Example sentences of "[noun prp] [to-vb] for [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | erm many people came to Kuwait to work for a short term and after a while they realised it 's fine so they continued to stay there for a long time , and that is the haven that we were talking about . |
| 2 | Northumberland had their outside-half Ian Chandler to thank for the late drop goal that led to a 13–11 victory over Alberta on a day when a freak Arctic airflow brought snow and near freezing temperatures to Calgary . |
| 3 | One dealer left Harvard to work for a Continental outfit called European Equity Research . |
| 4 | The South Wales authorities have also joined forces with those in South West England to press for a through rail link with the Tunnel thus avoiding the need to cross London from Paddington to the Waterloo terminal , and for the electrification of the main lines from Paddington to Bristol and Penzance , Paddington to Swansea , and Waterloo to Exeter . |
| 5 | The effect of the premedication did help Mr Reynolds to relax for a short while prior to going to theatre . |
| 6 | A curator bonis , an administrator appointed by a court in Scotland to act for an incapacitated person , may open a Tessa on behalf of an incapacitated person provided that person is aged 18 or over . |
| 7 | The policeman should have known better than to expect Duncan to fall for a cheap trick like that . |
| 8 | And fans of the Paul McCartney sound-a-like have his mum Mrs Cooper to thank for the one-off show . |
| 9 | Whether the view of science led Peirce to look for a prior epistemology , or whether the desire for , or availability of , a prior epistemology led him to think of inquiry as he did , are questions I shall not pursue here . |
| 10 | Probably Ireland 's best known festive event by far — and Guinness has been its longest and strongest ally — is the Rose of Tralee Festival where every year contestants from throughout the world come to Kerry to compete for the coveted Rose of Tralee title . |
| 11 | Solanki 's resignation , the first by a member of the current government , led opposition parties in the Lok Sabha to call for an immediate motion of censure against the government . |
| 12 | This leads John Mumford to seek for a new model in evangelism . |
| 13 | In all his self-justifications , Joyce talked of having come to Germany to fight for the new order against Bolshevism and Jewry . |
| 14 | It is interesting here to note that it is paralleled by one from Islam of how Allah sent the angel Gabriel to search for a pious man in a certain place . |
| 15 | Nevertheless separate meetings which President Vassiliou and Denktash held with the UN Secretary-General , Javier Pérez de Cuéllar , on Nov. 29 and Dec. 4 , 1989 , resulted in both sides accepting an invitation from Pérez de Cuéllar to meet for an indefinite period in search of an agreement , starting on Feb. 26 , 1990 . |
| 16 | Despite Eric 's move to Manchester , Isabelle says they will not be crossing the Pennines to look for a new home . |
| 17 | Members of Halton Friends of the Earth have been urging people in Runcorn to call for a public inquiry into ICI 's plan for an incinerator there . |
| 18 | This allows Piaget to argue for a direct congruence between the structures of the mind and those of the environment . |
| 19 | A campaign by Stirling University students association — while officially non-political — to persuade those living elsewhere in Britain to register for a postal vote , has been a big success . |
| 20 | OUTSIDE , TWO more journalists are waiting , a meeting is scheduled with video director Julien Temple and there 's a Concorde to New York to catch for a possible date with Sonic Youth . |
| 21 | When several of us got down there the CO informed us that we had to fly down the Gulf to look for an Imperial Airways airliner , one of those Armstrong Whitworth Argosys which was named City of Glasgow , and had been overdue for sometime . |
| 22 | For Belgium to qualify for the European Communities ' final stage of economic and monetary union [ see p. 38658 ] , the budget deficit would have to be reduced from the current 6.4 per cent of gross domestic product ( GDP ) to 3 per cent by 1996 . |
| 23 | On January 14th the unlikely figure of Bob Dole , the Senate Republican leader , took time off from the Gulf to call for a statutory commission to find out why women have not broken through the ‘ glass ceiling ’ that keeps them from top management jobs . |
| 24 | The Foreign Affairs Ministers met on Nov. 24 and 25 in Abu Dhabi to prepare for the planned summit , but reports said that the session was overshadowed by the absence of Qatar , marking its continuing displeasure with Saudi Arabia following a border incident in October [ see p. 39165 ] . |
| 25 | I commute from Dunfermline to Edinburgh to work for an enlightened firm of architects which designed into its office a shower facility , which allows me to cycle in all weathers . |
| 26 | She worked in the Paris office of the New York Herald Tribune for a while and later she went to Switzerland to work for the International Labour Office of the United Nations . |
| 27 | Colonel Ford , worried that he was losing his veteran Captain of skirmishers , had begged d'Alembord to stay for the impending campaign and implicit in the Colonel 's plea was a promise that d'Alembord would receive the next vacant majority in the battalion . |