Example sentences of "[verb] [noun] for [verb] [prep] the " 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 | Which cricket county was fined £1,000 for tampering with the ball ? |
| 3 | When Geoffrey son of Sarah of Empingham resisted this illegal demand , the forester raised the hue and cry upon him , and distrained him until he gave him two shillings and found sureties for appearing at the attachment court . |
| 4 | Sonya Jeffery , Belfast Parks Department , highlights opportunities for walking in the Cave Hill area , which includes part of the Ulster Way . |
| 5 | Umpires Barry Dudleston and John Holder — the man who reported England for tampering with the ball on the same ground against West Indies last year — changed the ball because it had been suspiciously scuffed . |
| 6 | This whittling down of the 33% ( June ) or 30% ( November ) of pupils absent to a very small percentage seen as truants has implications for dealing with the problem of truancy . |
| 7 | ( 3 ) those who are vulnerable to particular types of event , but whose circumstances either make their occurrence unlikely , or provide resources for dealing with the event should it occur ; |
| 8 | Tap D for Delete in the Command Menu ( not Del for Delete on the keyboard , and not Transfer Delete in the Command Area ! ) |
| 9 | Although the Macmillan cabinet pressed management to delay a settlement , ministers were not prepared to take responsibility for a breakdown in negotiations ; when the industry settled , the Prime Minister publicly rebuked management for capitulating to the unions and breaching the pay pause ( 1982 : 225–6 ) . |
| 10 | There must have been , for the time being at least , compelling reasons for embarking on the Foxton development . |
| 11 | After a new client was ushered onto the market by the AE , the SAE would then assume responsibility for looking after the client 's market positions , and for obtaining future business . |
| 12 | The charges had been finally brought following the public campaign of Glen Kealey , himself an Ottawa developer , who became the country 's most celebrated protestor and suffered ridicule for standing outside the parliament building in Ottawa for over two years in a crusade against alleged federal government corruption . |
| 13 | The FRED includes proposals for accounting for the treatment of issue costs associated with capital instruments . |
| 14 | In my judgment the Secretary of State , if he sets a tariff period which exceeds that recommended by the judiciary , is not under an absolute obligation to give reasons for departing from the judicial view . |
| 15 | ( i mean the way he have sticked with specially dino shows us that — dino himself who expressed wishes for playing at the international level himself when he joined leeds — i guess he is a farther away now : the likes of Shearer , Wright ( a flop in the internationals ) , Cole ( hey there is one that puts them in the net ) and Ferdinand will have no problems keeping him out … ) |
| 16 | Designers of computer based support for thinking beyond the level of merely providing additional information will hopefully begin to simultaneously use and develop these ideas . |
| 17 | After the broadcast finished Mary and I thanked Joelle for coming on the programme and being a target for all the anti-French feeling flying around at the time . |
| 18 | The cost of a player in the fantasy league does not reflect his ‘ true ’ value ; for defenders and goalies it 's how many clean sheets , +4 points , or goals conceded — 1 point for each ( but they get points for nipping in the odd goal ; why Irwin is worth 3m and Tony 1.9m ) ; for the midfield and forwards it is how many they score , +3 points , and how many they assist with , +2 points , explaining why Speed is valued higher than Macca , as at the time of setting this up he was putting them in the onion bag . |
| 19 | Nevertheless , at the risk of confirming suspicions that he was a political reactionary , he scrupulously avoided discussion of internal French politics ( except to criticize Vichy for collaborating with the Germans ) . |
| 20 | Extra-curricular activities , sports , drama , music , chess clubs , gym club etc all improve the chances of making every child a winner , boosting self-image and giving reason for celebrating plus the additional spin off of enhancement of the school 's reputation . |
| 21 | Some sixty-three residents and thirty-seven day people enjoyed the very lively and varied sessions tutored by and — both from Surrey — and still found energy for dancing in the evenings . |
| 22 | A TEENAGE IRA girl was jailed for 10 years yesterday for plotting to kill troops — while her accomplice was given life for helping in the murder of a businessman . |
| 23 | Blackwell Retail , which used to produce its own catalogue , broke with tradition this year and took Books for Giving for the first time . |
| 24 | Tameside home owners claim opportunities for contracting with the SSD have been markedly reduced because block contracts have been established with the controversial Tameside Enterprises Limited care homes trust , the company which bought the council stock of residential homes . |
| 25 | This is a finely tuned mechanism for responding to the imperatives of the law of conservation of mass . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | Arriving at Napo , I discussed plans for collecting with the INIAP technician , José Baquero , who was to be my assistant on the project . |
| 28 | He also attended a meeting at which the lessors and their solicitors discussed tactics for dealing with the lessees . |
| 29 | ‘ These killings started when he broke free ; and he did not escape punishment for working under the Great Criminal , as we did . ’ |
| 30 | To take another example , peasants often form reciprocal labour groups to cope with periods of particularly high labour demand ( e.g. paddy transplanting , or preparing plots for burning in the forest for shifting cultivation ) . |