Example sentences of "[adj] [prep] [verb] for [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | All except two of these forty women do their ‘ big ’ shopping once a week — that is , stocking up on goods like sugar , flour , etc. — and it is customary to combine this with shopping for the weekend . |
| 2 | I thought you might be interested in listening for a minute . ’ |
| 3 | Both sides , however , agree that ‘ while poor standards prevail , competent musicians will not be interested in working for the Church , and standards will consequently continue to remain low , . |
| 4 | I am interested in working for the Forestry Commission , for a national park or getting a job which involves caring for any aspect of the environment . |
| 5 | The club is based seven miles west of Colchester and has good social facilities.Anyone interested in applying for the post should contact secretary Kevin Roberts on 0206 570983 after 6 pm . |
| 6 | If you did not receive the mailing and are interested in applying for the card , please write to the Development Office , External Relations Unit , . |
| 7 | and if , you can actually have somebody go , who 's interested in going for a job , and when you do that sort of calculation they end up they 're gon na be worse off . |
| 8 | A property developer who was interested in bidding for a bus company would not put himself forward as such , but would acquire the acceptable face of a bus company . |
| 9 | The services affected , described in Sch 3 , VATA 1983 are : transfers and assignments of copyright , patents , licences , trademarks and similar rights ; advertising services ; services of consultants , engineers , consulting bureaux , lawyers , accountants and other similar services ; data processing and provision of information ( but excluding from this head any services relating to land ) ; acceptance of any obligation to refrain from pursuing or exercising , in whole or part , any business activity ; banking , financial and insurance services ( including reinsurance , but not including the provision of safe deposit facilities ) ; the supply of staff ; the letting on hire of goods other than means of transport ; and the services rendered by one person to another in procuring for the other any of the above services . |
| 10 | Yeah , but I mean , working for a mate , is different to working for a firm . |
| 11 | They do this by waiting for the mother to leave the nest . |
| 12 | Newcomen had done this by arranging for a jet of water to be squirted into the cylinder at the appropriate moment . |
| 13 | There were genuine reasons for doubting its accuracy — the issues of joint cost allocation were ( and remain ) problematical — hut the senior management response to it ( they insisted it be withdrawn even from internal circulation ) betrayed a greater devotion to the cause of suppressing criticism than it did to that of searching for the truth . |
| 14 | Obviously , the adventurers may try elaborate or complicated ploys here such as calling for a blessing , Dispel Magic spells , and so on . |
| 15 | Phrases such as striving for the setting up of a ‘ Workers ’ republic' and the establishment of ‘ public ownership ’ were excised , as they were seen by the members of an affiliated teachers ' union , and ultimately by the bishops , to counter church doctrine ( Whyte 1980 : 82–4 ; Keogh 1982 : 7 , 77 n.5 ) . |
| 16 | Similarly , if one is being asked a series of routine questions for some purpose such as applying for an insurance policy , one might reply to each question of a series like ‘ Have you ever been in prison ? ’ , |
| 17 | I was also lucky in working for a sergeant who happened to have only three figures in his official service number , a relic of the old Royal Flying Corps . |
| 18 | SIMON PARKE , the 17-year-old Yorkshireman , made the selectors feel a little more comfortable by qualifying for the World Open here yesterday . |
| 19 | He had forgotten all about arranging for a taxi to pick him up or looking up bus times or anything like that . |
| 20 | Editor , — J N Fordham and C Speed challenge H S Jacobs and F E Loeffler 's statement that bone densitometry would not be helpful for screening for the risk of hip and vertebral fractures . |
| 21 | So I said I was tired of waiting for the money for my things and she can collect it from the students and have it when it came . |
| 22 | Lisa had got a proper job at last , as though tired of waiting for the Revolution . |
| 23 | Since changes in blood group antigen expression in the colon are associated with dysplasia and may be useful in screening for the development of colorectal carcinoma , we were particularly interested to look for a similar association between inappropriate expression of blood group antigens in the biliary tree and biliary dysplasia and cholangiocarcinoma . |
| 24 | When I addressed the General Meeting last year I was heavily involved in preparing for the move from Gray 's Inn to Bedford Row . |
| 25 | None of us were allowed to see the unfinished article , which was being built in one of the lecture rooms in our barrack block ; the rest of us were involved in practising for the midnight mass carol concert where our section would be providing the choir . |
| 26 | The 11 had allegedly been " involved in spying for the Ba'athist , Iraqi and other foreign intelligence agencies " . |
| 27 | Everyone involved in caring for the patient has to learn some of the techniques of handling and positioning him , in order to provide continuity . |
| 28 | It 's one of Metallica 's tour personnel talking at the band 's hotel , just prior to leaving for the night 's Wembley gig … |
| 29 | unemployed prior to registering for the course ; |
| 30 | Well that 's erm tt nothing I can do about that until asking for the Mirror itself . |