Example sentences of "[adj] [verb] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Barratt had been up to Tilberthwaite to see for himself the likely value of Knott 's sett on the Muncaster estate land there and he considered it to be a worthwhile proposition having seen , as he put it , " good bunches of ore under water " . |
| 2 | Byrne looks embarrassed to be in it — and it is indeed a sore waste of his undoubted talents — while Basinger as usual goes for the lowest common , and I mean common , denominator . |
| 3 | Her children had families of their own and her husband was n't due to retire for several years . |
| 4 | With sufficient manipulation of the rota , it would be possible to arrange for the work-force to have been working for the same number of hours at different times of the day — condition ( 2 ) . |
| 5 | If none is available , it may be possible to arrange for a specialist physiotherapist to visit the hospital department to see the patient and suggest appropriate treatment lines to the physiotherapist there . |
| 6 | It is sometimes possible to arrange for both ministers to be at the ceremony , sharing the responsibility between them . |
| 7 | In some circumstances it is possible to arrange for training for someone from your own institution . |
| 8 | For various reasons , it has not been possible to arrange for this sub-committee to meet . |
| 9 | I wonder if , even at this late stage , it might be possible to arrange for the loan of an item from your collections for our forthcoming exhibition on John Slezer , of which you may already be aware . |
| 10 | However , with British Council assistance it has been possible to arrange for a Romanian student to successfully complete a conservations course at Cambridge . |
| 11 | Where this is not feasible , it may at least be possible to arrange for the experts to see the child together . |
| 12 | Since nineteen eighty seven it has been possible to arrange for employees to have charitable donations deducted from their pay through the payroll giving scheme . |
| 13 | And it 's quite possible to arrange for demonstrations of suitable equipment to be given to you , is it ? |
| 14 | These alternatives will not always be available at short notice but it might be possible to plan for them . |
| 15 | For reasons of compliance it was not possible to plan for longer experiments ( our experiments lasted approximately eight hours from start to end ) . |
| 16 | I accept that the law has from the first appearance of corporations , in the absence of any relevant statutory direction , considered the question of a corporation 's right to sue for defamation by reference to the nature of the corporation itself and the need for the corporation to protect its lawful activities and property . |
| 17 | Shower and bath gels , face masks and deodorants bought by women are also favourites , although men are too lazy to shop for their own . |
| 18 | The team began experimenting there in December ‘ 88 and by the end of January it was felt right to go for a public launch on Palm Sunday ‘ 89 with attendant door to door visiting with invitations , and publicity to the press and media . |
| 19 | I still have grave doubts as to whether it is right to go for a single currency , fixed exchange rates and the whole of that considerable abdication of political sovereignty . |
| 20 | Through the New Times of Burma and the Burmese Weekly we did everything possible to appeal for a concerted effort to restore the cultivation of rice to the pre-war level . |
| 21 | ‘ I was saying , ’ Shannon strove to sound as dignified as it was possible to sound for someone who was blushing like a schoolgirl , ‘ that of course I admit the man 's gorgeous . |
| 22 | If these remedies are being taken , it is undesirable to continue for longer than three weeks unless the patient is under medical supervision . |
| 23 | ( The main reasons for taking this approach is that for dynamic handwriting recognition it is necessary to select the correct information shortly after the word was written — it may not be possible to wait for the user to finish a sentence or clause . ) |
| 24 | It should be possible to search for specified strings of text and modify these either individually or collectively . |
| 25 | She wrote to me saying that in this place she found it possible to forgive for the first time and then return home to seek reconciliation . |
| 26 | RAFA is grateful to BLESMAG for permission to quote from and reproduce this article . |
| 27 | Above them , as far as it was possible to see for the blood , he wore a striped knitted pullover over a navy jumper . |
| 28 | Scotch , Canadian and American whiskies combined account for about one-half of the distilled spirits sold in the United States . |
| 29 | However , it is possible to compensate for definition length by dividing the score assigned to any overlapping pair of words by the joint length of their definitions . |
| 30 | The full committee was due to meet for a final session in mid-February , prior to presentation of the Basic Law to the Chinese legislature for approval in March-April 1990 . |