Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] for [pos pn] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Of those who had previously worked , the reasons given for their current unemployed state were as follows : short-term MSC contract , or redundancy , 36 per cent ; dismissal because of lateness , etc. , due to heroin use , 23 per cent ; imprisonment , 14 per cent ; collapse of business , 9 per cent ; pregnancy , 9 per cent ; boredom with job , 9 per cent . |
| 2 | Further to my letter of 3 September 1992 , I am most grateful to you for your permission to borrow for our forthcoming exhibition on John Slezer the Slezer drawings of Edinburgh held by Edinburgh City Libraries , and shall be in touch with Miss McDougall about practical arrangements in due course . |
| 3 | As far as the actual average salary is concerned if you look at page nineteen paragraph K a white page on your report , page nineteen , paragraph K and there you will see that you 're promised an audit report on the position relating to teachers ' salaries , I can confirm that the position is consistent with the remarks that , that were made earlier on , cos you have within the budget here sufficient money to provide for our current estimate of next year 's actual earning salary in these schools . |
| 4 | Hundreds of graduates of the Royal Marines School of Music at Deal gathered for their annual reunion service two weeks after 10 bandsmen were killed by an IRA bomb . |
| 5 | Some owners of compound eyes have another bonus to compensate for their poor resolution , and that is the rate at which they can perceive images . |
| 6 | Two imposing items which arrived in Swanage were the prominent Wellington ‘ lock ’ tower at Peveril and the 17th century facade from the Mercers ' Hall in Cheapside which George Burt used for his new Town Hall . |
| 7 | John Tyzack provided for his comfortable retirement in Oxford by selling the business to Henderson Administration , the well-known investment trust . |
| 8 | My suspicion first fell on Reg Pybus , but I am now certain it is Howard Wilkinson , seeking some perverted pleasure to compensate for his monumental gaff in signing that prat Colin Webley . |
| 9 | The Doric Club met for its ninth annual lunch on Tuesday , 8 September . |
| 10 | Deep in the QP forest , the animals met for their regular tete a tete . |
| 11 | CHRIS EUBANK kept his WBO super-middleweight title by outpointing New Jersey postman Tony Thornton in Glasgow last night — but Eubank 's biggest cheer from the Scottish fans came for his gimmicky leap into the ring before the fight started . |
| 12 | A lawyer acting for his 86-year-old sister , Cora Bruck , said last night : ‘ It does n't represent his true intentions . |
| 13 | Branches should also be familiar with Helpline 's Traders List for their own geographical area and continue to monitor the costs and standard of services provided . |
| 14 | Mr Patten announced his democracy blueprint last October , radically revising Hong Kong 's unique functional constituency system , under which different professions and trades vote for their own councillors , and considerably enlarging the electoral base . |
| 15 | Would that have been about the time you went back to the car to look for your nine iron ? ’ |
| 16 | ‘ So , when you failed to find him , you gave up and went back to the car to look for your nine iron ? ’ |
| 17 | In Blackburn , when Queen Elizabeth and Clitheroe grammar schools meet for their annual contests , the fierce but friendly local rivalry is as intense as at any of the better-known great North-western derby matches . |
| 18 | If she had told Richard about Harry , and about Maurice 's dubious cargo , he would n't have had to lie in a pool of blood waiting for her own daughter to rescue him . |
| 19 | Many of the upland landscapes today are like patch-work quilts of forest and open moorland , with a few areas of upland bogs preserved for their rare , wild , moorland plants . |
| 20 | I can see fields and reservoirs and a motorway service station , and , given the proper magnification , I could probably make out Parish Clerk Weekley still on his roof waiting for his next photocall . |
| 21 | THE dress Pretty Woman Julia Roberts ordered for her cancelled wedding to Brat Packer Kiefer Sutherland could end up being auctioned off for charity . |
| 22 | That left him deciding for a long time which club to use for his third shot . |
| 23 | The opera is newly translated by Jeremy Sams whose recent translation of L'Etoile had audiences rocking with laughter , and designed by Sue Blane known for her outrageous costumes in the wacky cult opera The Love For Three Oranges . |
| 24 | They returned early and , after sending most of the major labels running for their blessed chequebooks , signed to EMI . |
| 25 | That the miller 's knives substitute for his sexual potency rather than reflect it is indicated by the superiority of the clerk 's performance in bed with his wife to anything he has managed for a long time : He has fathered two children , but , like Bayard , his sexual energy is now exhausted . |
| 26 | The 16 members of the Economic Community of West African States gathered for their 13th summit in Banjul ( The Gambia ) on May 28-30 . |
| 27 | We thank the Office of Population Censuses and Surveys ( OPCS ) for their support and for permission to use the General Household Survey , and the ESRC Data Archive for their continuing help . |
| 28 | According to Pedro de Cieza 's account of 1554 : If Pedro failed to appreciate that the Indians were motivated by emulation as well as by piety in accumulating gold and then sacrificing it in burials , he was well aware of what the practice meant for his fellow countrymen . |
| 29 | The flexible approach is therefore to allow organizations to account for their own economic reality . |
| 30 | The whale 's new home is an enclosure in a children 's health cure resort at Laspi Bay , seven kilometres from the spot Mikhail Gorbachev chose for his presidential dacha in the Crimea , and 20 kilometres from the closed city of Sevastopol . |