Example sentences of "[verb] for [art] [adj] [noun sg] [be] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Given the fact that schools selected for a Minor award were being encouraged to develop existing good practice , it is , perhaps , surprising that the formation of a permanent library committee , as in the case of the Major Project , was not made a prerequisite for their participation . |
| 32 | In the same way , material written for the individual child is often being used with one child operating the keyboard and a group of children involved . |
| 33 | The fact of being ‘ family ’ is no guarantee that people can live together happily on a long-term basis , and almost any other good ‘ care ’ arrangement that can be made for an elderly person is better than a cat-and-dog life with relatives , where there is no common ground for agreement , and constant quarrels make home life a misery . |
| 34 | There has been a substantial advance in real-terms pay under our Administration , and this year the pay award that has been made for the current year is increasing the teachers ' pay bill overall by 11.3 per cent . |
| 35 | The following month , however , the President announced that plans for a multiparty system were to be implemented and that elections would be held in February 1991 . |
| 36 | Meanwhile plans for the new building were being prepared and in 1970 working drawings were almost complete . |
| 37 | And party-goers who 're looking for a good time are being warned they 'll find nothing but trouble at illegal raves . |
| 38 | ANOTHER worthy cause looking for a new sponsor is tall and powerful with bandaged ears . |
| 39 | So the memory has created a situation where you 're looking for a planned intention was developing and I and suc suc suc and I was successful . |
| 40 | Looking for a plausible mechanism is slightly easier , but the search has only just begun , and there are few clues to go on at present . |
| 41 | Looking for a suspicious boat was clearly a job for the River Police , and they did it thoroughly . |
| 42 | The other reason for looking for an approximate solution is that once it has been found such an approximate solution can then be worked upon and modified to give a much better solution . |
| 43 | Support for a round table is also building among Mr Gorbachev 's men . |
| 44 | However , support for the Unionist Party was neither total nor uncritical . |
| 45 | Support for the exiled King was greatest amongst Catholic recusants and immigrant Irish in the north , who played a prominent role in the plots of the 1690s . |
| 46 | The Liberal Democrat manifesto promised : ( i ) support for the European Community 's planned energy tax , the revenue from which would be used to fund environmental and other measures ; ( ii ) a 30 per cent reduction in carbon dioxide emissions by 2005 ; ( iii ) the creation of a Department of Natural Resources and an independent Environmental Protection Agency ; ( iv ) grants for recycling schemes , home insulation and similar measures ; ( v ) the introduction of pollution licences for factories , with upper limits on the amount of pollutants they could produce ; and ( vi ) the phasing out of nuclear power stations . |
| 47 | All who are prepared for the ordained ministry are trained under considerable pressure of time and with an overcrowded curriculum . |
| 48 | Second , the criteria adopted for a good decision are satisficing not maximizing rules . |
| 49 | Ideally , one should be aware in advance that the flowers used for a special occasion are going to be pressed , as there are several points to bear in mind . |
| 50 | The number of flowers that can be used for the golden theme is quite large : you could choose something very simple , such as a small spray of yellow roses with a few of their own leaves and buds , or something more complicated , such as a mixture of yellow roses , mimosa , potentillas and narcissi , with a few primroses and primulas to give extra detail . |
| 51 | Caring for an elderly person is an open-ended project . |
| 52 | first thing I 've had for a long time is er that . |
| 53 | What little research has been done in this area suggests that the proportion of deprived youngsters heading for the great outdoors is disproportionately low . |
| 54 | A complete code of pleading for the High Court is in the High Court rules ( RSC Ord 18 and Ord 18 , r 12(1) as amended ) , which now requires pleadings to include , in relation to damages claims , details of any mitigation claimed by the defendant . |
| 55 | but the majority of people on a Tuesday night are going for a leisurely swim are n't they ? |
| 56 | At the time of writing , costs for an initial investigation are in the region of £3,000 to £5,000+VAT . |
| 57 | The finance costs for the new debt are not at a level which is greater than that of the existing debt . |
| 58 | An increase in the price of debt is as significant as its refinancing : for this reason the [ draft ] FRS requires that the maturity of borrowings be assessed by reference to borrowings under related facilities only where the finance costs for the new debt are not at a level which is greater than that of the existing debt . |
| 59 | A highly over-simplified picture of the way sediments accumulate for the future stratigrapher is expressed in strip cartoon form in figure 8.1 . |
| 60 | A PATIENT waiting for a heart-lung transplant was beaten up by a gang outside a Chinese takeaway . |