Example sentences of "[vb -s] for the [adj] [noun] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | In December a conference of donors pledged more than $1 billion in aid for 1991 , including relief supplies for the central province of Zambezia , where at least 250,000 people were forced off their land last year by rebel or government attacks . |
| 2 | Despite the risks , Jonathan flies for the sheer joy of exploring his potential , of extending the boundaries of what it means to be a seagull . |
| 3 | The schools may be primary , secondary intermediate , grammar or special ; membership of boards of governors differs for the different types of school , but they include representatives of parents , teachers , education and library boards , and sometimes churches ( mainly the Protestant churches ) . |
| 4 | We wanted to attract mature students with a high level of skills and commitment and were able , through the Nuffield Foundation , to provide student grants for the first part of the course which either paid for secondment salaries of allowed people who were , for instance working interpreters , to forego part of their normal paid employment . |
| 5 | A bookshop should be a familiar place , somewhere where one goes for the sheer love of books , for the smell and feel of them , for the companionship of others who share the joy of touching , holding , reading and learning . |
| 6 | The drawback is the cost of insisting that everyone goes for the same type of equipment . |
| 7 | Stripes always look good when they are vertical and the same goes for the soft edges of these stripes . |
| 8 | Coaxing the car through London , Dominique longs for the empty roads of Europe . |
| 9 | She longs for the anguished desolation of a late capitalism that has n't quite worked as her generation dreamed . |
| 10 | Every man in her vicinity had found himself putting his best foot forward , and she had done wonders for the sartorial standards of the notoriously uncaring C1 division . |
| 11 | If one looks for the perfect image of a great country seat in the Victorian novel , it is hard to better this one , seen by middle-class eyes which have no place in the picture they present to the reader : |
| 12 | It looks for the new round of retrenchments to have a positive effect on 1993 profits , but ca n't forecast them . |
| 13 | It is to the Standard that one looks for the first record of all . |
| 14 | did before or after the events we are told of in the tales , and this holds for the great majority of the fabliaux . |
| 15 | The data from Study 2 for the 60 films was compared with the new ratings to see whether this holds for the full set of 60 films . |
| 16 | This true/false logic holds for the whole range of autonomizing fields , in the sense that aesthetic , scientific , normative , and legal statements can be understood as more or less valid . |
| 17 | The nature of the structure allows for the early addition of new information without messy scratching out or squeezing in etc . |
| 18 | ( This ensures a wide field of application and allows for the gradual introduction of new languages such as Ada . ) |
| 19 | It was concluded that low cost tools have limitations but can provide useful experience to system builders that allows for the critical selection of more advanced software . |
| 20 | The rights are set out in the Eighth Schedule to the 1971 Act and are divided into two parts : Part I allows for the full rebuilding of any building and Part II for its extension . |
| 21 | It is assumed that the spherulites grow from nuclei whose relative positions in the melt remain unaltered , and the analysis allows for the eventual impingement of the growing discs on one another . |
| 22 | The Guardian apologises for the inadvertent omission of the word ‘ North ’ and for any impression that the premises of Manchester High School for Girls were not in good repair and in an appropriate condition for the education of its pupils . |
| 23 | The only exception to this rule occurs for the combined transition of the steps T3pG4 and C9pA10 where changes are also seen to occur in the centre of the dodecamer . |
| 24 | The elision of third parties into the overall international community in the Draft Articles occurs for the particular purpose of identifying the consequences of an international wrongful act . |
| 25 | NOTICE To : Smith & Jones ( Contracts ) Limited , whose registered office is situate at Coldharbour Road , Thames Marshes , Essex WHEREAS ( 1 ) You are justly and truly indebted in the sum of £1250 to Robinson Bros Ltd trading as Go Fast Transport whose registered office is situate at Cornmarket Chambers Ipswich Suffolk more particularly in respect of transport costs for the quick delivery of fragile machine equipment and related warehousing costs ( 2 ) By Section 517 ( 1 ) ( f ) of the Companies Act 1985 it is provided that a company may be wound up by the court if the company is unable to pay its debts ( exceeding £750 ) NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN to you pursuant to Section 518(1) ( a ) of the Companies Act 1985 that you are required to pay the said sum of £1250 to Go Fast Transport ( GFT ) not later than 3 weeks from tomorrow 's date AND that if you neglect to pay the said sum or to secure or compound for it to the reasonable satisfaction of GFT an application will be made to the court for your winding up by petition presented by GFT under the provisions of Section 519 of the Companies Act 1985 . |
| 26 | See how it travels , Lord , all round about ! ’ ’ said Quigley , who often reaches for the wise words of Old Mother Walsh when things are getting tough . |
| 27 | We 'll be taking a look around the scene here in a few moments , but first let's see how the people and town of Cheltenham prepares for the biggest invasion of the year . |
| 28 | All the testing at the Yamaha camp in Spain and in Australia , all the preparation , and all the homework are behind him now , and what he has left is the adrenalin pumping in his veins as he prepares for the biggest day of his sporting life . |
| 29 | While cooperating closely with the RCM , children brought over from Germany under Youth Allyah auspices surrendered home comforts for the spartan discipline of the barrack room in agricultural training camps like Whittingham House near Edinburgh and Great Engham Farm and Pine Trees in Kent . |
| 30 | That it took Hibs 37 minutes to record their first shot at Ally Maxwell vouches for the minuscule depth of their ambition and explains why they were , in the end , beaten hollow . |