Example sentences of "[prep] [noun pl] [verb] [adv] for [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For most of the following day , the team of operators waited patiently for the temperature to drop . |
| 2 | He looked about him , noting how Spatz had had his suite of offices decorated specially for the occasion , the furnishings replaced . |
| 3 | A crowd of Glaswegians waited patiently for the ferry . |
| 4 | However , even a change from one class of use to another will require planning permission only if the change is deemed to be a ‘ material ’ change : if , for instance , an entrepreneur wishes to convert a shop , which falls into the class of buildings used primarily for the sale of goods by retail , into a restaurant see Westminster City Council v. McDonald 's Hamburgers ( 1986 ) 7 CL 325 ( b ) . |
| 5 | This posits that the company or any group of individuals acting together for a common purpose creates a living organism , or a real person , capable of willing and acting through the people who are its organs just as a natural person wills and acts through their brain , mouth and hands . |
| 6 | Both views are right ( Handy and Aitken 1986:34 ) : In that they are collections of individuals brought together for a purpose , schools are subject to all the problems , limitations and excitements that are inherent in getting people to work together , wherever they do it . |
| 7 | In no sense could they be said to be members of industrial co-operatives : that is , of organisations set up for the manufacture of goods or the provision of services and wholly , or very largely , owned and ultimately controlled by those working in them . |
| 8 | The evidence is that at the present time there is a serious lack of resources to care adequately for the number of sufferers living in ordinary housing , and that this mismatch between numbers and resources is likely to increase at least to the end of the century . |
| 9 | So we 'll have groups of teams coming along for an hour at a time and hopefully we 'll , you know , keep the impetus going through the day by doing that . |
| 10 | Hollyhocks is a collection of cosmetics designed specifically for the man who does n't need a macho image — the whole range is based on English country garden flowers . |
| 11 | Send the form to your local social security office , and you 'll be sent claim form BW 1 to be completed in order to receive the book of orders to cash in for the widow 's allowance . |
| 12 | Each June a group of Duannians meet together for an informal reunion . |
| 13 | An advance group of undergraduates moved in for the Michaelmas Term . |
| 14 | In the examples of objectives given above for the cognitive domain , the affective component will be revealed in the quality of the interaction between the student and patient , in the way the nurse handles any complications arising , and in the evaluation stage , in the emphasis she places on personal and psychological needs . |
| 15 | It was more than she had bargained for , and she now returned to the Madonna with a much bigger bunch of flowers praying fervently for an end to her fertility . |
| 16 | The European Commission has accepted the first set of standards worked out for the EC 's ecolabelling scheme , which aims to inform consumers about the environmental impact of particular products . |
| 17 | HUNDREDS of runners turned out for the annual Race The Train cross country event on the Talyllyn Railway on August 15 . |
| 18 | When you weigh it up , would any amount of perks make up for the fact that joining this particular firm involves waking up next to the Prince of Wales or the Duke of York ? |
| 19 | ‘ There used to be 200 , but since the food stopped coming … a lot of women came mainly for the donations . |
| 20 | She arranged them on the big table on the terrace where they looked impeccable , like clothes set out for a wedding . |
| 21 | The ruins of an ancient church stand near the pebble beach , which you may have to share with cows coming down for a paddle . |
| 22 | The Daily Telegraph , Observer and Economist , unsuccessful in groups bidding variously for the Yorkshire and Central Scotland franchises , were given holdings in LWT . |
| 23 | It is mainly to adult adventure stones that they must look for the romantic and chivalric manifestations of love towards which they reach in adolescence ; such feelings are by convention regarded as unseemly and unsuitable in books written specifically for the young . |
| 24 | Figures they gave us from surveys carried out for the Inter-Bank Research Organisation by the British Market Research Bureau confirmed this , but showed that people in social classes A , B and C1 are still twice as likely to have a bank account as people in social classes D and E , and that the higher someone 's income the greater is the likelihood of their having a bank account . |
| 25 | Drawn up by a UN team and representatives of the Kenyan government , the report found that tens of people were dying each week in camps set up for the refugees in the remote border region of Kenya and described it as " appalling and embarrassing " that they were supposed to be under the care of the Office of UN High Commissioner for Refugees . |
| 26 | The wholesale slaughter of these magnificent animals by poachers has been averted to a considerable degree since embargoes have been placed on the exportation of their skins and on products manufactured locally for the Indian tourist industry , such as briefcases , wallets , belts and handbags . |
| 27 | Touche Ross thought that the requirement was appropriate in relation to partnerships , but recommended that it should apply only to cheques made out for an amount greater than a specified sum — a suggestion also made by a number of others . |
| 28 | Revision courses are also offered for students studying privately for the Institute of Housing qualification and it is hoped to provide some help to tenants ' groups in the area . |
| 29 | Against this background of craters and devastated buildings people sit in the sun at cafes open again for a town which has nothing else to do but drink coffee and wait for the future . |