Example sentences of "[noun] [vb base] [verb] for [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Similar confusions seem to account for Marian Dawkins ' difficulty in pinning down objective criteria of animal suffering beyond obvious pain reactions like tail or limb-biting ( 1980 : 110–11 ) . |
| 2 | But when funding stays level and subjects begin to compete for resources , the system breaks down . |
| 3 | With the League due to start next year , Gary Lineker has already signed a multi-million pound deal to play for Nagoya Grampus Eight . |
| 4 | Even these unpretentious , non-vintage champagnes benefit from keeping for a time ; the great champagnes repay keeping for years and years . |
| 5 | Sanderson Townsend & Gilbert and Healey & Baker acted for the vendor , while Lowther Scott Harden acted for Southlands . |
| 6 | Some schools do provide for students to be granted a scholarship towards the cost of tuition , but there are not many endowments of this kind . |
| 7 | Secondly , to give the magazine readability , something with lasting value and relevance that readers wish to keep for reference . |
| 8 | And that video can be obtained from Tavistock Church , in Tavistock Place it costs twelve pound fifty , with one pound fifty postage erm , but I think that it has been recommended to us and a number of the provinces have asked for copies to be made available and then maybe there are some churches within our provence that might like to have that video so that they can draw the attention of their churches to the work of the Council for World Mission . |
| 9 | This is not the first time that such considerations have arisen for readers of his fiction . |
| 10 | Old Colwyn Sunday League clubs West Shore and Hotpoint Reserves have applied for membership of the Subaru Vale of Conwy League . |
| 11 | Three hospital units have applied for NHS trust status — South Ayrshire , the Royal Scottish national hospital and the Foresterhill hospitals group . |
| 12 | The Opposition have complained for years that our determination to maintain an essential minimum safeguard for our country with a nuclear deterrent was somehow an obstacle to the necessary task of reducing the overblown nuclear arsenals of the super-powers , but President Yeltsin dealt with their arguments in one wholly destructive answer . |
| 13 | Statutory undertakers wishing to carry out development which is neither ‘ permitted development ’ nor authorised by a government department have to apply for planning permission to the local planning authority in the normal way , but in the case of ‘ operational land ’ appeals are considered jointly by the secretary of state and the ‘ appropriate minister ’ . |
| 14 | Id have to go for Lorimer tho . |
| 15 | So , the runners are under starter 's orders.Between now and polling day attention will shift away from Westminster to the individual seats that the parties have targetted for victory . |
| 16 | For example , a clue may be obtained from the time that the parties have stipulated for delivery and/or payment . |
| 17 | Four former Sudanese Pilatus Porters have arrived for rework , three being Turbo models , the other a piston engined version . |
| 18 | Rather than knobs , Boogie have opted for increment/decrement ‘ touch ’ switching for the TriAxis , and although this might not seem particularly ‘ rock'n'roll ’ , most of the functions are as familiar as those on your average stack . |
| 19 | Moreover , none of the allegedly violent police interrogators named in both books have sued for libel . |
| 20 | ‘ But think of the way pundits have to work for years and years to earn that money . |
| 21 | The Italian club have bid for Darco Pansere the red star striker whose penalty won his side the European Cup in Bari on Wednesday . |
| 22 | Placings were the most popular method of issue over 1985–89 , although the average size at £6m was considerably smaller than offers for sale and tenders at £62.3 and £32.8 million respectively , reflecting the fact that smaller companies tend to go for placings as they tend to be cheaper ( see Table 11.2 ) and placings have also become more popular as a result of the requirements for the size of company using a placing being relaxed after Big Bang . |
| 23 | Anyway , the speaker added , with a grin , the women are willing cooperators , for they ‘ can not understand why their visitors expect to pay for sex ’ . |
| 24 | Rich countries help pay for medicine . |
| 25 | Birth parents have to wait for adoptees to choose to contact them and may therefore experience feelings of desperation and anticipation around the time when the adoptee would be 18 years old . |
| 26 | May I join in the admiration and respect which all concerned , including J. 's mother , have expressed for what the foster parents have done for J. |
| 27 | I could make a playpen for him and buy him one of those big wooden Arks with all the animals in and I could get one of those bags you carry babies around in like the Indians have had for centuries . |
| 28 | Plenty of mysteries have lasted for centuries and finally yielded to explanation . |
| 29 | The Prado administrators have asked for opinions from two influential organisations : the San Fernando Royal Academy of Fine Arts , of which Goya was a director , and the professional body that represents Madrid 's architects . |
| 30 | The Council for the Protection of Rural England have called for farm buildings to be brought under the control of the planning system . |