Example sentences of "[noun] [to-vb] for [art] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | From time to time he returned to Antwerp to arrange for the shipping of his works to England . |
| 2 | On his own decision to go for the draw with a last-minute John Liley penalty , Richards said pointedly : ‘ Trying to win the game by opting for the scrum would have been a waste of time because the moment we drove for the line , they would have wheeled it or collapsed it . |
| 3 | Suppose that the father had later authorised the creditor to sue for the balance of the debt — or required him to do so as trustee ( see Vaughan Williams L.J. ) ? |
| 4 | She slipped the newspaper cutting into the top drawer of her bedside chest , then took the opportunity to go for a walk by herself , without Josh . |
| 5 | Here had he buried his face in Sir John 's broad chest to weep for the loss of his mother . |
| 6 | This has resulted in a general failure on the part of local education authorities to plan for the promotion of community languages across all phases of the education system . |
| 7 | Crawford 's willingness to suffer for the good of the show , beyond the call of duty , was an early example of the masochistic rigours he would endure for the sake of comedy . |
| 8 | Not only has the arid nature of the land inspired successive rulers to create the most exquisite and luxuriant ornamental gardens in their palaces and towns ; it has also spurred generations of textile artists to compensate for the harshness of their environment by weaving emblems of foliate abundance into their rugs . |
| 9 | FOR YOUNG PEOPLE , A NEW ENTITLEMENT TO TRAIN FOR A PERIOD OF UP TO FOUR YEARS , WITH A QUALIFICATION AT THE END OF IT COMPARABLE TO THE ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENTS OF THOSE WHO HAVE STAYED AT SCHOOL . |
| 10 | In conjunction with the necessity to provide for the transition from estate duty to CT . |
| 11 | He subsequently offered to supply free electricity to Czechoslovakia to compensate for the loss of generating capacity from the plant . |
| 12 | If the tax base is too small to support the welfare burden , there is not enough money to provide for the demand of welfare services and people have to do without . |
| 13 | Some are the head of the family with husband and children dependent on their salary some are single parents and some rely on their income to provide for the shortfall in their partner 's earnings . |
| 14 | Or , as Niall Fitzduff put it , the community ‘ is not to be destroyed at the whim of mining company ’ while nothing could ‘ compensate us or the generations to come for the loss of our community ’ . |
| 15 | The report of the Review Body on Civil Justice said the Council ‘ should enable the judiciary to plan for the allocation of High Court caseloads and judge power in the light of needs and resources of that court as a whole rather than of individual Divisions . |
| 16 | A lot of the members told me I was very good — I could pull clubs well and read greens — and I should try going to the Bing Crosby to work for a pro in the tournament . |
| 17 | One Sunday I asked Biddy to come for a walk on the marshes . |
| 18 | ( iii ) Building on their experience of reading and hearing a wide range of poetry , they should have opportunities , both individually and in groups , to use poetic features such as rhythm , rhyme and alliteration in verse forms such as jingles , limericks , ballads , haiku , etc. ( iv ) Pupils should have opportunities to write for a range of communicative or informative purposes including describing , explaining , giving instructions , reporting , expressing a point of view . |
| 19 | Deprived of its mother 's constant care in those years , it will grow up emotionally handicapped , incapable of forming deep relationships and might steal in an attempt to compensate for a lack of mother love . |
| 20 | In an attempt to compensate for the reduction of Soviet aid the government made serious efforts during 1990 to improve economic relations with its Asian neighbours , including Thailand , Indonesia and Taiwan . |
| 21 | News of the donation reached the UK press by June 6 and prompted a hostile reaction , as it was interpreted as an attempt to compensate for the killing of a policewoman , Yvonne Fletcher , outside the Libyan People 's Bureau in London in April 1984 [ see pp. 33004-05 ] . |
| 22 | She allowed her mind to dwell for a minute on her old schoolfellow in the role of husband . |
| 23 | Amongst those who did not do duty in this year 's championship are Phil Davies ( standing down as Llanelli skipper after a highly successful five year run ; reverting to the second row and declaring his intention to challenge for a place in the Lions party in that position — remember the trouble he gave Paul Ackford when Wales last beat England in 1989 ) ; David Bryant ( controversially appointed a youthful pack leader in his first season in international rugby under the John Ryan regime , now recovered from a debilitating period of illness ) ; Andy Allen ( the front jumper was capped out of Newbridge in 1990 , subsequently becoming yet another moving down the valley to Newport ) ; Aled Williams ( one cap as a replacement wing in Namibia in 1990 , when a Bridgend player , but increasingly favoured by many to join Robert Jones in forming a club halfback partnership ) . |
| 24 | While do-it-yourself rock , fan-club organizations and dancing-in-the-aisles are certainly not independent of industry interests , such a breathtaking theoretical closure reduces the musical role of the vast majority of humankind to a subservient attempt to match up , as listeners , to the demands of ‘ advanced ’ producers ; Marx 's vision of a future with every man an artist certainly seems to be definitively buried , but on a less exalted level , there is once again no attempt to look for the possibility of contradictory meanings in the actual practice of real listeners . |
| 25 | Joyce explained that it had always been his intention to apply for a commission in the army once he had got his degree . |
| 26 | ‘ Mr Lockwood , ’ he said finally , brushing a tear from his eye , ‘ you can go into my bedroom to sleep for the rest of the night . |
| 27 | The sponsors of the bill made clear their intention to press for a vote on it within the current legislative session . |
| 28 | Ask local car dealer to write to car manufacturers to press for the introduction of more fuel efficient cars ? |
| 29 | Up on the Wolds , the Scots were looting and killing at Malton and around the villages of Kilham and Rudston ; shrewdly the prior of Bridlington sent a Scottish-born canon to Malton to negotiate for the safety of his house , while at the same time the priory prudently removed all its muniments , vestments and precious relics ( a piece of the true cross among them ) to Goxhill , in Lincolnshire , and left only eight canons with one chalice in Bridlington . |
| 30 | If , as children , we were given healing opportunities to grieve for a range of losses , whether it was falling and losing our precariously-achieved sense of balance , the death of a cat , the breaking of a doll or having to move house , we will have learned skills which will stand us in good stead later . |