Example sentences of "[verb] [to-vb] [noun sg] for [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Beginning with relatively peaceful " teach-ins " at which the issues raised by the war were debated , the movement grew , using marches , rallies and sit-ins , designed to disrupt recruitment for the armed services . |
| 2 | Those whose desks will be rearranged to find room for the new machines will find it harder to exert some control . |
| 3 | The project needs to raise money for a new van . |
| 4 | A ‘ good ’ book needs to have meaning for the individual reader and it must bring meaning to what is experienced in our daily lives . |
| 5 | And the head — above all — needs to take responsibility for the whole programme . |
| 6 | As more and more data is read , old data that has been accessed least is discarded to make room for the new . |
| 7 | In 1968 , the last word in its title was dropped to make way for the National Eye Institute . |
| 8 | After the war , reactors like the Windscale ‘ piles ’ — scene of the 1957 accident described in Chapter One — were designed to produce material for the first British nuclear bombs , and no expense was spared in developing the necessary technology . |
| 9 | Installation time is largely dependant on how much disk space the files you have already take up , since what 's already there is squeezed to make room for the extra drive , and squeezing takes time . |
| 10 | The previous occupant had been a Swiss merchant who had been evicted to make way for the English milord and his lady , and Jane had a suspicion that the Swiss , like all foreigners , harboured strange and filthy diseases . |
| 11 | A 40-FOOT Blue Cedar tree in Liss is enjoying a change of scenery after it was moved to save it from being felled to make way for a new garage . |
| 12 | On the whole , people are divided into those who want to make room for a serious collection and those who want to use wall space to its most decorative advantage . |
| 13 | Secondly , most of the fancy school fees plans are designed to make money for the financial institutions which put them together , and for the intermediary or agent who sells them . |
| 14 | There are moments when the insistence upon party is as unforgiveable as insistence upon personal things , when the difficulties which the nation has to confront call for a wider outlook and a broader union than can be found even within the limits of a single party , and when the traditions of more than one party , the ideas of more than one party need to be put into the common stock . |
| 15 | What can teachers do to promote mathematics for a multicultural society ? |
| 16 | The French Chamber of Deputies killed the chance of Anglo-French cooperation by refusing to vote money for a joint expedition . |
| 17 | The second session of Parliament , which began on 9 November , saw an attack on the standing army , the Commons refusing to vote supply for the additional forces that had been raised over the summer , and instead resolving to bring in a bill to reform the militia . |
| 18 | The third weakness is that the method adopted to conquer inflation for the second time — raising the interest rate — only works by inflicting pain on borrowers , both corporate and domestic . |
| 19 | Even as Mr Clinton prepared for his State of the Union address , the annual American equivalent of the Queen 's Speech , his administration was seeking to rally support for an economic plan which sparked the biggest fall in Wall Street stocks in 18 months . |
| 20 | This was built to supply water for the Grand Union Canal as it still does today . |
| 21 | The teenagers conned money out of the public by pretending to raise sponsorship for a bungy jump with half the proceeds going to charity . |
| 22 | Sometimes schools may choose to raise money for the overseas work we support and we are happy if they do , but this is in no way our purpose in contacting schools . |
| 23 | At the age of 76 and realising that the lifetime of the next Parliament would take him into his eighties , he has decided to make way for a younger man . |
| 24 | Prospects for 1993 are very mixed and boss Robert Fitzpatrick does not expect to achieve profitability for the entire year . |
| 25 | Right , I just thought the Chair would like to thank Councillor for the immense amount of work I know that he 's been putting in over certain things that have been going on lately and I now take councillors ' questions if any of you got any for me . |
| 26 | In 1953 , the British National Conference on Social Work warned of the problems of abrupt retirement , while throughout the decade old people 's welfare committees acted to find work for the elderly . |
| 27 | However , it has also unexpectedly had to rewrite code for the vast numbers of device drivers and peripherals supported in the Intel iAPX-86 family of microprocessors . |
| 28 | Meanwhile , the many parts of the North which are anticipated to experience depopulation for the foreseeable future ( OPCS , 1988 ) will tend to find more defensive strategies being adopted by the private sector and local authorities alike , as their revenue base contracts and as the use of their facilities falls below its optimum level . |
| 29 | Who 's going to give money for a stuffed anorak with a football head tied to a pushchair when there 's Min , life-size , with cherries on her hat , puffing clouds of fag smoke in a real wheelchair ? |
| 30 | Where democratic institutions were ineffective as in pre-war Japan , it was all too easy for a collectivist tradition to be used to mobilize support for an authoritarian regime . |