Example sentences of "[noun pl] [verb] [verb] a [noun] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | More fundamentally , many courts failed to find a basis for the first resort approach . |
| 2 | Rescheduling of such debts has become a necessity for the private banks , and a practice which has emerged is that new agreements have been made conditional on such countries accepting the stringent programmes of the IMF which are intended to promote effective adjustment of a country 's balance of payments and ensure that the use of Fund resources is temporary . |
| 3 | The organization grows , project and task groups appear creating a need for good liaison . |
| 4 | The organization grows , project and task groups appear creating a need for good liaison . |
| 5 | Typical questions relating to this need would be : has the education authority enough funds to continue to provide a place for all school-age pupils ? |
| 6 | The markets ' obsession with credit ratings has spawned a sideline for investment banks : advising clients how to spruce up their presentations to the rating agencies . |
| 7 | How much further west the Minoan merchantmen sailed remains a matter for speculation : possibly as far as southern Britain . |
| 8 | A number of owners have noticed , to their dismay , that their feline pets seem to have a passion for drinking from puddles and pools of water in the garden . |
| 9 | The words , ideas or questions in a pupils mind — the words used to express a need for information — are derived from classroom discussion , introductory materials , worksheets and the language used by the teacher . |
| 10 | It was a statement that summoned up some private vision they had of her , the simple words swelling to become a vehicle for all their feelings about her . |
| 11 | ‘ The fact that no fewer than half the funds invested in small firms in Scotland comes from personal equity shows that Scots do have a flair for enterprise and a willingness to back their own judgment that is essential in every entrepreneur . ’ |
| 12 | A left field superiority when the forms were presented alone was converted to a RVF superiority when subjects had to use a label for each form . |
| 13 | In the past , German cars have had a reputation for sparse levels of equipment , but this is gradually changing . |
| 14 | The intricacies of association which link Creation and the Millennium to his personal hopes , griefs and anxieties have proved a minefield for scholars . |
| 15 | The Commission of the European Communities has prepared a proposal for a Council Directive on the legal protection of databases with a view to harmonizing this area of copyright law throughout the European Communities ( 92/C 156/03 ) . |
| 16 | In fact , though , most influential work on Renaissance texts has recognised a place for both history and analysis alert to the shifts and instabilities of language in explorations of texts . |
| 17 | So she organised cabaret evenings and discos to help buy a scanner for the Barrow Infirmary . |
| 18 | Outside of their own milieu , Arabs seem to have a penchant for choosing the hustler as confidant , or the shyster as business companion . |
| 19 | For those who still feel that we are lagging , let me say that Britain is one of only a handful of countries to have set a target for reductions in carbon dioxide . |
| 20 | There was no mention of a ceasefire , and at Sudanese government insistence the two SPLA factions had dropped a demand for a referendum on " self-determination " for the south of Sudan . |
| 21 | He said the Conservatives had to win a reputation for being ‘ a listening party ’ , showing a willingness , where necessary , ‘ to reappraise ’ . |
| 22 | Moreover , the very existence of the two heads of control has , in itself , exacerbated the confusion as judges strive to find a function for each of the terms . |
| 23 | In a number of cases in England defendants have conceded a liability for the consequences of injury before birth : Williams v. Luff , The Times , 13 February 1978 ; Whitehouse v. Jordan [ 1981 ] 1 W.L.R. 246 ; McKay v. Essex Area Health Authority [ 1982 ] Q.B . |
| 24 | SCOTTISH miners have backed a call for an integrated energy policy INCLUDING nuclear power . |
| 25 | He noted that his rats tended to adopt a strategy for sampling the stimuli in the first stage of ( simultaneous ) training in which they consistently looked into one arm of his T-maze , withdrawing and turning to the other arm only if confronted with the negative stimulus . |
| 26 | It is not so curious then that blacks have manifested a predilection for sport and have achieved high orders of success in their chosen disciplines . |
| 27 | Labour today is rather like a car company whose models have acquired a reputation for unreliability . |
| 28 | ‘ In the environmental field especially , opencast mining companies have developed a reputation for minimum disruption and scrupulous site restoration . |
| 29 | The civil population had been summarily evacuated ; a few enterprising and courageous camp-followers , evading the grasp of the gendarmes , had clung on to the last , but eventually all that remained were three elderly townsmen permitted to run a canteen for the troops . |
| 30 | If plants do have a focus for the Life Force , it lies in their roots , for many plants regularly shed some or all of their above ground growth with the cycling of the seasons , regenerating in the next year from their roots . |