Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] [noun prp] [verb] for [noun] " in BNC.

  Next page
No Sentence
1 Erstwhile Sequent Computer Systems Corp president Scott Gibson is now chairman of Adaptive Solutions Inc , a Beaverton , Oregon start-up with a special-purpose parallel processing machine called CNAPS meant for image and speech processing .
2 This Act enabled LEAs to arrange for children under school leaving age to have work experience as part of their education in the last year of compulsory schooling .
3 A plan to survey Lancashire failed for lack of sufficient subscribers .
4 This neo-Marxist theoretical underpinning encourages Cockburn to look for changes in the requirements of capitalist production to explain what is happening in the sphere of local government .
5 Failure to adjust UK accounts for inflation can mean ( as in ICI 's case ) ignoring the distinction between profit and loss .
6 The court heard Bedworth hacked for kicks and was so advanced he was able to change computer passwords .
7 Scroll forward to this week , reverse the picture ; and the world sees America pushing for intervention in the civil war in ex-Yugoslavia , while Europe nervously resists .
8 In 1906 a ship left England bound for Australasia .
9 Today the family has new hope , but it took an eight week jail term and the care of the prison 's medical officer to have Andrew admitted for treatment
10 In two important US acquisitions of the late 1980s , the company bought Glidden paints for $580m , and Stauffer 's agrochemicals businesses for $750m .
11 I 'm sure you have noticed the implication of the letter , that the writer has in fact observed Jenny undressing for bed ?
  Next page