Example sentences of "[noun pl] [vb mod] [verb] [noun] for [adj] " in BNC.

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1 A wall of storage units will make provision for most of the paraphernalia you own and might either incorporate a bar and a desk flap to let down , or a permanent table set at right angles to shelves and cupboards for work , games , sewing and hobbies .
2 While candidates will receive credit for good grammar , accuracy , style , layout and maturity of expression , the scope of these criteria will be limited , since comparatively little continuous prose will be demanded .
3 non-Members can get tickets for all parts of the ground subject to availability .
4 Compounds can pose problems for automatic text processing systems since many compounds of words are idiomatic and have developed meanings and grammatical properties different from the combinations of the individual words .
5 Maximising present value ought , furthermore , at least in theory , to serve the interests of all shareholders , notwithstanding that some shareholders might have preferences for high dividend payouts rather than capital growth .
6 Quoted companies should consider Esops for three reasons .
7 Certainly Americans and Australians could play sport for more of the year but they did so in a more positive , meritocratic context where success was admired and recognized for its own sake .
8 The Western companies would provide training for local personnel and aid for agricultural production and distribution .
9 Those with real aspirations will travel south for British MB Federation races .
10 This will generate at a cost of 10 pence per kilowatt-hour but the Department of Energy has stated that 20 to 30 such aerogenerators could produce electricity for one-third of this cost .
11 Like the M40 , the CPRE warns , those roads could become magnets for new villages , hotels and superstores … and hasten the day when the Oxfordshire countryside really is submerged under concrete and tyres .
12 Most patients in both groups could defer defecation for longer than 15 minutes ( usually for much longer periods ) and could discriminate satisfactorily between flatus and faeces .
13 However , the practices and procedures which the team has adopted seem to have been shaped more directly by a -latent agenda of issues : a preference amongst the team 's management for a " hands on service ; the maintenance , until recently , of a strong health authority orientation to the team ( a hospital base , the dominance of the psychiatrist 's authority , the hospital itself as a central feature of the Borough 's service pattern ) ; a separatism which has been maintained between the social workers and the CMHNs over the team 's access to health and social service resources , so that social workers may refer clients for social service resources , and nurses for health authority resources , but not vice versa ; These features have tended to rule out for the team any sustained attention to the developmental role — a role which is certainly a part of its official brief , but which is clearly not a priority in terms of its current practice .
14 Fortunately , not all men are like this , and the self-motivated , self-controlling individuals must assume responsibility for those that are .
15 House prices up by one-third over two years could spell disaster for those leaving Britain who sold but did not reinvest in the housing market before returning home .
16 According to a World Bank report published on Sept. 23 , the administration of the US$1,200 million Environment Fund set up under the auspices of the UN was expected to face severe problems stemming from disagreements centring on the degree to which national governments would assume responsibility for environmental projects such as pollution control .
17 Half-Humans will rule Ireland for many centuries .
18 It empowers the Department of Justice to sue to obtain redress for victims of housing discrimination ( the damages may include payment for personal humiliation as well as loss of time or money ) .
19 The nominated officers should receive training for these duties including , if necessary , registration with the Local Government Training Board .
20 He reckons some of the maths questions would cause problems for second year pupils at secondary level , that the paper calls for a high reading standard and that some of the questions could be ambiguous .
21 Barclays claims that the machines will provide data for 4,000 users .
22 Regional agencies will become powerhouses for industrial development , encouraging investment , technology and skills .
23 Although some bureaux can make access for disabled clients feasible , there are still many disabled clients for whom coming to a bureau may not be worthwhile even if their problem is pressing .
24 In these and other models , households save for future consumption ( by accumulating money balances ) and in some cases firms can accumulate inventories for future sales .
25 These findings in guinea pigs may have implications for human respiratory pathology .
26 Both sides commit themselves to free trade in industrial goods , but the easterners may keep tariffs for ten years and the Community may keep those on ‘ sensitive ’ items for five .
27 The changes taking place in INSET funding arrangements may allow scope for local initiatives to flourish .
28 In the case of + , centres must take responsibility for this element ; the presence of a system for internal verification will be a condition of approval of a centre .
29 It is , however , in the best interests of the partners if the partnership is commenced in this way , since the document agreed upon by the partners will make provision for most eventualities which may affect the partnership .
30 The right hon. Gentleman 's plans would spell disaster for this economy , disaster for companies and permanent unemployment for millions of people .
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