer eligible for Junior events and welcomes the opportunity to share the team bench with the legendary Slevin , now competing for Lubeck in the German National League . |
| 5 | There are also signs that in the new era of competitiveness between them , institutions are becoming reluctant to open their course offerings to the critical gaze of panel members drawn from institutions competing for contracts with the funding bodies . |
| 6 | Some 30 hopefuls from each age group will be selected for the finals , with the players competing for places in the Under-21 matches against Scotland and Wales , and the Under-18s United Kingdom and England tournament in Scotland . |
| 7 | Neufville ran for Cambridge Harriers in South East London though she opted for competing for Jamaica in the prestigious games . |
| 8 | Despite the wealth of evidence that nuclear power can never under-price fossil fuel-generated electricity , BNFL is looking at ways of competing for supply in the open market . |
| 9 | The Buid and Semai examples should also serve as a caution against theories about violence and aggression which treat them as typically involving a contest between two balanced opponents competing for access to a scarce resource . |
| 10 | There had been fears that the entry of SeaCat into the cross-Channel route would mean more companies competing for business in a static market . |
| 11 | So we find him circling for months around the insoluble problem of Kee , exulting and then despairing , then exulting again . |
| 12 | Admiral Lord Nelson is said to have stopped for tea in the local Anchor Hotel on his way to join the British Fleet at Trafalgar . |
| 13 | Shock and indignation jostle for position in the following quote from a speech of the president of the Royal Society , delivered in 1978 : ‘ Ominously , voices have been raised claiming that limits should be set to scientific inquiry — that there are questions which should not be asked and research which should not be undertaken . ’ |
| 14 | This means that the extra payments received for overtime beyond the scheduled week are earned at an earlier stage in large firms . |
| 15 | In 1976 Dave was supposed to be caddying for Fernandez at the French Open , but Vicente had broken his finger , so he was without a bag — until Manuel Ballesteros asked him if he would like to carry for his brother Seve . |
| 16 | On March 18 Finland applied for membership of the European Communities ( EC ) . |
| 17 | Switzerland applied for membership of the International Monetary Fund ( IMF ) and the World Bank on June 6 , 1990 . |
| 18 | The advantages to the reader are that he ‘ turns for help to the professional staff ; he learns to appreciate that his needs are not restricted by the limitations of the bookstock of one library . |
| 19 | It is usually to relatives that the peasant migrating to the city turns for help in the new and frightening environment . |
| 20 | I conceive that the promise would not be binding for want of a previous request by the testator . |
| 21 | ABA light heavyweight champion Anthony Todd , of Darlington , travels to the second of the three Olympic qualifying tournaments in Berck sur Mer hoping he 'll follow in the footsteps of Scarborough 's Paul Ingle , who qualified for Barcelona at the previous tournament in Denmark . |
| 22 | Nearer home , he is a stalwart of the chess club at his present school , Yarm School junior department , and he plays for Stokesley in the senior division of the chess league . |
| 23 | The Council of Licensed Conveyancers and the Institute are likely to go for approval at an early date ; it is unlikely , however , that any approvals will be given before the second half of 1993 . |
| 24 | The flames from hundreds of eruptions had once furnace-fashioned this valley and left it with rocks precariously dangling on steep hills , scattered warningly across the path , uncertainly wedged , it seemed , against the few huts which passed for homes over an ill-repaired double span of bridge which crossed the stream feeding the lake . |
| 25 | Even allowing for differences between the two surveys , it seems fairly likely that the rate of known opioid use was much higher in Wirral than Brighton during 1984 and 1985 . |
| 26 | Broadly , and allowing for over-simplification of the two books , Mr Kee and Mr Mullin allege that the confessions were beaten out of them by the police interrogating them , and that the forensic tests were either doctored so as to appear positive , or were otherwise unreliable . |
| 27 | This assumption may be relaxed to a certain extent by allowing for tenure over a specified number of ( exogenously chosen ) periods ( see NN ) or for random terminations ( see Lancaster and Chesher , 1983 ) . |
| 28 | Is the contract on " written standard terms " if the terms are held on a word processor and one term is altered for dealings with a particular customer ? ( b ) A business regularly contracts on terms prepared by its trade association : are those terms its " written standard terms " ? ( c ) A business makes individual contracts by telephone , or other instantaneous communication , but incorporates its normal terms of business into the contracts by express oral reference , or by a course of dealing ; are the terms then " written standard terms " ? ( d ) Are terms " standard " on the first occasion they are used ? ( e ) A business has negotiated a set of terms for use on all contracts with a particular customer . |
| 29 | Dogs charged about like lunatics , scattering the chickens and geese which pecked for food in the hard-packed soil . |
| 30 | His Pakistan team-mate , paceman Wasim Akram , re-signed for Lancashire in a five-year deal worth around £250,000 . |