Example sentences of "[verb] [adj] [noun] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | But ‘ Tarzan ’ Heseltine , professing total support for Chancellor Norman Lamont revealed the plans in a radio interview . |
| 2 | It romanticized revolution and regularized insubordination , sanctifying that preference for violent individual action that was to bedevil the politics of nineteenth-century Spain . |
| 3 | If specific information about pupils ' ability , eligibility for free school meals , any disabilities etc. is required , then a painstaking search is undertaken each time for the particular piece of information required . |
| 4 | Give us more freedom in the afternoon if we need to go into Wokingham instead , do you want to go that way for a change or this , or through the woods ? |
| 5 | ‘ I hate that man for what he did to me . ’ |
| 6 | Well trampled ground may remain that way for some time . |
| 7 | However they will understand the difficulties of using such an unpredictable material as wood , and make due allowance for minor defects . |
| 8 | Should an apparent truce in Bosnia lead to the sending of substantial peacekeeping forces , the subsequent breakdown of such an agreement would trigger acute pressures for sending sufficient troops to achieve peacemaking ( ‘ smothering the war by force ’ ) . |
| 9 | Even is we use only the lowest numbers available , based on official statistics , we are still seeing acute poverty for 873,000 people . |
| 10 | And if the herd is threatened , they will gallop off together or maybe huddle together , touching each other for reassurance . |
| 11 | They stood almost touching each other for a full minute . |
| 12 | The School also offers distance-learning courses for teachers of the visually impaired and of hearing-impaired people , and for teachers of children with speech and language disorders . |
| 13 | The local authority , which shared parental responsibility for J. in consequence of a care order made under the Children Act 1989 , obtained leave under section 100 of the Act to invoke the court 's inherent jurisdiction to determine whether artificial ventilation and/or other life-saving measures should be administered to J. if he were to suffer a life-threatening event . |
| 14 | They accordingly obtained leave to invoke the High Court 's inherent jurisdiction and by their summons , directed to W. and to her aunt who shared parental responsibility for her , sought the court 's leave for such transfer and treatment without her consent . |
| 15 | Purcell did not make extensive changes for the Fairy Queen revival — and indeed he had two excellent reasons not to . |
| 16 | If you are moving for job reasons , the local authority or new town development corporation , even if they can not offer permanent rented accommodation , might be able to arrange short-term letting for up to a year under Schedule 3 of the Housing Act 1980 . |
| 17 | Organizing respectable credit for respectable people became the respectable part of an accountant 's work , whose training enabled him to ensure that it was sound , that is , within the bounds of profitability . |
| 18 | So the Bank of England is in the situation that it usually wishes to sell government securities ; it invariably wishes to sustain long-run demand for such securities but it periodically has to take action which inflicts losses on the holders of such securities . |
| 19 | We 've seen Turners opposing each other for Australia and New Zealand , Richardses for West Indies and England , Manns for England and South Africa ( they both dismissed each other during the 1948–49 series , but it was George catching Tufty which gave rise to John Arlott 's legendary comment about ‘ Mann 's inhumanity to Mann ’ ) , and yet more Smiths ( T.P.B. and F.B. ) for England and New Zealand and for England ( D.V. ) against West Indies ( O.G. ) . |
| 20 | As a result , it saw the need to continue strong support for local authority housing provision . |
| 21 | A subsidiary of the Rover group is producing complete bodyshells for the car , which was last built sixteen years ago . |
| 22 | A subsidiary of the Rover group is producing complete bodyshells for the car , which was last built sixteen years ago . |
| 23 | ‘ I ca n't make that decision for you , ’ he said raggedly . |
| 24 | No one can make that choice for you . |
| 25 | This had set the tone later reflected in the harsh rules of the Indian Penal Code 1860 ( prescribing long sentences of ‘ rigorous imprisonment ’ ) , in the Prisons Act 1894 , in gaol manuals allowing cruel punishments for the smallest breach of discipline , and in a lasting policy of spending as little as possible on the gaols . |
| 26 | Trailing variegated nepetas are often sold with the bedding plants during summer at garden centres as they make admirable subjects for hanging baskets and window boxes . |
| 27 | This form of arranged marriage , the ‘ minor marriage ’ , could be compared with a more common form of arranged marriage , the ‘ major marriage ’ , in which the partners met each other for the first time when they were adolescents . |
| 28 | THE recently expanded sales force met each other for the first time in September at their autumn sales meeting . |
| 29 | But if this relationship is poor , the damage done may adversely affect that child for the rest of his days . |
| 30 | Police in Foxboro , Massachusetts made eight arrests for drunken and disorderly behaviour after last week 's England-US game . |