Example sentences of "[adj] [verb] for [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Her children had families of their own and her husband was n't due to retire for several years . |
| 2 | For various reasons , it has not been possible to arrange for this sub-committee to meet . |
| 3 | It is sometimes possible to arrange for both ministers to be at the ceremony , sharing the responsibility between them . |
| 4 | For reasons of compliance it was not possible to plan for longer experiments ( our experiments lasted approximately eight hours from start to end ) . |
| 5 | If these remedies are being taken , it is undesirable to continue for longer than three weeks unless the patient is under medical supervision . |
| 6 | It should be possible to search for specified strings of text and modify these either individually or collectively . |
| 7 | It is usual to provide for such circumstances by permitting expulsion where a partner , through ill health etc , is prevented from performing his obligations to the firm . |
| 8 | Technically it is possible to adjust for these discrepancies by applying regression coefficients to the data , but even after this is done , major Japanese lead-time advantages — of 13 to 14 months — remain . |
| 9 | While it may be possible to provide for most eventualities from a number of well-sited CMHCs within a district , a full community mental health service should offer a choice of convenient ways to get specialist help in addition to CMHCs , for example through the local GP health centre or surgery , at a local outpatient clinic or at home . |
| 10 | Since most university students work from books to hand and find it impracticable to wait for inter-library loan requests — and you can not browse an inter-library loan book before it arrives , any more than you can browse the contents of books in the memory of an ‘ on-line ’ catalogue and not on a shelf in front of you — the result is a major diminution of standards . |
| 11 | However , Gaitskell was much too sensible to fall for this nonsense . |
| 12 | DAVE SEXTON , the England Under-21 manager , is prepared to search for friendly fixtures if his side fall out of the European Championships at the qualifying stage for the first time in 12 years . |
| 13 | Commitment , there was no doubt that they were willing to sacrifice for each other |
| 14 | At a time when it is increasingly popular to search for complex explanations for continuing or increasing levels of unsafe sexual behaviour among gay and bisexual men the most obvious explanation — lack of continuing education about safer sex — must not be overlooked . |
| 15 | The theoretical underpinning for this is given by the theory of portfolio balance . |
| 16 | Although the now frequently-used concept of ‘ the right to resistance ’ was referred to in the older religion-based natural law theories , it is mainly the more recent , secularised version of natural law with its emphasis on human rights that seems to provide a theoretical underpinning for some of the assertions about the illegality of nuclear war and the justifiability of nuclear protest . |
| 17 | They 're even prepared to come for free , if we let them mime the record . " |
| 18 | Her colleagues came and went ; they had got younger and younger , it seemed , as time went by ; those who were career-minded departed for lusher pastures , more Susies and Karens took their places , giggling in the cloakroom , muddling up the reservation cards . |
| 19 | He is a widower , with no family and few interests outside the hotel : as a result , he is prepared to work for long hours and generally acts as night porter during the week . |
| 20 | As long as fluid intake remains adequate to compensate for ensuing polyuria the blood volume will remain expanded with resultant elevation of cardiac output and thus blood pressure . |
| 21 | It is therefore sensible to compensate for this increased entity description by attempting to rationalize what entities need to be communicated between workstations and company sites . |
| 22 | At a meeting in mid-September , the government indicated that if IFAW were able to increase income from international ecotourism involving the seals and if it were willing to provide for independent assistance with additional research on the interactions between Cape fur seals and fisheries , it too would be willing to consider announcing a moratorium on the killing of seals , perhaps as early as 1 January 1992 . |
| 23 | We have next to inquire what causes govern supply prices , that is prices which dealers are willing to accept for different amounts . |
| 24 | While it is now thought that they are interested in offloading part or all of this holding , it seems that they are not prepared to sell for less than the purchasing price of £1.20 . |
| 25 | Patients who remained ulcer free attended for clinical review every two months and had a mandatory endoscopy at 0 , 4 , 8 , and 12 months or if symptoms suggestive of ulcer recurrence developed . |
| 26 | No doubt the availability of a population of soldiers willing to volunteer for such trials was an incidental benefit of the conditions of war : no such opportunities are normally available for evaluating and learning quickly and accurately how to use new drugs . |
| 27 | THREE GUYS 17-18 YEARS OLD looking for three girls in the Eastbourne area who are into heavy metal and skateboarding- Photos please- Check this out ! ! |
| 28 | There must be many middle aged climbers such as myself who have dozens of spare ascents of Ben Nevis they would be willing to swop for some of the odd hills difficult of access . |
| 29 | That said , the drinks sector seemed relieved that the Chancellor has paid some attention to the risk of driving business across the Channel to the Calais supermarkets , the building sector was prepared to look for possible beneficiaries from the approval the Chancellor has given to rail links in South-east England , oil benefited from the abolition of PRT on new North Sea fields , the motor trade seemed to take the threat of fuel taxes in excess of inflation in its stride , and WH Smith reflected a sense of relief that VAT has not been extended to books and newspapers . |
| 30 | Obviously , an employee is free to apply for another position even with a rival of his present employer , or to find premises in which to set up a future business so long as in doing so he is not in breach of any valid express term in his employment contract : see Searle ( GD ) & Co Ltd v Celltech Ltd [ 1982 ] FSR 92 . |