Example sentences of "[noun pl] [pers pn] [verb] for the [adj] " in BNC.

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1 The key to an understanding of relief-giving is in the functions it serves for the larger economic and political order , for relief is a secondary and supportive institution .
2 But our to avoid that situation I left and went to work with which kept me in the Edinburgh branch and within three or four weeks I stood for the local organizer and had not been successful .
3 For many years I consulted for the American GE in Schenectady and the thing that struck me there was the way that when they wanted to attack a particular area they could mount an army of people on it , all of whom were pretty good . ’
4 I use to dread going in to work — in the two years I worked for the Inland Revenue I do not think I worked a full month — and in the end I left .
5 ‘ It 's one of the most important projects we have for the 1990s , ’ says Philip Goldsmith , head of Earth observation at the European Space Agency .
6 If in our plans we hope for the best and are prepared for the worst then we should be ready for anything in between .
7 Since the values for E and G vary , of course , for each solid the values we get for the theoretical strengths will vary too .
8 As with all dreams we reach for the ideal … ’
9 As father said at the beginning of gruelling sessions in the vacs , the techniques I needed for the next few years — apart from those concerned with sport — dealt not so much with manual skills but with communication , both written and oral .
10 The Centre is required to become self-supporting so that it is necessary to establish links with government and the business and commercial worlds and to ensure that the programs it produces for the academic community are also attractive to the commercial market-place .
11 ‘ I 've got the tickets we ordered for the Welsh match at Twickenham next month .
12 Doctors at the Johns Hopkins medical school in Baltimore say that after intensive tests they believe for the first time the Aids virus had been eradicated from the patient 's body before he died from a separate lymphoma cancer .
13 For three seasons he rode for the Scottish millionaire George Baird ( ‘ Mr Abington ’ ) , training and riding Busybody .
14 those there , cos those are the ones I had for the European elections
15 What happened here was apparently an attempt to change strokes into dots ; and it is dots he wrote for the immediate repeat of the theme .
16 In recent years it has added to the services it provides for the retired to include financial services , retirement homes and magazine publishing .
17 They are often used in the paints they mix for the illuminated manuscripts . ’
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