Example sentences of "[noun] for [pers pn] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | To ensure that individual students were not losers under the system , access funds were distributed to higher education institutions for them to use at their discretion to help students in particular need . |
| 2 | Ten top Megatapes we 'll also throw in , and a groovy T-Shirt for you to look cool in . |
| 3 | Choosing the right bike for you depends on what you want to use it for . |
| 4 | And then er we used to make a a big chest for her do you see . |
| 5 | Although the tyranny of ‘ promotion examinations ’ has mercifully decreased in the past decade , in many countries yearly and termly examinations and preparation for them account for a quite disproportionate amount of school time and teachers are virtually ignorant of how and why and when to test . |
| 6 | To make the young and pensioners pay for prescriptions is equal to having Claymore mines for us to step on . |
| 7 | She did n't go into the reasons for her running away from home , but she extolled Thomas 's role . |
| 8 | Ambivalent feelings , mixtures of resentment , disbelief , hope , disappointment with remedies that ‘ did n't work ’ , and demands for answers counter-productive to the task at hand have to be understood and dealt with constructively , and reasons for them appreciated . |
| 9 | ‘ I see no reasons for us to shy away from the concept of a Federal Reserve-type of European Central Bank , operating as in the United States on a decentralised basis ’ , Sir Leon said in a lecture in London . |
| 10 | ‘ It would take very good reasons for us to change our minds . |
| 11 | Those are all reasons for us to have pride in our health service , rather than denigrating the achievements of all our public-spirited NHS staff . |
| 12 | It was England who crept off , licked their wounds , and tried to come up with all sorts of weird and wonderful reasons for us beating them . |
| 13 | The liability of the agent may be the same in both cases , but the reasons for it differ in detail . |
| 14 | The reasons for it remain to be fully understood but it will certainly reopen the debate about this aspect of dependency — chosen or enforced ? |
| 15 | those necessarily coming into effect before being laid ( e.g. , where publicity would nullify their effect ) if due notice of the fact and the reasons for it has not been given to the Speaker , ; |
| 16 | That 's a very good question , there 's a number of reasons for it happening , erm it might be that the groove , the , the socket bit is very shallow , like a shallow tea cup and the hip , the leg bone does n't stay in it properly , does that make sense to you ? |
| 17 | A few minutes earlier Ruth would have welcomed the idea of everyone going off to sleep ( not that Sean showed any sign of doing so ) as an opportunity for her to indulge in her own thoughts , but the fits of uninhibited laughter had restored her to something nearer to normality , and at last she was present with her companions in mind as well as in the flesh . |
| 18 | Even his marriage to Primaflora in some way had charmed them although , of course , there had been no opportunity for her to visit either Episkopi or Kouklia . |
| 19 | It was an ideal opportunity for her to find out whether Andrew knew the missing don , and whether Puddephat had ever had any connection with rue Roland . |
| 20 | This present trip represents , after all , a rare opportunity for me to savour to the full the many splendours of the English countryside , and I know I shall greatly regret it later if I allow myself to become unduly diverted . |
| 21 | It shocked my manager a lot too and he 's going to be concentrating on a big relaunch of Suzanne over the next while so I think it 's a good opportunity for me to take my career more into my own hands . ’ |
| 22 | There was more of an opportunity for me to stand out over here , particularly as there is no real heavyweight contender on the British scene since Bruno lost to Tyson . ’ |
| 23 | If he had had any foresight , when the Woolf-Tumim report was published , the right hon. Gentleman would have said to himself , ’ Here is a unique and historic opportunity for me to make my reputation as one of the great Home Secretaries of the 20th century . ’ |
| 24 | Shortly after my return , the Governor was to make a tour of Central Burma and it seemed a great opportunity for me to gauge conditions outside Rangoon , so I was invited to accompany him . |
| 25 | Later on , perhaps at the next election , there might be an opportunity for me to get into Parliament . |
| 26 | This gives an annual opportunity for me to get up to dates with Fordyce Maxwell of The Scotsman , an old friend from my Berwick days , at the preliminaries . |
| 27 | This debate is an opportunity for me to pay tribute , as he did , to the excellent management skills and work of Iain MacKinnon and his task force . |
| 28 | ‘ I decided that , somewhere among the pottery and handicrafts which are sold on the Algarve , there had to be an opportunity for me to utilise my design skills and earn money without the need to park Thomas with a minder . |
| 29 | Hunt , who broke an ankle at the start of this season , said : ‘ This is a good opportunity for me to show what I can do after a bit of a difficult time . ’ |
| 30 | He declared that it provides time for the family to gather or the body to be transported home and it offers an opportunity for them to see the person in a state of peaceful repose . |