Example sentences of "[noun] [noun pl] [verb] [adv] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Planned maintenance means that routine servicing and overhaul arrangements are scheduled in advance and contingency plans drawn up for unexpected breakdowns . |
| 2 | They were exactly the sort you 'd expect to see at this kind of activity : mostly middle-aged or older Americans or Germans in running shoes , with a few earnest Guardian readers thrown in for local colour . |
| 3 | San Jose-based the Complete PC Inc is to be acquired by Boca Research Inc , Boca Raton , Florida : the Complete PC , a privately held company , develops , manufactures and markets facsimile modem and voice messaging products ; terms were not disclosed ; Boca Research recently raised some $13.6m from its initial public offering and designs , manufactures , and markets worldwide board-level enhancement products directed primarily for the MS-DOS micro market . |
| 4 | Mr Moynihan should even now be pressing the football authorities to cast around for an island where The Problem can be contained . |
| 5 | In between , there is a host of organizations , including public sector organizations , for which there is no comprehensive set of accounting policies established exclusively for their cases . |
| 6 | The Aquarium also has an attractive bar/lounge with colour TV and video , where Club clients get together for regular party nights . |
| 7 | The Squirrel was one of the first light turbine helicopters designed primarily for civil operation rather than as a modification of a design intended for military use . |
| 8 | The Squirrel was one of the first light turbine helicopters designed specifically for civilian use and is popular among both private and commercial operations . |
| 9 | It was n't only the seeds of oats ; the cornfields usually contained quantities of weeds like chickweed , spurrey and charlock and it was on all these that the skylarks , twite and rock doves fattened up for the coming winter . |
| 10 | They had the car lights switched off for a while . |
| 11 | Firstly , it meant access to library housekeeping circulation files designed primarily for staff use which could also serve as a rudimentary catalogue for the library user . |
| 12 | We compared the incidence in the study areas with national data using the following sources : for childhood cancer , data from the National Registry of Childhood Tumours for 1969–87 ; for young people aged 15–24 , cancer registration statistics for England and Wales for 1971–86 , though these data were not subjected to the review processes carried out for the specialist registries ; for leukaemias and lymphomas in those aged 25–74 , data from the data collection study covering about one third of the population of England and Wales . |
| 13 | There are two new classes being run in the summer term : To prepare for those summer holidays , there is an Italian for beginners on Monday mornings and a five week course on Tuesday evenings set aside for couples and individuals who would like to explore ‘ communication within the family ’ with Jo Jordan , an experienced counselling therapist . |
| 14 | Phrasal verbs come in for more attention with Phrasal Verbs Organiser from LTP ( by the man who gave us the First Certificate Organiser ) , while HarperCollins is publishing a Phrasal Verbs Workbook to accompany its dictionary . |
| 15 | Echo sounding is also responsible for an erroneous impression given on chart traces , suggesting that the loch walls continue down for 1000 m or so beneath a filling of loose sediment . |
| 16 | A GROUP of 35 children from Dothill county infants school , Telford , will be visiting the Laura Ashley garment factory in Carno on Thursday to be presented with cotton aprons produced specially for them after they designed their own patterns based on the theme ‘ Around Our School . ’ |
| 17 | The 69-year-old from Beechwood in Middlesbrough lost a ‘ substantial ’ sum of money after a visit from two men , claiming to be Middlesbrough Council workers measuring up for replacement doors and windows . |
| 18 | Sheltered work ventures provided specifically for identifiable groups of people with special needs always run the risk of segregating people with mental disorder from the rest of the community ; whenever possible , therefore , it is desirable to link such initiatives with ‘ for-profit ’ enterprises away from large old hospital grounds , however tempting it may be to use cheap old buildings and land on hospital sites . |
| 19 | Over 2400 JS pensioners gathered together for the 45th JS Veterans Reunions on March 29 , April 5 and 26 — the event being organised on three days for the second time due to the large number of participants from all corners of the country . |
| 20 | New England politicians lobbied hard for ownership of Bank of New England to stay in the region . |
| 21 | The first water-based Gloss and Satin paints produced exclusively for independent retailers have been launched by Trend . |
| 22 | We had decided very early that a useful little earner would be to provide B & B facilities catering mainly for railway enthusiasts and the building and grounds should therefore be returned to something like their original appearance . |
| 23 | YESTERDAY 's round of Whitehall appointments worked well for Clare College , Cambridge . |
| 24 | As one seminar is brought to conclusion plans forge ahead for the next and 1992 is no exception . |
| 25 | Other Carlton programmes to look out for include Head Over Heels , ( Jan 11 ) , a seven-part Fifties rock and roll drama featuring rebellious leather-jacketed teenager Camilla de la Mer who becomes the latest pupil at the Gracie Ellis Academy of Elegance . |
| 26 | I should like to have a good bath — I have n't had one for weeks — and something to eat , before you begin to cut me up as though I were one of your business opponents laid out for you to hand them the coup de grâce . ’ |
| 27 | TELEVISION viewers in the south may soon be seeing advertisements for undertakers , as funeral directors gear up for an increasingly competitive and high-profile market . |
| 28 | In East Sussex , which has yet to appoint care managers , assistant director Jim Graham reckons there will be some concerns about the types of job descriptions put together for the job . |
| 29 | ‘ On the new album I went to extremes , and for each song I had two or three complete lead breaks worked out for every solo , prior to actually going in to make the album . |
| 30 | The museum preserves , among many other industrial monuments , the famous Iron Bridge ( q.v. ) ; the Old Furnace at Coalbrookdale in which Darby ( q.v. ) successfully used coke for smelting ; the Hay Incline which was built in 1793 to raise tub boats 207 feet from one canal level to another ; a pair of double-beam blast-furnace blowing engines known as David and Sampson ( sic ) ; the former Great Warehouse of the Coalbrookdale Company ; the china works at Coalport ( q.v. ) ; the so-called Bedlam Furnaces built especially for coke smelting in 1757–8 ; and the pithead winding gear of Blists Hill mine . |