Example sentences of "[noun] [to-vb] [adv] a [noun sg] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | For example , I have been at a venue like the Marquee club to check out a band for a record company and have also watched 30 minutes of the first act . |
| 2 | In 1989 , Cardiff City Council invited the Guild to set up a showcase for their work , as part of its temporary arts programme for the Old Library . |
| 3 | This body originated in 1834 , when Donaldson organized a committee to draw up a scheme for the formation of an institute to ‘ uphold the character and improve the attainments of Architects ’ . |
| 4 | His Hal would be a truant Prince , perhaps , a man disobedient to his father and contemptuous of the popular expectation , but no less a Prince for that , always watching , always using the lines to cut out a space for himself . |
| 5 | The Miseroni were called to Prague to set up a workshop for crystal carving and gem cutting , and they laid the foundations for the Bohemian cut-glass industry . |
| 6 | The President would lose the right to put down a motion for the government 's dismissal . |
| 7 | One such plan was Reith 's appointment of Patrick Abercrombie and the LCC architect J. H. Forshaw to draw up a scheme for the rebuilding of London . |
| 8 | One survivor recalled that having made up her mind to do this , she asked her elder sister to put in a word for her . |
| 9 | England started in the team tournament with a 4–2 victory over Austria to open up a chance for bronze or silver medal . |
| 10 | Before the fighting started in 1948 , some Palestinians had even arranged to take a holiday in case of hostilities and had called at the Lebanese consulate in Palestine to pick up a visa for Beirut . |
| 11 | Nevertheless s32(1) requires the court to draw up a timetable for disposing of the case without delay and s1(2) requires it to have regard to the general principle that any delay is likely to prejudice the child . |
| 12 | In a commitment to set up a Department for Legal Administration , Labour 's alternative White Paper stated : |
| 13 | It committed the forthcoming summit to draw up a mandate for negotiations on short-range nuclear forces . |
| 14 | Middlesbrough Council is to reconsider its decision to turn down a request for help from the Church of the Holy Trinity , North Ormesby , which faces a £41,000 bill for repairs to its Grade II listed clock tower . |
| 15 | Middlesbrough Council is to reconsider its decision to turn down a request for help from the Church of the Holy Trinity , North Ormesby , which faces a £41,000 bill for repairs to its Grade II listed clock tower . |
| 16 | He , they were late to bed I 'd had them erm round at the shops and then er er Queensway , then the shopping centre to pick up a card for for Chris . |
| 17 | An RSPB report calls for the government to draw up a strategy for the estuary 's future development with the involvement of local councils , the National Rivers Authority and English Nature . |
| 18 | The merger of the TSA with the AFBD is also rationalised in terms of the increasing linkages between the securities and futures markets and the desire for both markets to set up a system for trading futures and options on a Euroindex of stocks . |
| 19 | He was foaled on the South Island of New Zealand , and his entry in the catalogue for the 1928 Trentham Yearling Sales took the eye of Sydney-based trainer Harry Telford , who persuaded owner David Davis to send in a bid for the horse . |
| 20 | Murdock lost no time in setting out for London to take out a patent for his model . |
| 21 | I stopped at the garage to fill up a can for the mower . |