Example sentences of "[prep] [noun prp] [verb] for a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | All the more reason for Lorraine to look for a bigger home . |
| 2 | New legislation in the German state of Bavaria provides for a sophisticated system of recycling rubbish . |
| 3 | President Alan Gacia of Peru called for a planned summit on February 15 with President Bush to discuss drugs to be ‘ deferred ’ because of the invasion . |
| 4 | Adoption of XIMP allows for a common interface to the different vendors ' kana-to-kanji conversion front-end processors . |
| 5 | Aluminium would be in breach of EC limits for an unknown number of years in Northumbrian Water 's region . |
| 6 | LOZ was revelling more than most , and after the club closed he dragged sexy woolly hat-wearing NME hack SIMON WILLIAMS around the streets of Islington looking for a pot-bellied old man clutching a bottle of champagne as it was ‘ the only way we 'll get a drink at this time in the morning ’ . |
| 7 | The Constitution of the Republic of Finland provides for a parliamentary system of government as well as a presidency with considerable powers , particularly in the foreign policy sphere . |
| 8 | The Constitution of the Republic of Finland provides for a parliamentary system of government as well as a presidency with considerable powers , particularly in the foreign policy sphere . |
| 9 | Members of Halton Friends of the Earth have been urging people in Runcorn to call for a public inquiry into ICI 's plan for an incinerator there . |
| 10 | * The Royal Society for the Protection of Birds has launched a report in Brussels calling for a radical overhaul of the Common Agricultural Policy . |
| 11 | A curator bonis , an administrator appointed by a court in Scotland to act for an incapacitated person , may open a Tessa on behalf of an incapacitated person provided that person is aged 18 or over . |
| 12 | They travelled up the goods line from Blackburn waited for a clear road at Hellifield Junction , got onto the long drag and worked up to the summit . |
| 13 | The library created by Aby Warburg in Hamburg left for a safe haven in London in 1933 , accompanied by its custodians and future directors Fritz Saxl and Gertrud Bing . |
| 14 | ‘ I have an excellent job in Durban working for a French barrier fencing company and am also studying for qualification in personnel management . |
| 15 | He joins the Gateshead company after 10 years in Australia working for a similar electric motor company . |
| 16 | A campaign by Stirling University students association — while officially non-political — to persuade those living elsewhere in Britain to register for a postal vote , has been a big success . |
| 17 | As a consequence , petitions flowed in to the National Assembly from all the local councils in France calling for a constitutional revision , but the majority in the Assembly rejected the appeals . |
| 18 | Patricia , 17 , goes to a sweatshop in Rio to work for a less than minimum wage . |
| 19 | The gambling tax in Nevada pays for a considerable part of their social services ; so their state sales-tax is less than in neighbouring states , while capital taxes are non-existent . |
| 20 | erm many people came to Kuwait to work for a short term and after a while they realised it 's fine so they continued to stay there for a long time , and that is the haven that we were talking about . |
| 21 | The portrait was painted in a few hours without Modigliani stopping for a single minute . ’ |
| 22 | These were tabled on March 23 at the Convention for a Democratic South Africa ( CODESA ) and were based on NP plans for a two-phase transition , as outlined in September 1991 and expanded in January [ see pp. 38442 ; 38704-05 ] . |
| 23 | No. 21E ( formerly 46 ) is recorded as being sent to Charlton Works for an annual overhaul in October 1933 and returned to Thornton Heath in ‘ L.C.C . |
| 24 | I commute from Dunfermline to Edinburgh to work for an enlightened firm of architects which designed into its office a shower facility , which allows me to cycle in all weathers . |
| 25 | Two local MPs are keen to see the Jet project at Culham extended for a further 4 years . |
| 26 | In the ornate new council chamber , Mayor Murphy was trying to convince the city council that to be a real Edwardian Mayor he ought to wear mayoral robes , as they did in England ; the newly extended hospital was bracing itself for additional accident cases ; and Hank Stych stood in the airport at Calgary waiting for a local plane to take him north to Tollemarche . |
| 27 | 5PM Determined to get some food and a six-pack , I drive around aimlessly through Hollywood looking for an open 7-Eleven or corner market that has n't been burned . |
| 28 | The conclusion is the same : provided the doctor can argue that he was seeking to prevent pain and suffering , the other criteria proposed by Skegg allow for a sufficient degree of subjective assessment as to offer no real barrier to the exercise of the doctor 's paternalism . |