Example sentences of "[prep] a [noun sg] [to-vb] for the " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I explained it was a bit of a flap to go for the train this afternoon . |
| 2 | All of a day to wait for the skilful of ecstasy … she sighed . |
| 3 | By a deathbed grant he ensured the foundation at Denhall in the Wirral of a hospital to care for the poor and for those shipwrecked on the passage to Ireland . |
| 4 | In Precedent 1 , cl 5.5 gives an example of a simple retention of title clause , coupled with the express grant of a power to sue for the price , once the due date for payment has come , even though property has not passed . |
| 5 | Dr Thomas Beddoes , a Bristol physician at Hotwells , told him of an opportunity to write for the Morning Chronicle in London , and Coleridge , with a heavy heart , almost accepted the editor 's ‘ very handsome offer ’ . |
| 6 | For the investor to benefit from any increase in the value of a company it is essential for a market to exist for the shares . |
| 7 | Please use them as you think appropriate — as a vein to mime for The Graduate , as props for Reunions , to archive , or junk . |
| 8 | Jones 's acknowledged aim was to seize some important person as a hostage to exchange for the American sailors taken prisoner by the Royal Navy , who were imprisoned indefinitely as pirates , and in his own words , ‘ to put an end of burnings in America by making a good fire in England ’ . |
| 9 | Cooper , who saw striker John Gayle sent off after an off-the-ball clash with Daniel Delicari in the 70th minute , stormed : ‘ With a chance to qualify for the semi-finals of the competition , I thought the players would really have gone for it . |
| 10 | She paid her account at the Imperial Hotel , and with her maid staggering under six hatboxes followed by a small procession of luggage borne by sturdy footmen , she climbed into a victoria to depart for the railway station . |
| 11 | Rented property is usually taken for a period of a year with an option to renew for the second and third years of the contract ; even six-month lets are rare . |
| 12 | Utilisation measured by admission rates at the small area level was used as the measure of need , with an attempt to adjust for the current level of supply of health care facilities . |
| 13 | In particular the crisis was seen by Washington as an opportunity to press for the rearmament of West Germany . |
| 14 | 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 ] . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | It all starts off on the Friday evening of the Spring Bank Holiday with the President 's dinner , which for the centenary is being held in a marquee to cater for the huge numbers who wish to attend . |
| 17 | While they had not asked for permission to enter his lands and claimed they were not in a position to pay for the disturbance , they promised he would be well looked after if the find was as good as appeared . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | Like Hungary , Poland is using tax breaks and special currency provisions in an effort to compensate for the lack of a convertible currency . |
| 20 | An ease in grade plus the bonus of Trap 1 should all add up to a return to form for the Gordon Hodson runner . |
| 21 | He came to a stop to feel for the kerb . |
| 22 | The Wellcome Foundation Trust , a charitable arm of the Wellcome drug company set up to fund medical research , has agreed in principle to a request to pay for the three-year investigation . |
| 23 | Since the middle of the nineteenth century this has produced a persistent surplus of population in the countryside with a consequent depression of wage levels-Rural depopulation has rarely proceeded on a scale to compensate for the reduced demand for labour in rural areas and neither has the demand for labour in the countryside been adequately stimulated by the provision of sufficient alternative employment opportunities to agriculture . |