Example sentences of "[vb pp] [verb] for a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In fact he had fully intended to wait for a suitable moonlit warm right , but the trying events of the day had put him so out of sorts that he could stand the waiting no longer . |
| 2 | It was not until 1965 , however , that the treaties were revised to provide for a single Commission and Council of Ministers . |
| 3 | The UN Charter would have to be amended to provide for a special security council which would not , presumably , include the rights of veto held by the five permanent members of the existing security council . |
| 4 | All rooms are pleasantly furnished to provide for a relaxed and comfortable stay . |
| 5 | The peer review methods adopted by the Research Councils in the evaluation of research proposals were designed to provide for a fair distribution of national R & D funding , ( which some consider to be inadequate at present ) . |
| 6 | When the converted attained the faith they were no longer merely formal Christians and were predisposed to work for a righteous world . |
| 7 | The initial allocations ( $9½ billion spread over three years ) were expected to provide for a reasonable growth of reserves in the context of a staunching of the flow of dollars . |
| 8 | £80–120,000 ( $150–220,000 ) is expected for a Florentine bronze statuette of the Knife-Grinder after the antique , No.14 from the French Royal Inventory of Louis XIV , and a Netherlandish figure of Venus Marina of the early seventeenth century is expected to sell for a similar figure . |
| 9 | Branson told employees that Virgin 's present staffing level was designed to allow for a modest expansion . |
| 10 | Opportunities may be expected to exist for a young male to join the harem . |
| 11 | It is the price you are expected to pay for a varied and entertaining job with an above average wage . |
| 12 | The alternatives are designed to cater for a wide variety of abilities in S5 . |
| 13 | The encouragement given made for a great rapport with the class and gave a stimulus to improve the lectures . |
| 14 | In Sydenham , Kent , for example , the staff have decided to aim for a 20-minute initial interview . |
| 15 | There are three reasons for this : first , women dress differently from ‘ 20 men all wearing pinstripe suits ’ , making them more memorable ; second , they offload their emotions over redundancy much more quickly , making them better prepared to look for a new position ; and third , because of the so-called ‘ glass ceiling ’ , those women who do make it to the top are ‘ slightly better ’ than their male competitors . |
| 16 | She was much happier person because this this she 'd threatened to do for a long time . |
| 17 | ‘ I 've decided to opt for a quiet role , ’ she had said . |
| 18 | Rather than all the rare qualities discussed , the person serving young people in the latter part of the century needs to be able to work in a no-nonsense way with young people , to be a good manager prepared to fight for a fair share of the funds , to ensure that staff are able to devote a generous amount of time to users of the services in groups and as individuals , and to ensure that there is a good stock of books and other materials to explore . |
| 19 | He was with Wilson Staff in those days , and they had written asking for a good caddie for the centenary Open . |
| 20 | Sartre 's stress on the role of the subject also finds approval because many of those no longer prepared to argue for a general theory of history as the progress of a single narrative of class-struggle , have begun to argue instead for a return of its correlative , the subject , almost as if it was the next best thing in the absence of history itself . |
| 21 | THE heavily-polluted Czech town of Chomutov has threatened to call for a general strike unless the government cleans up the air , a town official said yesterday . |
| 22 | DERBY were made to pay for a sloppy display of defending as Guy Whittingham scored after seven and 50 minutes to take his season 's tally to 29 . |
| 23 | They had decided to make for a small river valley in which there was an isolated church reached by a footpath across fields . |
| 24 | Search can also be used to search for a single word or a string of words and letters . |
| 25 | He was told to strip for a medical examination but he was n't up to scratch and failed , and so never got his chance . |
| 26 | Meredith was surprised he always had to look for a hidden motive . |
| 27 | It was a backlash against quotas where you have got to vote for a certain number . |
| 28 | Tanay was a leader of the Khalq faction , which had strong support within the armed forces and had tended to press for a military solution to the Afghan civil war . |
| 29 | The Act confers extensive powers of entry , search , and seizure which necessarily involve an invasion of the citizen 's rights of privacy and property ; on that account the legislation might be thought to call for a strict construction . |
| 30 | Now some of the money raised from its sale has been used to pay for a new art Gallery . |