Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] [to-vb] a [noun] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | More fundamentally , many courts failed to find a basis for the first resort approach . |
| 2 | Xerox is today expected to announce that it has called in New York investment banker Goldman Sachs & Co to try to find a buyer for the company . |
| 3 | In spite of these restrictions , it is our intention to continue to provide a service for older people . |
| 4 | Typical questions relating to this need would be : has the education authority enough funds to continue to provide a place for all school-age pupils ? |
| 5 | A number of owners have noticed , to their dismay , that their feline pets seem to have a passion for drinking from puddles and pools of water in the garden . |
| 6 | The words , ideas or questions in a pupils mind — the words used to express a need for information — are derived from classroom discussion , introductory materials , worksheets and the language used by the teacher . |
| 7 | HIGHBROOK , a horse tipped to make a name for herself at the winter game , catches the eye tomorrow as Flat racing grabs the attention for the last time this year . |
| 8 | At the same time , working-class protest and strikes intensified and on 9 January 1905 a massive demonstration gathered to present a petition for reform to the Winter Palace . |
| 9 | MHA hopes to have a reunion for anyone who was at Manor during the 1980s . |
| 10 | It was a statement that summoned up some private vision they had of her , the simple words swelling to become a vehicle for all their feelings about her . |
| 11 | A left field superiority when the forms were presented alone was converted to a RVF superiority when subjects had to use a label for each form . |
| 12 | A new Herriot ( in this case Every Living Thing , published by Michael Joseph ) does not need to be torn to pieces on the book page of the Times , but there was Robert Crampton trying to make a reputation for himself : ‘ James Herriot did for the Yorkshire Dales in the seventies what Peter Mayle did for the hills of Provence in the eighties . |
| 13 | Because Dannii was famous and they were at the same school , Kylie wanted to make a name for herself . |
| 14 | The plaintiff tried to obtain collection of a debt under the contract by way of summary judgment , and , when the defendant attempted to raise a counterclaim for breach which would entitle him to defend the case , relied on this clause . |
| 15 | ‘ The judge agreed to sign a warrant for Thom 's arrest as soon as it was clear he 'd left the country with Eva . ’ |
| 16 | The League of Communists of Yugoslavia ( LCY ) appeared to be moving closer to collapse when on March 30 its central committee failed to muster a quorum for a plenary session . |
| 17 | At its November meeting the Council failed to set a date for the next SAARC summit , originally scheduled for 1989 , after Sri Lanka formally declared its refusal , while Indian troops remained on its soil , to host the meeting as decided at the fourth summit in December 1989 in Islamabad , Pakistan [ for which see p. 36485 ] . |
| 18 | Nicholson failed to make a name for himself once again , though because of some inspired controversy he had at least achieved a wider circle of critics . |
| 19 | The small child has to pay a price for every step she makes to independence . |
| 20 | Outside of their own milieu , Arabs seem to have a penchant for choosing the hustler as confidant , or the shyster as business companion . |
| 21 | He said the Conservatives had to win a reputation for being ‘ a listening party ’ , showing a willingness , where necessary , ‘ to reappraise ’ . |
| 22 | Moreover , the very existence of the two heads of control has , in itself , exacerbated the confusion as judges strive to find a function for each of the terms . |
| 23 | He noted that his rats tended to adopt a strategy for sampling the stimuli in the first stage of ( simultaneous ) training in which they consistently looked into one arm of his T-maze , withdrawing and turning to the other arm only if confronted with the negative stimulus . |
| 24 | Unless a writer chooses to manipulate a narrative for particular effects , such as using flashbacks , the progression of events in a narrative text is dictated by the progression of events in the imagined world of the story . |
| 25 | Mr Ramsay promised to give a pound for every one raised by subscription . |
| 26 | In Rickards v. Oppenheim ( 1950 C.A. ) the seller contracted to build a car for the buyer , the car to be built by March 20 . |
| 27 | You and Daddy seem to expect a freedom for yourselves you have no intention of awarding me . ’ |
| 28 | Stephen arranged to buy a replacement for the lost horse and a further pair . |
| 29 | A useful sort on the level for Mark Prescott , Moving Out is with the right trainer — Henrietta Knight seems to have a talent for turning Flat horses into capable jumpers . |
| 30 | The civil population had been summarily evacuated ; a few enterprising and courageous camp-followers , evading the grasp of the gendarmes , had clung on to the last , but eventually all that remained were three elderly townsmen permitted to run a canteen for the troops . |