Example sentences of "[verb] [to-vb] [adv prt] [noun pl] for [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | FA Cup Final fever may be dissipating but excitement is only just beginning to mount over plans for a croquet centre of excellence . |
| 2 | Four pollsters pitched to carry out polls for a BBC current affairs television programme , of which one soon dropped out , two bid between £70,000 and £80,000 and the fourth only £45,000 . |
| 3 | We have also attempted to set down priorities for the Council . |
| 4 | FIRST-TIME buyers are queueing to snap up homes for a £1 down-payment . |
| 5 | Vial was asked to draw up regulations for the school and infirmary , keeping in mind the example of the foreign veterinary schools . |
| 6 | State governments will continue to have their own radio stations — that much is guaranteed by the constitution — but in 1981 the FRCN was authorized to draw up plans for the setting up of its own stations in every state . |
| 7 | If then you have invited the artists of Europe to send in plans for a Plan which we have no intention of executing , two questions will arise — the first is who will pay the Premiums which you propose to offer for these Plans , seeing that we could hardly propose to Parliament to vote Premiums for Plans that are not to be executed , and secondly whether the Artists of Europe will not think that they have been trifled with in being asked to send in Plans for an undertaking which the Govt had on consideration determined not to attempt . |
| 8 | They were asked to bring along prizes for the Tories ' Winter Ball , with the value of gifts reaching £5,000 . |
| 9 | Stalin sought to lay down criteria for the identification of a ‘ nation ’ ( the entity which possessed the right of national self-determination ) as a means , a moral theory , to separate authentic and spurious claims . |
| 10 | His private practice expanded and he was in charge of works at Abingdon Abbey in 1375–6 , but continued to carry out commissions for the Crown , at Corfe Castle , Dorset , in 1377 ; and the following year , with Henry Yevele [ q.v. ] , on the defences of Southampton . |
| 11 | When children help to put out chairs for the group or distribute mugs of orange juice or bottles of milk , then they need to establish one-to-one correspondence . |
| 12 | Trying to fight off calls for a ceasefire or resolutions that could be interpreted as critical , the US used its clout with Caribbean nations to block consideration of Nicaragua 's proposal on the grounds that all resolutions should be tabled with 24 hours notice . |
| 13 | It seems that in this respect the governors themselves considered the appraisal principally from the point of view of trying to bring about improvements for the school . |