Example sentences of "[to-vb] [prep] a [noun sg] for [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | With no casualties to deal with , but with new staff and better equipment our doctors settled down to work with a will for the children from ‘ Peabody buildings ’ at the back of the hospital who had either come back from evacuation , or who would not go anyway . |
| 2 | I think my father used to work in a university for a few years after he graduated , and he might have invented something ; he occasionally hints that he gets some sort of royalty from a patent or something , but I suspect the old hippy survives on whatever family wealth the Cauldhames still have secreted away . |
| 3 | She 's going to have to work in a museum for the rest of her life ! |
| 4 | After a week 's crash course in teaching English to foreign students , she and a girl from Lincoln went out to Cracow , Poland 's second largest city , to work in a school for the blind and partially sighted . |
| 5 | The CIT has also responded to the Department of Environment 's invitation to comment on a draft for a revised planning policy guidance note on town centres and retail development . |
| 6 | Subsequent financial woes — he had quit his job as a broker to work on a show for the Boone gallery — sent Koons back to Pennsylvania , where he lived with his parents for several months before heading to Florida for a political campaign job that brought him enough money to return to New York . |
| 7 | This situation led Genaro Bautista and others to create the magazine Etnias in 1989 to serve as a platform for the discussion of indigenous issues . |
| 8 | They are advised to choose the compulsory modules for an extra field , not only to encourage breadth of study but also to serve as a foundation for a possible change of field in the future . |
| 9 | ( On the formation of the NAR administration in December 1986 Gordon had agreed to serve as a minister for a period of three years . ) |
| 10 | However , in order to make meaningful comparisons more is needed than merely comparative information , since within any field of study theory is necessary both to provide a framework for the systematic analysis and accumulation of the existing stock of knowledge and to serve as a guide for the selection of research problems . |
| 11 | Even advocates of the doctrine acknowledge that it must be exercised within defined limits , and not be allowed to serve as a facade for the furtherance of the intervening State 's own ends . |
| 12 | This bull was to serve as a model for the letters canonizing Gilbert of Sempringham and Wulfstan of Worcester in January 1202 and in May 1203 . |
| 13 | The total establishment , of 327 regular soldiers , included 24 companies , of 12 men each , to serve as a cadre for the expected flow of Highlander recruits , along with 19 officers , ranging in rank from a lieutenant-colonel , with six captains , lieutenants and ensigns respectively . |
| 14 | A second reason for measurements is the more theoretical , put by Love as " the discovery of numerical relations between the quantities that can be measured … to serve as a basis for the inductive determination of the form of the intrinsic energy function . " |
| 15 | Qaryal al-Fau consists almost entirely of superb photographs of the site and objects found , with a brief commentary in English and Arabic , meant to serve as an introduction for the 10 specialist volumes to follow . |
| 16 | Any grant of papal support or protection , as Alexander II 's support of William the Conqueror 's invasion of England in 1066 , was likely to lead to a request for a quid pro quo or a reminder of a payment due . |
| 17 | as if his experience was going to lead to a campaign for the rights of corpses or something . |
| 18 | It would be easier to listen to a story for a while . |
| 19 | For example , the word sardine in a poem would cease to function as a substitute for the thing itself , and instead its linguistic features would be ‘ maximally foregrounded ’ . |
| 20 | And finishes off by saying , erm , our Youth Committee Chairman , Roland have a forward looking attitude to developing and improving youth for many years to come , for as many boys as possible , and we would like to apply for a grant for a thousand pound to cover the cost of providing these new kits for three teams . |
| 21 | James Baker , the Chief of Staff , was a natural compro-miser happy to settle for half a loaf as long as it could be made to look like a victory for the president . |
| 22 | Standing Orders further allow the Speaker to accede to a request for a debate on any matter of urgent topical importance and although a debate is rarely allowed , Members are not unskilled in framing such requests in a manner which makes the point . |
| 23 | Can you manage to stick to a weight-loss programme when you have defined a time period , i.e. the three weeks until your holiday , or if you have to fit into certain clothes for a special occasion which is soon to be upon you , and do you generally find it difficult to stick to a diet for a longer period |
| 24 | If a maintenance agreement includes a provision purporting to restrict any right to apply to a court for an order containing financial arrangements , then — |
| 25 | We both need a break but I ca n't afford a holiday and you would n't believe the hassle of organizing for her to go into a home for a fortnight . |
| 26 | ‘ Story of my life , ’ he growls when a red declines to go into a pocket for the simple reason that he has hit it at the wrong angle . |
| 27 | Although this formalism is not strictly necessary for the analysis , the arrangement of spherical molecules of equal size in the liquid state will , to the first near neighbour approximation , be similar to a regular lattice structure and so it is a useful structure to use as a framework for the mixing process . |
| 28 | On being told about this Guntram followed the dragon 's route and discovered some treasure , which he originally determined to send to Jerusalem , but then decided to use for a ciborium for the church of St Marcel at Chalon . |
| 29 | He would then take these on to Lima to leave with a friend for the next stage of his journey . |
| 30 | I venture to add a few observations of my own only because I have to confess to having been a somewhat reluctant convert to the notion that the words which Parliament has chosen to use in a statute for the expression of its will may fall to be construed or modified by reference to what individual members of Parliament may have said in the course of debate or discussion preceding the passage of the Bill into law . |