Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] [to-vb] a [noun] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | It then goes on to describe a scheme for representing appearance through logical structure . |
| 2 | But as the search goes on to find a replacement for peat scientists are optimistic . |
| 3 | Plans for the wetland , which represents a quarter of Tokyo 's remaining natural shoreline , to be filled in to provide a refuge for local people in the event of an earthquake are being opposed by local campaigners . |
| 4 | The above items and much more , which is now yet not on display as the Museum has still to build a depot for which , incidentally is planned to include a NEW 16-metre diameter turntable for both metre and broad gauges . |
| 5 | Build up to form a frame for the russet chrysanthemums |
| 6 | The student is expected to acquire knowledge and has also to prove a capacity for wide reading and understanding , an up-to-date awareness of the state of both debate and development in educational ideas , a capacity to criticize in a constructive way and an overall capacity to link those skills with collecting and analysing data and with the planning of projects . |
| 7 | ‘ Does anyone know how to obtain a visa for El Salvador ? ’ wrote one . |
| 8 | ‘ Do you know how to avoid a hangover for ever ? ’ |
| 9 | He has yet to visit a home for asylum-seekers and was not proposing to attend the memorial services for the victims of the Solingen attack . |
| 10 | Barthes 's S/Z brings the reader into particular prominence first in its concept of the scriptible that calls for active involvement on the part of the reader in the production of the text ( which is not to forget that in Critique et vérité Barthes had already described the critic as someone who has actively to produce a meaning for the polysemic text ) ; and second , in its thoroughly intertextual view of literature . |
| 11 | Yet , property taxes on Pocahontas-Kentucky 's surface land hardly yield enough to buy a bus for the county school system , and the $76 the county receives as payment on the mineral rights would not buy the bus a new tyre to replace the one worn out on the county 's unpaved and rough coal-hauling roads . ’ |
| 12 | In the small , square grave-yard , tangled with bramble and escalonia and overgrown with rank grass and nettles , a hole was dug for her among the bones of former generations ; bones of old women and men scarcely yet forgotten were turned up to make a place for her among them . |
| 13 | ‘ Just imagine him standing by the side of you , with his hands crossed before him in a Miss Mollyish style , his intended bow half a courtsey , his fat arms and legs assisting , as in duty bound ; his side glances at you every ten seconds , while he softly , sweetly and insinuatingly informs you — that he has made the arts his peculiar study for the last eight years , and that he flatters himself , by his unremitting study he has greatly contributed to their improvement ; that he came to Ambleside for that purpose ( 't is a great big lie — he came solely to get a living for himself and family , but he is too proud to acknowledge this ) and hopes that the time has been employed with equal advantage to the arts and to himself . ’ |
| 14 | However , before going on to propose a test for semantic constituency , it might be useful to clarify the notion further in an informal way . |
| 15 | The Soviet Union was requested not to issue a permit for a proposed scientific catch of 90 minke whales ( which had been scheduled for summer 1991 ) , and Japan was invited to reconsider its research under special permit proposing an Antarctic catch of 300 minke whales ( plus or minus 10 per cent , scheduled for the 1991-92 season ) . |
| 16 | H. M. Johnson 's dog turned out to have a threshold for pitch discrimination identical to Johnson 's because the dog watched Johnson 's face and wanted to please . |
| 17 | The notion of response competition has been used here to provide a framework for an intervention . |
| 18 | Those lost for a way to use the unlovely rambutan or wondering how to test a sapodilla for ripeness will find Exotic Fruits especially helpful . |
| 19 | The declared aim of the conference was to discuss how to build a movement for socialist-feminism , how to popularise socialist-feminist ideas , and how to make alliances between labour movement women and women active outside of the labour movement . |
| 20 | Rival Cyndi Lauper stepped in to sing a duet for a Christmas album and recorded the track first time with no rehearsal . |
| 21 | Brady met on Jan. 21 with the German Finance Minister Theo Waigel ( who declined afterwards to state a figure for the German contribution ) and with the Japanese Finance Minister Ryutaro Hashimoto ( who had already stated on Jan. 18 that Japan would contribute a " substantial sum " to be decided " as soon as possible " ) . |
| 22 | Sir Samuel , disguised in drag , comes close to being ravished by Sir Formal ; the curmudgeon turns out to have a taste for flagellation . |
| 23 | But a spokesman said that even if the Foundation decided not to open a clinic for sex offenders , work still needed to be done on the building . |
| 24 | G. decided not to take a stat for this reason , though there was every reason to , as he acknowledged . |
| 25 | If you decide not to have a test for HIV then you should still follow the guidelines for safer sex and safer drugs use . |
| 26 | Silva , who went on to make a 30-footer for an eagle at the second , insists that the confidence he has been given by Mansell 's support has counted for as much , if not more , than the money . |
| 27 | The bundle boundary is then projected down to make a boundary for the space-time . |
| 28 | Pupils may be asked directly to describe a rule for predicting how many matches would be needed for any number of boxes , or they may instead be asked how many would be needed for , say , 500 boxes and then asked about their methods as referred to below . |
| 29 | She 's just popped up to get a book for some homework . |
| 30 | She hopes also to evolve a scheme for giving individual help to stroke victims and others for whom movement has become difficult . |