Example sentences of "[noun pl] [verb] [to-vb] 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 | 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 ? |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Outside of their own milieu , Arabs seem to have a penchant for choosing the hustler as confidant , or the shyster as business companion . |
| 8 | He said the Conservatives had to win a reputation for being ‘ a listening party ’ , showing a willingness , where necessary , ‘ to reappraise ’ . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | ARSENAL boss George Graham reckons he has the best job in football — but he knows even he could suffer a Brian Clough-like backlash if the Gunners fail to win a trophy for the second year running . |
| 13 | The cultivation of a distinctive ‘ voice ’ becomes the primary means whereby journalists working on the same material and increasingly reliant on the same basic sources seek to make a name for themselves . |
| 14 | The training officers decided to implement a course for care assistants . |
| 15 | The work finished , the dead buried and the site cleared , Batty Green reverted to a sullen silence broken now only by the occasional passage of trains , the rhythmic pulse of their wheels seeming to sound a requiem for those who perished . |
| 16 | This can have the effect of moving the blockage further down the burrow , or it may result in one or more rabbits deciding to make a bolt for it . |
| 17 | For this reason , assessments intended to provide a basis for making decisions about placement should consider not only the child 's performance under ‘ test ’ conditions , but also the child 's capacity for engaging in linguistic interactions in ‘ naturalistic ’ settings . |
| 18 | A team of experts hopes to create a blueprint for the development of countries moving from Communist control to the free market . |
| 19 | The company 's pioneering effort in optical fibres failed to make a penny for 17 years , but is now set to make a fortune . |
| 20 | Councillors want to stop a plan for three factory units and an office block on All Saints industrial estate , Shildon . |
| 21 | After a month of this the doctors began to prepare a paper for ‘ The Lancet . ’ |
| 22 | The National Certificate provision in modern languages aims to provide a framework for learning which is responsive to the needs of a wide range of learners . |
| 23 | Bectu claims that the BBC has ‘ secret plans to dismantle the Corporation in advance of public debate on the charter renewal ’ and that reports by 15 task forces formed to provide a blueprint for the BBC 's role and function include possible job cuts . |
| 24 | She says the crucial issue is not in how many cases was she right or wrong , but are doctors allowed to raise a cause for concern ? |
| 25 | Presumably Domark wanted to show off the abilities of their creation in the same way that demo programmers wish to make a name for themselves in the programming world . |
| 26 | A further area for the media group to check is the loss of circulation due to strikes or other problems : during the continuing difficulties that beset Fleet Street in the early eighties it became standard practice for papers affected to provide a rebate for lost circulation . |
| 27 | There were of course exceptions such as Mrs Cellier , mid-wife and women 's champion who against all the odds managed to carve a niche for herself as a nurse , to hold her own whilst on trial at the Old Bailey , calmly storing in her pocket stones thrown at her whilst in the stocks and attempted to found a college of therapeutic midwifery . |
| 28 | In short , if the adventurers wish to cleanse a shrine for some good role-play reason , set a minor enemy on them ; if they are just thoughtlessly smashing the place up , have a much tougher enemy arrive . |
| 29 | This means that the registering and monitoring arrangements need to be changed and that the statutory authorities need to establish through the joint planning mechanisms a way of incorporating these changes , that health and local authorities need to create a place for the private sector in the planning progress and that the role of bodies like the Mental Welfare Commission , the Hospital Advisory Service , the health councils needs to be extended to encompass and specifically address the whole business of monitoring the provision in the private sector in so far as it 's supported by public funds . |
| 30 | You and your colleagues arrive to present a pitch for an advertising account . |