Example sentences of "[to-vb] [noun] [noun] for a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ It is no exaggeration to suggest that the consequence of a failure to secure planning permission for a change of use may be the complete shut down of the Sundial with the loss of about 20 staff , ’ he said . |
| 2 | In some cases the development officer found it easier to substitute support workers for a home help . |
| 3 | New Zealand captain Martin Crowe : backed himself to hit Phil Tufnell for a matchsaving four — and lost |
| 4 | All stored configurable items are owned by the UIC of the LIFESPAN Process , so to estimate disk quota for a LIFESPAN Process , calculate the size of your total data storage requirements , multiply it by the average number of versions you intend to hold on-line , and add approximately 15000 blocks . |
| 5 | Christine McVicar , Glasgow Shettleston CLP , said she would not pay the tax , but failed to win conference support for a motion committing the party to a campaign of non-payment . |
| 6 | So when the actual rate of inflation rises to 4 per cent in Fig. 6.4 , people continue to expect zero inflation for a while and only in the long-run do they revise their expectations upwards towards 4 per cent . |
| 7 | Other good ideas are to fill the window with plants hung from the ceiling ; to fit glass shelves for a collection of coloured china or masses of pretty pot plants . |
| 8 | In August , the SMG began to press Mr McLean for a meeting to discuss the case , claiming that police protection was ineffective . |
| 9 | After this phase of the experiment was over , subjects were allowed to sleep as much as they wished , but continued to keep sleep diaries for a year . |
| 10 | Sally did n't choose to dress Princess Diana for a disco because she thinks Diana is ‘ a bit boring really ’ . |
| 11 | ‘ The answer for the future is for the landowner and the farmer to seek Ministry approval for a tenancy of up to five years . |
| 12 | Podger to deliver maintenance crews for a Beaufighter unit . |
| 13 | Mangon told them he had been unable to get work permits for a show at another venue . |
| 14 | Clwyd Health Authority is seeking to demolish the former War Memorial Hospital in Wrexham and to get planning permission for a supermarket on the site . |
| 15 | A chance encounter with ex-soldier Ronald Hobson , who wanted to know how to get planning permission for a car park on one of London 's many bomb sites , led to the birth of National Car Parks . |
| 16 | Wales YFC chief executive Martin Pugh said it was a constant battle for young people to get planning consent for a home . ’ |
| 17 | You maybe want to take Miss Ellen for a ride in Starkisser ? ’ |
| 18 | ‘ She might not like hanging around hospital , you know , sick people , smells of disinfectant … it 's early closing and I was going to ask Mr Hogan for a loan of the car . ’ |
| 19 | DASHING James Gilbey is expected to join Princess Diana for a Christmas party at her family home . |
| 20 | On the other hand , she finds it difficult to take much interest in financial control , which means that there are sometimes errors in bills , and her unwillingness to ask walk-in guests for a deposit has led to the occasional bad debt . |
| 21 | ‘ No ’ to houses A WELSH Office inspector has dismissed an appeal by D E and J H Hughes against a decision by Arfon Borough Council to refuse planning permission for a terrace of houses at Dolddafydd yard , Bethesda . |
| 22 | His mother had been silent when she first saw it , and his father had been angry at the lack of enthusiasm and had arranged to take Stuart fishing for a day to a small loch where he could borrow a boat . |
| 23 | The second workshop , devised by , and of Napier Polytechnic , was designed to prepare college staff for a validation event . |
| 24 | You have tried to prepare approval listings for a package which is being prepared already . |
| 25 | You have tried to prepare approval listings for a package without the necessary privilege . |
| 26 | Yesterday Nesta drove into their £600,000 mansion near Maidenhead , Berks , to prepare Sunday lunch for a group of friends . |
| 27 | Let's take the recording task described earlier : to prepare news items for a magazine programme or news broadcast . |
| 28 | Even where the government pays for the mechanical means of conservation entirely ( and thus avoids the problems of a lack of capital or labour on the part of the farmer , his inability to forgo food crops for a season , and the reduction of his perception of the risks involved even if his private resources are sufficient ) , such an act engenders apathy on the part of the farmer , who regards the work as belonging to the state ( FAO 1966 : 172 , for a project in Morocco ) . |
| 29 | Until the 1988 Act , all a person had to do to gain copyright protection for a design was to make a drawing of the design in such a way that the design could be recognized from the drawing ( as long as the design did not relate to a spare part ) . |
| 30 | The following year Parker was one of those asked by Horatio Bottomley , editor of The Sun , to become guest editor for a week . |