Example sentences of "[to-vb] a [adj] [noun] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Not for the first time Salisbury found it was easy to attract a large audience for a free show . |
| 2 | For discussion of the meaning of " all competent applications " , see M. Milne Ltd. v. Cit ) " of Glasgow District Licensing Board , 1987 S.L.T. ( Sh.Ct. ) 145 , where the clerk to the licensing board refused to accept a late application for renewal in terms of 5.13(2) of the Act . |
| 3 | Care should , however , be taken where a section appears to confer no right of appeal , but that section is in fact linked to another section where a right of appeal exists ; e.g. under s.62 a licensing board may attach conditions to a grant or transfer of a licence and apparently there is no right of appeal against that section , but in Wallace v. Kyle and Carrick Licensing Board , 1979 S.L.T. ( Sh.Ct. ) 12 , it was held that as s.62 was ancillary to s.10 under which licences were granted , an appeal was competent ; see also M. Milne v. City of Glasgow District Licensing Board , 1987 S.L.T. ( Sh.Ct. ) 145 where an appeal against a decision by the clerk under 5.10(1) refusing to accept a late application for renewal was allowed in respect that the application related to a renewal of a licence under s.17(4) . |
| 4 | This must be not only encouraging but also perturbing as we are only able to accept a small number for tuition . |
| 5 | It may be that responses from within the universities were shaped as much by an unwillingness to accept a national role for the universities , as — by the Report 's unprecedented prioritization of English studies . |
| 6 | Both questions are symptomatic of a reluctance to accept a linguistic practice for what it is . |
| 7 | You have no money and very little sense , and may well be invited to write a regular column for PFK . |
| 8 | He started to write a regular column for a Chicago weekly newspaper , and embarked on a series of radio interviews , talking about Syria 's occupation of Lebanon and its involvement in narco-terrorism . |
| 9 | If Shakespeare wrote a play with a cast of twenty-five , then he must have had to write a separate copy for each of the cast . |
| 10 | After his car windscreen was cleaned five times in half an hour , Mel Smith has had enough … to write a hilarious sketch for the latest BBC series of Smith And Jones . |
| 11 | Indeed , this event was the first of several that has enabled Keith to use his knowledge of Russian as he has also been asked to write a short speech for a Coopers and Lybrand partner in Sheffield and subsequently coach him with his delivery skills . |
| 12 | Half seriously , half as a joke he had asked her to write a short piece for him on what she had termed in conversation with him ‘ wasted women ’ . |
| 13 | Request : The soon-to-be-retired Mrs Finchley was selected to write a short introduction for ‘ The Twilight Zone ’ , ‘ an anthology of essays from eminent people in the twilight of their careers . ’ |
| 14 | A Russian grand duke was due to visit Vienna in September , and Mozart had been asked to write a German opera for the occasion . |
| 15 | It would give him great pleasure to write a large cheque for something special for Rose 's birthday — a particularly splendid piece of jewellery , perhaps — but he could n't . |
| 16 | Try perhaps to write a happy ending for this world and the people in it . |
| 17 | First , and most simply , though it was not at all uncommon for administrators to feel exasperated by Masai obduracy , or disapproving of certain aspects of the Masai way of life ( such as collective fornication throughout the years of early manhood ) , it was rare indeed for one in close contact with them to conceive a personal dislike for them . |
| 18 | By er failing even once to meet a reasonable demand for a for something to eat in a short period of time , then there 's a knock on effect to our business . |
| 19 | The party will also attempt to establish a legal framework for the protection of the environment . |
| 20 | The report also contends that any attempt by the government to establish a fixed budget for the nation 's total health care spending also would run foul of the Fifth Amendment . |
| 21 | Obviously entrepreneurs will seek to pay the cheapest possible rent in order to minimize costs ; moreover , they will seek to establish a fixed rent for the duration of the lease , so that the money paid in rent can easily be forecast when planning the business . |
| 22 | If you are trying to establish a respectable place for yourself in the tennis market place , let's see some more balanced reporting and less tabloid journalism . |
| 23 | The initial question concerned ontological existents in the broadest possible sense of this term , and the preliminary aim was simply to establish a minimal basis for a distinction between such — as yet unspecified — items and other potential topics of discourse . |
| 24 | Parliament approved a bill on June 5 to establish a 25-member Council for Aboriginal Reconciliation , designed to operate until 2001 , which would redress Aboriginal disadvantages and create a greater level of awareness of Aboriginal history and culture . |
| 25 | To establish a tropics-wide base for sustainable timber production , permanent ‘ forest estates ’ have to be established in the producer countries , with high public profiles and proper controls and more co-operation between the trade and environmental movements to create the best conditions for such management in appropriate forest lands . |
| 26 | We compared the times taken to establish a definite diagnosis for the remaining infants from the time of presentation at the hospital . |
| 27 | Sandy will personally thank , by letter , every golfer who raises more than £10. it is hoped that more than £12 million can be raised to establish a new centre for the research and treatment of childhood leukaemia . |
| 28 | Word has it that an unlikely combination of forces have come together in a bid to establish a new standard for installing Unix software from graphical user interfaces and will be showing their stuff next month 's Uniforum show in San Francisco . |
| 29 | We will work with the Housing Corporation to establish a new Ombudsman for housing association tenants . |
| 30 | This seems to have been a major attempt on the part of Oswiu , by associating himself with Ecgberht 's archbishop-elect and by a recognition of the authority of Canterbury , to establish a new beginning for the Anglo-Saxon Church . |