Example sentences of "[vb pp] [to-vb] 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 | Agree either that there continue to be no lower limit for the remuneration certificate jurisdiction or that the Solicitors ' Remuneration Order 1972 be amended to provide for a lower limit of £100 profit costs . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | All rooms are pleasantly furnished to provide for a relaxed and comfortable stay . |
| 6 | 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 ) . |
| 7 | When the converted attained the faith they were no longer merely formal Christians and were predisposed to work for a righteous world . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | £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 . |
| 10 | In Sabah the United Sabah Party ( Parti Bersatu Sabah — PBS ) won 14 of 20 federal seats , and was expected to press for a better return from the exploitation of Sabah 's natural resources . |
| 11 | If feeding and antibiotics continued to be administered Tony could be expected to live for a few more years . |
| 12 | Branson told employees that Virgin 's present staffing level was designed to allow for a modest expansion . |
| 13 | Opportunities may be expected to exist for a young male to join the harem . |
| 14 | And now that Lucy had resolved to stay for a few days , she decided to tell her aunt to expect her when she saw her . |
| 15 | It is the price you are expected to pay for a varied and entertaining job with an above average wage . |
| 16 | The alternatives are designed to cater for a wide variety of abilities in S5 . |
| 17 | The successful candidate will be expected to register for a higher degree and will also contribute to the teaching programme . |
| 18 | First and foremost erm there is an assessment of those officers by their immediate supervisors and er a then ensues whereby er suitable officers are s selected to come for a two day assessment at er police headquarters . |
| 19 | In Sydenham , Kent , for example , the staff have decided to aim for a 20-minute initial interview . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | She was much happier person because this this she 'd threatened to do for a long time . |
| 22 | ‘ I 've decided to opt for a quiet role , ’ she had said . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | The most valuable resolve anyone who has decided to care for an elderly relative can make is to give her all the love and loyalty you can but without becoming a martyr in the process , for martyrdom in such circumstances often breeds repressed resentment , which eventually boils over into words and actions that are later bitterly regretted . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | They had decided to make for a small river valley in which there was an isolated church reached by a footpath across fields . |
| 29 | The hospital was the Wellington , built to cater for an ever-growing Arab clientele and its special needs . |
| 30 | Search can also be used to search for a single word or a string of words and letters . |