Example sentences of "[noun] [to-vb] [adv] for [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One reason there is so little change in most traditional bureaucratic organizations , I argue , is that they have conditioned out of people the willingness to stand up for a new idea . |
| 2 | An authority is justified , according to the normal justification thesis , if it is more likely than its subjects to act correctly for the right reasons . |
| 3 | Opposition to the ban has forced Governor Wiyogo to apologize publicly for the heavy-handed tactics of the authorities . |
| 4 | Hall , in fact , might well have won in straight games , as he led 9-6 in the opening game and then missed four successive smashes to allow Baddeley to go ahead for the first time at 10-9 . |
| 5 | Hall , in fact , might well have won in straight games , as he led 9-6 in the opening game and then missed four successive smashes to allow Baddeley to go ahead for the first time at 10-9 . |
| 6 | AN international treaty which commits three very different communities to work together for the common good is to be signed in Middlesbrough next week . |
| 7 | The first was for Exeter 's own services to be concentrated on Digby and Wonford House Hospitals , with Exminster to provide only for the other Devon districts . |
| 8 | If I may broaden it away from erm the Cardinal Newman School and think probably of a lot of East Sussex Comprehensive Schools , I think we have all been , in the schools , in the last few years , working hard to establish this openness , and I think that the closed concept of the school , the school that locks children out at break or locks children out at dinner time , which only allows parents to come in for a phoney Open Day when there are a few children there , they are things largely , I think , of the past and they are the closed society . |
| 9 | Each month we have a pair of Saucony shoes to give away for the best letter on a running issue . |
| 10 | It was in fact hoped eventually to build a new Hall to cater properly for the ever-expanding School , and to convert the Ha/lam Hall into a Chapel . |
| 11 | I therefore walked on air as I went to Westminster Evening Institute to sign on for the next Sociology year . |
| 12 | So my visits to the Ainsworth home were frequent but undemanding , and I had ample opportunity to look out for the little cat which had intrigued me . |
| 13 | On the other hand there will be a greater onus to shop around for the best home for whatever spare cash you may have . |
| 14 | These have led colleges , departments and individual staff members to recognise the need to provide effectively for a multi-racial and multi- lingual student body . |
| 15 | Notwithstanding the merit and extent of his achievements , Gavin Hastings still retains the desire to reach out for the best of which he is capable with as yet undiminished zest : ‘ Unless you set yourself tasks and ambitions , unless you have new targets , there is n't much point in playing . |
| 16 | Parke , 17 , needed all his creativity and courage to hold on for a 15-10 , 9-15 , 15-12 , 15-14 victory just when his resources were beginning to flag . |
| 17 | This piece of information caused Makins to slow down for the first time and look at me more carefully . |
| 18 | But first we called at Mr Macauley 's sweet shop to stock up for the frequent film changes . |
| 19 | His thoughts sway constantly between the desire to go on and the desire to settle down for a relaxed evening with a book in the secure knowledge that he wo n't have to go on . |
| 20 | Greece sought until the last moment to hold out for a higher ceiling than the 60,500 transit licences offered to Greek lorries . |
| 21 | Andy had n't meant any more than his pressing need to stay in for a few weeks till he had made more headway with his revision . |
| 22 | He persuaded her to eat a little fish to make up for the missing protein . |
| 23 | When a particular task requires expatriates to work overseas for a short period of time , it is common for employers to hire people with the necessary skills on short , fixed-term contracts . |
| 24 | Of course few people possess sufficient evidence to argue strongly for the extreme poles of the personal/institutional development issue , and it is unlikely that even Stenhouse or Hoyle would have denied that there is a middle ground which acknowledges the interaction of the system and the individual . |
| 25 | A vacuum is then created because new employers have not been given a chance to develop sufficiently for an orderly takeover and employees have not been given opportunities for retraining . |
| 26 | ‘ Bully , ’ said Angela , speaking very earnestly to the alsatian , ‘ here 's your chance to make up for the naughty things you 've done to me . |
| 27 | Dodman was sentenced to 18 months with a further 12 month sentence to run concurrently for the other four offences . |
| 28 | " Ask Dr. Lorrimer to come down for a few minutes , will you please ? " |
| 29 | Before returning to England he was asked to persuade Gladstone to come over for the 1878 Yale ‘ commencement ’ but he would plead in vain . |
| 30 | Should n't we be opening our universities to older people , for people to come back for a second dose as it were , for retraining and so on ? |