Example sentences of "[to-vb] [adv] [adj] [noun sg] for [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is Bryan Haworth 's long term aim to win more contracted business for the company . |
| 2 | Is her promise not to do so good consideration for the husband 's agreement to pay the 30s. per week ? |
| 3 | Virgilio Avila Vivas replaced Alejandro Izaguirre Angeli as Minister of the Interior , an appointment seen as a move to build up political support for the efforts of the security forces to deal with increasing protests against the government 's economic policies [ but see below for his replacement ; for November 1991 protests , see p. 35571 ] . |
| 4 | Finance Minister Leszek Balcerowicz said that an agency for privatization would be created and that he would ask the Sejm to create a special commission to speed up legislative approval for the programme . |
| 5 | The early development of the Partnership concept appeared to hold out little encouragement for the non-statutory sector . |
| 6 | In October the decision was taken to go to the polls in an attempt to get more decisive support for a Labour government : more popular authority and a workable parliamentary position . |
| 7 | For the 23-year-old Liverpool woman had to beat off strong competition for the post from dozens of other candidates from around the world . |
| 8 | The firm is part of a consortium trying to beat off global competition for the Hong Kong airport deal which is worth three times as much as the channel tunnel . |
| 9 | To have overall managerial responsibility for the running of the office , including : |
| 10 | After a long argument , an offer from the Movement to take over financial responsibility for the girl 's education persuaded Mrs Gross to change her mind , Jean stayed on at her grammar school . |
| 11 | As the engineers within the BEA began to take over direct responsibility for the power station sites during 1948 , the prospect of strengthening the organisation improved . |
| 12 | They may become in turn promoters of the public library service and even serve to bring in financial support for the service — a valuable support group particularly in the USA where public library services are frequently vulnerable to local authority cuts . |
| 13 | After 1956 — the year in which the government had tried and failed to cut off Arab support for the FLN in the ill-fated Anglo-French Suez expedition — there had been a growing perception , both in Paris and among the general public , that these dilemmas were not likely to be resolved by short-lived coalition governments of the kind that the Fourth Republic produced . |
| 14 | Trade Unions are organisations whose purpose it is to promote their members ' interests , and , in the view of many trade unionists , to bring about social change for the betterment of society as a whole . |