Example sentences of "[vb -s] [to-vb] a [adj] [noun] for " in BNC.
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1 | The EC Council of Ministers needs to establish a general mechanism for negotiating with Switzerland now that it is the only country in Europe that has neither EC nor EEA status . |
2 | It has to provide an appropriate milieu for the sex act , to act as a channel for the menstrual flow , which is the shedding of the unused lining of the uterus when conception and implantation of the fertilized ovum has not taken place , and also furnish the route by which the baby exits . |
3 | Steve Cram , the Olympic 1500 metres silver medallist in 1984 , still has to launch a serious challenge for his place in the team but took another solid step on the road to Barcelona with an encouraging relay leg at Sheffield . |
4 | Management has to create a workable structure for collaboration , taking into account the objectives of all the various interest groups or ‘ stakeholders ’ in the organisation . |
5 | A manufacturer wants to design a new casing for , say a radio-paging device . |
6 | He also wants to create a safe haven for the Serbs ' Moslem victims and is prepared to offer increased UN troops to safeguard relief supplies . |
7 | Now he wants to start a self-help group for people trapped between two cultures . |
8 | The Ministry of International Trade and Industry ( MITI ) wants to have a preliminary design for a short-haul 75-seater codenamed the ys-x worked out by 1990 and to have the aircraft in service by 1994 . |
9 | As the woman who dreamed up the slogan ‘ A Dog Is For Life , Not Just For Christmas ’ , she needs to have a high profile for campaigning , while still being able to turn her hand to clearing the odd blocked drain that might occur at the kennels . |
10 | The head porter needs to have an exceptional memory for names and faces , and be a fountain of knowledge in order to deal with the numerous enquiries of the guests . |
11 | However , he has to take a complete rest for the next few weeks . |
12 | The delay is due to the complex documentation required , X/Open claims , saying that it wants to make a big splash for XPG4 , now scheduled for the Autumn . |
13 | Though not used by homoeopathic pharmacies in this country for potencies below the 1M , it is used commercially in Belgium for all potencies , and is also used when a practitioner has to make a specific potency for a particular patient , such as a potency of chloroform for a case of chloroform allergy . |
14 | DES WALKER knows he has to make a quick impression for his new club , Sampdoria . |
15 | This structural awareness can be as hard to handle as any decision to try to publish the account , for what has happened in the past and what is expected now from the insider is tied up with an understanding of how the institution of policing prefers to present a restricted image for outside consumption , as I have described above . |
16 | Lord McLaren at p309 stated : It seems to me that in such a case the deduction would be no more claimable than in a case where an individual partner having money in many concerns chooses to employ a private secretary for the purpose of keeping an account of his income and his expenditure . |
17 | The EUROFORM programme aims to promote a European dimension for vocational training and employment projects . |
18 | ‘ In the BNFL strategic plan , which aims to provide a blue print for our future development , the Company has defined its mission , and here I quote : ‘ To be the world leader in nuclear fuel services , setting the standards in safety , quality and efficiency ’ . ’ |
19 | It aims to provide an informed foundation for the future professional development of fashion and textile designers . |
20 | A hypertext environment seems to provide an ideal platform for tackling the issues of a core curriculum with flexibility in the choice and structure of material under specific headings . |
21 | The local law society holds out these solicitors to the general public as having substantial criminal experience but the rule seems to fulfil a symbolic role for the profession . |
22 | But the second proposal seems to contemplate an expanded role for judicial review as a way of controlling government activity ; and increasing the sources of information available to the courts in the way contemplated by the first proposal might so change perceptions of the judicial role that it , too , would lead to an expanded conception of the role of judicial review . |
23 | In general , the philosophy of pragmatism appears to have a particular value for the functionalist style in public law , which may be seen most clearly in pragmatism 's rejection of a systematic and comprehensive philosophy . |
24 | The British public appears to have an increasing appetite for the work of sensitive female singer-songwriters telling us about their tangled emotional lives , and Julia Fordham is the latest high-flier to fulfill the need . |
25 | The project which is being jointly funded by The Department of Employment and Henley Management College aims to develop a national model for integrating work-based learning with the professional and academic requirements of personnel managers . |
26 | UV light seems to have a particular penchant for DNA , and the chemical changes that UV radiation causes in it are manifest as genetic mutations . |
27 | At the start she is only so cruel as she is only Miss Havisham 's tool for revenge , and later she seems to have a little pity for Pip when she warns him that she has no heart . |
28 | ‘ From my brief observation of Mr Connon 's hedges , he seems to have a peculiar fondness for a near lethal mixture of African thorn , briar rose , and bramble . ’ |
29 | The Japanese quality-circle style has become popular outside Japan because it seems to offer a tried framework for this sort of group motivation . |
30 | The theoretical view seems to offer a convenient framework for a broad division of history into periods which can be described by innovations that appear to be characteristic of each . |