Example sentences of "[adj] [verb] for [det] [noun pl] " 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 | It is sometimes possible to arrange for both ministers to be at the ceremony , sharing the responsibility between them . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Some lived for several days in this pitiful condition , their feet gnawed by dogs , until they died in agony . |
| 7 | Planning has been taking place on this restructure for some months now with close liaison between RAFM and the Aircraft Salvage and Transportation Flight at Abingdon , who will be responsible for all of the dismantling and moving of the airframes . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | This yearning for former glories was already manifest in a particular kind of sentimentality and nostalgia . |
| 10 | What price will the Department be prepared to pay for these services ? |
| 11 | What price would the portfolio manager be prepared to pay for these shares given a holding period of 5 years ? |
| 12 | This recurred for several nights , and she simply reasoned that whatever it was not a danger to her life . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Over half live for many years in one hostel . |
| 15 | It was in the 1370s that the balance of the economy was seriously altered ; from 1372 there was a fall in basic food prices but no drop in wages , and this continued for some years , putting pressure on the profit margins which the manorial lords could secure from their estates ( 60 ) . |
| 16 | This lasted for some weeks but at no time was the baby at risk either physically or psychologically nor was the mother and baby bond threatened . |
| 17 | This accounted for many derivations that are not simply inflections ( e.g. happy , happiness , happily ) . |
| 18 | This again was impossible to calculate for those theses which had received only one citation . |
| 19 | The United Kingdom holiday industry was in a period of rapid change and flux in late 1985 and this is likely to continue for some years to come . |
| 20 | The research to find a European version of taxol is likely to continue for some years . |
| 21 | It predicts that , despite tougher standards for new cars , the problem is likely to increase for some years to come , largely as a result of a lack of any controls over the emissions of vehicles already on the road . |
| 22 | Yet , at the same time , these are the sectors that are most likely to provide for those workers ( the lower paid and the unemployed ) at whom the government 's migration policies , operating through the Employment Transfer and Job Search Schemes , are aimed . |
| 23 | Following amendment , the legislation as approved on May 21 allowed for former owners to get back " fixed assets " , and a share ownership stake in co-operative farms established on their land . |
| 24 | For adult offenders these had for many years been confined to absolute or conditional discharges , fines and probation orders . |
| 25 | The legend that Crabb was taken back to Russia alive continued to circulate for several years and indeed still does , helped by a number of books claiming to be based on secret information from the East . |
| 26 | The latter has for many years been the preference of the majority of established practitioners : according to a recent Law Society survey , almost 75 per cent of solicitors in practice are equity partners in a firm . |
| 27 | Whatever we may think of Oliphant 's views , we have to assume there would be little point in attacks on [ h ] -dropping by the educated elite unless it was highly salient and widespread , and it is reasonable to assume for these reasons that it probably has quite a long history in the language . |
| 28 | Last month Amnesty International called for all charges against him to be withdrawn and concluded : ‘ At every stage the behaviour of the authorities has been in open defiance of the authority of the courts and the rule of law . ’ |
| 29 | I was unwilling to move for many minutes as I experienced the power present in that place . |
| 30 | It is also possible to study for these examinations by taking a one-year full time course at The City or Heriot Watt Universities . |