Example sentences of "[verb] [adj] in [noun] for [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Shaikh Saad submitted his government 's resignation on March 20 , officially in order to allow the Amir to take whatever action he deemed appropriate in preparation for Kuwait 's reconstruction . |
| 2 | I 'd buy Deane and swap Bright in exchange for Deane . |
| 3 | However , Tourism Minister Mihai Lupoi had admitted on Jan. 3 that people wishing to travel to the West would have to find their own hard currency , since the state could not afford to sell any in exchange for lei . |
| 4 | That night I lie awake in bed for hours , thinking about this . |
| 5 | In this instance a direct challenge is made to the expertise of the teachers and their professional skills — areas that had been defended by the Curriculum Deputy when it was suggested that the Bursar might become involved in interviews for community posts . |
| 6 | He had found that the Ford Granada Estate which he had bought second-hand in September for £4,000 was being used exclusively for collecting and delivering goods for Transom Trading and not as a family car as originally intended . |
| 7 | We noted the grim approaches ; incessant traffic noise in narrow streets ; parked vehicles hemming in the pavement ; rubbish dumps on waste land nearby ; the absence of green playing spaces on or near the school sites ; tiny playgrounds ; gaunt looking buildings ; often poor decorative conditions inside ; narrow passages ; dark rooms ; unheated and cramped cloakrooms ; unroofed outside lavatories ; tiny staff rooms ; inadequate storage space with consequent restrictions on teaching materials and therefore methods ; inadequate space for movement and P.E. ; meals in classroom ; art on desks ; music only to the discomfort of others in an echoing building ; non-soundproof partitions between classes ; lack of smaller rooms for group work ; lack of spare room for tuition of small groups ; insufficient display space ; attractive books kept unseen in cupboards for lack of space to lay them out ; no privacy for parents wishing to see the head ; sometimes the head and his secretary sharing the same room ; and , sometimes all around , the ingrained grime of generations . |
| 8 | Began this season at record home-run pace , slowed later on but still finished first in majors for home runs ( 47 ) and RBIs ( 125 ) . |
| 9 | Both the Royal College of psychiatrists and the voluntary organizations MIND ( the National Association for Mental Health ) and MENCAP ( the Royal Society for Mentally Handicapped Adults and Children ) became active in pressure for change . |
| 10 | When the colony ran short of horses , the manager of the Economic Section of Rabkrin offered to lend some in exchange for wheels and wheat . |