Example sentences of "[noun] [pron] [vb -s] [pron] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | The relatively high completion rates for the ‘ Other NSEs ’ reflects the fact that this includes students with ‘ professional , nursing , technical or secretarial qualifications ’ The pattern which emerges is that students who have been selected on the basis of success in some form of study which prepares them for the demands which will be placed on them in higher education respond as least as well if not better than the traditionally qualified A-level entrants , while those with less evidence of success of this kind find the transition to higher education difficult and are more likely to drop-out . |
| 2 | The rewards for those working in BP come in the quality of the opportunities it gives us for the future . |
| 3 | Such studies are rare since they require an examination of media practices and content as well as a critical assessment of the media 's presentation of the ‘ real world ’ — an assessment which takes it for granted that the media do not reproduce ‘ reality ’ in a pure form ; their use of language and images as well as the working practices of journalists inevitably refract ‘ reality ’ , so ‘ distorting ’ it . |
| 4 | Towards the end of Year II , some students undertake a six-week period of placement or work experience in a record office , museum or folk park ; others follow a specially-designed short course which prepares them for Year III and for the world of work beyond graduation . |
| 5 | Towards the end of the second year some major or joint students of History undertake a six-week period of placement or work experience in a record office , museum or folk park ; others follow a specially-designed short course which prepares them for the final year and for the world of work . |
| 6 | ‘ At that point , ’ says Colonel Gordon Wilkinson MHCIMA , deputy director , Army catering , ‘ they go back to St Omer barracks , Aldershot , home of Army catering since the Army Catering Corps was formed in 1941 , to take the 12-week advanced chef 's course which prepares them for shift manager level in a kitchen . |
| 7 | Raising standards ; by guaranteeing that all pupils get a balanced curriculum which prepares them for adult life ; and by setting objectives over the full range of abilities — via ‘ attainment targets ’ backed up with appropriate assessment arrangements . |
| 8 | He has a vision of it as a vehicle which prepares us for the presence of God . ’ |
| 9 | The court which sentences him for the latest offence will have to decide whether to return him to prison to serve a period equal to the balance of the sentence which remained on the day the offence was committed . |
| 10 | Finally , treat yourself or a friend to a year 's subscription to GH — the magazine which has everything for you and your home . |
| 11 | The strange fragrance was stronger now , coming over the top of the rise in a wave of scent that struck him powerfully — as the scent of orange-blossom in the Mediterranean strikes a traveller who smells it for the first time . |
| 12 | The standing back approach Someone phones you for a price for a project . |
| 13 | The life which demands nothing for itself , |
| 14 | They say Koons is a major artist who sacrifices nothing for his work . |
| 15 | From its famous tower to the imposing Sacre Coeur and Arc de Triomphe it has something for everyone . |
| 16 | It encourages in us an arrogance which takes everything for granted . |
| 17 | ANGRY Darlington dentists will voice their fears over Government plans to reduce the amount it pays them for NHS work in a meeting with the town 's MP tomorrow . |
| 18 | DARLINGTON dentists have met the town 's MP to discuss their concern over Government plans to reduce the amount it pays them for NHS work . |
| 19 | Moreover , not surprisingly perhaps , tax specialists say that there are legitimate ways of minimising the liability , for example by putting gifts into a discretionary trust which qualifies them for ‘ hold-over ’ relief . |
| 20 | It is the property of the Widow and the Orphan who regard it as safe in your Hands , & in our case moreover it is the property of the Sovereign of the country who selects us for the deposit because he expects ( & expressly has declared that to be his motive ) to find in us , the nice Honour of Gentleman added to the common honesty & Integrity of Men of Business . ’ |
| 21 | When a central bank buys a surplus of foreign currency it exchanges it for domestic currency , here Deutschmarks . |
| 22 | ‘ We were in a Stockton recording studio at the time when the MMB asked the guy who runs it for ideas of music and we were suggested , ’ says Meadows who with schooldays chum Anthony Roe are the lead vocals . |
| 23 | To give this impression would ensure shipwreck on a reef which we shall in any case be lucky to avoid , the indifference of the reader who takes it for granted that we are trying to deduce imperatives from the facts of which one ought to be aware , and assumes in advance that there has to be a flaw somewhere , hardly worth the trouble of locating , as in a new proposal for a perpetual-motion machine . |
| 24 | You play with him Rachel he does it for you . |
| 25 | ‘ Next time he asks us for something , we will find it harder to say no , ’ said one of those present . |