Example sentences of "[verb] [to-vb] [noun sg] for the [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 | A ‘ good ’ book needs to have meaning for the individual reader and it must bring meaning to what is experienced in our daily lives . |
| 4 | And the head — above all — needs to take responsibility for the whole programme . |
| 5 | As more and more data is read , old data that has been accessed least is discarded to make room for the new . |
| 6 | In 1968 , the last word in its title was dropped to make way for the National Eye Institute . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | This was built to supply water for the Grand Union Canal as it still does today . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Prospects for 1993 are very mixed and boss Robert Fitzpatrick does not expect to achieve profitability for the entire year . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | The Partnership should therefore be encouraged and allowed to take responsibility for the Compact strategy . |
| 21 | The Partnership should therefore be encouraged and allowed to take responsibility for the Compact strategy . |
| 22 | I would like to ask permission for the following tracks to be used in addition to those listed in the letter of 5 June : |
| 23 | The results are analysed and used to improve training for the next batch of recruits . |
| 24 | This had to be demolished to make way for the new library complex and it was impossible to find alternative accommodation for all the books stored there . |
| 25 | The property , which Dockbuild bought in 1989 , was due to be demolished to make way for the fifth stage of the inner ring road . |
| 26 | The State Paper Office was architecturally the most interesting building to be demolished to make way for the present Foreign Office . |
| 27 | Once the first block is empty it will be demolished to make way for the second phase of house building , where the whole process of relocating and building is repeated . |
| 28 | The hijackers , who told reporters that they had been attempting to gain publicity for the pro-democracy cause in Myanma , pleaded guilty in Bangkok Criminal Court on Jan. 30 , 1990 . |
| 29 | Here you might hope to find evidence for the very beginnings of life . |
| 30 | Well we never heard the name shop steward in those days I do n't think they went that far , there was somebody in charge sort of thing but erm they er got the na the name afterwards I think you know shop steward , but er and then they used to be Miss used to have the garden fetes the garden parties on her lawn , that was for the Liberal Party you see as soon Labour was mentioned there were only Tories and Liberals at that time and er we used to , when there was an election er we used to wait up for the results and then if the Liberals got in Squires ' big bell would be rung if it was twelve o'clock at night or one o'clock in the morning the Squires ' big bell would be rung you see , to say who 'd got in , if the Tories got in it was n't rung because it was a , Squires were Liberals , strong Liberals and er they used to attend the Liberal Club at Shortheath but erm there used to be some fun in those er what 's the name parade if the Liberals got in and dances you know to raise money for the various things , and the garden fetes used to be lovely but er on their lawn . |