Example sentences of "[verb] [to-vb] a [noun] for the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Offices were established at the destination points to provide a service for the international traveller . |
| 2 | That was the shock claim from Blades manager Dave Bassett last night after he failed to find a buyer for the 32-year old-winger . |
| 3 | More fundamentally , many courts failed to find a basis for the first resort approach . |
| 4 | The seller sold one car for £350 but failed to find a purchaser for the other . |
| 5 | Commissioned by the Henry Moore Foundation , it is intended to provide a centre for the display , study , research and promotion of sculpture of all periods and nationalities . |
| 6 | The agreements , which have still to be firmed up , are intended to provide a framework for the companies to work together on integrating personal computers and phones , and to enable real-time data conferencing over regular telephone lines , and videoconferencing over ISDN . |
| 7 | The association of local spaces can be further developed to provide a basis for the study of the motions of moving parts within a system . |
| 8 | Computervision is expected to report a loss for the quarter that ended last week , after earning $4.8m in the prior quarter . |
| 9 | ‘ The Kuwait contract is important as it not only features ab initio pilot training but is expected to include a requirement for the School to teach very experienced airline pilots the special skills required to become line training captains , ’ says OATS ' Principal Ken Meehan . |
| 10 | While Tshwete was in Australia and New Zealand following the Cricket World Cup , a leading ANC sports activist , Mr Mluleki George , who also chairs the NOSC ( the National Olympic and Sports Congress , recognised by most Commonwealth governments as the voice of non-Olympic sports in South Africa ) , wrote letters to the governing bodies and the authorities in Australia , New Zealand , France and England demanding they ban or discourage the planned tours to and from the Republic , arguing that the development programme about to be launched by the SARFU was only a smokescreen designed to provide a cover for the international aspirations of the white rugby establishment . |
| 11 | FATHER 'S LOVE Lucy 's disability helped convince Mr Stringer that he should strive to provide a home for the mentally handi-capped which he would be happy to see his own daughter live in . |
| 12 | He claims that the last shelf time period recorded on a book is highly predictive of future use , and gives a description of a simple method by which such information is examined and analysed to provide a basis for the weeding of stock . |
| 13 | Xerox is today expected to announce that it has called in New York investment banker Goldman Sachs & Co to try to find a buyer for the company . |
| 14 | This afternoon , the liquidators were meeting to try to find a buyer for the holiday firm , which employs 6 staff at its offices in Summertown . |
| 15 | Mr Oag will be using his prize of two return BA return tickets to any European destination and up to £1,000 of accommodation provided by Grant Thornton , with introductions to local contacts , to try to find a distributor for the German market . |
| 16 | My hon. Friend the Member for Belfast , East ( Mr. Robinson ) and I understood that the basis of the talks was to try to secure a replacement for the Anglo-Irish Agreement and to make arrangements to safeguard the administration of Northern Ireland within the United Kingdom . |
| 17 | After a short time he asked if he could have a whisky and soda , and when the ingredients were brought tried to pour a drink for the King . |
| 18 | An open question , such as — " How should we deal with this man who 's come to do a survey for the railway company ? " — can be very intimidating . |
| 19 | The public consultation exercise that was part of that erm Greater York study , and quite clearly the Greater York study was not a statutory plan , it was an informal plan , but it was the only way really that progress could be made in the absence erm of adopted local plans in Greater York , it was essential that that document was pursued to give a framework for the preparation of district local plans er and the greenbelt local plan , and the resolution that followed the consultation and the long body of work , and I 'll read it out , was that the development strategy for Greater York from ninety six to two thousand and six should be based on agreed sites within and on the periphery of the built up area , and that the residual requirement be met for the development of a new settlement or settlements located beyond the outer boundary erm of the greenbelt , a quite clearly there 's a major policy implication there that a new settlement was not acceptable within the greenbelt but would have to be er outside the outer boundary of the greenbelt , and the public consultation on that er study er attracted widespread support for a new settlement strategy in Greater York , all six authorities agreed that that was the direction er that had to be taken , it also had another benefit in that it enabled work on the York greenbelt local plan erm to proceed and that has now been taken forward to the stage where the enquiry terminated in May , it 's a joint enquiry in the greenbelt local plan enquiry , with a Southern Ryedale local plan enquiry in April ninety three , and we would hope that the inspectors report on that six month enquiry , when he considered all the objections to the er greenbelt proposals of the County Council , largely supported by the er District Council will be available er in the near future . |
| 20 | The provisions of paragraphs ( 1 ) and ( 2 ) above shall not apply so as to make it unlawful for a motor vehicle to be fitted with an instrument or apparatus other than a two-tone horn designed to emit a sound for the purpose of informing members of the public that goods are on the vehicle for sale . |
| 21 | We shall need to settle a time for the service — the sooner the better . |
| 22 | You will need to get a receipt for the materials if you do the work yourself or the bill from the contractor if you have the work done for you . |
| 23 | They actually tried to have a structure for the organisation that had doctors , nurses , alternative healers and patients with parity at the organisational level , but they kept the front up that it was run by doctors , because that way they would be acknowledged within the discourses of medicine as having equal power to argue . |
| 24 | These findings are particularly interesting in view of the fact that reading is a verbal process and might therefore be expected to yield a superiority for the right hand . |
| 25 | The bright gold and green foliage which makes the crowning glory of the winter border has to become a backdrop for the summer garden . |
| 26 | So if the furnace needs an overhaul and Dizzy wants to throw a party for the locals to improve his image , then Dizzy 's Princess might just have to go . ’ |
| 27 | But on one pleasure note , I want to make a plug for the Making Out series . |
| 28 | Unlike Ted , he had risen rapidly up the ranks , was voted Rookie of the Year in 1987 , made it into the Top 16 at the end of '88 , and was tipped to become a challenger for the world title . |
| 29 | Once there , the woman starts to make a play for the young man but , before a seduction can take place , Mr Robinson returns . |
| 30 | At its November meeting the Council failed to set a date for the next SAARC summit , originally scheduled for 1989 , after Sri Lanka formally declared its refusal , while Indian troops remained on its soil , to host the meeting as decided at the fourth summit in December 1989 in Islamabad , Pakistan [ for which see p. 36485 ] . |