Example sentences of "[verb] and [noun sg] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | In a comprehensive school attitudes conveying sympathy , understanding and concern for the pupils are fundamental . |
| 2 | Philip had a special interest , understanding and affection for the delightful , difficult rogues of CUM who he would always ask about . |
| 3 | So amongst tabloid readers generally , but especially amongst Sun/Star readers , there was a dramatic difference between their overwhelming preference for television as a source of information and their reliance upon both press and television for helping them decide how to vote . |
| 4 | His family has been involved in braiding and ropework for more than a century , and four years ago he came to Newtonmore to set up a small , high quality production facility for climbing ropes . |
| 5 | Polar lakes and ponds are partly or completely frozen and snow-covered for much of the year . |
| 6 | The trip is now fully booked and money for tickets should be paid in as soon as possible . |
| 7 | The court was booked , teams picked , outfits were organised and training for the big game began in earnest . |
| 8 | The principle of strict confidentiality still holds and discipline for nonperformance is still conceded to be largely a medical problem , not a management one . |
| 9 | a Victorian prison and after services have been done and collection for the prisoners , erm , you know that was the international they were getting |
| 10 | COST AND PAYMENT FOR MEALS |
| 11 | The police on the other hand argued that their task was to uphold the law , to keep the peace , and to facilitate the entry of non-striking miners into workplaces ; mass picketing was obstructive and intimidating , both of which could give rise to arrest and charge for criminal offences . |
| 12 | She does n't have to sweat and slave for every penny ! ’ |
| 13 | Welcome and greeting for [ and by ] each individual ; |
| 14 | Now have a really good stretch , then relax and pause for a moment as you realise how good you feel . |
| 15 | Then relax and pause for a moment as you realise how good you feel . |
| 16 | The mania for forming industry consortia is getting so out of hand that a group of leading manufacturers , software developers and vendors are coming together to make some sense of it and eliminate duplicated effort by creating a single consortium to which everyone will be invited to belong : there is no confirmation of suggestions that the idea was the first initiative from new IBM Corp chief Louis Gerstner , who accedes to the top job today , but we hear that the army of companies is still bogged down arguing about what to call the thing — the best they 've dreamed up so far is the Consortium for Object-oriented Methods and Programming for the Unix Terminal and Enterprise-wide Recasting of Interactive Networked Database Undertakings with Software Transitioning and Revision for Y'all , but they ca n't find a snappy acronym to fit the words . |
| 17 | Excitement mounted ; in her memoirs Princess Marie Louise quotes Sir Edwin Lutyens as saying , ‘ Let us devise and design for all time something which will enable future generations to see how a king and queen of England lived in the twentieth century , and what authors , artists and craftsmen of note there were during their reign . ’ |
| 18 | With most people homesickness was inevitable but Eva had already been away from her family for several years and had never been a person to sit and pine for long . |
| 19 | Let cool ; cover and chill for at least 3 hours . |
| 20 | What may well prove to be India 's last round-up of wild elephants was carried out by a tribe who have specialized in elephant catching and training for centuries . |
| 21 | going on , so we wo n't be in a position to estimate and forecast for our own benefit |
| 22 | There is evidence to suggest that many corporations do not have an organizational structure and process that allow the lateral integration of marketing , research , design engineering , financing and manufacturing for the successful conclusion of their business enterprises ; in these organizations , ideas get thrown over the wall rather than worked on collaboratively . |
| 23 | Put another way , each teacher is required to monitor and record for each child , within the primary sector , progress under the attainment targets in maths , science , English and technology alone , no less than 497 separate differentiated statements of attainment for each child . |
| 24 | When Wicked Willie explains to his Man that ‘ it 's no good , I do n't fancy Caroline and I never will ’ , he means that in spite of Man 's liking and respect for the girl , and even her physical attractiveness , there is n't that subtle sexual aroma exuded by pheromones . |
| 25 | Greg Redmond was a quiet diffident type , tall with grey eyes and dark hair like John , and Anne felt liking and respect for him . |
| 26 | Certain valuable steps could be taken to reform and strengthen the law whilst retaining the present structure of sexual offences : the marital rape exemption could be abolished and liability for rape could be extended to cover defendants whose belief in consent , given their capacities , was wholly unreasonable . |
| 27 | Droning Dot and nurdish Nigel do have the odd laugh , but there 's never been a character who you could call easy going and game for a laugh . |
| 28 | Droning Dot and nurdish Nigel do have the odd laugh , but there 's never been a character who you could call easy going and game for a laugh . |
| 29 | Get that going and ring for an ambulance . |
| 30 | He picked out a Hardy Amies suit and blouse for me to wear — and masses of Helmut 's jewels pinned to the suit , fastened to my ears and draped round my neck . |