Example sentences of "an [adj] [noun] for [pron] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The parents of an art student who disappeared in the middle of his exams , have made an emotional plea for him to come home . |
| 2 | His sister Julie Seddon , 28 , of Skelmersdale , made an emotional appeal for him to give himself up . |
| 3 | Putting one 's self in Stalin 's shoes , the present period of indecision must appear to be an opportune moment for him to step into the arena to suggest to Japan that she should make peace with the Kremlin and with Peking . |
| 4 | so something erm I mean it , it just seems strange to me that , you know , something which has exist existed for thousands of years , you know , he 's suddenly sort of pooh-poohing so to speak , erm and I mean obviously the fact that there was a revolution twenty years later or whatever erm me means that something must have been wrong but erm you know i it 's strange how he 's suddenly criticizing and how the criticism has n't come before , how nothing 's happened before , how this seems an opportune moment for it to happen . |
| 5 | We estimate that 150000 men aged 60 to 74 would be required in an evaluative trial for it to have an 80% chance of showing a 20% reduction in mortality over the ensuing 10 years , significant at the 5% level . |
| 6 | The trustee or personal representative may , inter alia , deal in the securities to which that information relates if his trades are based on the advice of someone who appeared to him to be an appropriate person for whom to seek such advice and who did not seem to him to be prohibited by ss.1 , 2 , 4 , or 5 from dealing . |
| 7 | In either event , it is argued that the residual rights of the shareholders create an appropriate incentive for them to activate the relevant disciplinary mechanisms . |
| 8 | Speaking in a dry tone , he said , ‘ To be honest , Doreen , I doubt that this is an appropriate time for you to visit my stepmother — so Lucy and I shall go alone . ’ |
| 9 | This gives an annual opportunity for me to get up to dates with Fordyce Maxwell of The Scotsman , an old friend from my Berwick days , at the preliminaries . |
| 10 | It would be an easy excuse for me to concur , but my running throughout the preliminary rounds and semi-final really indicated that this was not the case . |
| 11 | It 's an easy lock for you to come in and out of your houses with . |
| 12 | It was an ideal opportunity for her to find out whether Andrew knew the missing don , and whether Puddephat had ever had any connection with rue Roland . |
| 13 | Rotary committee chairman Tony Dennett said : ‘ The lunch is an ideal opportunity for us to provide hospitality to these students who are a long way from home . ’ |
| 14 | PCA sounded like an ideal way for us to handle some of these . |
| 15 | And it was in this room , quietly and simply , that Morse told her of the death of Theodore Kemp , considering , in his own strange fashion , that it was perhaps not an inappropriate time for her to know . |
| 16 | Time usually sorts out the discrepancies , but an explanatory book for them to read , or a reassuring chat , if you can talk things over with them , may save them a great deal of unnecessary anxiety . |
| 17 | There 's talk of setting up an advisory board for him to consult . |
| 18 | Of course , he might have been lying , I suppose , but that would have been an imaginative step for him to take . |
| 19 | It is easy to see how the sleeping pill he had taken could be misunderstood as an overdose , but an airliner full of his friends would be an unlikely place for anyone to kill himself . |
| 20 | His dark brown gaze locked on to her own wide open blue eyes , and it took an enormous effort for her to look away from him . |
| 21 | His shadowy presence created an irresistible desire for her to stretch out just an arm 's length away — and caress him , but that desire was counterbalanced by nausea at the prospect of his body coming into contact with hers again . |
| 22 | As a matter of fact , it was one of those cases where the nursing staff had an unreasonable wish for him to live for ever — he was a very charming man . |
| 23 | Now that 's an internal target for us to work on and for you to have fixed in your mind because everything above four thousand pound you will get forty five percent commission instead of thirty . |
| 24 | ‘ I do n't really want to imagine what they were like but I know it 's not an intense thing for him to do like Platoon was . |