Example sentences of "for [verb] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 31 | ‘ You know , for bringing down runaway cows . ’ |
| 32 | Southend defender Prior played a poor back pass and full-back Powell was booked for bringing down the goal-bound Thompson . |
| 33 | In 51 minutes Ian Ferguson crashed in a fierce 20 yarder which flew wide and Rangers missed a great chance to go ahead when Murdoch saved a Hateley penalty kick , after the keeper had been penalised for bringing down the big attacker . |
| 34 | They also missed a second half penalty , stand-in keeper Billy Drake saving from David McCabe after Graham McConnell had been sent off for bringing down Finty McConville . |
| 35 | Scotland 's uncertainty was matched by that of Buhagiar , who was booked in the final minute of the first half for bringing down Nevin . |
| 36 | Mark McNally followed for bringing down Kiwomya in full flight and then Slater left referee Morrison no option after tripping Wieghorst , having been previously warned for a similar offence . |
| 37 | Mark McNally followed for bringing down Kiwomya in full flight and then Slater left referee Morrison no option after tripping Wieghorst , having been previously warned for a similar offence . |
| 38 | Yet he alone has been responsible for bringing about some of the seminal works of this century , Bartok 's Music for Strings , Percussion and Celesta among them . |
| 39 | A similar , pro-State position is implied in the way several anthropologists have stressed the potential of state organization for bringing about large-scale public works , such are irrigation or communications networks . |
| 40 | Step 11 Draw up and then implement your plan for bringing about change . |
| 41 | On the one hand it provides for the possibility of improved techniques for bringing about learning ; on the other it provides a rationale whereby such techniques can be explicitly identified as exemplars of more general principles of teaching . |
| 42 | It is quite another to suggest , as they did and still do , that television in general , and Hugh Greene 's BBC in particular , were also somehow partially , but nonetheless importantly , responsible for bringing about , or encouraging , the decline in standards that , they argue , characterised the 1960s and 1970s . |
| 43 | The government notes with some satisfaction that Namibia 's practitioners of the media have initiated a process for bringing about some accountability by voluntary adoption of a journalistic code of ethics and the establishment of a Media Council , which is a self-regulating body . |
| 44 | The government notes with some satisfaction that Namibia 's practitioners of the media have initiated a process for bringing about some accountability by voluntary adoption of a journalistic code of ethics and the establishment of a Media Council , which is a self-regulating body . |
| 45 | Today , everyone in the House will join in thanking those responsible for bringing about the peace conference that opened in Madrid yesterday . |
| 46 | Other European countries said that the new British Government would be positive and co-operative and would put forward proposals for bringing about the completion of the European Community , for which they had been working for the past 40 years . |
| 47 | state in the book policy er stable is n't an a stability is rural to the future generations , thank er thank relevant to the suit of each and I really do n't think they would erm thank us for bringing about a demeaning for our premier , international premier this road . |
| 48 | All four rooms are linked by double-door access , Meeting Rooms 3 and 4 being divided by a partition which can be removed to create a larger meeting area , which is useful for bringing together syndicate groups . |
| 49 | Together they acted as recruiters responsible for bringing together the large numbers of men who constituted the armies of the day . |
| 50 | This unusual situation provides a motivation for bringing together the extreme poles of our everyday understanding of space and time : the most outer and the most inner , the first and the last . |
| 51 | It is useful for bringing together the separate parts of the ANLT and the grammar and lexicon can be developed and altered within this environment . |
| 52 | Having dismissed the Cabinet on Jan. 8 , the President on Jan. 21 , 1990 , reappointed the Prime Minister to his post and gave him the responsibility for bringing together a new ministerial team [ see p. 37174 ] , which was announced on Feb. 15 and sworn in on Feb. 17 [ see p. 37240 ] . |
| 53 | The relatively cumbersome medium of microfilm has never presented the sort of opportunities now presented by digitisation , for bringing together collections of complementary material which have been physically separated for decades or even centuries . |
| 54 | The prime reason for bringing in a new constitution in 1937 was the return to dominance of the republican grouping , the side which had lost the civil war , and which had retained the intention of establishing a republic . |
| 55 | He was also responsible for bringing in Lazlo Kovaks , the cinematographer whose filming of the American landscape brought untold dimensions to the movie itself ; he also joined later in the selection of another of the film 's major plus-points — the magnificent scoring and numbers performed by Steppenwolf , the Byrds , the Jimi Hendrix Experience , the Electric Prunes , Electric Flag , the Band , the Holy Mondal Rounders , Fraternity of Man , Little Eva and Roger McGuin . |
| 56 | He was preciously responsible for bringing in big-name sponsors like British Rail and Barclays Bank . |
| 57 | We believe the main motivation for bringing in PRP is to save on the wages bill , but evidence from the private sector shows that in the short term at least it actually increases costs . |
| 58 | Large-scale industries in pre-railway days needed canal-side sites both for bringing in their coal and other raw materials and for taking away their heavy products . |
| 59 | The school meals service is a prime target in the government 's plans for bringing in outside contractors . |
| 60 | So this is their justification for bringing in the childhood . |