Example sentences of "[verb] [noun] [adv] for the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He provided time rapidly for the Select Committee on Sittings of the House which concerned curtailing hon. Members ' hours . |
| 2 | Turkey is flown in with the weekly food supplies , while in Tripoli some enterprising expats even breed turkeys specifically for the festive table . |
| 3 | That is the annual payment , and although we 're seeking approval now for the whole payment , we will defer one of , half of those , both of those payments until the six months ' interval , in order to gain the interest . |
| 4 | UN Commander Phillippe Morillon said his troops would begin preparations today for the mass evacuation . |
| 5 | What you also need to do is an annual cashflow projection , which will show the periods when you are likely to have a lot of bills coming in and how long you are likely to have in between to put money aside for the tough months . |
| 6 | On the A forty-three in Oxfordshire , just north of Enstone , some temporary traffic lights there are holding drivers up for the resurfacing work that 's going on there — a little bit of extra care should be taken . |
| 7 | But I think Freud would have also gone on to say that he had very good reason for resenting Wilson , because he blamed Wilson personally for the unjust peace , after er Versailles , but er , was indirectly , many people would argue , going to lead to the Second World War , and er , so Freud 's defence I think would be , this man really was responsible . |
| 8 | He was master of the Drapers ' Company of London in 1477–8 and in the latter year appears buying goods abroad for the royal wardrobe . |
| 9 | In 1642 he was acting as a commissary , or supply officer , at Chester , sending provisions over for the Anglo-Scottish forces in Ireland . |
| 10 | Certainly economic considerations were supreme and just as it did not make sense to build cinemas just for the rich so it would have been crazy to make films just for the religious , the doctrinaire , and the intellectual . |
| 11 | And that 's why we do n't make money on carriage forwards cos we do n't sell carriage forwards for the positive reasons , we say , well if they do n't want them send them back , or if they 're damaged send them back . |
| 12 | Further up the line Graham will call Wright in for the one-to-one . |
| 13 | We called Lucy out for the Grand Inspection . |
| 14 | It was clear she was blaming Paula bitterly for the interrupted afternoon and her boss 's drastic change of mood . |
| 15 | Many closely related subjects are grouped together , and an application for a course in any group ensures consideration also for the other courses in the same group . |
| 16 | Honey had been the only sweetener ; sugar had been as expensive as cinnamon or cloves and it could be taxed as a luxury in the firm belief that this would not make life harder for the working classes who were not thought to be consumers of sugar , though this was clearly changing in the eighteenth century . |
| 17 | At 5' 9 ’ and eight stone , Desiree took Tyson out for the big count and put him down where he belongs . |
| 18 | It is being used simply to speed things up for the general election . |
| 19 | He announced that courts would be given powers to bind parents over for the good behaviour of their children so that they could be ‘ brought face to face with their neglect ’ . |
| 20 | Then , to rub things in for the assembled paparazzi , Kylie made the photographers sign legal forms as they entered the theatre . |
| 21 | The second thing making life easier for the would-be proliferator is the break-up , and breakdown , of the Soviet Union . |
| 22 | Casteleyn observed that ‘ Smaller libraries may not need a full-time training officer but may be able to benefit from the advice of a training officer employed to develop training centrally for the whole organisation ’ , and suggested that ‘ smaller authorities who were unlikely to have their own training officers should look to their authority 's training department for support ’ but it seems that in practice , smaller libraries are least likely to have an existing strong centre of training expertise to turn to . |
| 23 | Students on the part-time course will work from home , visiting Middlesbrough only for the final examination . |
| 24 | The Bundesrat is a federal organ passing laws and raising taxes centrally for the whole country ( Article 106 ) . |
| 25 | Certainly economic considerations were supreme and just as it did not make sense to build cinemas just for the rich so it would have been crazy to make films just for the religious , the doctrinaire , and the intellectual . |
| 26 | And I have packaging specially for the small ones , it makes them easy for people to post if they want to post them off to friends . |
| 27 | As mentioned earlier , social services departments can and do make adaptations to premises to make life easier for the disabled person . |