Example sentences of "a [noun sg] [to-vb] for [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Experience may help you take some of these into account but if you went for a fixed fee you may have to pitch it at such a level to allow for these that it 's perhaps twice what it might be and you could lose the client . |
| 2 | Their qualifications are … a healthy distaste for children … an ability to act like a witch … and not least , a willingness to work for free . |
| 3 | ‘ He has a part to play for this club . |
| 4 | Do we build a house to stand for ever , do we seal a contract to hold for all time ? |
| 5 | Conditions of work were not pleasant ; landowners tried to get their estates cultivated by indentured labourers who had come out under a contract to work for some years for the man who paid for the journey or anyone to whom he sold the right to command their services . |
| 6 | Thus , institutions have a responsibility to care for those who give care through establishing mechanisms to evaluate and process the stresses of their work . |
| 7 | Many still claim the right to indulge in smoking , but they have a responsibility to care for those who may suffer from respiratory conditions . |
| 8 | This doctrine enables a lessee to sue for any trespass committed between the granting of the lease and his entering in pursuance of it . |
| 9 | And I 've got a chapter to read for American Studies . |
| 10 | Nobody in the workshop has a good to say for that machine . |
| 11 | I have a bid to make for additional assistance , and I suggest that there are three means by which we could help people without work more than has been possible in the past . |
| 12 | Although most trees produce few seeds in any year , the energy stored in each seed is sufficient for a seedling to grow for several weeks with little or no photosynthesis . |
| 13 | On that subject , obviously next year , er bearing in mind that we 've agreed as a committee to go for twelve matches on Sundays |
| 14 | It was one of those cosmic accidents which are no accident , that the next day , when she called in at a bookshop to look for some more Morris titles , she should find on the same shelf the total output of Professor M. L. Vaughan ; and among the rest his : Aurae Phiala : A Pleasure City of the Second Century A.D. She took it down and opened it at random , and the prose caught her by its incandescent fervour . |
| 15 | A place to look for such mechanisms , as T. J. Clark has suggested , might be in the content of modernist and proto-modernist works of art . |
| 16 | It should be noted that cl 3.2 gives a right to reject for latent defects that could not have been discovered upon examination and which appear after a reasonable period of use . |
| 17 | The usual way in which his power is circumscribed is by limiting it to a right to break for certain specified purposes . |
| 18 | We do not yet know the implications for job numbers of the reorganisation , but as stated in the AEA Times Bulletin there may be a need to plan for more reductions than previously anticipated . |
| 19 | ‘ But Christmas is surely the right moment to try to put it behind us and to find a moment to pray for those , wherever they are , who are doing their best in all sorts of ways to make things better in 1993 . ’ |
| 20 | But Christmas is surely the right moment to try to put it behind us and to find a moment to pray for those , wherever they are , who are doing their best in all sorts of ways to make things better in 1993 . |
| 21 | ‘ But Christmas is surely the right moment to try to put it behind us and to find a moment to pray for those , wherever they are , who are doing their best in all sorts of ways to make things better in 1993 , ’ she said . |
| 22 | They gave him a job to do for seven shillings . |
| 23 | There seems a note of valediction in the loving intensity of his description , a desire to record for one last time the scenes which , for more than a year , had so filled his mind and shaped his thoughts : |
| 24 | There are a number of Acts of Parliament which empower a magistrate on sworn information to issue a warrant to search for such things as stolen goods , forged documents , drugs . |
| 25 | This is a reminder to arrange for such exchange with the solicitors for both your seller and buyer . |
| 26 | In this opera of ensembles there is , however , a price to pay for such fierce individualization : the beauty of Mozart 's blended vocal writing is sometimes sacrificed , and there is little sense of joint wonderment as each new turn of events is unfolded . |
| 27 | But what a price to pay for two months of passion ! |
| 28 | ‘ There is always a price to pay for international duty , ’ said United manager Alec Ferguson . |
| 29 | The point to bear in mind is that all that glisters is not gold , and there has been a price to pay for all the splendour . |
| 30 | But in terms of Defence and Overseas policy there had been a price to pay for these successes . |