Example sentences of "[noun] [vb base] [verb] for a " in BNC.
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| 1 | My kids want to go for a visit and my daughter wants a picture of our home … |
| 2 | But some examinees fail to search for a connection between the book-work question and the rider , thus missing the point intended by the examiner , while other examinees , finding no connection between the two ( in fact there being none ) , avoid the question altogether . |
| 3 | Two conferences of the Football Supporters ' Association have called for a re-think , but it seemed we were banging our heads against a brick wall . |
| 4 | Some learning resources are cheaper than others , and British primary schools have improvised for a long time with the very simplest materials including the discarded packaging of the consumer society . |
| 5 | That shared culture has gone , though its traces have persisted for a long time , at least among those unworldly older academics who assume that students of English will have read the whole of Shakespeare in the sixth form , or that they can readily identify classical or biblical references . |
| 6 | The family of a remand prisoner found hanged in his cell have called for a public inquiry after an inquest reached a suicide verdict . |
| 7 | According to Ms Leith , the designers have gone for a ‘ serious and conventional restaurant ’ look ‘ which will not frighten members with too much yuppie jazzdom ’ , but which is also fun — ‘ witty , modern and stylish enough to encourage them to come ’ . |
| 8 | The V8 engines are all interchangeable with each other and the V8 car engines , but the front timing covers need changing for a Range Rover/Land Rover type when fitting car engines as the fan is too low otherwise . |
| 9 | One or two other manufacturers have opted for a similar idea to this , where the knob sweeps through an infinitely variable range of tones , from soft and middley to bass and treble-heavy ‘ crunch ’ . |
| 10 | FOUR RAILWAYMEN have plumped for a ‘ busmen 's holiday ’ this autumn … by organising a charity rail tour to delightful Poole in Dorset which will be picking up at Wigan North Western . |
| 11 | The club have opted for a left arm spinner Jamie Stewart from Western Australia as their pro . |
| 12 | As soon as the cold fingers let go for a moment , I pulled my hand quickly back , put a pile of books in front of the broken window , and tried not to listen to the desperate cries outside . |
| 13 | Most of the existing pilot sites have opted for a fairly large-scale computer-based system with a central system that stores for case-mix purposes , the data from a number of locally based feeder units . |
| 14 | As we all know , not only in London but in many of our big cities , there are areas of great depression — neglected areas where there are thousands of people out of work — and those areas have existed for a long time . |
| 15 | Some European countries have opted for a more acceptable solution in the form of " right to reply " legislation , which allows judges or " ombudsmen " to direct newspapers to publish corrections and counter-statements from those who claim to have been misrepresented . |
| 16 | Like their colleagues in further education , the 17,000 lecturers in the sector have voted for a marking and exam boycott . |
| 17 | For example , it may instruct its members to go-slow or work-to-rule or it may call for selective strikes ( in which certain groups of workers stop working for a specified time period ) ; or all the union members may be called out on a one-day strike . |
| 18 | So , as with lathes and the skilled turner , so also with the CAD system and the designer , possibilities do exist for a symbiotic relationship between the worker and the equipment . |
| 19 | Already television consultants , Judge Marketing have arranged for a special camera to be set up on board British Steel Challenge . |
| 20 | Rail workers have voted for a twenty-four hour strike over job losses . |
| 21 | Different investigators have argued for a partial dominant gene , a two-gene theory , a polygenic theory , and a combination of genes of incompatible traits . |
| 22 | Perhaps more revealingly , he is also consistently godlike on Radio 4 's Just A Minute programme , where participants have to talk for a minute without repetition or hesitation . |
| 23 | Mr William Soeryadjaya ( Chinese name : Mr Tjia Kian Liong ) , the 67-year old seigneur , is a founder-member of the Euro-Asia Centre at INSEAD , the Paris-based business school where Astra 's middle managers get sent for a spot of polishing . |
| 24 | Leeds 0 Ipswich 0 ; Ipswich get praised for a resolute defence . |
| 25 | To that end , the organisers have opted for a less familiar face of Francis Bacon and tracked down rare and unusual material as well as pictures of great significance . |
| 26 | Managers have known for a long time that demographics matter , but they have always believed that population statistics change slowly . |
| 27 | French farmers have called for a ban on imports . |
| 28 | If one subtracts the vote of this vulnerable group from the remaining 76 per cent , this means that they have to live with the knowledge that more than one in four of voting co-residents have voted for a party that is rabidly hostile to them . |
| 29 | Unfortunately , once the initial silting has taken place , the weathering of the ditch is very slow , and such experiments need to run for a period of over a hundred years to gain the maximum results . |
| 30 | Congress , our principles have stood for a hundred and three years . |