Example sentences of "[prep] [verb] [pron] for [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And even when it succeeds , there is still a chance that after pursuing it for some way another gazelle passing in front will impede it and its first , tiring target will be able to escape . |
| 2 | This method is the first of its kind , and the ministry is considering developing it for commercial application . |
| 3 | It can be extended for the specific purpose of retraining you for new work provided that any agreement to do so : |
| 4 | But by now I was crazed with the idea of doing something for this woman that retained some shred of playfulness to it , so she could think to herself : ‘ All in fun , all in fun ’ , and yet which conveyed the full force of the idea that I had been alone in that office that weekend with a huge erection thinking of her . |
| 5 | The universities are also concerned that in three years they may be obliged to give any available permanent position to a WIPer instead of advertising it for open competition , thereby reducing their ability to attract the best talent . |
| 6 | Most of the friends were too old or too physically enfeebled to be capable of offering themselves for military glory . |
| 7 | Institutionally , there are no mechanisms for punishing someone for deviant behaviour of any kind . |
| 8 | We should closely look at why this flopped before suggesting it for next year as another failure would be demoralising . |
| 9 | Security was tight at yesterday 's ceremony , with press photographs banned and a single TV cameraman shepherded around by two naval security officers , who had to view his film before releasing it for public consumption . |
| 10 | This frequent contact with families is given strong emphasis by the prison authorities , who see it as one of the key elements both of encouraging prisoners to participate and in preparing them for successful reintegration . |
| 11 | Indeed , the range of skills which actuaries develop nowadays are ideally suited to fitting them for corporate management in general . |
| 12 | Their two-year project initially involves the implementation of software on a massively parallel Single Instruction , Multiple Data system , with a view to converting it for Multiple Instruction , Multiple Data systems at a later date . |
| 13 | Despite her protestations , it was evident Jane Pargeter still resented David Parkin for dumping her for another woman . |
| 14 | The boys are furious when the police break their own rules by arresting them for public order offences while they are fighting on their home ground . |
| 15 | I tried running but gave up after two paces , and then went from meditation to mental arithmetic , calculating the length of each step by counting them for each revolution of the wheel . |
| 16 | The unguarded nature of the latter , which was never worked over by Thomas , provides occasional glimpses of the youth who left St. Paul 's after his seventeenth birthday in order to achieve a twofold purpose : ostensibly to please his father by attending a few practical evening classes and in the day by preparing himself for some form of Civil Service clerical post , while privately , he sought the freedom of a young nature-writer who was determined to collect his papers into a book . |
| 17 | Ford began changing the way it treated its suppliers in 1980 by rating them for qual ity . |