Example sentences of "[conj] [vb infin] [noun sg] for the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If the manager lacks the chance to engage in a fully collegial approach , if he or she can only find or make time for the essential step of ingesting or thinking new ideas in an atmosphere of enforced professional seclusion , does this obscure his or her clarity of mind ? |
| 2 | This meant that , even with daily case conferences , it was not possible for one nurse either to supervise or take responsibility for the individualised care of each client . |
| 3 | Anyone who has made the mistake of parking at harvest-time under the trees which line the Place Drouet d'Erlon in Reims , will realise that most of Champagne 's bird life return each night to this one street to rest and make room for the following day 's gorging of grapes . |
| 4 | They wanted to recover a wider , more comprehensive vision of the church , one which could include and make room for the different forms in which the church had appeared through history , and in this way to overcome the deeply entrenched divisions between the separated confessions and denominations . |
| 5 | In a Welsh mining village the boys were told to go and carry water for the old people … and see about firewood for them for the week . |
| 6 | Addressing the conference , Ruslan Khasbulatov , Supreme Soviet Chairman , attacked recent government criticism of both central and local legislatures , accusing the government of " constant provocative actions … perhaps to try and avoid responsibility for the existing failures in the economic reforms " . |
| 7 | THE Surrey-based management consultancy and computer services group , P-E International , has won a contract worth about £500,000 annually to develop and maintain software for the big Edinburg-based life assurance company , Standard Life . |
| 8 | The publicity which surrounded this venture into Eastern Mysticism did much to popularise and gain acceptance for the Eastern religious practice of Yoga . |