Example sentences of "[adv] [to-vb] [noun] for [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He fell headlong , his arms flailing , and struck the street hard enough to lose consciousness for a few seconds . |
| 2 | The suppliers lost count of the ancient oaks , not to mention the chestnut and cherry trees , cut down to provide panelling for the two grand offices reserved for the couple , but also for hundreds of function rooms and apparatchiks ' offices . |
| 3 | ‘ Cyclists and hikers … day excursionists , refugees from cursed towns ’ were prominent enough to provide fuel for the poetic pen of C. Day Lewis . |
| 4 | The purpose of these laws was not only to provide guidance for the day-to-day running of the Israelite community , but to teach how a holy God was to be worshipped by a holy people . |
| 5 | By the 1940s , retirement had been written in to state support for the elderly and , as such , became part of a new institutionalized dependence . |
| 6 | Our branch of the association has around nine members who work together to raise money for the full training of guide dogs estimated to cost £1,000 . |
| 7 | The catalogue of offences regarded as serious enough to merit dismissal for a single occurrence is sometimes lengthy . |
| 8 | Henry III originated the practice of forcing landowners to take up knighthood , in order apparently to recruit cavalrymen for an overseas campaign . |
| 9 | ‘ We could end up in the lunatic situation of the TDC having to pull it down to make way for a new development . ’ |
| 10 | GREEN demonstrators wept yesterday as trees were torn down to make way for a giant Tesco 's . |
| 11 | In this instance , for example : The corner shop is to be closed and knocked down to make way for a multi-storey car-park . |
| 12 | The houses remained until the early 1950s when they were knocked down to make way for the new church . |
| 13 | The church was closed for repair and restoration during the years 1887–8–9 , when the old ruinous south chapel was pulled down to make room for the present commodious aisles , the reason for this being the increase in population due to industrialisation in the village . |
| 14 | In May 1890 , the minutes state that ‘ the old Saloon Shed having been pulled down to make room for the new Paint Shop , a shed is required for the three shunt engines ’ . |
| 15 | Northern Ireland has never won the Home Internationals before but team manager Jim McGrory feels that this year 's selection is good enough to achieve success for the first time . |
| 16 | MP to check if SCSI card fitted , and if not to discuss specifications for a new machine . |
| 17 | Yet it would be quite proper , and indeed is necessary , for non-scientists to have views about whether or not to buy meat for the coming weekend . |
| 18 | ‘ Not to run errands for the powerful ones of this city . |
| 19 | During his campaign , he promised not to raise taxes for the middle classes ; he is now faced with the realisation that if he is to cut the deficit and fulfil his promises to improve social welfare , education and training and to overhaul health provisions , then tax increases which extend beyond the seriously wealthy are unavoidable . |
| 20 | An innkeeper must be careful however , not to refuse service for the wrong reasons . |
| 21 | They replaced the roses in the paved garden with low carpeting plants , and the bowling green was swept away to make room for a peaceful enclosure with a pool , a statue , stone benches and a weeping pear . |
| 22 | I am convinced that what is needed in initial teacher education is not just to instil respect for a particular form of academic learning . |
| 23 | Boyd 's cross was taken on the volley by Ferguson as he deliberately launched himself backwards to make room for a full-blooded shot . |
| 24 | The first five items here had to be held over to make space for the 1990 Social List in the March issue … |
| 25 | Alex tries to demystify it , says its function is just to produce electricity for the National Grid efficiently and cleanly , that the main difference between this and any other power station is that you do n't have beside it a huge pyramid of polluting coal dust . |
| 26 | He remounted immediately and set off in pursuit of the other runners , but as a Gold Cup trial the race was a mess , and the announcement that Jonjo O'Neill was once more to replace Mullins for the big race came as no surprise . |
| 27 | Dry cleaning staff from Hartonclean and Dale Cleaners on Tyneside played a men versus women football match yesterday to raise cash for the neo-natal unit at Newcastle 's RVI . |
| 28 | They stood aside to make way for a blind Indian youth in a parka who was confidently striding down the way with his cane held out before him . |
| 29 | The cells of our skin are constantly dying and being replaced , the old ones have to be sloughed off to make space for the new . |
| 30 | Spurred by a fleeting but unmistakable echo of Thetis 's music , interpolated in its original key as if to remind him of his mother 's counsel , and by the groaning shades of his dead countrymen , he sets forth to exact vengeance for the Trojan victory ( ex.10 ) . |