Example sentences of "[verb] [adj] [noun] [to-vb] for the " in BNC.

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1 Later it made economic sense to plan for the vehicle to carry things which had been given free in England but which were too heavy for me to manage for the whole way .
2 Branches invited local groups to apply for the donations in order to be considered .
3 Mr Karel Van Miert , the Transport Commissioner , is asking member governments to approve a plan which would leave passenger services largely in the hands of state-owned monopolies but open up freight services to competition by permitting private operators to pay for the use of publicly-owned tracks .
4 And it will provide medical equipment to care for the 120 children there .
5 Thus , for example , the disabled wife ( or cohabitee ) can only draw the Non-contributory Invalidity Pension if she is unable to perform normal ( as defined by the DHSS ) household duties , regardless of whether housework is her normal profession , regardless of the fact that men and single women only have to prove inability to do paid work to qualify for the pension ; and conversely , the Invalid Care Allowance , for people who lose their incomes because they must stay at home and care for a sick relative , is not payable to wives ( or cohabitees ) because it is assumed that they would be at home in any case !
6 The foregoing Committee shall have full power to arrange for the nights and subjects , and also to fix the nights for Magic Lantern Entertainments .
7 THE mother and father of a boy born without eyes are joining other parents to fight for the truth behind their son 's rare condition possibly linked to pesticides .
8 The joint chiefs held that General MacArthur should have sufficient resources to provide for the occupation of part of Korea in addition to his principal task of occupying Japan .
9 It was statistical analysis of trends in admissions to and discharges from mental hospitals that had led central government to plan for the redundancy of the hospitals .
10 He will now begin the physically and mentally painful process of taking male hormones to establish for the first time his masculinity .
11 A gradual decline is evident until the records cease in November 1872 although the last entry was " to take immediate steps to prepare for the Soiree . "
12 An offshoot , to enable voluntary bodies to prepare for the Earth Summit , has met three times and included a meeting with the Environment Minister .
13 Though his first political sympathies were with the Union and the right-wing of the Conservative party , William Joyce subsequently held English misgovernment to blame for the loss of Ireland .
14 ‘ In the meantime we must not forget that we have tough targets to meet for the current year .
15 County had lost six of their last eight League games at the Baseball Ground , which had prompted disgruntled supporters to call for the resignation of manager Arthur Cox .
16 After a hard day of gruelling silence over long distance we both mumble bleak consent to stop for the night .
17 Military activity was not confined lo the European area but spread into the area known as The Middle East where an unusual British Officer , Thomas Edward Laurence , was able to successfully organise Arab tribesmen to fight for the Allies cause .
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