Example sentences of "[noun sg] for [noun] [verb] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The maximum grant for students living away from home is £2200 . |
| 2 | Some community organisations are concerned that Compacts might : a ) be a means of encouraging young people to leave school too early to perform menial jobs ; b ) be an opportunity for employers to recruit selectively without using proper procedures ; c ) allow discrimination according to gender , race and disability ; d ) discourage the development of different philosophies springing from different cultural backgrounds and points of view ; e ) develop an unchallenging , potentially exploited , workforce . |
| 3 | An opportunity for escape occurred shortly afterwards when she and Wordsworth set off on a walking tour into the Wye Valley . |
| 4 | The BBC cameras will concentrate on the games at Basingstoke and Whitley Bay , but there is plenty of opportunity for non-League rejoicing elsewhere . |
| 5 | The Don has always been kind to me and my opportunity for revenge came sooner , rather than later . |
| 6 | Of course , there was some opportunity for students to work independently and to discuss their work problems . |
| 7 | The first six relate directly to the Earth Summit , the last two provide an opportunity for people to get more involved in practical initiatives and to help to raise more pledges for the Tree of Life within your local community . |
| 8 | Kenneth Grayston introduces an opportunity for graduates to get together at the latest in a series of University concerts . |
| 9 | The significance of all this is that Utah had already convinced themselves that test-tube fusion could be an economic bonanza of unimaginable magnitude , and the first shots in the skirmish for priority had already been fired in February with the accusations that Jones had pirated the Utah chemists ' work . |
| 10 | The House of Lords rejected this view in Photo Productions Ltd v Securicor Transport Ltd [ 1980 ] AC 827 : termination of a contract for breach operates prospectively , not retrospectively . |
| 11 | Labour 's acceptance of the market strengthens the increasingly powerful case for government intervening selectively . |
| 12 | But here again one could argue that things go hand-in-hand : subjects perceived that an increase in a was equivalent to a decrease in k , and having argued the case for σ , the case for k followed automatically . |
| 13 | Although many politicians have not been prepared to accept the thorough-going case for pricing advanced above , many have , under the practical pressure of public spending constraints , been prepared to accept charging as a supplementary way of raising revenue , or to see charges increased as the only way of preserving a service . |
| 14 | Their case for arboreality rests largely on Lucy 's long , curved and heavily muscled hands and feet which suggest grasping . |
| 15 | Sweden has gone anti-nuclear in its power-generating policy and consequently vast hydro-power stations have been built in the northern lake areas for reasons better known to themselves , the Swedes made no provision for salmon runs so the huge lakes are now devoid of fish and the Lapps have left . |
| 16 | It 's it 's also the main area of housing demand , it 's also the main area where employers want to locate around around North Yorkshire , and I think most importantly , if its development needs are not met , these can wo n't be satisfactorily diverted elsewhere , they will continue unresolved which would be continual pressure on the edge of the urban area , and on on the greenbelt , and if that holds the effect would of course be that the tight greenbelt would mean that economic growth in the county would be frustrated , because York is the main centre where employment growth is concentrated , and I would think , I would consider that that solution of a tight greenbelt plus not making sufficient provision for development needs elsewhere in York would be contrary to P P G three paragraph three , which I 'm sure you 're aware of . |
| 17 | There is an early retirement pension , a late retirement pension , an ill-health retirement pension and , perhaps more important , an in-built provision for index linking so that it is not simply a straightforward sum each year . |
| 18 | Organisations may pay for just the employee and spouse to view accommodation or may make provision for children to go too . |
| 19 | It is likely too that the provision for value had originally been framed in relation to purchase for value , for otherwise there is no good reason why Ulpian should be concerned with fitting other legal relationships into the same pattern as sale . |
| 20 | [ Most shops wo n't accept a cheque for goods costing more than £50 . |
| 21 | Bullen and Partners of Darlington propose widening the A67 Darlington to Barnard Castle road to include a third lane for traffic turning right into the site . |
| 22 | Featuring guest rapper Rakim , ‘ Contribution ’ itself is a plea for unity echoed later in ‘ Take Me Away ’ ( a bright song with a sad lyric ) and ‘ Who Can We Blame ’ . |
| 23 | Featuring guest rapper Rakim , ‘ Contribution ’ itself is a plea for unity echoed later in ‘ Take Me Away ’ ( a bright song with a sad lyric ) and ‘ Who Can We Blame ’ . |
| 24 | From the outset Headline has considered WHS to be the centre of its market , though the fast growing non-fiction list with such successes as Raymond Blanc 's Cooking for Friends has greatly strengthened its sales through chains such as Waterstones and Dillons , and the mass market paperbacks are benefiting from the increased sales of paperbacks generally in supermarkets . |
| 25 | He joined the church 's prayer for boldness to do exactly what he had been told by the authorities not to do . |
| 26 | When payment for games totalling more than £7,000 was not received he wrote back to the bank and received two additional references on December 18 , 1990 and January 15 , 1991 confirming that the company was good for up to £10,000 . |
| 27 | It does little for the already low standing of politicians in the public esteem for Major to say effectively that they did not have plans to raise taxes then and they only did it because it was necessary . |
| 28 | This establishes a framework for agencies to work together to protect children from abuse . |
| 29 | This result was never thereafter challenged : there were no protests or riots in the streets or general mayhem as there would have been , and God knows has been , in that other Celtic country across the water whose struggle for independence has never ceased . |
| 30 | Building this genetic algorithm for code-breaking has certainly left me in no doubt that evolution is quite capable of performing miracles in no time at all . |