Example sentences of "[noun] we [verb] for [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The skills of salesmanship and political demagogy are virtually the only methods we have for changing perception . |
| 2 | Age is no longer the benchmark criterion we use for distinguishing people . |
| 3 | Living up to other people 's signalled expectations is often a pleasure/pain experience : pleasure in the recognition we receive for satisfying others ' expectations , pain in the sense that we lose some of our independence and freedom . |
| 4 | It is all about the work we do for each other on these occasions . ’ |
| 5 | With small token charges of explosives in our pockets we made for distant roads , railways and bridges , sinking up to our knees in bogs and wading through the icy waters of fast-running burns . |
| 6 | The post-Comintern Communist Movement , the Socialist International , international Fascist organizations , and the Green movement ( about which more will be said below ) provide the only models we have for such organizations , and none of these can be currently regarded as successful in global terms . |
| 7 | Ken , if we could er look at what 's actually happening out there to pensioners at the moment , I think of which we 're all very concerned , but there has been a small item of good news to balance against the concerns we have for those pensioners that are still suffering from uncertainty and that is some money has started to come in as a result of legal actions and settlements out of court . |
| 8 | In the early 1960s I remember caddying for Brian Huggett and Peter Butler , but in those days we caddied for many players . |
| 9 | Erm , I work for Scottish Women 's Football and the plans we have for this year erm , shall hopefully encourage more women to come into the sport . |
| 10 | It means broadening our agenda and questioning the decisions on which it is based , the reasons we go for one story and exclude others . |
| 11 | We 're taking a hundred and fifty odd thousand out from a budget we have for additional staffing , and we 're also taking |
| 12 | There was great scope we saw for matching marketing , the due diligence product outside er Manchester area er that has been particularly successful we are going to have , well all of you are probably aware of of a significant increase in the in the of due dili due diligence work er very encouraging that er most of it I think I 'm right in saying has come , certainly the bigger ones have come from out with the region er and have been introduced to us from bankers er in London , er initially we 've had er a lot of support from our er colleagues in London who 've effected the introductions in the first place , precisely how the partnership virtually work . |
| 13 | The basic figures we have for this emigration — 100,000 prisoners of war brought from Palestine into Egypt by Ptolemy I ( Aristeas 12–14 ) and 1,000,000 Jews in Egypt at the time of Philo ( in Flacc. 43 ) — are almost certainly both false . |
| 14 | ‘ I have to show you what provisions we have for medical emergencies down there — lifelines , resuscitation equipment , that sort of thing . |
| 15 | Whether or not the talking will bring about the revolution we need for healthier food , the problems of both world trade and the CAP remain after the breakdown of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade ( GATT ) talks . |
| 16 | To ensure fast and empathetic response to customers we include for dedicated supervision to allow for close communication and co-operation with the hotel staff |
| 17 | Most of the evidence we find for full-time craftsmen nevertheless comes from the temples of the Middle and Late Minoan periods , so we should see the main period of craft industries as belonging to an urban society and in particular to the temples within that urban society . |
| 18 | And he refuses to recognise that high interest rates are the price we pay for that deficit . ’ |
| 19 | At the outset we asked for more help from the congregation . |
| 20 | At Great Bedwyn we stop for welcome break and cheer the first of the singles through . |
| 21 | To win one of the 10 pairs of tickets we have for each show , simply complete this Shamen hit : Move Any … … |
| 22 | Quantum theory then predicts that when a measurement of some property of one of the particles ( call it A ) is made the results we obtain for certain measurements on particle B depend , not only on the results we get for the measurement on A , but also on what property of A we decide to measure . |
| 23 | The theory of Darwin and Fisher is the only coherent explanation we possess for such characters . |
| 24 | ‘ Although it is impossible to respond to all the pleas we receive for charitable aid , it is wonderful when we can help a worthwhile cause . ’ |
| 25 | Every year we look for buried treasure . |
| 26 | According to pragmatism what we call legal rights are only the servants of the best future : they are instruments we construct for that purpose and have no independent force or ground . |
| 27 | But if replication needs complex machinery , since the only way we know for complex machinery ultimately to come into existence is cumulative selection , we have a problem . |
| 28 | If you wish to make a reservation for 10 or more people , contact your travel agent , and do n't forget the special discounts we make for most groups — see page 11 . |
| 29 | They have the same four basic options we described for general ownership policy : state ownership ; specific support for or discrimination against locals or foreigners ; or neutrality . |
| 30 | Again , throwing by hand , throwing stick or catapult , is only as accurate as our individual capabilities and means that we not only have to throw accurately , but also cast accurately — and we must do this in both instances every time we retrieve for another cast . |