Example sentences of "[verb] [noun pl] for [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Aberconwy Borough Council said the damage figure passed the point at which they could make requests for financial help to the Government . |
| 2 | Nonetheless , very considerable experience of using groups for this kind of research shows that they do tend to produce very consistent results , even where different researchers cover the same problem . |
| 3 | Let them make programmes for each other . |
| 4 | A north Oxfordshire racehorse trainer has dismissed calls for tighter security at courses to crack down on race fixing . |
| 5 | The idea of using roads for local distribution and the railways for the long-distance trunk haul is as old as the railways themselves . |
| 6 | Pre-harvest is the silly season for meetings in France , writes Tim Green , and we are bombarded with invitations to attend meetings for all manner of services allied to farming . |
| 7 | He called for the EC to support calls for international supervision of the security situation and of the elections . |
| 8 | Minibus deaths bring calls for M-Forty rest areas . |
| 9 | Jake Howard , who was on the Australian coaching staff for the World Cup , has joined Wanderers for next year and at the other end of Lansdowne Road the Landsdowne club have enrolled Graeme Taylor , formerly a Counties back and more lately involved with the All Blacks ‘ seconds ’ squad . |
| 10 | Three SSDs had developed strategies for independent living and three others were in the process of developing such a policy . |
| 11 | Her colleagues , however , used methods which proved no more reliable , such as charting graphs for daily price movements and basing future patterns purely on the past . |
| 12 | But I got plans for this money . |
| 13 | We have been pursuing proposals for some time . |
| 14 | It tries to include guidelines for good practice between adviser and client as well as accurate information . |
| 15 | Flower arrangers can test their skills by submitting designs for that posy , and colleagues will choose the winning entry to be made up for 2 July . |
| 16 | Not only are we desperate to acquire funds for new dressing room facilities but an unfortunate accident with the club van , by person(s) unknown , has removed the tea hut . |
| 17 | The militants were publicizing demands for political status to be conferred on their imprisoned leader Patricio Baquerizo whom they wanted released . |
| 18 | Under the agreement states would monitor air pollution , share technical information , raise funds for environmental protection and conduct joint research on forestry , wildlife management and gas and oil drilling in the Arctic Ocean . |
| 19 | Lively syndicate sessions in the afternoon left the secretariat with the task of producing guidelines for flexible learning courses and redesigning the students ' questionnaire on tuition standards . |
| 20 | Western intelligence sources in Cambodia have claimed that Pol Pot , de facto leader of the Khmer Rouge , has issued a directive telling Cambodians not to kill animals for any reason . |
| 21 | Erm I I think that one of the erm , drawbacks in using animals for any kind of testing is that it sort of precludes in some way using alternatives . |
| 22 | Conservation programmes seldom bring opportunities for personal advancement for senior bureaucrats , unlike other activities such as the issue of import-export licences , the handling of foreign business , and the control of access to state-controlled markets . |
| 23 | Its status , once ensured , not only in theory but in practice , offers opportunities for increasing involvement for deaf people and ready access to accumulated knowledge . |
| 24 | Adjust cooking methods for healthier eating . |
| 25 | Following several years of development work and unsuccessful but nevertheless promising trials in late 1905 and early 1906 , he won the support of John ( later first Earl ) Jellicoe , ( Sir ) Percy Scott , and Sir John ( later first Baron ) Fisher [ qq.v. ] , which resulted in the establishment of an agreement to perfect the civilian inventor 's ideas for a mechanical system of using observed ranges and bearings to calculate firing solutions for naval artillery that would take account of the relative motion of the firing ship and target . |
| 26 | His last thoughts were that he would make amends for this day ; he could baptise the maiden , they could be saved together , they could marry , he would love her , his heathen maiden , no , his heathen hoyden , he liked the rhyming of that , heathen hoyden , he would cherish her beneath the fruit-laden tree . |
| 27 | In response to the failure of a number of attempts to provide foundations for certain knowledge of empirical facts , many epistemologists have tried to defend various forms of fallibilism . |
| 28 | Meeting after meeting was held at which he found reasons for further delay . |
| 29 | When will the Minister introduce proposals for proper labelling , so that consumers can choose food products that have been humanely produced ? |
| 30 | They have also developed the use of ‘ self inspection ’ — each group responsible for inspecting its own work — and giving responsibility to work groups for minor routine maintenance such as changing tips of welding guns and making minor adjustments . |