Example sentences of "[vb infin] for their [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | It 's the sort of feature anyone half handy can make for their own water garden . |
| 2 | Serfdom survived in Russia , as in Rumania , chiefly in areas of grain production with a dense peasant population , where landlords could either compensate for their competitive weakness by raising labour services , or alternatively hope by the same method temporarily to cut themselves in cheaply on the grain export market . |
| 3 | School and university still had n't changed me as much as they had ; maybe even the rest of my life could never compensate for their formative effect . |
| 4 | When this study was mounted participants were advised in writing that all findings would be reported to their medical practitioner , whom they should consult for their individual results . |
| 5 | Notwithstanding their competition and confrontation , both capitalist and socialist countries were coming to appreciate that they lived in an ‘ interdependent , in many ways integral world ’ in which they must cooperate for their common benefit . |
| 6 | On the other hand , nourished on the synthdiet they must exchange for their impure ingots , maybe the tribes were breeding fast enough to fend off being buried alive in swarf and shavings and other detritus . |
| 7 | What did they do for their meagre earnings ? |
| 8 | It has spent most of its 37 years counselling university graduates about where they should look for their first jobs . |
| 9 | We acted in the belief ( for which there was statistical support ) that the majority of students having obtained their Certificates , would look for their first jobs locally . |
| 10 | So obviously managers , who 've given some members of their staff trunk access 3 , which is very low , which is Oxford , can say to their staff , ‘ Right , phone New York , phone Florence , phone this , phone that , and get me a list of all these things ’ , and they can do it , because the system does n't look for their code , does n't look for their limiting trunks , erm trunk access code 40 , everybody can use system abbreviated numbers , hash 6 . |
| 11 | But people can only provide for their own welfare in a capitalist society if opportunities are available for them in the labour market- and for most , because of transport and accessibility problems , child-care issues and constraints on long-distance migration , it must be the very local labour market . |
| 12 | It seems a fair bet that the water companies will be less than enthusiastic about providing the public with evidence that will provide for their own prosecution . |
| 13 | INSIDER DEALING Journalists should not use for their own profit financial information they receive professionally in advance of its general publication . |
| 14 | They did not look as though they were suckering in the baleful way that the ordinary stag's-horn sumach does , but as I have not grown either myself yet , I can not vouch for their good behaviour . |
| 15 | These other Electors can vote for their chosen candidate , but they can not put themselves forward as Emperor . |
| 16 | Even if we ca n't provide exactly what they want , we can provide ideas they can adjust for their particular model . ’ |
| 17 | Local residents , for example , who fear increased traffic can apply for their own traffic calming , since the authorities are now able to introduce it . |
| 18 | Compound nouns in which the second element denotes an agent or an action may have for their first element a noun denoting the object of the action : housekeeper , housekeeping . |
| 19 | Or they could be afraid of the implications girls ' work might have for their own work . |
| 20 | While other people waste time injecting their five-second expertise into decisions which do not call for their real expertise , the Profitboss gets ahead with his own expert profit-orientated decisions . |
| 21 | Alternatively you can call for their latest catalogue . |
| 22 | Miss Garnett 's Project team supported this work , in all the schools , with considerable detail on available resources , and suggestions of useful sub-topics to explore with the children ; it also listed works which the teachers themselves should read for their own preparation , as distinct from other works and materials suitable for the children . |
| 23 | That is as absurd as if there were to be competition locally between environmental health officers or , nationally , if British Telecom and Mercury were to pick and pay for their own regulators . |
| 24 | Previously the government had argued that the slave trade was so profitable that the traders could pay for their own forts , but by the mid-eighteenth century this attitude had changed to an acceptance of the fact that the trade was so necessary for the sugar islands ( and the sugar islands so necessary for the British economy ) that the trade would have to be supported if it could not afford to meet these overhead costs . |
| 25 | A working class , disciplined for industrial work , is in the process of formation at the new sites : the organisation of these workers inside the labour process , on the production line , also embraces the possibility of their developing forms of political and social self-organisation with which they can struggle for their own development . |
| 26 | As there are four men surrounding you in a close semicircle , you must aim for their weak point — the smaller of the two end men . |
| 27 | BRITISH diplomats and contract workers appeared determined to stay in Libya last night despite warnings from mullahs and the mob that they should leave for their own safety . |
| 28 | The campsite showed little evidence of their occupation save for their abandoned cases and a burned-out fire . |
| 29 | One of the most important factors for governments and forecasters will be how much money young and middle-aged people save for their old age while they are earning . |
| 30 | They both hoped Joshua would write for their great papers . |