Example sentences of "[noun pl] [vb base] [to-vb] a [noun] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Outside of their own milieu , Arabs seem to have a penchant for choosing the hustler as confidant , or the shyster as business companion . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Councillors want to stop a plan for three factory units and an office block on All Saints industrial estate , Shildon . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | You and your colleagues arrive to present a pitch for an advertising account . |
| 11 | Those participating in conversational encounters have to have a care for the preservation of good relations by promoting the other 's positive self-image , by avoiding offence , encouraging comity , and so on . |