Example sentences of "[to-vb] room for " in BNC.
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| 1 | As in Gassendi and Locke , the ‘ new philosophy ’ was often anti-sceptical in intent , and its advocates were often not complete materialists , in that they genuinely thought to find room for religion , God , and the soul . |
| 2 | Of course we should like to find room for everyone , but we just have n't the places . |
| 3 | The Games , already destined to be the largest ever , now have to find room for the extra 3,306 competitors and officials registered by the end of last month , bringing the total to 18,306 . |
| 4 | Within that development we have to find room for wild nature , which is a spiritual enrichment as well as , in a very practical sense , the foundation of our existence . |
| 5 | Those whose desks will be rearranged to find room for the new machines will find it harder to exert some control . |
| 6 | One widow and four unmarried people were sharing the little house , and still they had to find room for the customers who wanted an ounce of tobacco or a portion of snuff . |
| 7 | Open your heart to find room for these children |
| 8 | He still had to find room for two more , so he decided to banish the two foolish , pretty O'Hanlons from their billiard-table , sensing that they would make least fuss . |
| 9 | Again , a theory of the policy-making process needs to find room for ‘ good causes ’ as well as for ‘ good people ’ . |
| 10 | No I shall have to find room for some of the pots and leave the glasses in . |
| 11 | BP 's case for a reduction in North Sea taxes to provide room for manoeuvre smacks of special pleading . |
| 12 | Expansion vessel to provide room for the water in the system to expand as it heats up |
| 13 | You would have to provide room for the Zs , but you may never get one . |
| 14 | Some of the regulators see Jardines ' bluster as a tactic to secure room for manoeuvre in the run-up to 1997 , when Hong Kong reverts to China . |
| 15 | Actively to create room for such development work seems essential precisely because field workers who are hard pressed by a burden of routine and less focused casework demands can not create such room for themselves . |
| 16 | I 've been trying to spot room for that |
| 17 | The value of the proposition is the greater because , outside anecdote , the word is sufficiently vague to give room for any prejudice . |
| 18 | Callaghan , Healey and company could only ‘ govern ’ : holding the line against inflation through incomes policy ; bemoaning the ‘ intolerable ’ level of unemployment ; waiting for an expansion of world trade to lead a recovery and for North Sea oil to give room for manoeuvre on the balance of payments . |
| 19 | In many instances , pellet formation is stimulated by the availability of the next meal ( Chitty , 1938 ) , with the previous meal being regurgitated even if not fully digested in order to leave room for the next and in this case it seems likely that the initial level of pH would be higher than normal . |
| 20 | Some paleontologists suggested that the reptiles had died out through racial senility in order to leave room for their successors , the mammals , who were waiting in the wings ready to seize control of the world . |
| 21 | We have to leave room for those mussels tonight ! ’ |
| 22 | The first has to do with the tension between the need to have clear guidelines and objectives to give direction to the project , and the need to permit room for flexibility and discretion . |
| 23 | Conifers other than yew usually resent harsh treatment , however , and are difficult to rejuvenate , Deciduous species are best pruned hard back in late winter , evergreens in late spring — cutting one side a year back to a foot within the intended final width to allow room for regrowth . |
| 24 | The cuttings are then placed wide apart , to allow room for growth . |
| 25 | MOVED from South Kensington to allow room for the new Flight gallery ( see page 10 ) , the Science Museum ( ScM ) has placed Avro 504K D7560 on loan to the Museum of Army Flying at Middle Wallop , Hants . |
| 26 | Boxed foot : the end of a sleeping bag with a square or round inset to allow room for the feet . |
| 27 | The depth of the shelf from the wall should be a minimum of 10cm ( 4in ) to allow room for the track and bulk of fabric when the curtains are drawn back . |
| 28 | To allow room for backfilling , make the length and breadth dimension about 23 cm ( 9 in ) larger than the actual dimensions of the pool . |
| 29 | The threaded portion is ½in BSP ( sink , basin and bidet taps ) or ¾in BSP ( baths ) ; sink taps are taller to allow room for a bucket underneath . |
| 30 | AIB is too small an organisation to have room for the pure academic whose theoretical knowledge may be most profound but whose practical knowledge is limited . |