Example sentences of "[verb] [noun] [to-vb] for [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Just as the company was about to enter a crisis period through shortage of water , Meirion Rowlands , then Production Director , thought to use copper divining rods to search for new sources of water in the hills he knew so well . |
| 2 | The head needs to encourage staff to scrounge for good management , display and communications ideas from schools where they have previously worked , schools where their own children attend , industry , supermarkets , courses , magazines and even books . |
| 3 | As we will see later , the applicant in a public law action must first seek leave to apply for judicial review , and only when leave has been granted will the application actually be heard . |
| 4 | Even where there is a trained video technician on the staff it 's a good idea to train others to check for basic faults . |
| 5 | He or she also has power to refuse for good cause to accept an application or to decline to give advice . |
| 6 | Wrexham Maelor councillors , concerned at the lack of progress , have instructed officers to search for alternative sites . |
| 7 | We will give priority to support for family-planning programmes , education and employment opportunities for women , and basic provision for old age . |
| 8 | Mr Sugar warned that prevailing exchange rates were forcing Amstrad to raise prices , causing demand to fall for certain products . |
| 9 | One might expect females to compete for rich food sources , for these are important to them in gaining nutrition for child-bearing and lactation . |
| 10 | Efforts to persuade Iraq to pump oil to pay for essential imports , under the terms of UN Resolution 706 [ see pp. 38406 ; 38451 ] , ended in failure on Nov. 24 after six days of talks in Baghdad between government ministers and the head of the UN 's Inter-Agency Humanitarian Programme for Iraq and Kuwait , Prince Sadruddin Aga Khan , who told a press conference that " the government of Iraq may be held responsible for failing to take advantage of the window of opportunity … afforded by the arrangement for oil exports and imports of essential needs " , but added that Western governments could alleviate Iraq 's humanitarian problem by releasing all Iraqi assets . |
| 11 | Named after the fountain that originally stood in the hospital garden , where children threw coins to wish for good health , the Wishing Well Appeal became one of the most successful fund-raising campaigns ever conducted . |
| 12 | They also may try to help farmers to opt for no-till methods . |
| 13 | However , adaptive research is rather demanding upon scarce skilled manpower , and it also requires researchers to live for long periods outside the comfort and orderliness of the research station itself . |
| 14 | The ‘ controversies of the day ’ certainly included the dispute over clause 43 of the Administration of Justice Bill in 1985 , by which the Government proposed to end the citizen 's right to go to the Court of Appeal when a lower court refused to give leave to apply for judicial review of the decision of a Minister or other public authority . |
| 15 | A group of consultants at Guy 's Hospital were unsuccessful in seeking to prevent the Minister from spending money in anticipation of the legislation which would enable hospitals to apply for self-governing status . |
| 16 | Lord Cranborne , the Lord Privy Seal , was given authority to plan for civil aviation discussions . |
| 17 | From March 24 the Enterprise Initiative Consultancy Scheme ( EICS ) will only be available at a cut-price rate , because the Department of Trade and Industry are re-directing funds to pay for alternative business packages . |
| 18 | He advises organisations to go for proven and well understood technologies to meet their basic requirements , wherever possible using architectures which are already known within the company — even if different technologies have been implemented on top . |
| 19 | The price of prosperity is that , even to be poor , you must have access to cash for essential serv-ices and taxes . |
| 20 | In fact Gilbert 's Act of 1782 , remembered mostly as one which permitted parishes to unite for Poor Law purposes without undergoing the expensive process of incorporating through a private act of parliament , was equally significant in its effective sanctioning of the subsidising of wages from the poor rates for the able-bodied who were to be removed from workhouses and found work . |
| 21 | In the air-conditioned House of Commons , set in the English climate , and with the long recess allowing members to look for long hot beaches , such a plagiarism illustrated how not to employ catch-phrases of the day . |
| 22 | The rule says that the court shall not grant leave to apply for judicial review unless the applicant has a sufficient interest in the matter to which the application relates . |
| 23 | The development of the inter-bank market enabled banks to lend for specified periods of time , repayment to coincide with what they expected to be periods of shortage . |
| 24 | A spokeswoman said letters were going out inviting people to apply for voluntary redundancies although the exact number was not yet known . |
| 25 | Exports to them had increased by 200 per cent and they were taking more than half of British exports.30 Colonial trade enabled Britain to pay for continued imports of linens , wines and timber from Europe with re-exported colonial products , which had been paid for by the export of domestic manufactures . |
| 26 | A related piece of legislation is the Water Resources Act 1991 , which gives the National Rivers Authority wide-ranging powers to combat water pollution including , again , the right to compel landowners to pay for remedial work . |
| 27 | Some ways in which the nobility profited from war were more acceptable to the mores of the age than others , some more or less guaranteed reward , while others gave opportunity to gamble for high profits . |
| 28 | An altered climate will require altered crops as new pests , diseases and growing conditions force breeders to scramble for new genetic options . |
| 29 | In an address to the European Parliament here Dr Kohl left no doubt that , at next month 's European Community summit , he would support moves to prepare for economic and monetary union . |
| 30 | He must first obtain leave to move for judicial review and then , if he obtains leave , must succeed in persuading the court to help him in the exercise of its supervisory jurisdiction . |