Example sentences of "[conj] [noun pl] [verb] for [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Early or semi-retired people or housewives looking for a break often welcome a different four walls and a fresh interest . |
| 2 | Requests for the metal are made in telexes in the names of banks or solicitors acting for the buyer . |
| 3 | speaks at masses or meetings writes for the newsletter |
| 4 | In Vaill 's terms , organizations or groups qualify for the title ‘ high-performing system ’ if they : |
| 5 | As a result of these , ten percent of children go to special schools — e.g. The Petö Institute or schools catering for the blind , deaf or moderately mentally handicapped . |
| 6 | The list of single words or phrases substituting for the sexual or scatological items listed above is considerably longer than the basic list ; e.g. " taking medicine " for having sexual intercourse , " pipe " for penis , " nest " , " eggs " and " purse " for scrotum and testicles , " fountain " for vagina . |
| 7 | Sometimes people or Men changed for a moment into some semblance of shape , but then they moved and the mist drifted and they were gone as if they had never been . |
| 8 | The Northern Echo was told that solicitors acting for the Grangetown families were now considering an injunction to put before a judge obliging British Steel and ICI to hand over precise information on the contents of their chimney emissions . |
| 9 | Foreign Minister Enrique Silva Cimma stated , however , that proposals calling for a sea outlet for Bolivia , which became land-locked following defeat by Chile in the War of the Pacific ( 1879-83 ) , were not supported by the Chilean government or by most of the population . |
| 10 | Given the fact that schools selected for a Minor award were being encouraged to develop existing good practice , it is , perhaps , surprising that the formation of a permanent library committee , as in the case of the Major Project , was not made a prerequisite for their participation . |
| 11 | It is beyond doubt , he argues , and most psychologists and ethologists would agree , ‘ that animals act for the sake of goals , and that they may be conscious of their goals , in the quite literal sense that they may see or smell what they are after ’ ( 1975 : 19 ) . |
| 12 | Not only must we limit the scope of animal goals but we must also limit the sense of the claim that animals act for the sake of goals . |
| 13 | Police and motoring organisations warned that drivers heading for the capital are certain to face lengthy delays as thousands of extra people take to the roads . |
| 14 | The meeting called for the immediate demobilisation of the contras and urged that funds approved for the Nicaraguan rebels be channelled through a commission they had established earlier . |
| 15 | Last night Doisneau 's lawyer Julien Hay said he had proof that models posed for the picture . |
| 16 | The Mirror revealed last week that tax-payers paid for a luxury £3,000 bath installed in Diana 's private apartments at Kensington Palace . |
| 17 | A less-technical example would be the problems that comets posed for the ordered and full Aristotelian cosmos of interconnected crystalline spheres . |
| 18 | If the taxes that individuals pay for a local public good were higher as a consequence of higher income , the poor might enjoy a greater quantity of a local public good if they were resident in a high-income area . |
| 19 | Supporters of the regulation , which included the UK , claimed that alternatives existed for every whale product . |
| 20 | The staff admit that a sudden rise in entrances to the zoo was likely to be largely due to an interest by the public who wanted to visit it before it finally closed and they agree that problems remain for the future . |
| 21 | For example , women in the Labour Party made sure that resolutions asking for the provision of birth control information via local authority clinics came before the Party 's Annual Conference in 1925 , 1926 and 1927 . |
| 22 | RENTOKIL was quick off the mark yesterday when it decided to increase its dividend by more than earnings to compensate for the Chancellor 's decision to cut the tax credit on dividends from 25 per cent to 20 per cent . |
| 23 | The only other argument that I have been able to find in support of tonight 's regulations is where the DSS states that the use of regulation 72 puts ’ an over-emphasis on the Department 's welfare role and overlooks the fact that persons acting for the claimant could have made inquiries on the claimant 's behalf . ’ |
| 24 | Mostly it is a Monday that slimmers pick for a new health regime , a new diet . |
| 25 | Even if subject searches are initiated at the catalogue , it has been found that users look for a shelf number location and proceed to the shelves to continue their subject search.1536 The inadequacies of library catalogues in supporting subject access have thus been tolerable because of the open-access tradition of Anglo-American libraries , which encourages the direct shelf approach for subject searching . |
| 26 | If you want to change the graphics image that Windows uses for the icon , click on the CHANGE ICON option button and select one of the many icon designs on offer . |
| 27 | Small wonder that lawyers acting for the depositors describe their prospects as ‘ fair ’ . |
| 28 | It was reported on Nov. 26 that lawyers acting for the convicted Nazi war criminal , Klaus Barbie , were seeking his release on humanitarian grounds , claiming that he was suffering from cancer [ for Barbie 's 1987 trial see p. 35417 ] . |
| 29 | It used to be the case that games written for an 8086 processor were unplayable on a 286 machine , so developers included special code in their programs which would slow the game down to make sure that , as far as possible , the game played at the same speed on every class of machine . |
| 30 | It is still using a line that provides voice telephony , so standards set for the voice line will apply . |