Example sentences of "[noun] [noun] were [vb pp] [to-vb] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | The peer review methods adopted by the Research Councils in the evaluation of research proposals were designed to provide for a fair distribution of national R & D funding , ( which some consider to be inadequate at present ) . |
| 2 | There can be no doubt , however , that funerary liability was a powerful inducement to save ; it was estimated in 1843 that between one-quarter and one-third of all deposits in savings banks were intended to provide for ‘ a respectable funeral . ’ |
| 3 | They also stated that if no help was forthcoming they might later in the year repeal the international law of first asylum under which the boat people were allowed to apply for refugee status and be given a fair hearing . |
| 4 | On one occasion two neighbourhood men were asked to account for their handling of a complaint about parked lorries , at which the field-worker was present , and they described the substance of this recipe as follows : |
| 5 | TERRIFIED college students were forced to swim for their lives after their bus plunged into a water-filled ravine in Calais , northern France . |
| 6 | Odds ratios were calculated and unconditional multivariate logistic regression models were used to adjust for potential confounding by age at diagnosis and calendar period . |
| 7 | If any ambiguity remained , either because multiple readings survived or because some anaphor had several surviving candidates , common sense inference rules were invoked to look for a causal or other link between a proposition in the current sentence and one in an earlier one . |
| 8 | THREE appeal court judges were asked to rule for the first time yesterday that parents could sue doctors for negligence over the loss of a child though the fatal injuries had been suffered before birth . |
| 9 | All the 650 headquarters staff were told to report for work as normal . |
| 10 | Hitherto member states were expected to pay for all environmental measures themselves . |
| 11 | Lothian and Borders fire crews were forced to call for extra assistance after the fire engulfed the kitchen and roof of Dean Park Primary School , a single-story building . |
| 12 | design requirements were changed to allow for the safe venting of any methane gas |
| 13 | Linear and quadratic time trends were included to control for the upward trend in volume . |