Example sentences of "[noun pl] [pron] [verb] for [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We could eventually remove from human life all the characteristics which make for human distress — criminality , war-making , and the like . ’ |
| 2 | Abu Dhabi has major oil reserves which account for some 8% of |
| 3 | One of a new generation of slow down utilities which caters for high speed 80386 and 80486 computers . |
| 4 | Particular units who operated for long periods at a time in the jungle became so adept in their surroundings they became known as ‘ Green Ghosts ’ . |
| 5 | New tests have been introduced for candidates who apply for top council posts in Sefton . |
| 6 | The pictures she shot for the cinema were negligible compared to the pictures she shot for pure publicity . |
| 7 | The skills of salesmanship and political demagogy are virtually the only methods we have for changing perception . |
| 8 | MORE than 60 people have died and 600 are ill after eating poisonous toadstools they mistook for wild mushrooms in the Ukraine . |
| 9 | In summary then , the reasons for choosing The Machine Gunners include the opportunities it offers for various aspects of personal involvement on the part of the reader and its curricular potentials with regard to related topic , theme , and language work . |
| 10 | Partnerships should look at the case for an education service , in terms of the opportunities it presents for sensible planning , provision for population migration and demographic change , best use of scarce and expensive resources , effective curriculum and professional development , smooth transition between the ages and stages of education , and quality education for all those with special educational needs . |
| 11 | Little by little , however , the force of this long glen beneath the austere greyness of the Five Sisters touched Johnson , and he moved his position from that of first considering the political role of such remoteness , and the opportunities it gave for military strategies and subsequent escapes — Glenshiel had been the scene of a battle fifty-four years earlier in which local Highlanders unsuccessfully reinforced a Spanish invasion force — to being lulled by the sight of so many waters , brooks , burns , and silver rivulets , ‘ which commonly ran with a clear shallow stream over a hard pebbly bottom ’ . |
| 12 | IF the sophisticated modern diesel engine now makes economic sense for small cars , the savings it offers for bigger cars are more worthwhile . |
| 13 | This has profound implications for the regimes of institutions which care for old people , or indeed others needing a high level of physical care , as well as for all who provide such care in the community . |
| 14 | As we can now see this is exactly what has happened and what will continue to happen as we continue to expand educational activities alongside the many practical projects which compete for scarce resources . |
| 15 | pay policies which provide for just rewards ( individual or team bonuses ) for outstanding effort , achievements and innovation ; |
| 16 | Hastening north towards the Musselshell River early the next morning , the Nez Perce fought a fierce rearguard action against Sturgis ' Bannock and Crow scouts which continued for two days and resulted in the deaths of one Nez Perce warrior and two old men , and the capture of forty horses . |
| 17 | There are a number of international schools in the London area as well as support groups which cater for different nationalities . |
| 18 | This in turn produced a sharper contrast than in 1980–1 between ( a ) responses which emphasized the need to strengthen and buttress the role of the police , and ( b ) responses which called for greater emphasis on the rejuvenation of the social and economic fabric of the inner cities . |
| 19 | Considerable efforts were made to fill the gaps which existed for earlier decades , notably by the acquisition of a large collection of Richelieu 's papers in 1705 , while in 1710 Torcy had most of the archive moved from Versailles , where it had hitherto been , to the Louvre ( the papers covering the years since 1698 remained at Versailles to be used in the daily business of the ministry ) . |
| 20 | While the progress towards the reunion of separated churches has been much slower than many had hoped , the last sixty years have seen dialogue and joint action at many levels , from the local to the international , between Christian communities which had for long centuries been very largely isolated from each other . |
| 21 | Likewise the middle-aged mother may also have had aspirations which had for many years been put aside until her parenting responsibilities were at an end . |
| 22 | One such was an Ajdabiyan municipal policeman , one of the body of men employed to enforce local traffic and marketing regulations , rules about the disposal of garbage — all those minor matters which make for such amenity as the growing towns manage to achieve . |
| 23 | And the figures would have been higher still , but for a smaller rise in car offences which account for three quarters of all reported crimes . |
| 24 | In his early days with us Hamilton was one of those attacking centre-halves who made for great excitement , supporting his forwards and ever-ready to have a go at goal . |
| 25 | From the nineteenth-century reformers who pressed for universal schooling to today 's schemes for increasing the numbers of girls studying science , education has been the site of the struggle for equality of opportunity . |
| 26 | A good contemporary example can be seen in the typographers who work for British newspapers . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | On May 31 he was quoted as saying that he was satisfied that all prisoners who qualified for political status had been released but that officials were still sifting petitions . |