Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] [verb] for a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But English Heritage has called for a thorough feasibility study before the third application is determined . |
| 2 | As Figure 17.6 shows , wholesale funding has accounted for a growing share of the building societies ' total funding . |
| 3 | Oldfield himself asked Branson to carry on as his manager , which Branson agreed to do for a new rate — Oldfield would pay him one barrel of beer a year . |
| 4 | I did n't have it in mind to go looking for a four-piece group . |
| 5 | The Association has pressed for a clear-cut answer on this issue and has not received it . |
| 6 | Although he insists there will be no change in France 's basic strategy , President Mitterrand has called for a national debate on defence . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | studied chartered accountancy at the Oxford Polytechnic and for the last 18 months has worked for a local chartered accountant . |
| 9 | A levy on each package in German shops helps to pay for a waste-collection system , which picks up potentially recyclable household rubbish and hands it back to producer organisations . |
| 10 | This study in a large population of patients with Zollinger-Ellison sydrome aimed to search for a differential pattern of gastric endocrine cells between patients with sporadic type Zollinger-Ellison sydrome and those with the syndrome and MEN 1 , and to establish whether there is a real predominance of ECL cell tumours in the second group . |
| 11 | But the home side had to settle for a winning draw after St George 's finished on 175–7 , despite a 2–55 return from 16-year old slow left arm bowler Howard Jones on his debut . |
| 12 | Meticulous Jeff had hoped for a fine , calm evening — but it was misty and windy . |
| 13 | Some parties had called for a national multiparty conference to be held first . |
| 14 | Balcon was the sort of producer the British film industry had needed for a long time . |
| 15 | Some learning resources are cheaper than others , and British primary schools have improvised for a long time with the very simplest materials including the discarded packaging of the consumer society . |
| 16 | That shared culture has gone , though its traces have persisted for a long time , at least among those unworldly older academics who assume that students of English will have read the whole of Shakespeare in the sixth form , or that they can readily identify classical or biblical references . |
| 17 | The family of a remand prisoner found hanged in his cell have called for a public inquiry after an inquest reached a suicide verdict . |
| 18 | One or two other manufacturers have opted for a similar idea to this , where the knob sweeps through an infinitely variable range of tones , from soft and middley to bass and treble-heavy ‘ crunch ’ . |
| 19 | The club have opted for a left arm spinner Jamie Stewart from Western Australia as their pro . |
| 20 | ‘ This is one that Alan has had for a long period of time , ’ Mr Cross said . |
| 21 | The judge has asked for a unanimous verdict and the jury will now spend the night in a hotel before returning to court to continue their deliberations . |
| 22 | A SCOTTISH fishing boss has called for a Europe-wide boycott of cheap fish to stop non-EC states destroying the fishing industry . |
| 23 | Certainly , a residence requirement which consisted of a requirement to have resided for a certain time in the country before a self-employed occupation could be taken up would involve covert discrimination , because it would be satisfied virtually automatically by nationals and would therefore affect nationals of other member states , if not exclusively , at least chiefly . |
| 24 | Instead the organisation 's east coast committee voted to press for a temporary import ban on Russian cod to allow EC markets to stabilise . |
| 25 | Ireland had hoped for a three-day match but this was not possible . |
| 26 | The inquiry had heard forensic details of each individual death but as Mark Smith reports the parents had hoped for a great deal more . |
| 27 | What Tallis had taken for a forked beard she could see , now , were curved tusks of wood growing from each side of the round , wet mouth . |
| 28 | All of these elements had to compete for a limited number of unfilled vacancies in Mendeleev 's Periodic Table , like contestants in a game of cosmic musical chairs . |
| 29 | Eventually , Maryport Council had to apply for a special nuclear waste disposal licence from the Department of the Environment so that it could legally dump the silt back in the sea again . |
| 30 | As we all know , not only in London but in many of our big cities , there are areas of great depression — neglected areas where there are thousands of people out of work — and those areas have existed for a long time . |