Example sentences of "[verb] for the [adj] [noun sg] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They are well understood , cheap to collect and very difficult to evade … rates should remain for the foreseeable future the main source of local revenue for local government ’ ( DOE/Welsh Office 1983a : 14 ) . |
| 2 | Obviously , the fewer carp competing for the available food the better the chance of reaching a worthwhile size . |
| 3 | Soviet negotiators had been eager to preserve for the Soviet Union the right to retain something close to 80 per cent of the Warsaw Pact total . |
| 4 | The immediate task entrusted by Franco to Lequerica was to secure for the Spanish regime the approval of the western democracies without , as yet , severing its links with Nazi Germany . |
| 5 | Eastman Kodak Co 's Japanese unit has had to pay about $20,000 each to those eight new college graduates for reneging on its promise to employ them : the money is to compensate for the psychological damage the last-minute cancellation may have caused them , and provide some of the salary they expected . |
| 6 | He said : ‘ I was on the verge of the England squad with Norwich and played for the Under-21 side a few times . |
| 7 | Though this rate drops during the rest of the year , the small estuary of the Rhode River received for the entire year an average 5.1 tonnes of total nitrogen from bulk precipitation ( snow and rain ) , and 7.3 tonnes from watershed run-off . |
| 8 | Hobson 's Imperialism is important in our context not because of its impact on the development of Marxist theories of ‘ the last stage of capitalism ’ , but as an attempt to restate for the new century the fundamental principles of Cobdenite free trade . |
| 9 | However , without waiting for the Royal Commission the Liberal Government decided to promote two pieces of legislation that significantly modified the role of the poor law in the provision of social security , the Old Age Pensions Act of 1908 and the National Insurance Act of 1911 . |
| 10 | When hiring tools from HSS Hire Shops you only pay for the actual time the equipment is in use ; in addition you have the HAE assurance that the tools you select are regularly maintained , and are in a safe condition . |
| 11 | Placement may assist in pulling together the framework and coherent objectives for partnerships ; can explore how other organisations may be used ; is able to secure commitment to growth by partners through direct experience of one another ; establishes communications between the various partners ; may be used to identify who should be involved and at what levels ; provides a regular data and information flow through its exchange mechanism ; may indicate for the local area the support available from national employers that may be utilised at the local level ; constructs environments where introductions are purposeful between the partners and can adopt an incremental approach to partnership activity . |
| 12 | That from the nobility , gentry , clergy , yeomanry and freeholders of Middlesex considered the action both illegal and arbitrary as well as threatening to the very concept of private property : " the pretended necessity of reserving for the public service the specie deposited by individuals in the Bank … may be pleaded at any time , and applied , with equal reason , to any private property whatsoever " . |
| 13 | While NATO must maintain for the foreseeable future a mix of nuclear and conventional forces in Europe , the declaration reaffirmed that no weapons would ever be used except in self-defence and that the lowest and most stable level of nuclear forces to prevent war was sought . |
| 14 | Labour proposes to get rid of Trust status hospitals , returning them to local authority control and substituting for the internal market a series of performance agreements boosted by incentives . |
| 15 | Indeed it had never occurred to him to sell bits of Hatherley to keep the paper going any more than he had considered using the profits of the paper , in the years when there were some , to pay for the substantial renovation the house had required . |
| 16 | The signatures of these ‘ partner equivalents ’ would serve to document the individuals ' responsibility for the examination ; to that extent it eliminates for the outside world the element of anonymity currently inherent in the practice of signing audit opinions only in the names of the firms . |
| 17 | In this context , prosecution itself — and not the punishment imposed by the court — becomes for the regulatory agency the penalty for failure to comply . |
| 18 | As there are many centres , so there are many different ways of operating , but in a survey conducted for the Royal Commission an extract from a document prepared by the Legal Action Group was found helpful , not only for the description of law centres , but also for the distinction it drew between their function and that of legal advice centres . |
| 19 | Because there are so many desirable objectives to achieve for the convalescent patient the outcome of rehabilitative measures is difficult to quantify . |
| 20 | Bowlers qualified for the final over the previous weekends to fill the 32 places in the double elimination final . |
| 21 | Clearly identify for the participating member the required timing , forms of reporting required , etc . |