Example sentences of "[noun pl] [pron] [verb] for a [adj] " in BNC.

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1 Too often some of our Catholic families are not aware of the existence of our excellent senior schools which provide for a solid Catholic education and a growth in faith for our children .
2 Although Phoenix House , looking for a star for its first list , was clearly ahead of its rivals , most of the nine houses which bid for A Suitable Boy put in six-figure offers .
3 Rules which allow for a single symbol at a time to be written or replaced by another symbol or string of symbols ( eg T , N ) are known as " phrase-structures rules ' .
4 Citilend Ltd v Stuart Craggs provides an example of a case in which a haulier finds himself sued for a commercial misdemeanour — hire purchase default — in the Queen 's Bench Division .
5 Health visitors who study for a further education teacher 's certificate can be employed as curriculum planners and lecturers on nursery nursing courses and pre-vocational courses aimed at recruitment to the NHS .
6 The businessmen who last year jostled to fill Mr Collor 's campaign chest now sound like the turkeys who cackled for an early Christmas .
7 In addition , there are perhaps another 200 professional musicians who work for a substantial part of their time in cathedrals , collegiate and choral foundations , and Royal Peculiars .
8 Staff groups may be short-term or long-term , or a mixture of both , with a core of long-term members working with short-term participants who join for an agreed number of sessions in turn — this particular structure affords a good opportunity for a school to build up a core of its own consultant teachers .
9 These years will not count as part of your working life , and the number of qualifying years you need for a full pension will be reduced .
10 Voting patterns in these constituencies indicated that the FIS would have little difficulty in securing the additional 28 seats it needed for an absolute majority in the National Assembly .
11 Finally , Darwin displays the indirect evidence for the theory : the explanations it provides for a wide array of facts in biogeography , geology , embryology and so on .
12 ‘ We will have no difficulty in getting the fifty signatures we need for a Special General Meeting .
13 These are goods which last for a long time and which yield the household utility-creating services both in the current period and in future periods .
14 This is not meant to be a criticism of the many carp bait firms which have for a long time sold baits which catch carp .
15 In this process of informalisation ‘ dominant modes of social conduct ’ have been violated by the upwardly mobile groups , and have given way to new codes which allow for a greater variety of behavioural alternatives .
16 ‘ So you have the things you need for an overnight stay . ’
17 2 ‘ Internal capitalists ’ are senior executives who work for a single firm , but do not have a substantial ownership stake in it .
18 My eldest sister had a black cauldron suspended from an old iron cooking tripod , this was filled with sawdust and packed with small gifts which made for an attractive lucky dip at tuppence a time .
19 IT will be a great relief to Abi King at the Arts Theatre if the props she needs for a new play can be turned up by the public at large .
20 Former Z-Cars and Softly Softly star Frank Windsor starred in and as Headmaster , written by John Challen and featuring characters he created for an earlier Play for Today slot .
21 On Aug. 2 Nakayama and his Lao counterpart , Gen. Phoune Sipaseuth , signed three economic aid agreements which provided for a Japanese aid package to Laos totalling 1,636,630,000 yen ( approximately US$11,000,000 ) .
22 In the opening ‘ Funeral March ’ , for instance , Ozawa chooses tempi which allow for a good deal of flexibility , but although the Boston strings produce much expressive warmth in their long melodic lines , the doom-laden atmosphere is not immediately obvious .
23 In theory , the captain of a ship was entitled to take into his ship as midshipmen , volunteers , or captain 's servants any of the sons of his friends who hoped for a naval career , but in practice even this form of entrance patronage was limited and largely in the hands of flag-officers , for it would be a captain with a liking for half-pay who would refuse the requests of an influential admiral .
24 At weekends it makes for a good day 's outing to take the family for a picnic , after which they can gather as many strawberries as they want at the various fruit farms dotted around .
25 In their excellently produced guide to the area the Ossett Chamber of Trade proudly point out : ‘ there are over one hundred clubs and societies which cater for a wide range of interests as well as a golf club , cricket club and two football clubs . ’
26 stage 3 modules which provide for a wider range of opportunities for science specialisation .
27 Teachers will be in a position to form more accurate judgements about strengths and weaknesses of individual pupils in relation to attainment targets for history and will need to develop approaches which allow for a larger range of learning activities to be occurring than has , hitherto , been the case .
28 An Agence France-Presse ( AFP ) news agency report of Dec. 8 said that ICO Foreign Ministers who met for a preparatory session in Dakar on Dec. 5-9 , had adopted a draft resolution expressing " full solidarity " with Libya in its confrontation with Western states over the Lockerbie affair [ see p. 38599 ] and underlined their " concern over … the possible use of force " .
29 Seems like the only parts they got for a young actress nowadays she gets six lines , they cut three and she gets raped in the first ten minutes .
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