Example sentences of "[noun pl] [vb past] [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 | 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 . |
| 3 | He said the Conservatives had to win a reputation for being ‘ a listening party ’ , showing a willingness , where necessary , ‘ to reappraise ’ . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | The training officers decided to implement a course for care assistants . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | The company 's pioneering effort in optical fibres failed to make a penny for 17 years , but is now set to make a fortune . |
| 9 | After a month of this the doctors began to prepare a paper for ‘ The Lancet . ’ |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | In particular , the realistic novel had played an important part in shaping Progressive America and the themes of those novels were taken up in Hollywood as the studios struggled to find a formula for fiction films that would be acceptable to the highly politicized cities of the East and Midwest . |