Example sentences of "[to-vb] [adv] for [art] [noun sg] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | If we aggregate together everyone in that ‘ dependent ’ age group , i.e. , those below the age of 16 and above pensionable ages remembering the heaviest demands on services are made at each end of the age range , the percentage of dependants to total UK population has indeed remained remarkably stable throughout this century — 30 per cent in 1901 , 36 per cent in 1951 , 41 per cent in 1977 — and it is likely to remain so for the remainder of the century ; it is projected to be 40 per cent in 2001 ( Grundy , 1986 , p. 21 ; table 5.4 ) . |
| 2 | She had been accepted for the job at Ardis & Co , looking the way she normally looked , but if to keep her job — and she had no idea at that stage whether there was a Vasey junior , or similar , at G Vasey Ltd — she had to go in for a bit of de glamorisation , then so be it . |
| 3 | The National Lottery will be the enemy of proper planning in all areas ; it will encourage short-term thinking , and it will be the perfect excuse for the Treasury to go in for the kind of sleight-of-hand just described . |
| 4 | Nevertheless , it may be prudent to provide expressly for the payment of rent where , for example , the property remains empty while the tenant is seeking to assign his lease . |
| 5 | If not , she could try to find somewhere for a cup of tea . |
| 6 | At first he was asked to stand literally for a couple of seconds before being praised and asked to walk on . |
| 7 | He used to come in for a couple of drinks . |
| 8 | If you 'd care to come in for a cup of tea , now that you 've got out and everything , you 'd be most welcome . |
| 9 | It 's not uncommon for ledgers boasting multicompany features to provide only for the consolidation of different company accounts when they all use a common chart of accounts . |
| 10 | It 's not uncommon for ledgers boasting multicompany features to provide only for the consolidation of different company accounts when they all use a common chart of accounts |
| 11 | The local education authority , and participating employers , in planning to work together for the benefit of young people , will need , early on , to clarify their modus operandi . |
| 12 | But to be effective they all have to learn to work together for the good of the school . |
| 13 | Accompanied by two of his closest advisers , foermer Prime Minister Prem Tinsulanonda and Sanya Dharmasakdi , he appealed to them to work together for the sake of the people and the economy . |
| 14 | and go out and that , if you want to come down for a couple of days . |
| 15 | He also points out that the expedition led by himself and Clark had assembled ‘ the best people , worldwide , and the top people ca n't afford to stand around for a couple of years waiting for research to happen ’ . |
| 16 | He also points out that the expedition led by himself and Clark had assembled ‘ the best people , worldwide , and the top people ca n't afford to stand around for a couple of years waiting for research to happen ’ . |
| 17 | Would you like to come round for a cup of tea ? ’ |
| 18 | The awkwardness will probably prompt you to talk just for the sake of filling in the space , and you may say more than you wanted to or even find yourself talking rubbish . |
| 19 | When we reach the pit straight again , exceeding 130 mph , Brundle tells me to listen out for the tone of screaming on the front left tyre . |
| 20 | Even though she tried to listen out for the sound of a returning car , the castle and the road leading up to it remained as silent as the grave . |
| 21 | You should continue to walk aerobically for a minimum of 30 minutes each day , four times a week ; and you should continue to use the low fat Walking Diet recipes and adapt them to your own diet . |
| 22 | Mr Delors should be told in no uncertain terms that his job is to stick up for the whole of the EC not just for France . |
| 23 | Unfortunately , if you got too close to him you were tempted to look around for the source of the odour — perhaps there was an overdressed salad in the vicinity ? |
| 24 | Any adequate expulsion clause would refer specifically to professional misconduct ( Clause 19.01.8 ) , but it would not be unusual also to impose positive duties on partners : ( 1 ) to apply timeously for the replacement of their practising certificates . |
| 25 | When d'Argenlieu dispatched himself hastily to Paris a few days after the French elections and before the Haiphong incident , it was to lobby intensively for a policy of firmness ; and his tactic , says Devillers , was simple : to create fear . |
| 26 | Even the judicial system in the Dutch republic , in so many ways still among the most advanced parts of Europe , suffered from the lack of a powerful monarchy able to press effectively for the sort of reform which rulers in many less developed areas were now forcing upon their subjects . |
| 27 | If you participate in a mock interview programme you will be given an application form to fill in for the kind of job that might be available through the Compact . |
| 28 | And still , after Crime and Punishment , the idea of a confession novel or story tugs at the edge of Dostoevsky 's vision , and continues to do so for the rest of his life in the form of The Life of a Great Sinner which he planned on the scale of War and Peace , but which never got written though it fed previous material into his novels of the seventies , and especially Karamazov at the turn of the next decade . |
| 29 | ‘ 2(1) The powers of the Director under this section shall be exercisable , but only for the purposes of an investigation under section 1 above , or , on a request made by the Attorney-General of the Isle of Man , Jersey or Guernsey , under legislation corresponding to that section and having effect in the Island whose Attorney-General makes the request , in any case in which it appears to him that there is good reason to do so for the purpose of investigating the affairs , or any aspect of the affairs , of any person . |
| 30 | She marched straight into Tony Richardson 's office in her summer dress and sandals , sorted out Walter 's money to her satisfaction , and continued to do so for The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner and Tom Jones , nine Merchant-Ivory films and more recently Ballad of the Sad Café , from Carson McCullers 's poignant novel . |