Example sentences of "the [noun] [to-vb] [adv] for " in BNC.
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1 | Thirdly , the document will provide employees with the opportunity to come forward for help in the knowledge that they will be positively supported with the advice and necessary assistance , in order to overcome their problem and maintain their job security . |
2 | The jeep driver was pleased at the opportunity to get away for a few hours and we set off about 3 p.m. , arriving in the area of the Highland Division a short time later , after following their divisional signs along the country lanes . |
3 | In this situation it will be difficult to generate manufactured or processed exports since the expertise to produce competitively for international markets will be in short supply , though some countries such as Zimbabwe will be able to build on their existing export base . |
4 | Mick was there first and climbed onto the tailboard to pull out for the rogue two of Paddy 's cans ( a fact which Paddy was slow to forget ) . |
5 | One reason there is so little change in most traditional bureaucratic organizations , I argue , is that they have conditioned out of people the willingness to stand up for a new idea . |
6 | Last night angry shareholders called on the Deanses to go now for the good of the 117-year-old club . |
7 | he 's either up the stairs well he came down one night right enough he was talking to his girl on the phone , she phones him through the week and er he was a bit depressed because he he had n't the money , he 's , he 's on the and he has n't really the money to give in for housekeeping plus try and get driving lessons and his daddy wo n't let him |
8 | The shipmaster was down by the mast , ready to lower the cross-spar with its square sail , and the crew were flexing their muscles and setting oars in the rowlocks to slide out for the turn up against the wind into Duart Bay . |
9 | I promised to buy shares in the brewery to make up for it . |
10 | It is for the humanities to speak up for the value of retrospective conversion , and for some national planning to be undertaken to achieve this , as they , and to some extent the social sciences have most to gain from such an investment . |
11 | The other source of inspiration — and indeed guidance — for the research was an experiment by William Hayward and his colleagues at the Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York ( Nature , vol 290 , p 475 ) , Their work on a virus-induced lymphoma of birds inspired the researchers to look specifically for the myc gene — rather than for any of the 13 other known proto-oncogenes . |
12 | This at least gives him the freedom to go out for air and to do errands such as visiting local shops or going to the hairdresser . |
13 | The meaning is not explained but is left for the listeners to work out for themselves . |
14 | Some US dairy farming organizations have been urging the FDA to ban BST for some time . |
15 | A few minutes ' walk away the Boulevard Gallieni has been renamed the Boulevard Soummam but it is still spectacular : wide enough for the sun to congregate here for most of the day , not simply dropping in for an hour as it always has to in the canyon streets of Manhattan . |
16 | In summary , the future pattern will probably include the following ingredients : 1 recognition that oral reading and silent reading should proceed simultaneously , from entry into school ; 2 longer periods given to individual reading interviews , which will necessitate re-organisation of the curriculum , with a greater emphasis on group work based on collaborative learning ; 3 the group work will have clear outcomes , many of which will start with silent reading and result in reading aloud for communication ; 4 the teaching of phonics will be seen as one possible cueing system only , resulting in the use of more intrinsically interesting texts which will enable contextual hypotheses ; 5 the realisation that books as such may be diminishing , will demand that other forms of print are incorporated into reading aloud in school , for example , from computers and teletext ; 6 the teacher 's professionalism will be accepted as lying in the understanding of the reading process and the development of the child , and in his or her power to train the child to read independently for real purposes as early as possible . |
17 | The convention which it produced was signed by 119 delegations but the problems which caused the conference to drag on for so long are anything but solved . |
18 | Mr Grosz was the only senior politician yesterday with the courage to stand up for Communism in front of a hostile audience . |
19 | Chairman , if , if someone does n't come under the regulations and is operating a business or something of that sort , is there the facility for that body , either the management body or the business to ask voluntarily for you to inspect , with a view to issue a , er , erm , a certificate er , erm of er , safety ? |
20 | Leave the cake to dry out for 24 hrs . |
21 | At £17.50 a ticket , I expected the band to come on for a bit longer or were they all dashing off to see Lady Chatterley too ? |
22 | And having proved that , in rugby as in business , they are quick learners who are very adept at recycling ideas , the Taiwanese could well be the team to look out for come September . |
23 | They had n't expected the terrorists to turn up for at least another two days . |
24 | Notwithstanding the merit and extent of his achievements , Gavin Hastings still retains the desire to reach out for the best of which he is capable with as yet undiminished zest : ‘ Unless you set yourself tasks and ambitions , unless you have new targets , there is n't much point in playing . |
25 | His thoughts sway constantly between the desire to go on and the desire to settle down for a relaxed evening with a book in the secure knowledge that he wo n't have to go on . |
26 | Laughing at your own silly mistakes can help to take away any embarrassment and the need to apologise constantly for your gaucheness without any loss of dignity or selfrespect . |
27 | Ears which are turned to the side and are at ‘ half mast ’ indicate that the horse is relaxed , and therefore does not feel the need to listen out for danger . |
28 | These have led colleges , departments and individual staff members to recognise the need to provide effectively for a multi-racial and multi- lingual student body . |
29 | Although not a political animal she saw the need to speak up for the Africans ; articulate on their behalf when so often they were not given opportunity to speak for themselves . |
30 | President dos Santos appealed for the UN to stay on for two or three months after the elections . |