Example sentences of "[noun] in [noun] [verb] [pron] for " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | Write down examples of when you last ( i ) took on extra work in order to provide something for the addict in your life . |
| 2 | Cecilia has done well — she is now on a polytechnic degree course — but nothing in her years in care prepared her for independent living . |
| 3 | She spent hours unpicking her pre-war frocks in order to remake them for her daughter . |
| 4 | Last week , I received a touching postcard from a recently divorced friend in Bonn thanking me for a letter . |
| 5 | However fascinating the ‘ social gospel ’ has proved to historians , it was not the most important aspect of the ministry to Nonconformity : this was the need to improve the quality of ministers ' education in order to equip them for the position they had achieved in English life . |
| 6 | God had given his Spirit to his anointed king in order to equip him for his leadership of the people . |
| 7 | The notion is analogous to our understanding that we need to save up money in order to exchange it for something we wish to buy . |
| 8 | All the Secretaries of State had educational training and experience in government to fit them for their posts . |
| 9 | If workers are to supply more labour they may require a reward in the form of a higher real wage rate in order to compensate them for the higher marginal disutility of employment . |
| 10 | A man in rags asked her for the price of a cup of tea . |
| 11 | Labour has carried out a trawl of Departments in order to find something for their Labour colleagues in Newcastle to do and to justify giving them a huge bureaucracy and their own budget . |
| 12 | So also are promotional prospects , and future managers within the practice should be identified and given suitable training in order to equip them for greater responsibility . |
| 13 | Dingiri Banda Wijetunga , who has been appointed acting president and will probably get the job permanently because the UNP has enough votes in parliament to secure it for him , is an unassuming 71-year-old compromise candidate . |