Example sentences of "[verb] [noun] [prep] [verb] for [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The new administration was given responsibility for preparing for the forthcoming general election and drafting a new constitution . |
| 2 | The jury found Yousefi not guilty of attempting to obtain £43,225 by applying for a loan in the name of Garawand to buy his own home . |
| 3 | Yousefi was found not guilty of attempting to obtain £43,225 by applying for a loan in the name of Garawand to buy his home . |
| 4 | The FRED includes proposals for accounting for the treatment of issue costs associated with capital instruments . |
| 5 | ‘ Well , ’ nodded Joe after thinking for a moment , ‘ I will . ’ |
| 6 | He had to rebut charges of acting for the convenience of his political friends . |
| 7 | In the first of a new series Peter Partington shows how to draw birds by looking for the essential scaffolding of shapes on which to build form and detail |
| 8 | Dunedin charges £15 per holding for the sale , but for larger sums this can work out at less than a front-end trust fee . |
| 9 | Similarly he anticipated Dimitrov in calling for a new approach to the middle classes . |
| 10 | Concern for the role of the environment came from those naturalists who followed Humboldt in searching for the interactions between the physical and the organic realms . |
| 11 | The Washington-based International Campaign for Tibet has joined Greenpeace in calling for the project to be halted . |
| 12 | The couple do get serious when they talk about their work in their environmental consultancy , speaking to companies and giving lectures about caring for the planet . |
| 13 | She waved good-bye without waiting for an answer and Timothy sighed . |
| 14 | Male vigour in display could also indicate vigour in caring for the young . |
| 15 | Cut costs by looking for the sign Zimmer if you want bed and breakfast in a private house . |
| 16 | Oil companies insist that exploitation can go hand-in-glove with caring for the environment , and have begun an intensive lobbying campaign to support the bill . |
| 17 | Blackwell Retail , which used to produce its own catalogue , broke with tradition this year and took Books for Giving for the first time . |
| 18 | An ordinary member of parliament who attempted to gratify constituents by pressing for a senior appointment was likely to be put firmly in his place by the Treasury , for this happened even to the well-connected David Scott , when representing the Dundee burghs in 1796 . |
| 19 | Stopping people by asking for the time or change is a favourite mugging trick — especially when there is more than one attacker . |
| 20 | On Nov. 13 Clinton unveiled a new ethics code for those in his transition team which prohibited members from lobbying for the first six months of the new administration . |
| 21 | How could you possibly enjoy yourself if that meant taking time off praying for the holy souls ? |
| 22 | It causes them to suffer temporary lapses of memory and to have difficulty in concentrating for a short period of two to three hours . |
| 23 | If the family finances have been badly affected by the patient 's stroke , you may have to go to work as well as making provision for caring for the patient . |
| 24 | They 'd taken pride in planning for every eventuality , but there was nothing much they could do when an oncoming driver had a heart attack at the wheel and steered straight into the path of their Rover saloon . |
| 25 | Hence the skittish spate of redesigns ( eg , The Guardian , The Sunday Telegraph magazine 7 Days ) — the panicky attempts to revive falling sales by going for a ‘ contemporary ’ , ‘ youthful ’ image aimed at recruiting new readers . |
| 26 | I would hope that by the time we come to the next assembly where there is going to be that there will be an opportunity for the churches , er , at home here to take part in preparing for the next assembly . |
| 27 | TEC Challenge will involve TECs in bidding for a share of a £25 million budget . |
| 28 | In tackling the serious problem of rural poverty , the Kenyan Government has advocated a Basic Needs approach to development and the research focuses on the ability of the schemes to improve standards of living for the rural poor . |
| 29 | The book begins with the 1950s , when baby manuals indexed ‘ fathers ’ as ‘ for fathers see mothers ’ , and men were ‘ angry ’ , ‘ tough ’ or ‘ queer ’ ; it ends with ‘ a new agenda for the 1990s ’ , described hopefully as a time when men join women in fighting for an end to exploitation of women at work and home , and the ‘ masculinity ’ we have known will come to a timely end . |
| 30 | father replaced mother 's lost services by caring for the infant himself , the father 's services did not accrue as a result of the death . |