Example sentences of "[verb] for [adj] [noun] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | Responding to the resolution , the Prime Ministers of Armenia and Azerbaijan met for preliminary talks in the Georgian capital , Tbilisi , on March 30 . |
| 2 | Many of the children in care were young , and unless positive steps to plan for their future were taken , they would continue like the older children in their sample to wait for lengthy periods in care . |
| 3 | This may seem to be a gloomy picture but it must be noted that , in relation to work , age is not a large aspect of individual differences compared with natural endowment , and that increases in ability can more than compensate for small decreases in capacity . |
| 4 | The Aral Sea has been shrinking since the 1960s , when water from its tributaries began to be diverted for agricultural irrigation in what were then the Soviet republics of Uzbekistan , Kazakhstan and Turkmenistan . |
| 5 | She had few friends in the locality , preferring to go for long walks in the nearby countryside with the family dog , until , that is , Ronald Travis took up his duties in the signal box . |
| 6 | With bad luck , the phenomenon could even develop into the sort of cash-cow that speakeasies became for organised crime in the United States under Prohibition . |
| 7 | MORE than 60 people have died and 600 are ill after eating poisonous toadstools they mistook for wild mushrooms in the Ukraine . |
| 8 | Simply to maintain current patterns of expenditure will require considerable expansion of the budget , without allowing for technological changes in service provision . |
| 9 | The method is to show the number of households which would be found if the headship rate were to be kept constant at the values in each age-group in 1971 , but allowing for actual changes in number of persons within these age groups . |
| 10 | The Lake District 's Herdwick sheep are threatened by the reduction of an EC subsidy concession allowing for late lambing in the cold climatePHOTOGRAPHS : DON McPHEE Tyson Hartley … |
| 11 | Now , with the completion of these treatment plants and THORP , BNFL is seeking to vary discharge authorisations , but even allowing for projected increases in some contributions , the overall total dose resulting from the discharges will remain very low . |
| 12 | The Independent of Feb. 26 reported that the armed forces had lobbied for political changes in Sind in the aftermath of the Karachi violence earlier in the month . |
| 13 | Awards are given for outstanding achievement in the protection and enhancement of the architectural and natural heritage , the improvement of the environment and the encouragement of high standards of architecture in town and country planning throughout Europe . |
| 14 | * This has been widely used for car windscreens and , in a much more sophisticated form , is being developed for serious engineering in America . |
| 15 | Four HNC trainees were recruited and training plans developed for offshore duties in the instrumentation field . |
| 16 | The five examples outlined above illustrate the proliferation of schemes and courses which have been developed for unemployed people in the 1980s . |
| 17 | The sentence of Poindexter 's former subordinate , Oliver North , had been overturned for similar reasons in July 1990 [ see p. 37605 ] , but the appellate panel now went further by refusing to allow Walsh to return to the trial judge and attempt to show that the trial testimony was not tainted , as had been permitted in North 's case . |
| 18 | Schools will therefore have to plan for possible alterations in price and salary changes throughout the year . |
| 19 | A study by the OECD tries to forecast what all these extra grey heads mean for public spending in different countries over the next 40 years , assuming that government policies remain unchanged . |
| 20 | Evidence from Re-Os isotopes for plume-lithosphere mixing in Karoo flood basalt genesis |
| 21 | A sample of all juvenile cases referred for criminal behaviour in one calendar month in two police force areas collected and followed up to examine the decisions taken about them . |
| 22 | But while much of Africa is clamouring for multi-party elections in the hope of replacing indifferent or corrupt governments , the prospect of political freedom is met with apprehension in Uganda . |
| 23 | LTP-related changes in Ca 2+ homeostasis could in principle account for persistent changes in transmitter release . |
| 24 | These included inner-city offices for the Small Firms Service of the Department of Trade and Industry ; grants for inner-city Local Enterprise Agencies ( see Chapter 8 ) ; higher loan guarantees for small business in the Task Force ( see Chapter 4 ) ; and investment of about £10 million in managed workshops by English Estates — a development agency of the Department of Trade and Industry . |
| 25 | Now she asked for white wine in her charged voice . |
| 26 | It should be noted that liability is confined to " consumer goods " intended for private use in the course of a business . |
| 27 | The scheme is intended for post-16 students in any language ( including English ) , and teachers are encouraged to design courses in the practical predominantly oral use of language . |
| 28 | That assessment has only to be read to indicart to indicate what it fortended for future success in her chosen career . |
| 29 | The general principal of article eight B two of the Maastricht treaty is that non-national residents in member state should be treated for electoral purposes in the same way as the nationals of that state . |
| 30 | Tonight William McCrae is being treated for multiple injuries in Oxford 's John Radcliffe Hospital . |