Example sentences of "the [noun sg] [to-vb] for [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But to live there means also the opportunity to vote for a particular party , whose quixotry and honesty have touched me . |
| 2 | It is interesting that , as the opportunity to paint for a specific exhibition has offered itself , a freer and less tentative approach can be seen both in subject matter and technique . |
| 3 | There is also the opportunity to register for a part-time PhD degree at the University of Warwick . |
| 4 | ‘ All I wanted on behalf of the team was the opportunity to qualify for the European Cup final off the back of our last two Champions League matches , ’ said the manager . |
| 5 | One has transferred to the communications department and all were offered the opportunity to work for the new contract firm . |
| 6 | Suppose , father being impoverished and son having come into money , the father had required the creditor to sue for the whole sum ? |
| 7 | Joyce 's time at Battersea brought him no closer to getting a degree or to having the money to pay for a conventional education . |
| 8 | The decision to look for a significant equity partner appears to be Virgin 's attempt to keep out of the clutches of the five majors while remaining a credible force in the worldwide music business . |
| 9 | In the case of Camden and Islington , the authority did have good officers , and they did have the capacity to plan for a future district based provision . |
| 10 | Mrs Feather 's daughter Imogen had a brief , unhappy affair with Phipps , only last Christmas , and had subsequently left the village to care for an elderly aunt in Scotland . |
| 11 | I can not see that any of this speculation helps us to understand the poem ; but if we must guess , it seems more to the point to look for an eight-year-old girl . |
| 12 | A study by Robert Gordon , at Northwestern University , estimated that America 's inflation rate was overstated by 1.5-2% a year between 1947 and 1983 because of the failure to adjust for the improving quality of consumer durables . |
| 13 | The growing barbarization of the war , especially following the invasion of the Soviet Union , led to an increasing dehumanization of the abstract image of the ‘ Jew ’ and a corresponding ‘ internalization ’ of the justification of the need to search for a radical solution to the ‘ Jewish Question ’ . |
| 14 | The model described above provides a simple illustration of the effect of input-output relations and the need to allow for the indirect effects . |
| 15 | The opposition also emphasized that the referendum failed to address the issue of the 10,000 US troops stationed in the Panama canal zone and the need to provide for the future security of the canal when it came under complete Panamanian control at the turn of the century . |
| 16 | Removal of the need to pay for a junior barrister as well as a QC in a substantial number of legal aid cases . |
| 17 | Moreover , the use by the courts of these common law devices of obstruction , breach of the peace and nuisance is difficult to legislate against as the essential purpose ( which before the 1960s had been more or less achieved with police co-operation ) is to permit ‘ reasonable ’ picketing , including the right to accost for a short period within which arguments can be advanced , without putting persons in fear or to immoderate inconvenience . |
| 18 | The Law Society holds hearings in private but allows the defendant the right to opt for a public hearing if he or she so wishes ( the prosecution also has the right , but only in public interest cases ) . |
| 19 | Real purpose of the proposed assignment to give the assignee the right to qualify for a statutory tenancy . |
| 20 | Once initial interviews with children had been videotaped , the prosecution should have the right to apply for a pre-trial hearing before the judge , in informal surroundings , at which the child could be examined and cross-examined . |
| 21 | New York has always been the place to come for a good show trial . |
| 22 | In the morning , having rectified the recorder fault , he walked down towards the station to look for a new location . |
| 23 | Since the rate of repayment is reviewed only once annually , quite often the effect of mortgage rate rises has been delayed for some months , allowing the borrower to prepare for the increased cost . |
| 24 | It buys them , sells some bits quickly , but then keeps the rest to manage for the long term . |
| 25 | Ian left the colour to develop for the maximum time of forty minutes under a gentle heat . |
| 26 | On the one hand he had to contend with a tough gang of young people attracted to the youth club , and on the other to care for the elderly people who made up a considerable proportion of his congregation . |
| 27 | He wrote to the Chancellor of the Exchequer to apply for the Chiltern Hundreds on Saturday , apparently , and no one seems quite sure whether the resignation dates from the day the letter was received or the date the warrant is signed by the Chancellor . |
| 28 | They get out the plastic to pay for the double-decker load of food . |
| 29 | UNO 's platform , announced early in September , included plans to expand the market economy , to extend social freedoms and guarantees including trade union freedoms , to revise the Constitution to provide for a strict separation of the state , the Army and the ruling party , to abolish compulsory military service , to reduce radically the size of the armed forces , to reorganize the police under civil authority and to grant an amnesty for political prisoners . |
| 30 | The county court , often in the person of the chief clerk , will arrange for the debtor to attend for an oral examination as to his means , The debtor 's answers are recorded and signed , becoming the basis of a realistic payment order by instalments in many cases . |