Example sentences of "[verb] for [adj] [noun] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | So you had to wait for full details of John Major 's new cabinet earlier this year . |
| 2 | He will not have long to wait for another diet of his own words . |
| 3 | It has been suggested that the high levels of motivation found among successful mature students more than compensate for lower levels of formal qualifications which many have . |
| 4 | SEP had simply assumed that expenditure on upkeep would more than compensate for any deterioration of its warehouses ’ . |
| 5 | It enabled Bush , who had been criticized for excessive prioritization of foreign policy , to demonstrate concern for and involvement in domestic affairs , and to demonstrate a commitment to civil rights at a time when Duke 's gubernatorial candidacy in Louisiana [ see above ] had embarrassed the Republican party . |
| 6 | It makes it easier , in principle , to ‘ see ’ how many hypotheses are competing for some portion of an utterance , for example , and to decide which are the most promising given the evidence . |
| 7 | In summary then , the reasons for choosing The Machine Gunners include the opportunities it offers for various aspects of personal involvement on the part of the reader and its curricular potentials with regard to related topic , theme , and language work . |
| 8 | Is not that because many Tory Members are up to their necks in money received for commercial lobbying of one sort or another ? |
| 9 | Standard periods would be prescribed for different types of business , although it would be possible to apply for a special timetable at an early stage and for detailed variations of the timetable . |
| 10 | Standard periods will be prescribed for different types of business . |
| 11 | What provision did the ATS make for discharged personnel of this nature ? |
| 12 | Maguire , who has rocketed to stardom in the last 18 months , was punished for incorrect use of the whip on Playing Truant , short head winner of the Hopeful Novices ' Hurdle . |
| 13 | Maguire , 21 , who has rocketed to the stardom in the last 18 months , was punished for incorrect use of the whip on Playing Truant , short head winner of the Hopeful Novices ' Hurdle . |
| 14 | Tower Hamlets declined to make the repayment and Chetnik applied for judicial review of the adverse decision , unsuccessfully at first instance but successfully in the Court of Appeal and in your Lordships ' House . |
| 15 | They applied for judicial review of the Secretary of State 's decisions and sought orders of certiorari to quash those decisions and declarations that the Secretary of State could not set a period for retribution and deterrence for a mandatory life sentence greater than that recommended by the judiciary , that he was required to tell the applicants the period recommended by the judiciary , and if he departed from it his reasons for so doing , and that the applicants were entitled to be given the opportunity to make representations to the Secretary of State before he determined the period and for that purpose to be told of any information upon which the Secretary of State would act which was not in the applicant 's possession . |
| 16 | By notice of motion dated 13 November 1990 Mr. Pegg applied for judicial review of those decisions but on 18 January the Divisional Court ( Mann L.J . |
| 17 | By notice of motion dated 23 March 1990 Mr. Pierson applied for judicial review of that decision but on 18 January 1991 the Divisional Court ( Mann L.J . |
| 18 | By notice of motion dated 1 March 1990 Mr. Smart applied for judicial review of that decision but on 18 January 1991 the Divisional Court ( Mann L.J . |
| 19 | Mr. Page applied for judicial review of that decision . |
| 20 | This paper has shown the feasibility of using echo planar magnetic resonance imaging for prolonged imaging of upper gastrointestinal motility . |
| 21 | It must have cost a lot of money to go for that amount of time ? |
| 22 | These days you do not have to go for matching suites of furniture in the dining room , any more than you have to go for three piece suites in the living room . |
| 23 | The response is that in a rapidly growing market ( say 30 per cent growth per annum ) the only way to increase market share is to go for massive expansion of capacity ( say 50 per cent per annum ) . |
| 24 | And in a sense Mao is saying that it 's , it 's not right to go straight for land reform , you , you 've got to go for this policy of rent reduction , interest rate reduction first . |
| 25 | So try to get him to a point where he is agreeable to discussing the problem openly with you or else to go for some form of counselling . |
| 26 | It helps if we know where to go for formal approval of decisions , or know who is responsible for what . |
| 27 | It has been validated for early diagnosis of tuberculosis . |
| 28 | Leaders of the ‘ first ’ union were subsequently sacked for alleged harassment of members of the newly formed ‘ second union ’ . |
| 29 | Earlier , in a small , strongly aristocratic society , where all those likely to resort to legal process were well known to their fellows , reliance on verbal contract before witnesses had proved a sound policy , allowing for future elasticity of interpretation within clearly-defined limits . |
| 30 | His figures show that even at 1990 inputs and output the occupier 's surplus from farming is less than £300 , becoming about £6000 after allowing for all sources of income . |