Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] [vb pp] [verb] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | AL PACINO is currently shooting Scented Woman , in which he plays a blind army veteran , Frank Slade , who goes to New York with the reluctant teenage boy assigned to care for him . |
| 2 | We very much appreciated your decision to grant our country a medal within the framework of your interesting initiative entitled Running for Rights ( The Right to Food NI 179 ) . |
| 3 | The business-inclined Whigs believed that victory in Europe would automatically secure our overseas interests : the land-owning Tories , with their traditional dislike of the high taxation needed to pay for a standing army , sought to achieve the same ends with peripheral maritime operations , carried out by the Navy , which could largely pay for themselves by taking other powers ' colonies and trading posts . |
| 4 | additional paper required to compensate for spoilage in printing . |
| 5 | Under the new rules , local firms importing goods valued at under $30,000 can receive only 15% of the hard currency needed to pay for them in advance , with the remainder allocated only after goods have cleared customs and value-added tax has been paid . |
| 6 | Rather than all the rare qualities discussed , the person serving young people in the latter part of the century needs to be able to work in a no-nonsense way with young people , to be a good manager prepared to fight for a fair share of the funds , to ensure that staff are able to devote a generous amount of time to users of the services in groups and as individuals , and to ensure that there is a good stock of books and other materials to explore . |
| 7 | One of the most demanding things for this choir is the physical stamina required to perform for an hour . |
| 8 | Scotland 's Under-21 side will contain six First Division players and one from the Second Division in an experimental gathering designed to look for players eligible to take part in the summer 's world invitation event in Toulon . |
| 9 | Strategic Management for the Board — a two-day action based briefing for experienced board members requiring the opportunity for their strategic plans to be challenged by both their peers and leading authorities in strategic leadership . |
| 10 | The minor age differences between zircons and other kimberlite minerals may result from the second magmatic pulse required to account for the disruption and deformation of MARID nodules before they are incorporated in the final erupted kimberlite . |
| 11 | But this is a misleading term , even when " myth " is understood in the technical sense of a " religious text designed to account for a custom , institution or other phenomenon " . |
| 12 | erm the Labour party decided to go for proportional representation . |