Example sentences of "for [noun] [to-vb] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She found herself searching back to her youth for reasons to explain the blind and selfish obsessions which had taken hold of her since they arrived in the French tropics and she wondered if her father 's ruin and death by his own hand in the Louisiana cotton slump of 1989 , when she was only two years old , was the root cause . |
| 2 | But constitutional expert Michael Nash , who is soon to bring out a book , A Royal Divorce , about the history of the British monarchy , said last night : ‘ The best thing to happen would be for William to become the next in line to the throne . |
| 3 | Maurin could bustle Barbara Coleman off to Nice against her will , but he would also go shopping for tablets to replace the forgotten ones . |
| 4 | Familiarisation of all health care workers with changes in policy and the background of research and development and aims of policy would eliminate some of the frustrations and create a more supportive environment for Health Care Workers who are involved in implementing new policies acknowledging the need for change to meet the new challenges . |
| 5 | It was hard for Sophie to face the kindly accusation in the two pairs of eyes gazing at her . |
| 6 | The remaining sections contain a wealth of ideas and suggestions for activities to develop the four skills , grammar , vocabulary , and social language . |
| 7 | This will obviate the need for cyclists to negotiate the two roundabouts . |
| 8 | Traditionally this was the time for artists to add the final touches . |
| 9 | It was planted for generations to supply the strong bows for archers but now appears to have a new role as a protector — in the fight against cancer . |
| 10 | A new Baldwin electronic organ was bought for £6800 to replace the original Compton organ installed in 1954 at a cost of £1150 . |
| 11 | Shirtliff nodded down Wilson 's corner for Hirst to score the second and the Wednesday striker would have collected his 20th of the season but for a fine one-handed save by Marriott . |
| 12 | Although the confusion of shifts in allegiance within the various loyalist groupings made it difficult for contemporaries to see the underlying direction of change , with hindsight we can see a simplification of unionist politics . |
| 13 | This appears , sadly , to be the situation in many countries , and suggestions like the one from the WHO document Social and health aspects of sexually transmitted disease ( 1977 ) that ‘ it is essential for clinics to have the basic equipment required for making rapid diagnosis : the darkfield examination , a quick micro-flocculation test for syphilis , and smear and culture of specimens for gonorrhoea ’ are not much use to a health worker in a village in India , who , far from considering buying a microscope , can not obtain the antibiotics needed to cure gonorrhoea had he the facilities for diagnosing it . |
| 14 | Bukharin and his associates used Rosa and Ernst Meyer 's hotel room in Moscow for meetings to discuss the mounting struggle inside the Bolshevik Party , meetings at which they ridiculed the ever higher figures being propounded for the drafts of the First Five Year Plan . |
| 15 | While the UK and the USA reportedly expressed support for plans to transform the nine-member Paris-based Western European Union ( WEU ) [ see p. 37212 ] into the basis of a cohesive European defence pillar for NATO , other member states , notably France , Germany and Italy , saw the WEU as evolving into a genuine European security and defence policy . |
| 16 | It would not be absurd , nor contrary to the rule of law , for Parliament to prefer the precise construction adopted by the tribunal to that given by the courts . |
| 17 | It took four years for Edouard to discover the one aspect of his life the columnists had never suspected : he was lonely . |
| 18 | New users of water or those who require more than the maximum amount scheduled in an existing licence have to apply for permission to take the estimated quantity to the water authority in the area in which the works is situated , which will then decide whether sufficient water is available for the new abstraction . |
| 19 | We thank the Office of Population Censuses and Surveys ( OPCS ) for their support and for permission to use the General Household Survey , and the ESRC Data Archive for their continuing help . |
| 20 | They applied to the Japanese for permission to fly the national flag and sing the national song , Indonesia Raya . |
| 21 | Blanche had just asked him for permission to approach the secret services formally and inspect their files on Graham Mills . |
| 22 | ‘ It is also an unbelievable chance for Germany to have the fifth most important tennis tournament in the world … a certainty also that tennis will continue there when Steffi Graf or I are no longer around . ’ |
| 23 | Faldo sank a worthy putt for a birdie , but Norman 's victory still looked a formality until his tiny effort , similar to that which Scott Hoch missed for Faldo to win the 1989 Masters , hit the hole and ran past . |
| 24 | The Cluanie Inn is a fine hotel in a splendid old building , which has been extended in recent years so sensitively , soon it will be difficult for passers-by to tell the old from the new . |
| 25 | At an ARC symposium last week , convened to mark the ARC 's decision to rename itself the Agricultural and Food Research Council , delegates called for action to save the British malting industry which is hit by falling demand for Scotch whisky . |
| 26 | It is for schools to embrace the same approach for disruptive pupils . |
| 27 | To provide a stimulus for schools to make the best possible use of all the available learning resources inside and outside the school — money , people , space , equipment and learning materials — in meeting their objectives . |
| 28 | To provide a stimulus for schools to make the best possible use of all the available learning resources inside and outside the school money , people , space , equipment and learning materials — in meeting their objectives . |
| 29 | And of the Adults who left during the siege , or who managed to survive the fire , three Britons will soon go on trial for conspiracy to murder the federal agents who were killed or wounded in the initial shoot out . |
| 30 | The Trees seemed to be waiting for Tealtaoich to make the first move and the largest of the Oaks had inclined their heads quite courteously . |