Example sentences of "for [indef pn] [to-vb] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Her normal pattern of working with this type of activity is for everyone to undertake the same task . |
| 2 | It is no longer essential for everyone to do the same experiment at the same time , and be held up when a few find unexpected difficulties . |
| 3 | ‘ It would be wasteful for everyone to do the same team training over and over again . |
| 4 | If Ferguson is really searching for someone to put the finishing touch to his team 's chances and not his own , he would be better offering the job to one of these often maligned stabbers-in of trifles . |
| 5 | But if we were to pay phone bills , postage , future printing costs and fund a minimum wage for someone to run the NUJ office , we would need to hold some kind of fund-raising benefit . |
| 6 | The same could be said for Adrian Maguire who got his big chance when Martin Pipe was looking for someone to ride the former Scott-trained Omerta in the Cheltenham Kim Muir in 1991 and Homer recommended Maguire who at that time was unknown outside the point-to-point field . |
| 7 | He was on the look-out for someone to write the incidental music , someone with new ideas , preferably someone not too well known . |
| 8 | However , among the lucky or sheltered it is common enough for someone to have the uneasy feeling that he is living too comfortably , might find himself unprepared to cope if his present security were to collapse , lacks adequate understanding of miseries outside his experience . |
| 9 | Manager Alan Murray had been looking for somebody to replace the unlucky Saville , who broke his arm hours after his Pool debut a fortnight ago in a freak restaurant accident . |
| 10 | If you are looking for something to add the special touch of style to your property , SGO has the answer . |
| 11 | This clearly allows the bilingual audience — and one 's knowledge of a language does not have to be particularly broad for one to know the rude words — to appreciate a pun that tells us much of the character of the fabliau : the essential place of the con in the conte . |
| 12 | It was too soon for anyone to understand the true meaning of what had happened . |