Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] [verb] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Deaf dogs can manage surprisingly well , with their eyesight and sense of smell helping to compensate for their lack of hearing . |
| 2 | This technique involves asking for the order in such a way that if the timing is premature the presentation can continue with the minimum of interruption . |
| 3 | A team of experts will visit India in April to assess implementation of the conditions , and the decision to continue funding for the project will then be reviewed . |
| 4 | At the same time , British Rail agreed to withdraw for the next six months a proposed price increase for carrying the high quality limestone to the BS works at Redcar . |
| 5 | The Ghia Connecta is a concept electric car using technology FORD has developed for the Ecostar electric delivery vans , to appear on our roads in 1993 . |
| 6 | Puma has introduced for 1992 a new concept in shoe comfort , the Puma Disc system . |
| 7 | Pursuing its goal of creating very high-speed clustered configurations of the RS/6000 Unix workstations and servers , IBM Corp has turned for help — on the fast optical links it will need — to Ancor Communications Inc in Minnetonka , Minnesota . |
| 8 | Pentium is the name Intel Corp has chosen for what would otherwise have been the 80586 microprocessor , the company announced last week : reason is that it did not think it would be permitted to claim 586 as a trade mark . |
| 9 | It is all very well to say , as I am sure the hon. Member for Keighley ( Mr. Waller ) will say — because it is what British Rail has said for months — that the great majority of passengers coming into King 's Cross on the channel tunnel trains will go to further destinations by public transport , but there will also be many hundreds of thousands of passengers in a year who will want to be met by friends in cars , who will want to get on to coaches if they are in large parties or who will want to take taxis . |
| 10 | As Marcus Binney and David Pearce put it : ‘ since its establishment in 1947 British Rail has acquired for itself an all too deserved reputation as the biggest corporate vandal and iconoclast Britain has seen since the Tudor dissolution of the monasteries ’ . |
| 11 | Because of this , wide support has developed for assessment procedures which are more positive and educational in their orientation . |
| 12 | Victim Support has asked for an apology for the ‘ apparent inhuman treatment ’ of victim Sohail Ahmed , 32 , at Balham station , South London . |
| 13 | Silva , who went on to make a 30-footer for an eagle at the second , insists that the confidence he has been given by Mansell 's support has counted for as much , if not more , than the money . |
| 14 | THE last hope has gone for the eight small rural schools facing closure in the south of the province . |
| 15 | if the driver has stopped for the purpose of complying with regulation 8 or regulation 10 ( to accord precedence and not overtake ) ; |
| 16 | It electronically records how many crossings the driver has paid for . |
| 17 | By early January 1945 , observers in the Stuttgart area were pointing out that Mein Kampf was being — rather belatedly — cited to prove that Germany had itself to blame for the war , that Hitler 's expansionist aims which he had laid down twenty years earlier were the cause of the war , and that it was therefore clear that ‘ the Führer has worked for war from the very beginning ’ . |
| 18 | Its ability to travel over distance is limited , and it is therefore a commodity which the recordist has to reach for . |
| 19 | If the GP has asked for a drug to be dispensed in a special calendar pack , or has prescribed a small quantity of an unusual medicine that is only available from wholesalers in large quantities , the pharmacist will want to make sure that the pricing authority is aware of the extra costs . |
| 20 | But English Heritage has called for a thorough feasibility study before the third application is determined . |
| 21 | SCOTTISH Natural Heritage has called for all ships carrying hazardous cargo to be banned from the Minches and Fair Isle Channel . |
| 22 | Fair point , but the Leeds defence has struggled for almost a season and he still has n't put it right . |
| 23 | Defence has accounted for 11% of UK manufacturing output and is one of the few sectors in which the country is still a world leader . |
| 24 | As Figure 17.6 shows , wholesale funding has accounted for a growing share of the building societies ' total funding . |
| 25 | With a jolt of excitement , as if his heart has stopped for a moment , his mind leaps to the image of a pyramid-shaped mountain . |
| 26 | I think he s more use in the squad for the money wed get for him . |
| 27 | Encouraged by the success of a Whitby boat which recently began fishing for scallops , a small armada has headed for the Yorkshire ports . |
| 28 | The certificate has counted for little in my appointment interviews , and I was repeatedly told after failing the interview that my research record was weak . |
| 29 | Shell has submitted for environmental approval a £1.5 billion plan to clean up its oil refinery at Pernis , near Rotterdam . |
| 30 | but left open the question whether there is any difference under section 87 if the successor has resided for 12 months with the deceased tenant in two or more council houses or has resided partly in a council house and partly in private sector accommodation : [ 1987 ] 1 W.L.R. 1433 , 1441H . |