Example sentences of "[adj] [verb] for [det] " 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 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 .
5 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 .
6 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 .
7 However , Gaitskell was much too sensible to fall for this nonsense .
8 Commitment , there was no doubt that they were willing to sacrifice for each other
9 The theoretical underpinning for this is given by the theory of portfolio balance .
10 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 .
11 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 .
12 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 .
13 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 .
14 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 .
15 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 .
16 anyhow that made me feel there was no future in Plymouth for that , so this opportunity came , I came and when I got here they did n't carry any sergeants so I would of had to move again if I wanted promotion , which I was n't prepared to do for this , mainly for his education , unfortunately the
17 They are wrong to hope for this .
18 Sue Baring , finding it difficult to conceal her disappointment , thanked a similar list of people before ending : ‘ I do think the result is uncomfortable for many sections of this society and I hope I will be free to fight for all those who may well lose out as a result of this election . ’
19 Theoretically , each of the 12 regional electricity companies ( RECs ) is now free to compete for any business requiring more than one megawatt ( MW ) of power anywhere in the country .
20 Israel 's Finance Minister , Itzhak Moda'i , indicated on Feb. 24 that Israel was fully prepared to settle for less than the full US$10,000 million in loan guarantees .
21 She might not have kissed him , but for the moment he knew he was willing to settle for that message : I love you — I think .
22 However , the interviewees did not indicate what price they would be prepared to pay for such extended coverage .
23 The fourth point is : ’ Why should a Health Authority turn down an unproven treatment when it holds contracts with Homeopathic Hospitals and is prepared to pay for such treatment to be carried out ? ’
24 I am prepared to pay for such information and pay well .
25 What price will the Department be prepared to pay for these services ?
26 What price would the portfolio manager be prepared to pay for these shares given a holding period of 5 years ?
27 And is any question of price and means ( the two go together of course ) simply obscene because no human , social , economic or political price is too high to pay for such a benefit ?
28 It is also important to recognise that indirect costs of issue exist in terms of the final issue price being below what the market might have been willing to pay for all of the shares ( and hence the company receiving less funds than it might otherwise have done ) .
29 I would be willing to pay for any books or copies or , if anyone has an old machine that could be used for spares , I am desperate for these bits .
30 Wendling had a Dutch friend , an amateur flautist , who was willing to pay for some flute music — three concertos and two quartets .
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