Example sentences of "[verb] for some [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Moreover , a certain prominent Liberal Democrat candidate in both elections found energy to spare for some strenuous Christian Aid , thus earning the gratitude and admiration of his fellow church members . |
| 2 | Whilst I have said 2 years as the expected time to be collecting Community Charge I think this should be qualified with 2 years plus , with income being received for some considerable time thereafter especially through Sheriff Officers . |
| 3 | I think , she remembered , as he walked a little behind her , it was a title received for some public work or other … . |
| 4 | It may make for some good headlines , but De Niro certainly does n't come on like a tycoon , talking about his company as not so much a business , more an ‘ artistic community ’ where people can freely exchange ideas . |
| 5 | Now in recent years , what has happened is that because of the recession , mineral operators instead of looking for enormous new areas to work have been seeking to erm improve er through their own review processes , the working within their existing sites and perhaps to go for some modest increases , so the number of applications has kept up , the amount of work that we are engaged in has er been at least as much as in the past and in some cases because of enforcement matters has been greater , but the fee income has been slipping . |
| 6 | beautiful , we used to go for some lovely walks did n't we ? |
| 7 | Er I 'd like to go for some little light relief at this time of the day , and look at sources of supply . |
| 8 | Unless there are an appreciable number of genuine deaths from asthma in people aged over 65 this supports my belief that the annual number of deaths due to asthma nationally is nearer 500 than 2000 ( even allowing for some genuine deaths from asthma not certified as such and given that some areas such as West Cumbria and perhaps Hertfordshire seem to have a lower mortality than Norwich ) . |
| 9 | The size of the experimental groups was calculated to yield a power of 90% to detect a change of biological importance ( 40% ) , allowing for some experimental failures and given the SD of data calculated from preliminary studies . |
| 10 | In addition to the Pahlavi rugs , Persia produces workshop items in styles that have evolved from those made during the Qajar dynasty ( which ended in the 19th century ) , and there are also numerous village and nomadic groups who , allowing for some minor modifications to the market , still make rugs that have hardly changed for generations . |
| 11 | But this is so only where the fence etc. was erected with reference to the highway and would probably not apply where the fence was erected for some other reason ( A.G. v Beynon , [ 1969 ] 2 All ER 263 ) . |
| 12 | Video 8 , with its inability to dub audio separately , inserts both new pictures and sound , the latter being whatever was being picked up by the camcorder 's microphone while the title was being recorded — unless you have arranged for some other sound to be fed onto the tape ! |
| 13 | Like Kant , he leaves theologians with two broad choices : either to accept this account of the situation , with its absolute distinction between the relativities and contingencies of history and the truth of religion , or to search for some other framework within which to set up the question . |
| 14 | Alternatively , some subjects may require H pylori infection and then clear it spontaneously or with the aid of antibiotic treatment , perhaps given for some intercurrent respiratory or urinary tract infection . |
| 15 | Certain drugs given for some other disorder may cause temporary impotence , so that is something to check with the doctor . |
| 16 | Similarly , tenements given for maintaining a chantry or lights in some church or chapel , or given for some other alms , if they were alienated , were also to be recoverable by the donor or his heirs . |
| 17 | Its proper specification has only been given for some simple cases . |
| 18 | It may be that the script on the Phaistos Disc represents a chance survival of a script developed for some special , possibly religious purpose . |
| 19 | As a director of public health , and having been chief officer to a health authority for some 17 years and having experienced more reorganisations than I care to remember , I can see the career turbulence that the current reforms are producing for some senior doctors in public health medicine . |
| 20 | " But she 's probably fallen for some dashing Italian by now , Matthew added . |
| 21 | I used to go to Orkney for to go and asked for some cardboard boxes only we call them pasteboard boxes . |
| 22 | There are , of course , countless buildings that were purposely designed as pubs , yet many more occupy buildings intended for some other , usually domestic , use . |
| 23 | McKellar 's subjects " … quite frequently likened the images to lantern slides … " and furthermore their unrelatedness both to current preoccupations and to each other made them seem like a series of lecturer 's slides which had not only " … been mixed up but were really intended for some other lecture " . |
| 24 | Now I think it an accident — intended for some other . ’ |
| 25 | Yet the demand ‘ for every syllable a note ’ was felt as a constraint and only when Byrd for some reason was able to resist it , in his Great Service , does he rise to the heights of the four- and five-part Masses evidently intended for some great Catholic household , and the finest of his motets , in which he reveals his mastery of freely imitative polyphony . |
| 26 | But progress may nevertheless be very slow and unemployment will persist for some long time . |
| 27 | But they 're all the same so that if you are er with which is the medical side and an opportunity arose for some other reason for you to transfer to another group we have n't got to retrain you . |
| 28 | If you are dismissed for some other reason unconnected with redundancy , you will have to consider whether the circumstances justify an unfair dismissal claim . |
| 29 | He had no short-term memory , which made for some strange dishes but it kept her safe from him . |
| 30 | This made for some tight weightless riding . |