Example sentences of "[prep] [pron] [verb] for [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The small number of area health board staff working on the schools ' programmes makes it impossible for them to cater for individual classroom visits . |
| 2 | Two microscope slides can be placed together with water or oil between them to allow for easy movement across one another , but trying to pull them apart without sliding the surfaces together is very difficult . |
| 3 | It 's not very interesting for me to waffle for two hours . |
| 4 | Canan and her boss know exactly what to expect from each other : ‘ It 's far easier for me to work for another Turk because I can talk about pay rates and things like that more openly . |
| 5 | ‘ If you 're looking for somebody to blame for needless deaths , look no further than Sheldukher . ’ |
| 6 | A Conservative government , if you believe their manifesto , ought not even to be considering putting money into dying private-sector firms , but Huerter employ a lot of people , many of whom voted for this government . |
| 7 | Detailed studies of particular artefacts direct attention to the varying complexity involved in manufacturing items , many of them designed for specific functions . |
| 8 | Neither of them spoke for several minutes . |
| 9 | They had two sons ( one of them knighted for military services in 1905 ) and one daughter . |
| 10 | We propose that this daunting list of stages , each of which calls for different information skills , can only be satisfactorily incorporated in the school 's programme by a curriculum policy built around these skills . |
| 11 | Right and I 'll explain to Claire about what I want both of you to do for next week . |
| 12 | Okay I 'm going to ask each of you to speak for three minutes so you might like to jot that down . |
| 13 | Lily could think only of him paying for little girls . |
| 14 | Soft toys and medicine , much of it earmarked for specific children , was soiled by smoke , fire and water . |
| 15 | In the unlikely event of it surviving for three years , it becomes mutton . |
| 16 | ( f ) Section 32(2) ( b ) , dealing with the search of anyone arrested for any offence , arrestable or otherwise , allows the police to enter and search the premises where the suspect was at the time of his arrest or immediately before for evidence relating to the offence for which he was arrested . |
| 17 | ‘ I check the bookings to get a general idea of what to plan for weekly activities . |
| 18 | Nostalgia for the good old , bad old days gives much of what passes for working class culture in the 1980's , its peculiarly sentimental cast . |
| 19 | Thus most of what passes for literary scholarship is excluded from the sphere of criticism : studies of authors ' lives , of their immediate environment , of their ideas about writing and of the genesis of their works . |
| 20 | The next morning we left for Lhasa where 12 of us demonstrated for one hour . |
| 21 | Neither of us spoke for some time until he said ‘ So what 's the deal ? ’ |
| 22 | Affordably priced , the Casual Dining collection is designed for you to use for any meal , every day . |
| 23 | She went with me to stay for two days with Mina Diamandopoulos and her son Alexis at their house on Poros . |
| 24 | You bought it and bought it , that 's it , not same as they do with yeah with them looking for bloody sponsors unheard and them looking for bloody sponsors eh ? |
| 25 | while we do not exclude audit clients from the scope of the search it is crucial that not professional contact is made with anybody working for potential target companies in KPMG . |
| 26 | Like Shujan he has had his training setbacks but Armstrong has shrewdly got enough runs into him to go for this handicap and his recent home form suggests it is worth taking a chance with him as he is on the upgrade . |
| 27 | ‘ We improved in the second half and I was very pleased with our teamwork , with everybody pulling for each other . |
| 28 | I have been performing many exercises to aid specific problems within my playing for some time now , which could be referred to as callisthenics . |
| 29 | Of course , if one envisages the nationalisation of all the major enterprises ( ‘ top monopolies ’ ) , then the problem becomes internalised within the ‘ public sector ’ , but two points here : first , the present discussion is predicated on the hypothesis that there is a fruitful ideological space within which to argue for socialist investment planning — it does not depend on the ( counterfactual ) proposition that there is wide popular support for sweeping nationalisation of enterprises . |
| 30 | The empirical requirement is to seek , evaluate and make explicit the evidence upon which claims for particular ideas and practices advocated as policy are based . |