Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] [noun] for [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This is because most male clerks do not stay as clerks for all their working lives . |
| 2 | Fiona Richmond , who used to perform sexual test drives for men for one of Paul Raymond 's raunchy magazines , shared a bath with the Palace players . |
| 3 | She is a founder member of the Medau Society , qualifying as a Medau teacher in 1958 and taught for ILEA for 20 years and now greatly enjoys being a class member . |
| 4 | They doubled as bench-tables for small children at Sunday School parties and prizegivings . |
| 5 | First asked for ideas for alternative employment to replace the arms industry , Mr. Browne suggested that it was the job of business not governments to provide employment , but he hoped some of the technologies currently used in defence could be deployed for civilian use . |
| 6 | In this action the plaintiff , Anna Jane sues for damages for serious injuries she received in a motor car accident on the sixth of June , nineteen eighty seven . |
| 7 | If you are unable to attend for work for any reason , you must ensure that your immediate Manager is informed before 10 am on the first day of absence so that arrangements can be made to deal with your work . |
| 8 | erm And he obviously thought at least that he had shaken off religion for good . |
| 9 | The following indicates what may be regarded as evidence for each performance criterion . |
| 10 | A decision by a single judge on assize in 1865 is still regarded as authority for this proposition , but there is surely little justification for this today . |
| 11 | They should be treated as place-holders for other propositions , rather than as representing a logically independent class of propositions of their own . |
| 12 | The waste form and the cannister should act as barriers for 1000 years each . |
| 13 | Many can act as receptors for small molecules as well as different ion types ( including anions ) . |
| 14 | Micro Focus Plc yesterday stepped up its presence in the Unix market with launch of Micro Focus Transaction System , a distributed , client-server transaction processing system that runs under Unix , AIX OS/2 and Windows NT , which can act as servers for other copies of Transaction System and for CICS OS/2 , CICS/6000 and Transaction System thin clients . |
| 15 | The new Transaction System from Micro Focus Plc ( UX No 435 ) , runs under Unix , AIX OS/2 and Windows NT , which can act as servers for other copies of Transaction System and for CICS OS/2 , CICS/6000 and Transaction System thin clients . |
| 16 | At least the upper parts of this sequence could , by analogy with the Alum Shale of the Baltic , be considered worth investigation for possible oil source rocks . |
| 17 | Many of the part-timers report for duty for twelve nights every month . |
| 18 | It is possible that many cases of petty assault were instituted as retaliation for verbal abuse . |
| 19 | Despite the labour shortage , employers have skilfully staved off demands for big wage increases , helped by sensational talk in the media of an ‘ economic crisis ’ . |
| 20 | The novel does to structuralist theories of meaning what Irigaray does to Freud 's theory of feminine sexuality : it mimics them , draws out their implications and ultimately demonstrates their limitations , using the structures they propose as metaphors for personal relations . |
| 21 | All we need is to show that your belief that you are not a brain in a vat can not be justified since nothing in your experience can count as evidence for that proposition , and then appeal to an analogue of : which holds that if a is justified in believing that p and that p implies q , a is justified in believing that q . |
| 22 | This is an essential aspect of theory testing , of course : results which are consistent with all models can not count as evidence for any of them . |
| 23 | LYNDA Chalker , reappointed as Minister for Overseas Development despite losing her Wallasey seat at the election , yesterday backed United States Treasury Secretary Nicholas Brady 's opposition to new funds for the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development whose annual meeting in Budapest ended yesterday . |
| 24 | He says we are pressing for compensation for more of these men . |
| 25 | The aim of this legislation , as the Supreme Court noted , is to facilitate economic development , although it is fair to add that lenders both from within and outside the country have been pressing for change for some time . |
| 26 | John Daubney is no fool and has sought the solution because he , like many others , looks for reasons for unexpected noises occurring at 3 a. m. in the morning . |
| 27 | The company looks for demand for board-level products to continue — OEM customers for these have included E-Systems Inc , Polaroid Corp , General Electric Co Inc , Amdahl Corp , Encore Computer Corp , Xerox Corp and Thomson-CSF SA . |
| 28 | I have a call booked for Riga for three o'clock . |
| 29 | Castles were also frequently designed as houses for great lords or to be administrative and judicial centres . |
| 30 | Their writings are designed as spring-boards for that action which enables the understanding which is felt experience . |