Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] a [adj] [noun] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Wimpey joined forces with Taylor Woodrow and Amec to form the Kuwaiti British Fire Group and the consortium successfully completed a major contract for damage assessment and subsequent refurbishment of two oil fields . |
| 2 | As between the two heavyweights , Reed and Pearson , Reed has been added to at the start of the period ( financed from the sale of Pearson shares ) ; the additional Reed shares were sold off in the autumn of 1991 , thereby realising a tidy profit for the Portfolio . |
| 3 | Further research is required if we are to understand better the process of early retirement in a variety of circumstances and thereby build a sounder basis for policy . |
| 4 | The colour black in all such cases was considered especially lucky because this was the colour associated with the occult practices , but herein lies a transatlantic contradiction for , in America , it is the white cat that is lucky and the black cat that is unlucky . |
| 5 | Herein lies a big problem for managers who must take steps to ensure that everyone understands the need for involvement — To this end a series of seminars and talks should be arranged in order to explain the issue , seek ideas and the commitment of everyone to meeting the challenge . |
| 6 | A single-union agreement was negotiated with the Amalgamated Engineering Union ( AEU ) , which effectively provided a no-strike deal for Nissan . |
| 7 | ‘ This obviously offers a great potential for sourcing products locally and for pursuing joint ventures either at home or abroad . ’ |
| 8 | Edinburgh has long enjoyed a considerable reputation for the study of Criminology and the Philosophy of Law . |
| 9 | In what follows , I propose to examine some of the reasons for this , without going into a detailed exegetical discussion of the theories concerned , my purpose being merely to establish a sufficient platform for a phenomenological analysis , which is to follow . |
| 10 | What 's more , we 'll give families the economic and technical support they need to irrigate land , grow crops , raise livestock and so provide a better future for their children . |
| 11 | Try perhaps to write a happy ending for this world and the people in it . |
| 12 | We hope some day that we shall have won all the battles , and then can relax and develop more of the social side of the retired member 's association , but until then we enjoy the friendship and satisfaction of working together to secure a better deal for the elderly everywhere , and remember that , hopefully , you will all be pensioners one day . |
| 13 | One was the absence of faction round an heir to the throne old enough to provide a focal point for political opposition , The only exception came in the last years of James III ; in 1488 , in the second and final crisis of his reign , his opponents could use his fifteen-year-old son , the future James IV , as their figurehead . |
| 14 | Carnivorous plants apparently hold a macabre fascination for gardeners and they 're becoming increasingly popular . |
| 15 | This total reverence to the group binds ideas of silence , loyalty , and reticence together to create a positive category for belief and action and , in turn , links silence to other concepts of respect for the order of the institution . |
| 16 | If you ask me , I reckon we 've all made a big change for the better . |
| 17 | I therefore decided to strengthen and redeploy the AIB team in preparation for what would obviously become a major task for the next eighteen months or so . |
| 18 | Porteous has long had a high reputation for stocking maps and guides in depth , and its customers , to whom it also supplies daily newspapers , include large city companies whose executives travel regularly and widely . |
| 19 | As you work with more texts you can build up these specialist sluices and so create a unique resource for your own teaching situation . |
| 20 | As late as 1915 Masaryk could only envisage a monarchical future for a Bohemian state . |
| 21 | With an increased Democratic majority in Congress , the President could rightly claim a massive mandate for his Great Society programmes . |
| 22 | Murray Kidd did a good job for us for three years , but he had obviously had a greater affinity for three quarter play than forwards . ’ |
| 23 | The photosetter churned out the columns of type as a film , which had to be pasted up manually to form a complete page for the printing plate cameras . |
| 24 | Breaking down activities into a number of small wins not only creates a rewarding climate for action but concentrates attention on the possible . |
| 25 | Many felt that the Committee members were merely providing a rubber stamp for Government decisions . |
| 26 | This will enable users to transfer applications developed on one machine to another without fear of mismatches in timing — so removing a major headache for developers . |
| 27 | It only takes a small slippage for government revenue and spending forecasts to be thrown out of kilter . |
| 28 | What 's more , it only takes a few weeks for the real rewards to start appearing . |
| 29 | Bcl-2 mitigates the apoptotic effects of deregulated c-Myc expression without affecting its ability to promote continuous cell growth , so providing a mechanistic basis for the oncogenic synergy between these two proto-oncogenes . |
| 30 | It was the ‘ second line ’ , ‘ support ’ and ‘ facility ’ squadrons which took the UK Canberra squadrons into another twenty years of service with a variety of roles and mark conversions , and so brought a continued need for the services of 231 OCU , albeit on a decreasing scale over the years . |