Example sentences of "all [verb] for [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There were 7 such centres in England in 1988 , all catering for primary age children ( DES , 1988 , Table A1 ) . |
| 2 | Through the voucher sales component , employees would be able to buy a controlling share in their enterprises ; there would be further voucher issues in 1993 and 1994 ; and voucher sales would in all account for 35 per cent of state enterprises slated for privatization . |
| 3 | The average British town is served by three or four clearing banks , up to a dozen building societies ( thrifts ) and even the odd foreign bank , all bidding for retail savings . |
| 4 | The Apilco range of French porcelain , available from F Trauffler , offers three basic shapes — Bistro , Trianon and Opera — all designed for high performance and , the company claims , combining durability and versatility with attractive styles and colours . |
| 5 | Remember , fires , hearths and surrounds are all made for each other . |
| 6 | Approximately half the force were from the Commonwealth — Aussies , Canadians , New Zealanders , South Africans , Rhodesians and even from as far afield as Hong Kong , Fiji and the West Indies , this all made for healthy competition . |
| 7 | All the East European countries stressed their commitment to the construction of market economies which could eventually replace their existing centralized systems , and all appealed for increased assistance while changes were in progress . |
| 8 | I was deeply shocked , for I had not been at all prepared for this sudden and tragic end to the adventure on which we had set out so gaily some twenty months before . |
| 9 | All support for military equipment purchases , worth some $30,000,000 , was withdrawn and economic aid was reduced by 76 per cent , from $12,500,000 to $3,000,000 ; food aid would not be affected . |
| 10 | THANKS LARGELY to Doris Day , pop singers like Sandra Dee , Helen Shapiro and Connies Stevens and Francis , were sweetly feminine — nice girls , all looking for that one special guy , in their songs at least . |
| 11 | Franchise companies represented will include many top names and they are all looking for new recruits . |
| 12 | We were all looking for some direction in our lives and they gave us that direction . |
| 13 | But if we all murdered for little things like that … |
| 14 | The Cartesian answer would be that they all stand for various kinds of mental activity , a distinguishing mark of the mental being that it is not extended in space like the other substance of Descartes 's dualism , matter . |
| 15 | The Faroese ( well , most of them ) maintain that those who oppose their traditional ways are people who have never had to hunt and kill to survive , who are happy to let other people ‘ do the dirty work ’ and to buy their meat ready-packaged from a supermarket ; that whale- and bird-hunting are community activities which help foster a ‘ community spirit ’ and that the birds and animals are all used for human food . |
| 16 | We 're all pulling for each other because we 've all grown up together — from the youth team to the reserves and the first team . |
| 17 | CIOB , CIBSE and RICS all look for 20 hours per year , while the RTPI expects 25 hours . |
| 18 | Decorate the room with a treasure chest , and the children all look for hidden treasure when they arrive . |
| 19 | You are now all set for that sweet treat we 've been promising you . |
| 20 | After the flawless performances of Apollos 11 and 12 , Apollo 13 looked all set for another success . |
| 21 | Perkins , 17 , schoolboy son of Burscough boss Russ , impressed Stoke manager Lou Macari and is all set for another week in the Potteries over Christmas . |
| 22 | Upon taking up his position Barratt 's first action was to stop all mining for two months before allowing the men back , to work in a more orderly fashion . |
| 23 | A reparto , the division of the great estates among the agrarian poor , was the recurring demand of the endemic jacqueries of Andalusia as a once and for all cure for chronic underemployment . |
| 24 | Sheridan , Seaman , Linighan , Sellars ( twice ! ) , all went for paltry sums and were good buys . |
| 25 | We will all pay for this stagnation . |
| 26 | The implementation of PREPP will mean that education and teaching skills will be all the more necessary in addressing mentorship of newly qualified staff , while the changed expectation of learners , and the need for qualified staff to identify which skills students need to observe all call for clinical staff to have teaching skills . |
| 27 | Public affairs , local authority , government , financial , and charity public relations all call for different talents so the people working in these areas often have very different educational backgrounds and work experience from those doing consumer public relations . |
| 28 | The the education committee and the school governors have no money at all to pay for that |
| 29 | I think what we 've all to pay for this erm that we will perhaps it will have to come from somewhere and again of the Council Planning Department as we we do erm continue . |
| 30 | Leave them all to dry for 24 hours . |