Example sentences of "for [noun] [verb] 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 | Baldwin 's declaration for Protection had the immediate effect of reuniting the two sections of the Liberal Party around the historic cause of Free Trade , and Asquith and Lloyd George came together at public meetings to exchange insincere pleasantries . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Maurin could bustle Barbara Coleman off to Nice against her will , but he would also go shopping for tablets to replace the forgotten ones . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Section 6(3) ( a ) envisages a school where the number of applicants for admission exceeds the available places . |
| 7 | It was hard for Sophie to face the kindly accusation in the two pairs of eyes gazing at her . |
| 8 | The remaining sections contain a wealth of ideas and suggestions for activities to develop the four skills , grammar , vocabulary , and social language . |
| 9 | This will obviate the need for cyclists to negotiate the two roundabouts . |
| 10 | Depending on technical arguments , the conference will decide on a spacing for satellites using the same frequency that could be anywhere between 4° and 10° . |
| 11 | Dexter had seen it happen many times before : the moment when a human being slips from conversation into confession , the moment when what seemed like a universal desire to atone for wickedness overwhelmed the conflicting wish for self-preservation . |
| 12 | Traditionally this was the time for artists to add the final touches . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | A new Baldwin electronic organ was bought for £6800 to replace the original Compton organ installed in 1954 at a cost of £1150 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | I was most impressed by the effective way in which my hon. Friend the Member for Chelmsford destroyed the hon. Gentleman 's case during a short intervention . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | It took four years for Edouard to discover the one aspect of his life the columnists had never suspected : he was lonely . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | They applied to the Japanese for permission to fly the national flag and sing the national song , Indonesia Raya . |
| 26 | Blanche had just asked him for permission to approach the secret services formally and inspect their files on Graham Mills . |
| 27 | The system for returns remains the same , with requests to return authorised by the various publishers ' reps . |
| 28 | Robin Chambers , the principal of Stoke-Newington school in South London , where the programme has been used for two months , says : ‘ We are ironing out a few difficulties , for instance getting the individual answer sheet completed in the correct way and working out who has the time to do it . |
| 29 | The next stage is to translate this into actual artwork , ready for exposure using the ultra-violet system . |
| 30 | Or unc In equilibrium , the nominal demand for money equals the nominal money supply so that : unc ( 1 ) Now any increase in the nominal money supply will create an excess supply of money which will lead to an adjustment of portfolios as people attempt to spend their excess money holdings . |